Naming our first child was not easy. I loved my grandmother’s name which was Swanna Pickett. My husband who was not from the south could not agree and so we went back and forth until we finally settled on Anne-Janette Parks Harley. Yes it is a mouth full but it represents the three women who made up her life. Anne is my mother. Janette is my mother-in-law and Parks is my middle name so all of us were represented. However, on the day of her birth we realized that she was too small for such a huge name so we turned the name Anne around and added the J from Janette and there you have it…Jenna! Perfect.
A name is important. It not only tells who you belong to but also gives some indication of your personality. “Jenna” fit her as a baby and now thirty-eight years later it is still the perfect name for her bubbly personality.
A name is important. It not only tells who you belong to but also gives some indication of your personality. “Jenna” fit her as a baby and now thirty-eight years later it is still the perfect name for her bubbly personality.
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We were at a stand still. Well maybe not literally but it seemed we had stalled and were not making any headway. The problem? We could not decide on a name for our Bible Study. What could be so hard?
With the hundreds of excellent Bible studies available in America today one would think that coming up with a name would be the very simplest part of developing the program. We had everyone we knew thinking up names that we would discuss and eventually reject. Why these rejections took place I cannot say except that they just did not “feel’ right. We seemed to sense that as soon as we heard it we would know “this is it”!!!
“Bible Light” ran with us for a few days until we realized it sounded like we were making the Bible light or trying to do a take-off on a beer commercial! Both reasons were good enough to finally decide to reject it.
We were sitting around the table at Truth in Advertising, owned by a talented young couple who we had hired to do some design work for us. We had about five or six names in front of us and though some were pretty catchy they just didn’t seem to grab our senses. At one point Mike Dolinger started talking about the study and in the conversation said “This really is an amazing collection of books, isn’t it!” And at the moment we all knew that we had a new name.
But there are many collections of works in the world and although they are interesting to say the least they are hardly amazing. And if one looks at the Bible as a singular work, they miss something miraculous. For the Bible is not one work but sixty-six books compiled by over 40 authors covering a period of 1500 years on three continents in three languages. What is so amazing is that there is perfect unity among these books although they address hundreds of different topics! The Bible is indeed an AMAZING COLLECTION!
There is no other collection of books that has inspired men to produce such great works of art, write more exquisite music and design more awe-inspiring architecture than the Bible. No other book has survived such determination to destroy it and no other book that has been the impetus for life transformation for millions of people throughout history! What a book! What a God!! What a gift! The Amazing Collection!
With the hundreds of excellent Bible studies available in America today one would think that coming up with a name would be the very simplest part of developing the program. We had everyone we knew thinking up names that we would discuss and eventually reject. Why these rejections took place I cannot say except that they just did not “feel’ right. We seemed to sense that as soon as we heard it we would know “this is it”!!!
“Bible Light” ran with us for a few days until we realized it sounded like we were making the Bible light or trying to do a take-off on a beer commercial! Both reasons were good enough to finally decide to reject it.
We were sitting around the table at Truth in Advertising, owned by a talented young couple who we had hired to do some design work for us. We had about five or six names in front of us and though some were pretty catchy they just didn’t seem to grab our senses. At one point Mike Dolinger started talking about the study and in the conversation said “This really is an amazing collection of books, isn’t it!” And at the moment we all knew that we had a new name.
But there are many collections of works in the world and although they are interesting to say the least they are hardly amazing. And if one looks at the Bible as a singular work, they miss something miraculous. For the Bible is not one work but sixty-six books compiled by over 40 authors covering a period of 1500 years on three continents in three languages. What is so amazing is that there is perfect unity among these books although they address hundreds of different topics! The Bible is indeed an AMAZING COLLECTION!
There is no other collection of books that has inspired men to produce such great works of art, write more exquisite music and design more awe-inspiring architecture than the Bible. No other book has survived such determination to destroy it and no other book that has been the impetus for life transformation for millions of people throughout history! What a book! What a God!! What a gift! The Amazing Collection!
...and they were all amazed at the greatness of God.
Luke 9:43
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