What Was Jesus' Name?

Lately I have heard many people refer to Jesus by His Hebrew name, Yeshua. I wanted to do some digging about why we call Him Jesus in Christian tradition. I am not an expert by any means, but I am going to do a little digging from the New Testament.
I looked up Matthew 1:1 in the Hebrew Lexicon (see link here ). Matthew 1:1 is simply "This is the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah the son of David, the son of Abraham:". Jesus the Messiah in this verse is "Iesous  (ee-ay-sooce) Christos" in the Greek. Hmm.... Iesous sounds a lot like Jesus! I want to look up more. In Luke 1:31 we read of the angel Gabriel announcing the name Mary should call her son. The name that is written in the Greek is Iesous. Interesting!
Now I want to know, what does Paul and James call Our Lord in the New Testament?
Romans 1 starts out with "Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus. . ." Christ Jesus in this verse is "iēsou christou" translated, iēsou: "the Anointed One, Messiah, Christ". And christou is translated "Jesus or Joshua, the name of the Messiah, also three other Israelites". (See here ). Now I want to look at what James the brother of Jesus called Him. Surely if anyone knew His true name it would be his own brother right? James 1:1 is written: "James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes scattered among the nations: Greetings." In this verse,  "Lord Jesus Christ" is "kuriou iēsou christou". Kuriou is translated: "Lord or master."
I am convinced by just this little bit of study that Jesus is a valid and true name for our Lord based on the Greek writings in the New Testament.


"Acension" by Chelsea Carbonell

This is mostly for my benefit as I have read some confusing things posted by people on Facebook and also implied in other ways about His wonderful Name. Its true, God has given Himself many names in scripture and it is obvious to me just by a few minutes of research that "Jesus" is a translation of the Greek word Iesous used prolifically in the New Testament. Even if we don't have His name exactly the way He says it in heaven, He still hears us and answers when we call on Him!

Kids Craft for October 31st

On a day when most folks are celebrating dark and scary things in the U.S. on Halloween we like to focus on the light even more. During our homeschool day today we read and talked about Philippians 2:14-15 and John 1:4 and made a simple, fun craft to show the light shining through the darkness. All my kids enjoyed it from 10 years old down to 5. 

  

^" Do everything without grumbling or arguing, ¹⁵ so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.”Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky." Philippians 2:14-15

 ^"In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. ⁵ The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it."  John 1:4