Circumcision and Name of Jesus

This year the Sunday after Christmas falls on a special day in the life of the church, January 1! While we customarily associate this day as being New Year’s Day, it is the day the church remembers what happened to Jesus 8 days after He was born. He was given the name JESUS, and He was circumcised as the law commanded (see Luke 2:21). We will consider how God instituted the rite of circumcision during the time of the patriarch Abraham, and how we are incorporated into the covenant of God’s promises through baptism and faith in Jesus. We start the year being reminded that through these means we are saved from wrath and recipients of God’s blessings!