What's your plan as we go into the holidays for how you're going to share the

gospel with your family members or friends who don't know Jesus? I wrote a short

resource called Gospel Threads to help you intentionally share Christ in the

fabric of your normal conversations around the table or the living room or wherever you are,

and we want to send you a free copy of gospel threads to your front door.

Just go to radical.net slash share Jesus.

Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical. net.

Matthew chapter 1 verse 1 the book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

Thus begins the first chapter of the first of four Gospels,

gospel meaning good news, the greatest news in the world

described in the birth, the life, the death, and the resurrection of Jesus.

And over the course of the coming months in these Pray the Word podcasts, we're going to walk through a verse from each chapter, each day of all four Gospels and just let good news soak into our hearts and drive us to

pray amidst a barrage of bad news over recent months.

Even as I am reading this first on this day,

it's around day 100 since, at least in the United States things have

pretty much shut down and things are starting to open back up but we have walked

through and are still walking through a global pandemic unlike anything

any one of us has seen in our lifetimes and add on top of that all kinds of tensions and most recently

over the last week protests and riots like you scroll through your news app or just

look at the news online or on TV and there is so much negative so much discouraging and so to spend time in

God's word each day and just to soak in good news of how Jesus has come, he has lived, he has died,

he has risen from the grave and Jesus has changed everything. And so Matthew chapter 1, verse 1,

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