Malcolm Cox

Who’s advertising strap-line is that?  L’Oreal.  How many of use L’Oreal products? In 1900 a man could divorce his wife for wearing make-up since it was used by prostitutes! £3 billion a year is spent on cosmetics and toiletries every year.  In London £29 million every month is spent on skin care alone! But we’re not talking about cosmetics.  We’re talking about something more than skin-deep.  We’re talking about the awesome love of God! Have you ever thought you weren’t worth much to God? If at no other time of the year, at least at Christmas we should be able to believe we are very, very valuable to God.  Let’s read from Matthew 1.1-17 Most of us, I think, reckon we’re too sinful, messed up and weak to be loved by God.  Yet this seemingly boring list is packed full of evidence we’re all valuable and useful to God. V3 Judah was the father of Perez & Zerah – through Tamar (Genesis 38).  Remember the situation with Tamar? To cut a long story short she was Judah’s daughter-in-law.  She was lied to by Jud