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• Alice Rebecca Appenzeller

  Alice Rebecca Appenzeller (1885–1950) was an American Methodist missionary and educator. The daughter of Henry Appenzeller, she was born in Seoul and served as principal of Ewha Haktang and president of Ewha Womans College, laying the foundation for higher education for women in Korea.

• Mary Jane Featherstone

  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.

• Henry Dodge Appenzeller

  Henry Dodge Appenzeller (1889–1953) was an American Methodist missionary born in Seoul. He served for about twenty years as the fifth principal of Pai Chai Haktang, the school founded by his father, Henry Appenzeller, and led relief work during the Korean War.

• Sojourner

  A sojourner, or resident alien, is a biblical term for a foreigner who has left his homeland and lives among another people. The Old Testament law commands that such people be protected, and the New Testament applies the term to Christian identity.

• Sojourner

  A sojourner is a person who has left his or her own land and lives in a land belonging to others. Old Testament law commands the protection of sojourners, and the New Testament calls believers sojourners in the world.

• Romans 3

  Romans 3 concludes that Jews and Gentiles alike are under sin and declares that the righteousness of God is received not by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ.

• Leviticus 19:33–34

  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.

• Ecclesiastes 9

  Ecclesiastes 9 opens with the observation that the righteous and the wicked alike meet the same end in death, and it urges the reader to enjoy the life he has been given and to work diligently. It then addresses the value and limits of wisdom through reflections on time and chance and the illustration of a poor wise man.

• Romans 3:10-12

  A passage in which Paul weaves together Old Testament texts, chiefly from the Psalms, to show that Jews and Gentiles alike are under sin. As a key text on the universal sinfulness of humanity, it is frequently cited in discussions of total depravity and prevenient grace and in evangelistic preaching.

• 1 Thessalonians 4:16–17

  This passage states that when the Lord descends from heaven, the dead will rise first, and those who are alive will be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. It is the central text for the doctrine of the "rapture," and eschatological views differ over its timing and nature.

• 2 Chronicles 24

  This chapter covers the reign of King Joash of Judah. It records how he repaired the temple while the priest Jehoiada was alive, how after Jehoiada's death he turned to idolatry and had Jehoiada's son Zechariah stoned to death, and how Joash met his end.

• Nicene Creed

  The Nicene Creed is a confession of faith first drafted at the Council of Nicaea in 325 and expanded at the Council of Constantinople in 381. It summarizes the Trinitarian faith and is one of the principal ecumenical creeds, accepted by the Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church, and Protestant churches alike.

• Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego

  Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were young men of Judah taken captive to Babylon and were Daniel's three friends. They refused to bow down to King Nebuchadnezzar's golden image, were thrown into a fiery furnace, and came out alive.

• Daniel in the Lions' Den

  Daniel in the lions' den is an event recorded in Daniel 6. Although a decree forbade praying to anyone but the king, Daniel continued to pray to God. He was thrown into a den of lions for doing so, but he came out alive and unharmed.

• The Fiery Furnace

  The fiery furnace episode, recorded in Daniel 3, is the account of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who refused to bow down to the golden image set up by King Nebuchadnezzar, were thrown into a burning furnace, and came out alive and unharmed.

• 1 Samuel 12

  First Samuel 12 records Samuel's farewell address before all Israel after Saul became king. Samuel has his integrity publicly affirmed, reviews Israel's history, reminds the people of their sin in asking for a king, and urges king and people alike to serve the LORD.

• Ecclesiastes 3

  Ecclesiastes 3 declares, in fourteen pairs of opposites, that there is an appointed time for everything under heaven. It then reflects on human labor and the work of God, on injustice and judgment, and on the death that comes alike to humans and animals.

• Shadrach

  Shadrach is a Judahite who appears in the Book of Daniel; his original name was Hananiah. One of Daniel's three friends, he and Meshach and Abednego refused to bow down to a golden image and were cast into a fiery furnace, from which they came out alive.

• Acts 27

  Acts 27 is the chapter in which Paul, being taken to Rome as a prisoner, encounters the tempestuous wind Euroclydon near Crete and drifts for fourteen days. Although the ship is wrecked, all 276 people aboard reach land alive.

• Romans 3:23–24

  A passage stating that all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, yet are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. Because it brings together universal human sinfulness and justification by grace, it is frequently used in evangelism.