It’s okay that most of us want to skip through the genealogy of Jesus—but we should still read it. In the first episode of the twentieth season of The Simpsons, Matthew’s genealogy of Jesus (Matt. 1:1 ...

In this month of holiday cheer, centered on the celebration of the birth of Christ, have you ever thought about Jesus’ family tree? Of course, Christians believe that Jesus was born to a virgin, ...

Jesus had a family tree. Do you know yours? A reflection for the Tuesday of the Third Week of Advent. “Zadok became the father of Achim, Achim the father of Eliud, Eliud the father of Eleazar. Eleazar ...

“Genealogies are my favorite part of the Bible!” said no one ever. Devotionals usually skip them, for it can be hard to tease out a good one-liner from a list of names. Preachers avoid them because ...

DOES Jesus have a secret line of descendants who are living today? It's an oddly appealing idea. We tend to think of ancestry in terms of bloodlines, in which some individuals are descended from ...

Of the four evangelists, Matthew was unique in tracing Jesus’ lineage, Chapter 1:1-17: “1 The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. “2 Abraham was the father of ...

Every year during Advent, we hear Matthews account of the genealogy of Jesus: A family record of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham. Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, ...

Merry Christmas 2016!!! Perhaps my interest in genealogy began in my childhood Sunday School class when we read the remarkable story of the virgin birth of Jesus, the Messiah, in the King James ...

The gospel, according to Matthew, Chapter 1 verses 1-17 narrates the genealogy of Jesus Christ. Genealogy simply means the family tree or the account of descent from ancestors, which we can term ...