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Gamaliel
[People]Gamaliel was a first-century Pharisaic teacher of the law in Jerusalem. In the Book of Acts he dissuades the council from punishing the apostles, and he is named as the teacher of Paul.
Galatians 3:2
[Bible Verses]In this verse Paul asks the Galatian believers whether they received the Holy Spirit by keeping the law or by hearing the gospel and believing it. It is frequently cited in discussions of the relationship between faith and the law and of how the Holy Spirit is received.
Matthew 10:28
[Bible Verses]A saying of Jesus, spoken as he sent out the twelve disciples, in which he tells them to fear not persecutors, who can kill only the body, but the one who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell. It is frequently cited to encourage boldness in the face of persecution and also figures in discussions of the nature of punishment in hell and the existence of the soul after death.
Ethiopian Eunuch
[People]The Ethiopian eunuch is the treasury official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who appears in Acts 8. After hearing Philip the evangelist explain a passage from Isaiah and proclaim the gospel of Jesus, he was baptized.
Healing of the Paralytic
[Bible]The healing of the paralytic is a miracle in which Jesus, in a house in Capernaum, pronounced the forgiveness of sins over a paralyzed man who had been let down through the roof, and then made him rise and walk. The account appears in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke.
Assos
[Bible]Assos was a port city on the northwestern coast of Asia Minor. In Acts 20 it is the place where Paul, having walked from Troas, rejoined his companions and boarded ship.
Girolamo Savonarola
[People]Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498) was a Dominican friar and preacher active in Florence, Italy. He denounced corruption in the church and in society, was excommunicated, and was executed. Protestants commonly count him among the forerunners of the Reformation.
David Wilkerson
[People]David Wilkerson (1931–2011) was an American Pentecostal minister and evangelist. He founded Teen Challenge, a drug-addiction recovery ministry, and Times Square Church in New York City, and he is known as the author of The Cross and the Switchblade.
Mission Sunday
[Christian Life]Mission Sunday is a Sunday set apart by a church to remember home and foreign missions, to pray for missionaries and mission fields, and to receive a missions offering. Its date and frequency vary by denomination and congregation.
1 Corinthians 2
[Bible]1 Corinthians 2 is the chapter in which Paul recalls that in Corinth he preached only Christ crucified rather than relying on eloquent speech, and explains that God's hidden wisdom can be known only through the Holy Spirit.
Christian Wedding Service
[Worship & Rites]A Christian wedding service is a ceremony conducted as an act of worship in which a Christian man and woman make their marriage vows before God and receive a blessing upon their union. It is usually officiated by a pastor and held in a church or a wedding hall.
Yi Gi-pung
[People]Yi Gi-pung (李基豊, 1865–1942) was a Presbyterian minister. In 1907 he became one of the first seven Koreans ordained to the ministry. As the first missionary sent out by the Independent Presbytery of the Korean Presbyterian Church, he founded churches on Jeju Island. He died from the effects of torture he suffered for refusing Shinto shrine worship.
Cross (Christian Symbol)
[Worship & Rites]The cross is the principal emblem of Christianity, representing the death of Jesus Christ on the cross and His resurrection. It is widely used on church buildings and pulpits and in jewelry.
God-fearers
[Bible]"God-fearers" is a term for Gentiles in the New Testament era who believed in the God of the Jews and took part in synagogue worship but did not convert to Judaism by receiving circumcision. The expression appears frequently in the Book of Acts.
Phoenicia
[Bible]Phoenicia is a New Testament place name for the eastern coast of the Mediterranean, roughly the coastal region of present-day Lebanon. Its chief cities were Tyre and Sidon, and in Acts it appears as a gateway through which the gospel spread into Gentile lands.
Areopagus
[Bible]The Areopagus is a rocky hill in Athens, Greece, and also the name of the council that took its name from the hill. In Acts 17 it is the place where Paul addressed the philosophers of Athens.
Cyprus
[Bible]Cyprus is an island in the eastern Mediterranean, known today by the same name. In the Book of Acts it appears as the home of Barnabas and as the first place where the gospel was preached on Paul's first missionary journey.
Derbe
[Bible]Derbe was a city in the region of Lycaonia in Asia Minor where the apostle Paul preached the gospel on his first and second missionary journeys. It is mentioned only in the book of Acts.
Urban Industrial Mission
[History]Urban Industrial Mission was a mission movement that Korean Protestants began among factory workers in the late 1950s. It initially focused on evangelizing workers, but in the 1970s it became a movement for workers' rights.
Thomas Aquinas
[People]Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274) was an Italian Dominican friar and the leading theologian of medieval Scholasticism. He wrote the Summa Theologiae and is venerated in the Catholic Church as a saint and Doctor of the Church.