Jesus isn’t just the Savior, He’s my Savior. Christ died for my sins. He was buried for my sins. He was raised on the third day so I could spend eternity with him. This week’s name is Savior, and I can’t let it pass without telling you who Jesus is to me. I grew up in a church-going household, and I don’t think I’ve…
She will give birth to a Son; and you shall name Him Jesus, for He will save His people from their sins. – Matthew 1:21 It’s a familiar verse, no? I heard it during Advent every year and thought, I don’t really get the connection between the name and the savior business, but that’s nice. If…
Listen to Me, Jacob, Israel whom I called; I am He, I am the first, I am also the last. – Isaiah 48:12 Jesus is: The Alpha and the Omega The First and the Last The Beginning and the End In the last post, we looked at what the Alpha and the Omega might…
I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty. – Revelation 1:8 This name, the Alpha and the Omega, only occurs in the last book of the Bible. Alpha and Omega are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet, the beginning and the end. And…
12 This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that a person will lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are My friends if you do what I command you.15 No longer do I call you slaves, for the slave does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, because all things that I have heard from My Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose Me but I chose you, and…