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Proverbs 19
[Bible]Proverbs 19 is a chapter in the collection of the proverbs of Solomon. In 29 short sayings, it addresses poverty and wealth, false witnesses, laziness, the discipline of children, and human plans in relation to the will of the LORD.
Amos 5:24
[Bible Verses]Amos 5:24 is the prophet Amos's call for justice to flow like water and righteousness like a stream that never runs dry. It is widely used as a representative biblical text on social justice and is cited with differing emphases on the relationship between worship and social responsibility.
2 Corinthians 9:6–8
[Bible Verses]In this passage Paul uses the image that one reaps as one sows to urge the church in Corinth, as it prepared its collection for the saints in Jerusalem, to give gladly rather than under compulsion. It is frequently cited in sermons on giving and is also invoked in debates over tithing and the prosperity gospel.
Psalm 114
[Bible]Psalm 114 is a short hymn of praise celebrating Israel's exodus from Egypt and its journey through the wilderness. It portrays the sea, the Jordan, and the mountains retreating and leaping before God, and it calls on the whole earth to tremble in the presence of the Lord.
Luke 19:10
[Bible Verses]Luke 19:10 records the words Jesus spoke after staying at the house of Zacchaeus, the chief tax collector, in Jericho, declaring that he had come "to seek and to save that which was lost." The verse is regarded as a one-line summary of the theme of the Gospel of Luke and is frequently cited as a basis for evangelism and missions.
Amos 4
[Bible]Amos 4 is a prophecy that rebukes the luxury-loving leaders of northern Israel and their hollow worship, and warns a people who did not return to God despite repeated calamities to "prepare to meet thy God."
Amos 5:21–23
[Bible Verses]In this oracle addressed by Amos to the northern kingdom of Israel, God declares that he rejects the feasts, sacrifices, and songs of a people who have abandoned justice. The passage teaches that worship and life must be consistent, and it is frequently cited together with verse 24, which immediately follows.
Leviticus 19:33–34
[Bible Verses]A command in Leviticus not to mistreat the stranger (resident alien) dwelling in the land of Israel, but to regard him as one born in the land and to love him as oneself. Because it extends the commandment of neighbor-love to the stranger, the passage is frequently cited in discussions of immigration and refugees.
Psalm 110
[Bible]Psalm 110 is a seven-verse royal psalm bearing the superscription "A Psalm of David." In it the LORD seats "my Lord" at His right hand and establishes him as a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. It is one of the psalms most frequently quoted in the New Testament.
William James Hall
[People]William James Hall (1860–1894) was a Canadian-born physician and medical missionary of the Methodist Episcopal Church (the American Northern Methodists). He opened the Methodist mission in Pyongyang and died of illness contracted while treating the wounded during the First Sino-Japanese War. He was the husband of Rosetta Hall.
Cyprian
[People]Cyprian (c. 200–258) was a third-century bishop of Carthage in North Africa and a martyr. His writings on readmitting to the church those who had renounced the faith during persecution, and on the unity of the church, laid the foundations of Western ecclesiology.
Spikenard
[Bible]Spikenard, or nard, is a costly aromatic ointment made from a plant of the Himalayan region. It is best known as the ointment a woman of Bethany poured on Jesus, and it also appears in the Song of Solomon.
Brother Andrew
[People]Brother Andrew (1928–2022) was a Dutch lay missionary. Known as "God's Smuggler" for secretly carrying Bibles into Communist countries during the Cold War, he began Open Doors, a mission organization that serves the persecuted church, in 1955.
German Peasants' War
[History]The German Peasants' War was a large-scale uprising from 1524 to 1525 in the German-speaking regions of the Holy Roman Empire, in which peasants and the urban poor rose up against the burdens imposed by their lords and the church. Although it was closely bound up with the ideas of the Reformation, it was suppressed by the allied armies of the princes.
Minjung Church
[Organization & Polity]A minjung church is a church that regards workers, the urban poor, and other socially marginalized people as the "minjung" (the people) and makes standing with them, in the places where they live, the center of its mission. Minjung churches took shape in South Korea in the 1970s and 1980s alongside minjung theology.
John G. Paton
[People]John Gibson Paton (1824–1907) was a Scottish Presbyterian missionary. He served on the islands of Tanna and Aniwa in the New Hebrides (present-day Vanuatu) in the South Pacific and translated the New Testament into the Aniwan language.
Waldensians
[History]The Waldensians (also called Waldenses) are a movement of voluntary poverty and preaching that began in the late twelfth century with Valdes (Peter Waldo), a merchant of Lyon, France. They were condemned as heretics by the pope in 1184, joined the Reformation in 1532, and continue today as a Reformed church centered in Italy.
John of the Cross
[People]John of the Cross (1542–1591) was a Spanish Carmelite friar, mystic, and poet. With Teresa of Ávila, he founded the Discalced Carmelites, and he wrote spiritual classics including The Dark Night.
Kinsman-Redeemer
[Bible]The kinsman-redeemer (Hebrew goel) is an Old Testament institution in which a close relative paid the price to recover land or freedom that a family member had lost through poverty or similar circumstances. Boaz in the Book of Ruth is the best-known example.
John XXIII
[People]John XXIII (1881–1963) was the 261st pope of the Roman Catholic Church. During his pontificate he convoked the Second Vatican Council, and he is popularly known as "the Good Pope."