This Sunday we will begin our winter teaching series on the forgotten/often neglected parts of Jesus’ life. We will explore the life of Jesus before His earthly ministry, and examine what we know of His boyhood, adolescence, the speculations about His early adulthood, and the event before He began His earthly ministry. This week we divine into Matthew 2. It has a Christmas story beginning, perfect for nativity scenes and children’s Bibles. But the middle and final sections are usually overlooked. The massacre of children and Jesus being a refugee do not make it in children’s Bibles. Is there value in Matthew including these accounts? Does this portion of Jesus’ life matter? If so, how does it inform how we understand Him and how He relates to us today?

~Aaron