12/23/18. Fourth Sunday of Advent season, longing for the hope of Christ's coming. During these five weeks we will explore the lives and lessons of the five mothers specially noted in the genealogy of Jesus.

Bathsheba is known as "Uriah's wife," and yet becomes part of the lineage of the King through the lust, deceit, scheming, and cover-up of King David. This dark chapter in the life of the famous and celebrated warrior-king multiplies her trauma, grieves her to utter sadness through death of her heroic husband, then the death of the illegitimate child born from David's adultery, and the conflicted existence as mother of Solomon the chosen heir to the throne. Disgrace and shame spreads and yet Grace wins in the end.

// Jeff Patterson preaching on 2nd Samuel 11-12; Psalms 32 & 51

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