DAVID EXPERIENCED more during his life than a Hollywood action movie character. It’s remarkable that despite his accomplishments, David recognized that his success was entirely due to God.Continue Reading
Imagine an orchestra of 4,000 musicians playing hymns of thanksgiving and praise!Continue Reading
A PLAGUE that spread through the kingdom of David led to the consecration of a 35-acre piece of ground that is fought over to this day.Continue Reading
GIVING THANKS in the middle of trouble is difficult, even contrary to our nature. But David did it again and again, even when he was surrounded by enemies—not all of which were human.Continue Reading
THIS WEEK’S STUDY is a song of deliverance that follows the account of David’s final victory over the Philistine “sons of the Rapha.”Continue Reading
THE POLITICS of David’s day was just brutal and bloody as it is today.Continue Reading
ONE OF THE hardest things you can do is give thanks to God in the middle of trouble.Continue Reading
DAVID WAS NOT a good father. That’s obvious from the way his own children treated each other—and him.Continue Reading
TALK ABOUT ingratitude: David’s son Absalom, who’d fled to his grandfather’s kingdom of Geshur, returned to Jerusalem after a two-year exile and apparently began scheming to remove David from the throne as soon as he came home.Continue Reading
THE PSALMS this week follow our chronological reading order, meaning they were written by David after he was confronted by the prophet Nathan for conspiring to kill Uriah the Hittite so that David could take his wife, Bathsheba.Continue Reading