Preparing For Jesus | Tamar

At the start of his Gospel, Matthew opens not with a description of Jesus’ birth but with a genealogy. What Matthew is doing is, he’s saying, “You can’t understand the birth of Christ, you can’t just jump right to the Christmas story, unless you first look at the family tree of Jesus.” During Advent, then, we are going to focus in on four quite unexpected, even shocking, women who are named in Jesus’ genealogy as a way of better understanding who Jesus is and what He was about. This week: Call to Worship: Advent Week 1 Collect Songs: Send Me Lord / Come As You Are Peace of Christ Advent Reading: Hope Community Life & Confession with Jon Kurtz Call to Listen Message Text: Matt.1:1-3, Genesis 38 and others Benediction