Last week, as we launched our Advent series entitled A Messy Christmas, we discovered from Genesis 3 how one decision caused messy, life-altering, relationship-shattering consequences for the human race.  The decision to take a bite of a piece of fruit turned that which was good into evil, and the ripple effects of that decision are still being felt today.  Thank God, however, that the One who can control the ripple effects decided to do something about it. This is what we celebrate at Christmas:

"Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men.  For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous." (Romans 5:18-19)

Join us this week as we examine how the mess which began in the Garden spread to the whole world.  The Old Testament traces the ripple effects of sin while giving us clear evidence that the Creator of the Universe put a plan in motion to undo the destruction that our sin caused.  We'll see God's unmistakable love in the midst of the ripple effects of sin, and we'll see how God's plan to send one Man to the world began to unfold hundreds of years before it would happen.