With Absalom dead, Joab blows the trumpet to end the battles and the civil war is over. Except David is still in exile. Now we have a guilty nation and a vindicated king, and the question that rema

2 Samuel 18 is the climatic battle for the throne. But instead of highlighting the ferocity of the battle, the spotlight focuses on David's anxiety over his son, and how the news of Absalom's death i

As we’ve studied the rebellion of Absalom, we’ve been asking what we can learn about responding when we sin, understanding the discipline of our heavenly father, and how to respond when suffering unju

How should you respond when suffering unjustly? As David flees Jerusalem, he is used and abused by two members of Saul's family. We can learn from his example how to bear unjust suffering.

What do you do when you fail in a big way and your failure matters? Your mistake has big consequences for other people? How should you respond? That’s the situation David is facing in our story today

The conflict between appearance and reality is the theme of our story today. As we'll see, what appears to be wisdom and repentance is not.

The sins of David's sons repeat and magnify David’s sin. David's crime was against the wife of a friend. Amnon sins against a sister. The consequences of the first were death of a husband and baby.

We all come to a place at one time or another where we ask the question, “Why is my life so hard? Why do I have to endure this particular problem or experience this pain or go through this situation?”

One of the most common complaints is that the God of the Bible doesn’t seem to be very “fair.” We come from different backgrounds, we have different accents and we have different gifts and opportuniti

I suspect many of believers today are convinced that Sabbath still means something but have no idea what it is. You take the Bible seriously, you sincerely want to follow and obey God, but in this pa