GOD'S LOVE OVERCOMES PEOPLE'S REJECTION

Christmas in our culture today can feel like a celebration reserved for people with it all together. The turkey tastes sweet if there’s a perfect family and a full bank account, but otherwise not so much. Matthew shocked his first readers by including the names of five hurting women in the genealogy that opens his Christmas account and in so doing showed that Christmas tells the story of how His incredible love overcomes the pain and rejection that people often face.

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Bathsheba: God’s Love for a Wanted Woman
Bathsheba: God’s Love for a Wanted Woman

Bathsheba was plucked from her home by a king with a wandering eye who planned her husband’s murder. How could God redeem such tragedy?

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Mary: God’s Love for a Teenager In Over Her Head
Mary: God’s Love for a Teenager In Over Her Head

Mary was looking forward to marriage with a good man that she loved, but an unplanned pregnancy brought her world crashing down. How would she find a path forward?

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Ruth: God’s Love for a Young Widow
Ruth: God’s Love for a Young Widow

Matthew 1:5; Ruth 1:1-18 | outline

Ruth lost her husband and was uprooted to a foreign land where she felt the searing eyes of discrimination. What future would there be possible for her?

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Rahab: God’s Love for a Prostitute
Rahab: God’s Love for a Prostitute

Matthew 1:5; Joshua 2:1-14 | outline

Rahab turned to prostitution to make ends meet in a city that was so far gone that it’s destruction was assured. What hope could there be for someone like her?

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Tamar: God’s Love for an Abused Woman
Tamar: God’s Love for an Abused Woman

Matthew 1:3, Genesis 38:6-30 | outline

Tamar was a woman who faced the abuse of selfish men who used her instead of protecting her. How could God lift up someone so trodden down?

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Paul Sadler, Lead Pastor