If genealogies are not the most engaging reading, why would Matthew begin his history of Jesus with one in Matthew 1:1-17? Actually, genealogies can be very engaging if we find in them connections with our story. Because Matthew wanted to connect Jesus with Jewish people, he emphasized Jesus’ descent from the patriarch Abraham and from King David. At the same time, he included some fascinating details that connect Jesus not only with Jewish people but with all of us.
The Antioch church set the example of following the Spirit's leading to release the church's most gifted workers into the mission field so that...
God delights to bring deliverance through unlikely people and in surprising ways.
In Daniel 1, four teenagers show us how to be faithful when we are pressured to conform to the world around us.
