A simple carpenter from Nazareth once repaired a roof more slowly and carefully than any other in his life, because Mary lived in that house. Joseph tells this story in his own words: four hundred years of God’s silence, a dream of an ordinary home, and the evening when everything fell apart (Matthew 1). The sermon moves from the question every generation asks, where is God? to a manger where the answer turns out to be startlingly close. Listen if it feels as though God goes silent exactly when you need him most.
Where Is God?
Wait for the King
When we look at the world with all its social injustice, exploitation, and corrupt politicians, we wish that God would come as King and set things right. The Gospel of Matthew presents Jesus as the promised King who came into the world. Its opening chapters, which tell of His birth, help us understand that this is a completely different King, from a completely different Kingdom than we expected. Yet He is the King we need.
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