{"id":20489,"date":"2015-01-01T06:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T11:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?p=20489"},"modified":"2014-12-30T21:17:53","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T02:17:53","slug":"happy-circumcision-name-of-jesus-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2015\/01\/happy-circumcision-name-of-jesus-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Circumcision & Name of Jesus Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

I hope you had a big celebration last night and stayed up past midnight to see in the big holiday today.\u00a0 Namely, the commemoration of the circumcision and naming of Jesus, a ceremony that took place one week after His birth.\u00a0 To honor the occasion\u2013and, oh, yes, it\u2019s also New Year\u2019s Day, isn\u2019t it?\u2013I am reposting something I wrote back in 2009:<\/p>\n

Today is. . . the ancient feast celebrating The Circumcision and Name of Jesus. The week after Christmas, the Christchild was circumcised, thus taking upon Himself the fulfillment of the Law, a rite in which He was also officially given His name.<\/p>\n

\u201cJesus\u201d means \u201cGod saves\u201d (literally, to put it even stronger, \u201cYHWH saves\u201d). Notice how the very name of Jesus attests to His divinity and to the Gospel.<\/p>\n

Several years ago, we went to church on New Years Day and heard one of the most memorable sermons on the Name of Jesus. The pastor went through the different places in the Bible that talks about doing things \u201cin the name of Jesus,\u201d then bringing in the meaning of that name, that God saves. We are told to pray in the name of Jesus, because \u201cGod saves\u201d gives us full access to the Father. When even two or three meet in the name of Jesus, He is with them, because \u201cGod saves\u201d makes a new kind of worship possible. Disciples could cast out demons in Jesus\u2019 name; that is, in the reality that \u201cGod saves.\u201d At the name of Jesus, \u201cGod saves,\u201d every knee shall bow and every tongue that Jesus is LORD. (Try that correlation yourself in your own devotions.)<\/p>\n

via The Name of Jesus<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is also a fitting contemplation for\u00a0 the new year ahead.\u00a0 So happy New Year\u2019s, everybody!\u00a0 May 2015 be a good and blessed year for all of you!.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I hope you had a big celebration last night and stayed up past midnight to see in the big holiday today.\u00a0 Namely, the commemoration of the circumcision and naming of Jesus, a ceremony that took place one week after His birth.\u00a0 To honor the occasion\u2013and, oh, yes, it\u2019s also New Year\u2019s Day, isn\u2019t it?\u2013I am […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,21,25],"tags":[501,1571],"class_list":["post-20489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christ","category-holidays","category-language","tag-circumcision-and-name-of-jesus","tag-new-years-day"],"yoast_head":"\nHappy Circumcision & Name of Jesus Day!<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I hope you had a big celebration last night and stayed up past midnight to see in the big holiday today.\u00a0 Namely, the 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