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Why Your Name Doesn't Mean Anything (But God's Does)

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Moses wants to know God’s name. Not a title, not a family tree, an actual name. What he gets back is not what he expects, and it changes what it even means to talk about God at all.

Pastor Harry Jarrett walks through Moses at the burning bush in Exodus 3 and asks a question we don’t sit with often enough: why isn’t “the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob” a good enough answer? In the ancient world, a name wasn’t a label, it was a description of character. Jacob’s name meant “heel grabber,” and it described exactly the man he became. Nabal’s name meant “folly,” and folly is…

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