Immanuel – God With Us
Jesus may be His most popular name, but it is not His only name. Every year at Christmas time we pull out “Immanuel” and dust it off for a few carols or to be embossed on the cards we send to friends and family. But what is really meant by that birth-name of Jesus? “Immanuel!” – why does Matthew draw our attention to it in his account of the nativity? As it turns out, that name spells out in the simplest form the good news of the gospel, and how Jesus proves that God is not at all like what we expected, and how He is different than every other religion claims Him to be.