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• Proverbs 16:9

  Proverbs 16:9 is a proverb teaching that although a person plans his way in his heart, it is the LORD who directs his steps. It is frequently cited in discussions of how human planning and divine providence, and human freedom and God's sovereignty, work together.

• Ahithophel

  Ahithophel the Gilonite was a counselor to King David, an official who devised plans and gave advice to the king. He joined Absalom's rebellion, and when his counsel was not followed, he took his own life in his hometown.

• Naboth

  Naboth was a Jezreelite who appears in 1 Kings 21. He refused to sell his ancestral vineyard to King Ahab and, through a scheme devised by Jezebel, was falsely accused and stoned to death.

• Samson

  Samson was a judge of Israel in the Old Testament book of Judges. Born a Nazarite, he fought against the Philistines. Renowned for his great strength, he was captured after revealing his secret to Delilah, and he died when he brought down the temple of Dagon.

• 1 Corinthians 3:16–17

  A passage in which Paul tells the church in Corinth, "ye are the temple of God," and warns that God will destroy anyone who defiles that temple. It is frequently cited in discussions of the church as a community, the holiness of the body, and divisions within the church.

• Prozbul

  The prozbul is a Jewish legal institution devised by Hillel. Because the sabbatical-year law canceling debts every seven years had made people reluctant to lend, Hillel allowed creditors to transfer their claims to a court so that the debts could still be collected after the sabbatical year.

• Glory of God

  The glory of God refers to the majesty and beauty of God's being and character and to their manifestation in the world. The term can also denote the act of human beings exalting and praising God.

• Mark 7:18–19

  In this passage Jesus explains to his disciples that food entering a person from outside cannot defile that person. Its closing clause, rendered in the Korean Revised Version as "declaring all foods clean," is frequently debated because translations and interpretations differ over whether it abolishes the Old Testament food laws.

• Compassion Korea

  Compassion Korea is the Korean branch of Compassion International, an international child development organization. Compassion first came to Korea to help orphans of the Korean War, and its assistance there ended in 1993. Compassion Korea was established in 2003, when Korea became a sponsor country. It connects children in poor countries one-to-one with Korean sponsors.

• Genesis 27

  Genesis 27 is the chapter in which Jacob, through a deception devised by Rebekah and carried out by Jacob, receives the blessing that the aged Isaac intended for his firstborn son, Esau, and then prepares to leave home to escape Esau's anger.

• Revival Meeting

  A revival meeting is a special gathering held over several consecutive days to rekindle faith that has grown stagnant. It is also called a spiritual revival meeting. In Korea, it developed as an offshoot of the Bible study gathering known as the sagyeonghoe (Bible conference).

• Chemosh

  Chemosh is a foreign deity presented in the Old Testament as the god worshiped by the Moabites. Scripture records that Solomon built a high place for Chemosh on the hill before Jerusalem and that King Josiah later defiled it.

• Judges 16

  Judges 16 recounts how Samson carried off the gates of Gaza, revealed the secret of his strength to Delilah and was captured by the Philistines, and finally brought down the temple of Dagon, dying in its collapse.

• Good Neighbors

  Good Neighbors is a South Korean international relief and development NGO (non-governmental organization) founded in 1991 by Il-ha Lee under the name Korea Neighbors' Love Society (Hanguk Iutsaranghoe). It carries out both child rights protection programs in South Korea and development cooperation programs overseas.

• Mark 7

  Mark 7 records Jesus' dispute with the Pharisees and scribes over the tradition of the elders, his teaching that what defiles a person comes from the heart, and his healing of the Syrophoenician woman's daughter and of a deaf man with a speech impediment.

• Common Grace

  Common grace is a theological term for the grace God extends to all people and to the world, without distinction between believers and unbelievers. It is distinguished from special grace, which leads to salvation, and was developed chiefly within the Reformed tradition.

• World Vision

  World Vision is an international Christian relief and development nongovernmental organization. It began in 1950, during the Korean War, when the American missionary Bob Pierce and Korean church leaders, including the Rev. Han Kyung-chik, began helping war orphans and widows.

• Levi (Son of Jacob)

  Levi was the third son of Jacob and Leah and the ancestor of the tribe of Levi, one of the twelve tribes of Israel. Moses and Aaron, as well as the Levites and priests who served in the tabernacle and the temple, were all his descendants.

• 1 Timothy 1:9–10

  In this passage Paul tells Timothy that the law is made not for the righteous but for the lawless and for sinners, and he gives a catalog of sins. It is frequently cited in theological discussions of the uses of the law and in the debate over homosexuality concerning the translation of the term rendered in the KJV as "them that defile themselves with mankind."

• Paidion Mission

  Paidion Mission is a mission organization for children and the next generation, founded in 1975 by students at Chongshin University. Its principal work includes developing church school curricula, training teachers, and producing Vacation Bible School materials and children's worship albums.