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Ezekiel 1
[Bible]Ezekiel 1 is the first chapter of the Book of Ezekiel. In it Ezekiel, a priest among the captives in Babylon, sees by the river Chebar a vision of "the glory of the LORD" appearing as four living creatures, wheels, and a figure upon a throne.
Ezekiel 40
[Bible]Ezekiel 40 is the first chapter of the vision of the new temple, which forms the final section of the Book of Ezekiel (chapters 40–48). In a vision Ezekiel is brought to a very high mountain in the land of Israel, where he watches a man whose appearance shines like brass measure the temple's wall, gates, courts, and priests' chambers.
Haggai 1
[Bible]Haggai 1 records the message the prophet Haggai delivered to the people of Judah, who had returned from exile but kept postponing the rebuilding of the temple, urging them to resume the work. It also recounts how the leaders and the people obeyed and began work on the temple.
Sarah Thistlethwaite
[People]Sarah Thistlethwaite (1877–1937) was the wife of Charles Parham, an early leader of the American Pentecostal movement. She joined her husband in itinerant evangelism, led the Apostolic Faith movement after his death, and compiled his biography.
Sarah Barry
[People]Sarah Barry (born 1930) is a missionary of the Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS, the Southern Presbyterian Church). In 1961 she co-founded University Bible Fellowship (UBF) in Gwangju, South Korea, with Samuel Lee (Lee Chang-woo), and in 2002 she became the second general director of UBF worldwide.
Kil Sun-joo
[People]Kil Sun-joo (吉善宙, 1869–1935) was one of the first seven Korean Presbyterian ministers. He pastored Jangdaehyeon Church in Pyongyang, began the dawn prayer meeting, and led the Great Pyongyang Revival of 1907. He was also one of the 33 national representatives of the March First Movement.
Huldah
[People]Huldah was a prophetess who lived in Jerusalem during the reign of Josiah, king of Judah. She delivered the word of God to the officials whom the king sent to inquire about the Book of the Law discovered in the temple.
Honorius I
[People]Honorius I (d. 638) was bishop of Rome (pope) from 625 to 638. Because of a letter that appeared to affirm a single will in Christ, he was condemned after his death by the Third Council of Constantinople.
Jan Hus
[People]Jan Hus (c. 1369–1415) was a theologian and preacher from Bohemia (the present-day Czech Republic). After advocating church reform, he was condemned as a heretic at the Council of Constance in 1415 and burned at the stake. Protestants regard him as a forerunner of the Reformation.
Jeremiah 36
[Bible]Jeremiah 36 recounts how, during the reign of King Jehoiakim, Baruch wrote on a scroll the words Jeremiah had received and read them aloud in the temple. When the king burned the scroll, Jeremiah had the words written again.
Anna Reinhart
[People]Anna Reinhart (c. 1484–1538) was a native of Zurich, Switzerland, and the wife of the Reformer Ulrich Zwingli. Her marriage to Zwingli, made public in 1524, is known as an early instance of clerical marriage during the Reformation.
Idelette de Bure
[People]Idelette de Bure was a sixteenth-century woman from the Low Countries and the wife of the Reformer John Calvin. After the death of her first husband, an Anabaptist, she married Calvin in Strasbourg in 1540. She died in Geneva in 1549.
Anna Adlischwyler
[People]Anna Adlischwyler (d. 1564) was a sixteenth-century woman of Zurich, Switzerland. A former nun of the Oetenbach convent, she married the reformer Heinrich Bullinger in 1529 and was afterward remembered as a model for the household of a Reformed pastor.
Tetrarch
[Bible]Tetrarch is a New Testament term for a ruler under the Roman Empire who governed a portion of a divided territory. It is used chiefly of Herod Antipas, who ruled Galilee.
Nergal-sharezer
[People]Nergal-sharezer was a Babylonian official mentioned in Jeremiah 39. When Jerusalem fell, he sat in the middle gate of the city, and he took part in releasing Jeremiah, who had been confined in the court of the prison.
Yi Se-jong
[People]Yi Se-jong (李世鍾) was a Korean lay Christian who, during the Japanese colonial period in Hwasun, South Jeolla Province, read the Bible, gave away his property, and lived a life of asceticism and voluntary poverty. He was known as "Yi Gong" (李空, "Yi the Empty") and is remembered as the teacher of Yi Hyeon-pil.
Ralph Winter
[People]Ralph D. Winter (1924–2009) was an American Presbyterian missionary and missiologist. At the 1974 Lausanne Congress he introduced the concept of "hidden peoples" (unreached people groups), and he founded the U.S. Center for World Mission.
Bonaventure
[People]Bonaventure (1217 or c. 1221–1274) was a medieval Italian Scholastic theologian who served as Minister General of the Franciscan Order and as a cardinal. The Catholic Church venerates him as a saint and Doctor of the Church under the title "Seraphic Doctor."
Mary Jane Featherstone
[People]Mary Jane Featherstone was a British Salvation Army evangelist active from the late nineteenth century into the early twentieth century. Known by the nickname "Polly," she was the wife of the Pentecostal evangelist Smith Wigglesworth and is remembered for her significant influence on her husband's faith and ministry.
Jeanne Guyon
[People]Jeanne Guyon (1648–1717) was a French Roman Catholic lay mystic. She taught interior prayer in *A Short and Very Easy Method of Prayer* and spent many years in confinement during the Quietist controversy.