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Phoebe
Phoebe A woman deacon at
Cenchreae near Corinth commended by Paul (Rom. 16: 1 and possibly the bearer of the letter).
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Sunday School Lesson
Newspaper article from: Sun Reporter, The; 11/17/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...and Priscilla with him. He shaved his head while he was in Cenchrea, and took a vow before the Lord. According to the (Nelson...to get to Jerusalem in time to make this vow." It was from Cenchrea that Paul and his traveling companions sailed again headed...
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God calls women
Newspaper article from: The Press; 4/14/2008; 334 words
; ...descriptive of the deeply patriarchal society at the time. Otherwise, Paul would not have commended Phoebe, a deacon of the Cenchrea church, Priscilla, a co- leader of a house church, and Junia, a woman outstanding among the Apostles (Romans 16). At...
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Wives of deacons find ways to minister. (Phoebe Ministries in Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN)(Ministries)
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 1/23/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...group's name from Romans 16, wherein St. Paul commends to the community "our sister Phoebe, a deaconess of the church at Cenchrea ... help her with anything she needs" (the word in Greek is diakonos, the same term used for male deacons -- Paul indicates...
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Pictorial Library of Bible Lands
Magazine article from: Trinity Journal; 4/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Tarsus, Thyatira, Troas and Apollo Smintheurn, Troy. CD 9 Greece: Amphipolis, Argos, Athens, Berea and Vergina, Cenchrea, Corinth, Corinth area, Delphi, Dion, Dodona, Epidaurus, Isthmia, Meteora, Mt Olympus, Mycenae, Neapolis, Nicopolis...
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SPIRITUAL OUTLOOK; Thanksgiving: the basic debt we owe God
Newspaper article from: Indianapolis Recorder; 11/28/2003; ; 406 words
; ...imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened." (Emphasis added) Romans was written by Paul and delivered by a woman from Cenchrea named Phoebe. Romans is one of Paul's well thought out letters. It contains, by some theological giants, the "magna...
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 "Herald & Review (Decatur, IL)")
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Women in Ministry: Conference planned for female clergy, Christian education workers to join together in their calling.
Newspaper article from: Herald & Review (Decatur, IL); 1/27/2007; 700+ words
; ...Several women ministers around Decatur look at their predecessors in the Bible: Phoebe, the deaconess of the church of Cenchrea, Priscilla and her husband Aquila, co-pastors of the church of Ephesus, and Euodia and Syntyche, two women who labored...
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 "Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)")
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The truth about Corinth ?(Features)
Newspaper article from: Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England); 8/21/2007; 622 words
; ...to the church at Corinth and a letter to the church in Rome. It was where he met Aquila and Priscilla as well as Phoebe of Cenchrea - the seaport of Corinth. It was also the place that Rev Kit Widdows and his wife Gillian recently visited as they followed...
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 "Sun, The: Lisle (IL)")
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Women have been spreading the word throughout time
Newspaper article from: Sun, The: Lisle (IL); 2/6/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...was a gentile. She is mentioned only once in the Bible: "I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a servant of the church in Cenchrea. I ask you to receive her in the Lord in a way worthy of the saints and to give her any help she may need from you. For she...
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READING ROMANS ANEW.
Magazine article from: Sojourners; 3/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...letter from an apostle named Paul. It is a long letter, and it has been carded nearly 1,000 miles by sea and land from Cenchrea, the port city of Corinth, by a deacon named Phoebe, one of Paul's co-workers (Romans 16:1-2). Phoebe, or a...
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Cenchrea
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Cenchrea or Cenchreae , port of ancient Greece, on the Saronic Gulf, ESE of Corinth. It is mentioned in the New Testament.
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Phebe
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Phebe or Phoebe , in the New Testament, deaconess at Cenchrea.
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