Your family history has a role in shaping you and tells others about who you are. In this Advent message, Rev. Stone explores Jesus genealogy as detailed and in Matthew 1 and what it can tell us. 1. Proof of Promise - the line of Abraham and David with whom God made covenants. 2. Pictures of Shame - Jesus' descendants include adulterers, prostitutes, murderers - the kind of people Jesus came to save. 3. Portraits of Grace - Joseph was decended from Zerubbabel whom God used to lead his people back to the promised land after the exile.