Dec 3, 2023
Branches | Ornaments for His Glory
Main Texts - Matthew 1:1-3; Genesis 38 :1-30
Additional Verses
Isaiah 49:7-10
Psalm 78:67-72
Ephesians 2:7
Jude 1:24-25
Revelation 5:1-5
Intro –It’s that time of the year we are, it’s the Christmas season! It’s the most wonderful time of the year. It’s a time for family traditions and family gatherings, movies about families. I love all these things, but it’s not always that way.. For many of us, there can be this tension because our families aren’t perfect and harmonizing over a grand piano.. Christmas can be hard because it magnifies much of the brokenness of the world and our lives.
Introducing the series, looking at the woman in the line of Jesus. There is a lot of brokenness in this genealogy, and maybe none more than the first woman mentioned, Tamar.. However, in the midst of the brokenness we see God turns the broken pieces into displays of His Glorious grace.
* A broken family (Genesis 38:1-11)
* A pattern of brokenness (Genesis 38: 12-21)
* A rede…