GOOD•NEWS•SNAPS
w h a t ' s • i n • a • n a m e ?
This beautiful little sun-kissed island, just off the coast of County Antrim, Northern Ireland is called the Isle of Muck (from the Irish, meaning 'pigs') - not to be confused with another small island of the same name in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.
Despite its small size (half a kilometre long and about 150m wide), Muck boasts the third largest colony of cliff-nesting seabirds in Northern Ireland. They include common guillemot, razorbill and kittiwake, northern fulmar, black guillemot and cormorant.
If I told you I was going to show you a photo of "Muck", you probably would have been expecting to see something quite different. Names can be misleading!
In the Bible, names are very significant and can tell you a lot about the person. For instance, the name 'Jesus' is derived from the Hebrew, Yeshua, also having the variants Joshua or Jeshu. The name is related to the Hebrew verb root "rescue, deliver" and one of its noun forms, "deliverance".
There could be no more appropriate name, then, for the Son of God who left heaven's glory, became a man and offered Himself as a sacrifice for sin, so that God's judgement would fall on Him rather than us.
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 6:23)
w h a t ' s • i n • a • n a m e ?
This beautiful little sun-kissed island, just off the coast of County Antrim, Northern Ireland is called the Isle of Muck (from the Irish, meaning 'pigs') - not to be confused with another small island of the same name in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland.
Despite its small size (half a kilometre long and about 150m wide), Muck boasts the third largest colony of cliff-nesting seabirds in Northern Ireland. They include common guillemot, razorbill and kittiwake, northern fulmar, black guillemot and cormorant.
If I told you I was going to show you a photo of "Muck", you probably would have been expecting to see something quite different. Names can be misleading!
In the Bible, names are very significant and can tell you a lot about the person. For instance, the name 'Jesus' is derived from the Hebrew, Yeshua, also having the variants Joshua or Jeshu. The name is related to the Hebrew verb root "rescue, deliver" and one of its noun forms, "deliverance".
There could be no more appropriate name, then, for the Son of God who left heaven's glory, became a man and offered Himself as a sacrifice for sin, so that God's judgement would fall on Him rather than us.
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. (Romans 6:23)