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  • The Apostles’ Creed

    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…

  • I Confess

    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…

  • Surprised Into Repentance

    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…

  • Knowing But Not Knowing

    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 –…

  • The Sobering Sentence

    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…

  • Sin and Worse Sin

    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…

  • Running the Red Lights

    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…

  • Escape While You Can

    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…

  • Start of a Shameful Season

    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…