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• Parable of the Minas

  [Bible]

  The Parable of the Minas is a parable of Jesus found in Luke 19:11-27. It tells of a nobleman who goes to a far country to receive a kingdom, entrusts one mina to each of ten servants, and on his return settles accounts with them.

• Mina

  [Bible]

  The mina was a unit of weight and currency used in the ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world. In the New Testament it appears in the Parable of the Minas in Luke 19; in the Old Testament the same unit is rendered "maneh" in Korean translation.

• John 5

  [Bible]

  John 5 is the chapter in which Jesus heals, on the Sabbath, a man who had been ill for thirty-eight years at the Pool of Bethesda in Jerusalem. In the confrontation with the Jews that follows, he delivers a lengthy discourse on the relationship between the Father and the Son, on judgment and life, and on the witnesses that testify of him.

• 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.

• Healing of the Royal Official's Son

  [Bible]

  The healing of the royal official's son is the event in which Jesus, while at Cana in Galilee, healed by his word alone the son of a royal official in Capernaum. It is recorded in John 4:46-54, and the Gospel of John calls it the "second sign."

• A. W. Tozer

  [People]

  A. W. Tozer (1897–1963) was an American pastor and author in the Christian and Missionary Alliance (C&MA). He is widely known for books emphasizing a deep relationship with God, such as The Pursuit of God and The Knowledge of the Holy.

• Thomas à Kempis

  [People]

  Thomas à Kempis was a German-born monk who lived and worked in the Netherlands in the fifteenth century. He is known as the author of The Imitation of Christ, a devotional book that has been widely read across denominational lines.

• Youth With A Mission Korea (Yesu Jeondodan)

  [Institutions]

  Yesu Jeondodan (YWAM Korea) is an interdenominational mission organization founded in 1973 by David E. Ross, an American Southern Presbyterian missionary, out of a university student fellowship. Since 1980 it has operated as the Korean branch of the international mission organization Youth With A Mission (YWAM).

• Healing of the Man with a Withered Hand

  [Bible]

  The healing of the man with a withered hand is a miracle in which Jesus, on the Sabbath, healed a man in a synagogue whose hand was withered. It is recorded in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke, where it gives rise to a controversy over the Sabbath and prompts a plot to kill Jesus.

• Medium (One Who Has a Familiar Spirit)

  [Bible]

  In the Old Testament, a medium (KJV: one who has a familiar spirit) is a person who claims to communicate with the spirits of the dead or with other spirits and who consults or summons them. The Law forbade seeking out such people.

• Healing of the Deaf Man with a Speech Impediment

  [Bible]

  The healing of the deaf man with a speech impediment is a miracle in which Jesus, in the region of the Decapolis, healed a man who could not hear and could not speak properly by saying "Ephphatha." It appears only in Mark 7:31-37.

• R. A. Torrey

  [People]

  R. A. Torrey (1856–1928) was an American Congregational minister, revivalist, educator, and author. He worked alongside Dwight L. Moody and served as the first superintendent of the Moody Bible Institute and as dean of the Bible Institute of Los Angeles.

• Pastoral Call

  [Organization & Polity]

  A pastoral call (Korean cheongbing, 請聘) is the process by which a church formally invites and receives a minister, such as a senior pastor or associate pastor, according to established procedures. The specific procedures and the body that makes the decision vary with each denomination's system of church government.

• 2 Corinthians 9:7

  [Bible Verses]

  A verse instructing each person to give as he has decided in his heart, "not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver." It is a key text on the proper attitude toward giving and is cited in the tithing debate as a basis for voluntary offerings.

• 2 Peter 3:8–9

  [Bible Verses]

  A passage declaring that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day, and that the Lord is not slack concerning His promise because He is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. It answers the problem of the delay of the Second Coming and has also been drawn into debates over the length of the creation days and attempts to calculate the end times.

• Revelation 20:4–6

  [Bible Verses]

  A passage describing how the martyrs and those who had not worshiped the beast "lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years." It is the only text in Scripture that directly mentions the millennium, and it stands at the center of the eschatological debate among premillennialism, amillennialism, and postmillennialism.

• Proverbs 31:30

  [Bible Verses]

  A verse declaring that charm and beauty are vain but that a woman who fears the LORD shall be praised; it forms the conclusion of the poem of the "virtuous woman" at the end of Proverbs. It is frequently cited as a model of the woman of faith, and interpreters differ on how that portrait should be understood.

• Song of Solomon 8:6–7

  [Bible Verses]

  A song declaring that love is strong as death and that many waters cannot quench its fire, this passage forms the climax of the Song of Solomon. It is a favorite reading at wedding services, and it also exemplifies the long-standing interpretive question of whether the Song should be read as a song of human love or as a portrayal of the love between God and his people.

• Isaiah 7:14

  [Bible Verses]

  A prophecy that a virgin will conceive and bear a son and call his name Immanuel. The Gospel of Matthew cites the verse as a prophecy of the birth of Jesus, and a long-standing translation debate surrounds whether the Hebrew word almah should be rendered "virgin" or "young woman."

• Jeremiah 1:5

  [Bible Verses]

  A call narrative in which God declares that He knew Jeremiah before forming him in the womb, sanctified him before he came forth, and ordained him a prophet to the nations. It is a key verse on vocation and divine foreknowledge and is also cited in discussions of predestination and bioethics.