Tonight’s carol service looked at the names of Jesus. Naming a child is often one of the first things would-be parents do, being careful not to choose names whose initials spell out embarrassing words or to avoid names that have unpleasant connotations (naming a bobsleigh in the film ‘Cool Runnings’ had similar problems…!) Mary and Joseph did not have these problems to face, however, since they were told what to name their first-born!
Quite often, when we research our family names, we look at family trees, so we had our very own tree tonight to look at the names of Jesus, which included:
- Word (John 1:1)
- Son of God (2 Cor 1:19, Col 1:15)
- Son of Man (Mark 10:45)
- Second Adam (Rom 5:12-21)
- Bread of Life (Jn 6:35)
- Living Water (John 7:38)
- Light of the World (John 8:12)
- True Vine (John 15:1)
- Gate (John 10:9)
- Good Shepherd (John 10:11)
- The Way, The Truth and the Life (John 14:6)
- Resurrection and the Life (John 11:25
- I Am (John 8:58)
- Lamb of God (John 1:29)
- Lion of the Tribe of Judah (Revelation 5:5)
- King of Kings and Lord of Lords (Revelation 19:16)
- Alpha & Omega (Revelation 1:8)
- Faithful & True (Revelation 19:11)
- Messiah/ Christ (Jn 1:41)
- Great High Priest (Heb 4:14)
- Prince of Peace (Is 9:6)
- Wonderful Counsellor (Is 9:6)
- Chief cornerstone (Ephesians 2:20)
- Saviour (Acts 13:23)
- Lord (Phil 2:11)
- Immanuel (Matt 1:23)
- God’s indescribable gift (2 Cor 9:15)
- Jesus (Matt 1:21) – Yahweh is salvation
A close-up of the leaves on the tree, made from real leaves!
Sticking the names on the tree:
