Billy Sunday once said in a sermon that there are 256 names given for Jesus in the Bible. Then he added, “I suppose this was because He was infinitely beyond all that any one name could express.” Sunday’s comment reminds me of an observation made by Ralph Waldo Emerson who said that Jesus’ name “is not so much written as ploughed into the history of this world.”
I’ve been working on a series of lessons for the Wellandport VBS about the names of Jesus based on material from Apologetics Press. The five we’ll be studying are Messiah, Nazarene, Lord, Almighty, and Savior. I wish we could have a sixth lesson from today’s text Continue reading
