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Genesis 22
[Bible]Genesis 22 recounts how Abraham, at God's command, sets out to offer his son Isaac as a burnt offering on a mountain in the land of Moriah. He is stopped, offers a ram in Isaac's place, and receives a renewed promise of blessing. The chapter ends with a list of Nahor's descendants.
Lottie Moon
[People]Lottie Moon (1840–1912) was a Southern Baptist missionary to China. She evangelized in Shandong Province for about forty years, and her appeals led to the start of the Southern Baptist Christmas offering for missions.
Exodus 29
[Bible]Exodus 29 sets out the seven-day ordination ceremony by which Aaron and his sons are established as priests. It also prescribes the daily burnt offering, known as the continual burnt offering, of a lamb each morning and evening.
Exodus 27
[Bible]Exodus 27 is part of the instructions for building the tabernacle. It gives the specifications for the bronze-overlaid altar of burnt offering and for the tabernacle court enclosed by fine linen hangings, along with regulations for the pure olive oil used in the sanctuary lamp.
Leviticus 18
[Bible]Leviticus 18 commands the people of Israel not to follow the customs of Egypt and Canaan. It contains laws prohibiting sexual relations with close relatives, adultery, offering children to Molech, same-sex intercourse, and bestiality.
1 Samuel 6
[Bible]This chapter recounts how the Philistines, after holding the ark of the LORD for seven months, send it back on a cart to Beth-shemesh in Israel together with a trespass offering, and how the men of Beth-shemesh who looked into the ark are struck down.
1 Samuel 13
[Bible]1 Samuel 13 is the chapter in which war with the Philistines begins early in Saul's reign. Failing to wait for Samuel at Gilgal, Saul offers the burnt offering himself, and Samuel declares that his kingdom will not continue.
Job 6
[Bible]Job 6 records Job's reply to the first speech of Eliphaz. Job protests that his suffering is heavier than the sand of the sea and rebukes his friends for offering no comfort, comparing them to streams that run dry.
Christian Condolence Visits
[Christian Life]A Christian condolence visit is the practice of visiting a bereaved family to comfort them and to help with the funeral. In Korean Protestant churches, mourners usually pay their respects by offering flowers and praying rather than by bowing.
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.
Kindergarten Department
[Christian Life]The kindergarten department is the division of a church school that serves preschool children of roughly four to six years of age, offering faith education centered on worship, play, and storytelling.
Ezekiel 43
[Bible]A chapter in Ezekiel's vision of the new temple. It describes the departed glory of the LORD returning through the east gate and filling the temple, and it gives the measurements of the altar of burnt offering and the ordinances for its seven-day consecration.
Hosea 8
[Bible]Hosea 8 is a fourteen-verse prophecy that indicts the northern kingdom of Israel for setting up kings without God, worshiping the calf of Samaria, relying on Assyria, and offering merely formal sacrifices, and it pronounces judgment on the nation.
Malachi 1
[Bible]The first chapter of the Book of Malachi, in which God declares that He chose and loved Jacob, rebukes the priests for offering blemished sacrifices, and proclaims that His name will be great among the nations.
2 Kings 3
[Bible]2 Kings 3 recounts how Jehoram king of Israel, together with Jehoshaphat king of Judah and the king of Edom, marches against rebellious Moab. When the armies run out of water in the wilderness, Elisha prophesies both water and victory. The chapter ends with Mesha king of Moab offering his firstborn son as a burnt offering.
1 Chronicles 29:11–12
[Bible Verses]The opening of the prayer of praise that David offered after gifts were presented for building the temple, in which he confesses that greatness and power, riches and honor, and the kingdom all belong to God. The passage is frequently cited in discussions of God's sovereignty and Christian stewardship, and during the offering in worship.
Mark 12
[Bible]Mark 12 is the chapter in which Jesus, teaching in the temple at Jerusalem, tells the parable of the wicked husbandmen; answers questions about tribute, the resurrection, and the greatest commandment; and commends the poor widow's offering.
Ancestral Rites and Memorial Services
[Controversies]The question of whether ancestral rites should be forbidden as idolatry or regarded as a cultural expression of filial piety. Korean Protestant churches have prohibited ancestral rites and have instead held memorial services.
Contemplative Prayer
[Controversies]Contemplative prayer is a form of prayer that uses few words and rests silently in the presence of God. Some embrace it as a spiritual discipline, while others regard it as a departure from biblical prayer.
Isaiah 50
[Bible]In Isaiah 50 the LORD answers the charge that he has abandoned his exiled people, after which the Servant of the LORD speaks in the first person of remaining obedient in the midst of suffering. Verses 4–9 are known as the "Third Servant Song."