Every stocking is unique. It’s got your name on it. Some families do different colors or sizes. But every stocking identifies whose it is. We’ll wrestle with Joseph’s struggle in Matthew 1 with the news of being a husband and father to consider what parts of our identity we struggle with and how that keeps us from receiving the gifts that are to come.

Blake Lawyer preaches through the first sermon of the "Stockings" Christmas series at Christ Community Church in Shelbyville, Kentucky on Sunday, December 1st.