Category Theology for Everyone

The Names of God: YHWH Jireh

Siblings have ways of tormenting each other. A boy will position his finger about an inch from his sister’s shoulder and say, “I’m not touching you!” And few things are as creepy as someone staring at you, even if it’s…

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The Names of God: El-Shaddai

The Name In Genesis 17, the covenant community is in crisis. Abram had been called by the Lord out of darkness and into light. He had been given incredible promises, including offspring (Gen. 12:1-3). God had reiterated his promise: “Your…

The Names of God: YHWH

YHWH, the Tetragrammaton traditionally transliterated as YAHWEH[1] and translated in Scripture as “LORD,” “GOD,” “JEHOVAH,” and “JAH”[2] is the most used name for God and especially sacred.  It assumes a developing covenantal significance during redemptive history in Exodus 3:13-15; 6:1-8—there…