Advent: “The Naughty List” | Tamar, David & Bathsheba

Sunday, December 11th, 2022

Peter Smith

Matthew 1:1-6

Most of the world thinks of Christianity as being for people who would be on a “nice list” (or at least people think they are on that list.) But when we see the lineage of Jesus, what we find on that list are individuals who are far from perfect. Isn’t that the good news of Christmas—that God would send Jesus into a messy world for people who were not perfect?