The past few weeks we’ve been learning how God used all types of people in the lineage of Jesus to bring him into the world through his birth. We saw how God used unknowns as well as wealthy people.

At the Christmas Vigil Mass, we take a journey through salvation history to recall once again the great gift that is the coming of Christ in the flesh. Saint Matthew, in his attempts to demonstrate ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

At the Christmas Eve vigil Mass, ask your pastor to read all 25 verses in Matthew's Gospel rather than using the shorter form that skips over the genealogy. I know proclaiming Matthew's genealogy can ...

Mr. Wehner, a senior fellow at the Trinity Forum, is a contributing Opinion writer. One of the forgotten facts of the story of Jesus’ life is that he came from a profoundly dysfunctional family. I was ...

The genealogy of Jesus, and the problems it cause. The new testament writers were so kind as to leave 2 genealogies of Jesus for us to peruse, both of his father. Not that Joseph was really his father ...