“And in Jesus Christ His only Son, our Lord.” The Apostle’s Creed is an ancient and reliable summary of basic Christian beliefs. It begins with God the Father: “I believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth.” In the second paragraph, it speaks of Jesus of Nazareth, God the Son. It’s possible…
“I believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth.” That line, the opening of the enduring Apostle’s Creed, tells us several important things about God. First, that God is a loving and caring Father. Second, that He is a sovereign and Almighty God. Finally, it tells us that He is the “maker…
“I believe in God the Father Almighty.” Every person you have ever met, every person who will ever walk this earth, is a theologian. Of course, only a few people ever make formal theological studies their career. But whenever a person thinks about God, or even doesn’t think about God, they show they are a…
The Apostles’ Creed is an ancient, worthy, and wonderful summary of basic Christian belief. The years haven’t taken away from its truth or importance. The Apostles’ Creed is probably the most well-known and agreed to statement of belief among Christians that doesn’t come straight from one Biblical passage. For centuries Christians united around this simple…
So David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” (2 Samuel 12:13) David’s confession is an example for all of us: I have sinned against the Lord. He placed the blame squarely on his own shoulders. He did not minimize his offence. David realized that he especially sinned against God. In the original…
Then Nathan said to David, “You are the man!” (2 Samuel 12:7) King David lived for about a year in a tangled web of denial and gradually growing coldness and hardness toward God. He sinned in both adultery and murder and then covered both crimes with the image of a rescuer of poor Bathsheba. God’s…
So David’s anger was greatly aroused against the man, and he said to Nathan, “As the Lord lives, the man who has done this shall surely die! And he shall restore fourfold for the lamb, because he did this thing and because he had no pity.” (2 Samuel 12:5-6) The man after God’s heart –…
When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband. And when her mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord. (2 Samuel 11:26-27) The…
Then David sent messengers, and took her; and she came to him, and he lay with her, for she was cleansed from her impurity; and she returned to her house. (2 Samuel 11:4) When we think about all the things leading up to David’s sin with Bathsheba, it’s easy to forget that everything leading up…
So David sent and inquired about the woman. And someone said, “Is this not Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?” (2 Samuel 11:3) Without doubt, King David was the greatest monarch ancient Israel had. He was a great man – but just a man nonetheless. David suffered more than one…
Then it happened one evening that David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. And from the roof he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to behold. (2 Samuel 11:2) It wasn’t the only time of spiritual decline in the life of King David, but…
It happened in the spring of the year, at the time when kings go out to battle, that David sent Joab and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the people of Ammon and besieged Rabbah. But David remained at Jerusalem. (2 Samuel 11:1) It is one of the saddest chapters in…