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Staying connected

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In the 19 months we’ve maintained this blog, we’ve picked up a few subscribers, but I’m betting there are still plenty of people who drop by once in a while to read a post or two, intending to check back later for new content, but just forget. That’s understandable, especially if you work in front of a computer all day, like I do, and have plenty of email and websites running through your mind all day.

Let me make it easy for you.

There are 4 ways to read the blog periodically, 2 of which I recommend and 2 I don’t.

  1. Bookmark. You could just bookmark the URL (uniform resource locator — the web address, in other words). Not recommended because it’s too easy to forget to come back.
  2. Alarm clock. You could set your alarm clock to get up 30 minutes earlier than normal, spend the first 15 minutes wondering why you’re up so early, and the other 15 minutes checking this blog to see if we’d posted anything since yesterday morning. Not recommended for obvious reasons.
  3. Subscribe by email. To subscribe by email, just type your email address into the space in the left sidebar, and click Subscribe. If you do this, I guarantee 3 things:
    1. We will never ever use your email address for any reason other than to automatically send you a once-a-day email with the day’s post(s). No posts that day? No email.
    2. Not only will we not abuse your privacy, but neither will Google. Google comes into the picture here, because email subscriptions to this blog are handled by Feedburner, which is part of Google.
    3. You can unsubscribe easily, any time you want, and without answering a bunch of “why” questions.
  4. Subscribe by RSS. You might have noticed the links near the top of the blog, directly beneath the header, ENTRIES RSS and COMMENTS RSS, and wondered what that meant. “RSS” stands for “really simple syndication”. Does that help? (It didn’t help me, first time I heard it.) RSS can be confusing at first, but it’s — well, really simple. Rather than describe it here, I’ll point you at 2 links that will help: How to Sign Up for RSS Feeds, an article on eHow.com, and RSS in Plain English, a video by Common Craft. If you choose to subscribe by RSS, the “Entries RSS” is the link you need.

So, set your alarm clock if you want, but the email and the RSS options are the routes I recommend. Choose the one that works better for you.

How to Sign Up for RSS Feeds

Names of God — New series of posts

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There are at least 21 Hebrew names for God recorded in the Bible. Names were very special to God’s people. Jacob (meaning he deceives) had his name changed to Israel (struggles with God) by God Himself. Most people in this country name their children after close friends or relatives, or because they just like the name. A Hebrew mother and father would be more likely to name their child because of the meaning of the name itself, than for other reasons.

So God’s people often honored Him through names — “the Lord will provide”, “the Lord who sanctifies”, and “the Lord is my Shepherd”, for example. Every Sunday morning for the next 21 weeks we will see another name for God and learn its significance. We’ll proceed alphabetically.

The name Adonai first appears in Scripture in the 8th Psalm:

1O LORD, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth! You have set your glory above the heavens. 2From the lips of children and infants you have ordained praise because of your enemies, to silence the foe and the avenger. (Psalm 8:1-2)

Normally when you see the name Lord (as opposed to LORD, all upper-case), this is the name Adonai. This name was often pronounced out of reverence for the “formal” name of God (YHWH, or Jehovah), which was considered too sacred to be uttered. There are other connections between the names Adonai and Jehovah, but we’ll see these later.

Next week we’ll see the Hebrew name meaning “The Strong One”.

Related posts:

  1. What’s in a name?