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Month: December 2012

Early Church Names

Most people know that “Jesus” means “Yah Saves” and that “Peter” means “Rock,” but what about those name clusters we find at the end of the epistles? What do their names signify? For instance, Paul greeted 27 different people in the last chapter of Romans. Let’s sample a dozen or so to show how we …

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Who Was Herod the Great?

Matthew’s Gospel tells us that when King Herod learned about the birth of the Messiah, he tried to trick the wise men into serving as spies to help him murder Jesus. When that didn’t work, he killed all the male children in Bethlehem under two years old in a murderous effort to exterminate God’s anointed …

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