Contributed by Steven Chapman on Feb 6, 2007
                    
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    	In these 25 verses, most of which do read something like a phone directory, we have the theological stage set for all of the rest of Matthew’s gospel. And not only is the shape set forth for the rest of the gospel, the shape and form of the entire New Te
                
                    
                        Emmanuel
Matthew 1
It was December 1944. Dietrich Bonhoeffer found himself celebrating his last Christmas on the earth. He was only 39. He had been a German pastor. Now, he was a Nazi war criminal.
	It was Christmas time. And he was pensive, with pen in hand, over his little diary. And the thought
                        
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