09/10/2026
Most of us skip the genealogy at the beginning of Matthew. It’s just a list of names, right? But look closer. Hidden in that list are scandals, failures, foreigners, and heroes — the full range of human experience. And Matthew puts it all there on purpose. This Sunday we begin our fall series in the Gospel of Matthew by discovering that the grace in Jesus’ story is also the grace in ours. 1stpresdowntown.org