A sanctuary, kept slowly.

This site exists because most of us are walking through something heavy, and we do not always have the words. We pray in fragments. We read scripture and our eyes skim. We want God to be near, but our days are loud.

Long before God ever asked us to do anything, He told us who He is. He gave us His names. Each one is a doorway, opened in a different season — for Hagar in the desert, for Abraham on the mountain, for Gideon at the threshing floor, for Mary at the empty tomb.

Who keeps this place

Par Arnoldson Salazar

I am a husband and father in Brisbane, Australia, of Swedish heritage. I built this site slowly, mostly in the early hours, for my own sanity and for my son. Long before I built anything, I was a man with an anxious mind learning the names of God one at a time, finding that knowing what He is called was changing what He felt like.

I am not a pastor or a Hebrew scholar. I am a reader of scripture who needed a place like this to exist, and so made one. Every photograph on the site is one I took, mostly on the Australian coast. Every word was written by hand. There is no team behind this — only one man and the names that have kept him.

What is here

One hundred names of God, drawn from the Hebrew scriptures and the New Testament — each with a meaning, a scripture reference, a short teaching, and four practical ways to receive that name today.

Six seasons of the soul: provision, healing, freedom from anxiety, help with grief, strength, and hope. Pick the one closest to where you actually are.

A search bar — type a word like "fear" or "shepherd" and find the name of God that meets you there.

A memorize room with flashcards, a quiz, and a verse-reveal practice for the names you wish to hide in your heart.

A One Name a Day email — if you'd like a name to find you, rather than the other way around.

Why one hundred

Scripture preserves at least 282 distinct names and titles of God — Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. You can browse all of them in the Names from Scripture page. They are precious, and worth knowing.

But 282 is not a place to begin. It is a place to arrive. So I chose one hundred — the ones that gather the others, the ones that meet people where most of us actually stand: needing provision, healing, peace, a shepherd, a refuge, a reason to hope. The hundred are weighted toward the names that show up most often when people are in pain, because that is when people come looking for names.

The remaining 182 names are not lesser. They are deeper water for when you are ready to swim.

How to use it

Slowly. The names are not for collecting. They are for being known.

"And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you."
— Psalm 9:10

One name a day is plenty. Read it. Sit with the meaning. Try one of the four practices. Press play on the song. Let it sink down past your eyes, past your head, to the place that needs it.

On names and translations

Throughout the site, I use Yahweh rather than Jehovah for the personal covenant name of God (יהוה), and Yeshua for the name we usually call Jesus. Both Yahweh/Jehovah and Yeshua/Jesus are honest English approximations of the original — but Yahweh and Yeshua are closer to how the names were first spoken. On each name page, I also note the more familiar English spellings where they exist, so if you came looking for "Jehovah Jireh" or "Jesus, the Good Shepherd," you'll find them here.

Scripture quotations are drawn from public-domain translations (chiefly the World English Bible). Where the meaning is clearer, I have used modern phrasing. The Hebrew or Greek is included for each name so you can hear it as it was originally received.

A quiet word

You do not need to come to this site every day. You do not need to read all one hundred names. You do not need to feel something each time.

You only need to remember that God has a name for every sorrow you carry — and He is not far away.

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