Merry Christmas everyone. We will look today at Matthew’s version of the Christmas story. I want to say something before we begin. This year has been a different year. The weird economy, the obvious decline of our culture and society. The breakdown of many of our country’s institutions and bureaucracies. War in Ukraine, and then there is the recent terrorist attack in Israel, and now the war in Gaza. We live in a serious time in history, and platitudes to just not worry, b