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The Bible: Still Life Whatever keeps me from my Bible is my enemy, however harmless it may appear to me. A. W. Tozer Coming on Monday: Meet My Bible

My favorite theme of the Bible is the amazing, marvelous, infinite grace of God! I love any verse about grace, any story depicting grace, any principle of grace, any song about grace . . . even my blog is named for God's grace! This morning I was having my Bible reading in Matthew 1 & 2 (I'll explain my crazy Bible-reading plans and adventures some other time!). We all know that first chapter of Matthew: it starts with that long list of Jesus' genealogy. I remember from my high-school Bible classes that Matthew presents Jesus as the King of the Jews, so his genealogy traces Jesus' royal line from Abraham, through David, then down to Joseph and Mary - they had to return to the City of David, Bethlehem, to be taxed, which is how Jesus "happened" to be born in Bethlehem. And I can't help but see the grace of God in Jesus' family line. Do you know who Judah was? He was one of Jacob's twelve sons, the fourth, in fact. Judah had a daughter-in-l