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Exodus 3
[Bible]Exodus 3 is the chapter in which God appears to Moses in the burning bush at Mount Horeb and calls him. God commissions him to bring Israel out of Egypt and reveals His name as "I AM THAT I AM" and "the LORD."
Exodus 10
[Bible]Exodus 10 records the eighth plague on Egypt, locusts, and the ninth, darkness. Pharaoh offers to let Israel go on certain conditions but finally drives Moses from his presence.
Exodus 14
[Bible]Exodus 14 is the chapter in which the children of Israel, encamped by the sea, are pursued by Pharaoh's army. When Moses stretches out his hand, the sea divides, Israel crosses on dry ground, and the pursuing Egyptian army is covered by the waters.
Exodus 17
[Bible]Exodus 17 records how Moses struck the rock to bring forth water for the people, who quarreled with him at Rephidim because there was no water, and how Israel defeated Amalek in its first battle while Moses held up his hands.
François Fénelon
[People]François Fénelon (1651–1715) was a French Catholic theologian, writer, and Archbishop of Cambrai. He is known for spiritual writings that emphasize "pure love" for God. In Korea, his books have also been translated and read by Protestants.
Brother Lawrence
[People]Brother Lawrence, born Nicolas Herman, was a seventeenth-century French lay brother of the Discalced Carmelites. He taught that one should remain constantly aware of God even while working, and The Practice of the Presence of God, a collection of his teachings, has made him widely known across denominational lines.
Columba
[People]Columba (c. 521–597) was an Irish monk and missionary. He founded a monastery on the island of Iona off the west coast of Scotland and, using it as his base, spread Christianity in Scotland and northern England.
Exodus 32
[Bible]Exodus 32 records how, while Moses remained on Mount Sinai, the people of Israel had Aaron make a golden calf and worshiped it. The chapter also recounts Moses' intercession, his breaking of the tablets of the testimony, and the judgment that followed.
Bernard of Clairvaux
[People]Bernard of Clairvaux (c. 1090–1153) was a twelfth-century French abbot and theologian. He played a central role in the growth of the Cistercian Order, and through his preaching and spiritual writings he exerted great influence on the medieval Western church.
Exodus 34
[Bible]Exodus 34 is the chapter in which, after the golden calf incident, God gives Moses new tablets of stone, proclaims His name and character, and renews His covenant with Israel. It closes with the account of Moses' face shining after he came down from Mount Sinai and of his covering it with a veil.
Leviticus 8
[Bible]Leviticus 8 is the chapter in which Moses, as the LORD commanded, washes, clothes, and anoints Aaron and his sons, then offers a sin offering, a burnt offering, and the ordination offering to install them as priests.
Johann Albrecht Bengel
[People]Johann Albrecht Bengel (1687–1752) was a Lutheran theologian from Württemberg, Germany. His critical edition of the Greek New Testament (1734) and his commentary Gnomon (1742) laid the foundation for modern New Testament textual criticism, and he is regarded as the founder of Swabian Pietism.
G. K. Chesterton
[People]G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) was an English journalist, author, and Christian apologist. He is best known for apologetic works such as Orthodoxy and for his Father Brown detective stories. In 1922 he left the Church of England and was received into the Roman Catholic Church.
John Lennox
[People]John Carson Lennox (born 1943) is a Northern Irish mathematician and Christian apologist. He is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford and is known for his public debates with atheists and for his books on the relationship between science and faith.
William Lane Craig
[People]William Lane Craig (born 1949) is an American analytic philosopher, theologian, and Christian apologist. He is widely known for reviving the kalam cosmological argument for the existence of God and for his public debates with atheists.
Yi Sang-jae
[People]Yi Sang-jae (李商在, 1850–1927) was a reform-minded official of the Korean Empire and an independence activist. His pen name was Wollam (月南). He embraced the Christian faith while in prison, and after his release he led the YMCA, combining the Christian youth movement with the national movement.
Josh McDowell
[People]Josh McDowell (born 1939) is an American evangelical Christian apologist and evangelist. He became widely known through his 1972 book Evidence That Demands a Verdict and lectured at universities around the world as a speaker with Campus Crusade for Christ.
Choi Byung-hun
[People]Choi Byung-hun (1858–1927) was a Korean Methodist minister and theologian active during the Korean Empire and the Japanese colonial period. His pen name was Taksa. He is known for writings such as *Seongsan myeonggyeong*, which explained Christianity by comparing it with Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism.
Numbers 5
[Bible]Numbers 5 contains the ordinance for putting the unclean out of the camp, the ordinance for confessing and making restitution for wrongs done to another person, and the "law of jealousy," a procedure carried out before the priest when a husband suspects his wife of adultery.
Paik Nak-chun
[People]Paik Nak-chun (白樂濬, 1895–1985), also known as George Paik, was a Korean church historian, educator, and politician. His English-language doctoral dissertation on the history of Protestant missions in Korea was later published in Korean as *Hanguk Gaesingyosa* (History of Korean Protestantism). He served as president of Yonhi University, as South Korea's second Minister of Education, and as Speaker of the House of Councillors.