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How to Out-Jesus Rick Warren

Praying in Jesus' name in 22 languages.

Compiled by Susan Wunderink | posted 1/23/2009 11:03AM

Rick Warren prayed in Jesus' name in four languages in his invocation for the Obama Inauguration. Here's a handy cheat sheet if you want to outdo him while saying grace tonight:

Arabic, Kazakh, Uzbek, Kyrgyz: EE-sa

Aramaic: EEE-sho

Bengali, Hindi, Korean, Japanese, Swahili: ye-su

Burmese: ye-SHOO

English: GEE-zes

German: YAY-sus

Hebrew: YESH-yoo-ah

Mandarin: yay-soo

Russian, Greek: ee-SOOS

Spanish, Quechua: he-SOOS

Welsh: ye-SEE

Yoruba, Zulu: GEE-soo

With thanks to Wycliffe Bible Translators and The Jesus Film Project.

January (Web-only) 2009, Vol. 53

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soulaf khalifeh

January 31, 2009 5:32am

in Arabic it's 'Ya-sooh'. 'EE-sa' is in Arabic but it's a different name. Muslims call Jesus 'EE-sa' and they don't accept to call Him 'Ya-sooh' because they believe he's just a prophet and 'EE-sa' is His real name!

Mike Irish

January 27, 2009 1:32pm

who are we to come against one of God's anointed? instead of cutting our brothers (and sisters) down, why not lift them up? mike

maryl

January 27, 2009 5:37am

I have a problem with Rick Warren and Obama's inaugural prayer. I'm not sure I would have committed myself to the prayer service with Obama's view and determination to the aboration issue and especially the killing of the child outside the womb. He says he for the women's right to choose. I am too. She can choose to take precautions or not. It's her choice but if she chooses not to then she has no right to kill to correct her mistake. She can correct that mistake through adoption. I do think he did a great job with the Saddleback debate and made some great points with Obama but I wonder where his heart is.

John Branner

January 26, 2009 3:46pm

Taiwanese: Ia (yah) - so

Len

January 26, 2009 3:44pm

The author was having fun, but Christians know nothing about that... God help us all.

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