Hello again and welcome back to Kids' Bible Stories. Today's story is called

What's in a Name? This is the Names of God Part 1 and comes from Genesis chapter 2 verse 7

verses 19 through 20 and John chapter 1 verse 42.

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the link in today's show notes. Today, we are starting a brand new series called The Names of God.

This idea actually came from one of our listeners, and I thought it was such a wonderful request.

Over the next few weeks, we'll learn some of God's special names and what they mean.

This episode will feel a little different than our usual stories.

Before we start learning God's special names, I think it's really important that we understand why names matter in the first place.

So today, we are going to focus only on that.

Then, in the next episodes, we'll build on this together.

So what's in a name?

Glad you asked. Let's jump right in.

Let's go back to the very beginning of the Bible.

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