Everything's Coming Up Irish: Names and Greetings

• Jen of joythruChrist posts her Irish name and tells us the movie that this name brings to mind. Have you found your Irish name? You may want to see if you can find your name on this chart of Irish name meanings, although it does seems to be missing some of the most common Irish names.
• Don’t forget to send your St. Patrick’s Day greetings soon.

Purposes of Christ's Death: 1 Peter 3:18

This is a repost of another of the old posts looking at the purpose statements for Christ’s death given to us in scripture. This time, the purpose statement is found in 1 Peter 3:18:

Because Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, to bring you to God, by being put to death in the flesh. (NET)

There are lots of not-so-clear things in the verses after this one, but this particular verse is pretty straight forward. The purpose statement given here for Christ’s being put to death—or Christ’s suffering for sins—is “to bring you to God.” This, of course, is pointing to the reconciliation that Christ’s death brings.

Reconciliation goes two ways: God is reconciled to human beings, and human beings are reconciled to God. Christ, the just one, suffers in place of the unjust ones (that would be sinners like you and me), and on the basis of what is accomplished by his vicarious suffering, the sin that stands between God and sinners is taken out of the way. Because of Christ death, God can reach out to cause sinners to be reconciled to himself. Sinners can be brought to God because Christ died.

Another purpose for Christ’s death is to bring people to God.

Everything's Coming Up Irish: An Irish Name and a Little More History

• Carla points her readers to a place where we can get our own Irish Names. Here’s mine:
  
  

  Your Irish Name Is…

  Sorcha O’Donnell

  What’s your Irish Name?
  
  I think I’ll stick with the name I’ve got, thank you.
  
  
• Candy of Shook Foil posts a few facts about the history of Celtic Christianity.

Would you like to join in the Everything’s Coming Up Irish fun? Post anything related to Ireland or Irish things and send me the link (You can email me, or leave your link in the comments to this post.), then look for a link to your post in one of the upcoming ECUI posts. No blog? No problem. Email me your contribution or leave it in the comments and I’ll post what you’ve contributed in one of the Irish posts.