Ep 38: Christmas Series: The Unexpected Family Tree of Jesus

Cultivate with Kelly Minter

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Talk Radio

5 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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I don’t know about you, but I’m fully invested in the Christmas season. Today, we’re diving into a series of Christmas episodes and to kick it off, we’re starting in the book of Matthew. Matthew spends most of the first chapter outlining the genealogy of Jesus. While a genealogy may not seem like the most show stopping opener, the cultural and historical implications of this chapter are deeply impactful. The genealogy of Jesus is countercultural. It is rare to find women listed in genealogies and the women highlighted here are not classified by their squeaky clean lives or heritages. The effects of shame, prejudice, disobedience, loneliness all permeate the lives of the women in Jesus’ line. As we look at these women, we can’t help but see reflections of our own hearts and stories. And in that reflection I pray we will see the all-encompassing salvation gift given to us through the life and death of Jesus. Don’t forget to sign up here for the Encountering God Online Bible study, starting January 13, 2022. Order the Encountering God Bible study

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0:00.0	From K-Love books, We're So Blessed is a new 40-day family-oriented devotional written to help your family recognize God's hand in your everyday lives, and to realize how truly blessed you are as a child of God.
0:13.9	Authored by three siblings who make up the Christian music group Kane, We're So Blessed, offers a personal glimpse into their childhood and family,
0:22.1	plus activity ideas and questions your family will love.
0:26.0	We're So Blessed is available now wherever you buy books.
0:29.5	A link is also in today's show notes.
0:34.1	Access More.
0:57.8	Yeah. Access more. Welcome back to the Cultivate Podcast. I'm so excited today because we are in full Christmas swing here. I hope you had an awesome Thanksgiving week and Thanksgiving Day. And now here
1:03.9	we are. We are in the thick of the holiday season. Now, I totally get it. There are lots of you
1:09.4	who will listen back to a podcast like this, and it'll be March or July.
1:15.8	And you're thinking, yeah, I don't want to thank Christmas, you know, at this particular time.
1:21.3	So here's the thing.
1:23.2	I totally get it.
1:24.4	I do not like to listen to Christmas music unless it is Christmas time. I do not like to watch Christmas movies unless it is Christmas time. However, the Christmas narratives in the Gospels is for all the time. This is for all the time. We want to be able to pull these out any day of the year because this is the story of Jesus
1:47.9	Christ.
1:48.4	And so no matter what season you're listening to this in, I hope that this is a great message
1:53.1	for you.
1:53.5	And if it does happen to be in the holiday season, then I hope that you have gotten your
1:59.4	hot chocolate on hand and your marshmallows because I
2:03.0	absolutely bought my Trader Joe's instant hot chocolate packet. I think it's even organic,
2:09.9	which I always love that. It's like, were we struggling with non-organic chocolate powder?
2:17.3	I mean, I don't really, that's one of those things
2:19.8	where it's like the organic label. I'm not really sure how, you know, helpful that is, but I have
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