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It's a new year! Purpose to spend time each day reading the Word of God. It will be time well spent. Find someone to commit to reading the New Testament with you. Do it together. Talk about what your reading. Ask questions. Share insights. Help each other learn and grow. If you are a parent, instruct your children in these truths. Make 2014 the best year yet for your personal study of God's word.

Mt 1: I am always amazed at the women listed in the lineage of Jesus; Tamar, Rahab, Ruth and Bathsheba (listed as Uriah's wife). It is as though Matthew wanted to emphasize the evidence of grace in the lineage of Jesus. All of these women have very colorful backgrounds. All of them were "unlikely" candidates to be is the line of Jesus. Yet, we find them boldly listed and named.

The gospel is the story of God's grace. Grace that is greater than all our sin. Grace that allows each of us to be used by God in many ways. 

It's a great beginning to the best book ever written. Enjoy God's word with me this year!

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