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