Posts from 2021 (Page 14)

Advent Season (Anticipating the Birth of Jesus) 28 Names of Jesus | January 2, 2021 Name #29: “Jesus” (Matthew 1:21) “She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins” (Matthew 1:21). The name “Jesus” is clearly defined in Matthew 1:21. It means savior, it means salvation from God.1 It means that God sent His Son to the world so that all who believe in him will have eternal life…

First Baptist Church New Year’s Day Devotional Resolution or Revolution New Year’s Eve has passed. The dishes are done, the Christmas cookies have been eaten, we’ve earned another wrinkle, and the party favors have been tossed. And so, probably, have been the New Year’s resolutions. New Year’s is a time of new beginnings, or at least new aspirations. On Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, participants eat apples dipped in honey to picture their wish for a sweet new year.…