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Hello friend, this is Max Locato.

Thanks for tuning in.

It's an honor to be with you.

As we study God's word together, may our time uplift and encourage you.

If you could use some hope, I pray you find it here today.

Well, we're here today.

Well, we're here. Another Christmas season is upon us. I pray that this

December brings you great joy, but if your faith could use a lift this holiday season, join me here on the

podcast the next few weeks. We'll spend some time in the book of Matthew studying and celebrating the arrival of Jesus.

We begin this week by looking at the genealogy of Jesus.

Now if you often skip over these passages, you're not gene turns a boring genealogy into uplifting theology.

In the latest television fad, producers run contestants around the world.

They drop them from buildings and they feed them

bugs and they call this reality television. Is that reality? I don't think so. How many of you, for example, have flung yourselves at the feet of a

zillionaire only to find out he's actually a bus driver from Idaho.

How many of you include in your fast food diet cow guts

and roaches?

How many of you have voluntarily placed yourself on a deserted island with 12 other people,

all of whom don't want you there?

That's not reality. It may be entertaining. It may be fun. It may be a fad. But here's reality.

You know, if we're going to do a real reality television. We need to start with the scene of a

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