Teaching Missions: Growing in God’s Grace

Joseph, warned by God in a dream, flees with Mary and Jesus from Herod to Egypt and returns after Herod's death.

Joseph, warned by God in a dream, flees from Herod to Egypt and returns after Herod's death.

Wise men come to Jesus with gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh

Wise men come to Herod, find Jesus in Bethlehem, and worship him with gold, frankincense, and myrrh.

Mary is found pregnant, but not by Joseph. An angel instructs him in a dream that the baby is conceived by the Holy Spirit and to take Mary as his wife.

Jesus walks to the Jordan river to be baptized by John the baptist. The Holy Spirit descends like a dove and God the Father announces his pleasure from heaven.

Four women are mentioned; all have something unsavory or a problem for them, but God is able to use them mightily in the line of the Messiah.

The ancestry of Jesus Christ is mentioned, especially Abraham and David. Forty-two names are given of the fathers, and four mothers are mentioned.

Peter wanted to know the future for John. Jesus rebuked him and said to follow Him and not worry about others.

Wise men come to Herod, find Jesus in Bethlehem, and worship him with gold, frankincense, and myrrh.