Priests, Levites, and Musicians
2023-11-19
Imagine an orchestra of 4,000 musicians playing hymns of thanksgiving and praise!Continue Reading
Threshing Floors and Portals
2023-11-05
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
My Soul is in the Midst of Lions
2023-09-17
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
He Bowed the Heavens and Came Down
2023-08-27
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
After Absalom
2023-08-06
THE POLITICS of David’s day was just brutal and bloody as it is today.Continue Reading
The Lord is My Strength and My Shield
2023-07-16
ONE OF THE hardest things you can do is give thanks to God in the middle of trouble.Continue Reading
O Absalom, My Son, My Son!
2023-07-09
DAVID WAS NOT a good father. That’s obvious from the way his own children treated each other—and him.Continue Reading
The Absalom Conspiracy
2023-06-25
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
Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God
2023-06-18
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
You Are the Man!
2023-06-04
DAVID’S PLOY to take the wife of Uriah the Hittite is another story that shows that the Bible has not been cleaned up to make the humans used by God look more, well, saintly.Continue Reading