“His name would probably have been in Aramaic: Yeshua.” That innocuous sentence, which Professor Dineke Houtman has provided, is a silent subversion: the common English term of address, “Jesus,” was ...

The name “Jesus” is an English import, not an early first-century name. For the Galilean teacher at the heart of the ...

*He is Our Lord and Savior. the Almighty. The Alpha and the Omega. However, according to scientists, Jesus Christ’s real name … is not Jesus Referencing the Daily Mail, the New York Post reports that ...

In our increasingly secularized society, we can all give witness to our Lord Jesus Christ by simply — and serenely — affirming his holy name when it’s irreverently used (see John 14:27). “Praised be ...

On Jan. 3, we celebrate the optional memorial of the Holy Name of Jesus, a feast that gained its place on the Roman Calendar in 1721 by the order of Pope Innocent XIII. The feast had been celebrated ...

Ethan Maple is lead pastor of Mt. Comfort Church. Easter may be behind us, but the power of Jesus’ resurrection remains. As I was going over the Gospel accounts of Jesus’ miraculous triumph over sin ...

We each possess a name given to us by our parents. Maybe you were named after a relative or you were just given your name because your parents liked it. But for whatever the reason you came by your ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - A popular Christmas tradition is about to hit the stage again this year offering audiences several nights of live nativity scenes. Dawndy Mercer Plank went to the Lexington ...

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