28 Feb 2010
In NZ ‘Grace’ has regularly been a top 10 name for girls over the last decade. In fact between 2004 and 2009 it was numbers 9, 7, 7, 8, 10 and 12 link. Now let’s assume parents look at meaning of names at least to a certain extent when choosing them for their children. The first few baby name sites I visited were fairly limited but apparently it is of Latin origin, and its meaning is "favour; blessing" or a virtue name when referring to God's grace. If you look for the dictionary meaning this is expanded significantly but tends to follow the same thinking.
So what is God's grace and what is the meaning for us as Christians? Well watch or listen to the video of when Liz Eley spoke to us on this topic.
Incidentally I didn’t find it on the recent boys list in NZ, but against my expectation it did make the top 1000 for boys between 1880-1920 link.
