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11 articles found for “Priscilla”

• Priscilla and Aquila

  Priscilla (Prisca) and Aquila were a Jewish Christian married couple in the New Testament who worked as tentmakers alongside Paul and opened their home as a meeting place for the church.

• Priscilla Studd

  Priscilla Studd (1864–1929) was an Irish-born Protestant missionary. While serving in China she married C. T. Studd, and while her husband worked in Africa she led the British home headquarters of the mission that became the forerunner of WEC International.

• Acts 18

  In Acts 18, Paul meets Priscilla and Aquila in Corinth, stays there a year and six months teaching, returns to Antioch, and then sets out again. The chapter closes with Apollos, who has come to Ephesus, learning the way of God more perfectly from Priscilla and Aquila.

• Ephesus

  Ephesus was a Roman-era port city on the western coast of Asia Minor. Paul stayed there for about three years preaching the gospel, and the city was the destination of the Epistle to the Ephesians and the home of the first of the seven churches of Revelation.

• Corinth

  Corinth was a Roman-era port city on the isthmus connecting mainland Greece with the Peloponnese. Paul founded a church there and later wrote 1 Corinthians and 2 Corinthians to it.

• Cenchreae

  Cenchreae was the eastern port of Corinth in New Testament times. Paul had his hair cut there because of a vow (Acts 18:18), and it was home to the church that Phoebe served (Romans 16:1).

• Ordination of Women

  The ordination of women is a debate over whether women may be ordained as pastors and elders. In Korea, denominations such as the Methodists, the Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea (PROK), the Presbyterian Church of Korea (Tonghap), the Full Gospel churches, and the Anglican Church permit it, while the Presbyterian Church in Korea (Hapdong), the Kosin Presbyterian Church in Korea, and the Hapshin Presbyterian Church in Korea, among others, do not.

• Apollos

  Apollos was a first-century Christian teacher who appears in the Acts of the Apostles and the Pauline Epistles of the New Testament. A Jew from Alexandria, he was eloquent and well versed in the Scriptures, and he ministered in Ephesus and Corinth.

• Rome

  Rome was the capital of the Roman Empire in the New Testament era and appears in Acts, Romans, and other books. Paul wrote a letter to the believers there and later went to the city as a prisoner, where he preached the gospel.

• Titius Justus

  Titius Justus was a Corinthian mentioned in Acts 18:7, a Gentile described as one who "worshipped God." His house, which stood next to the synagogue, became the place where Paul taught after leaving the synagogue.

• Epaenetus

  Epaenetus was a Christian whom Paul greeted in Romans 16:5, calling him "my wellbeloved" and the "firstfruits" of Asia unto Christ.