The Nature of God and Daily Living

       “For there is nothing covered that will not be revealed, nor hidden that will not be known.  Therefore, whatever you have spoken in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have spoken in the ear in inner rooms will…

David’s Steadfast Heart

       David had no contingency plan for his life; he had no “Plan B”.  He determined to trust God when he was a young man and no subsequent circumstance was going to divert him from that course of action.  Even when he was a…

David’s Michtams

        The Hebrew word “michtam” comes from a root that means “to carve or engrave”.  It is used in the superscription of six psalms—16, 56, 57, 58, 59, and 60—to identify the genre of these compositions.  Given the fact that the five psalms clustered…

Dealing with the Wound of Betrayal

       Unlike Psalms 52 and 54, there is nothing in the superscription of Psalm 55 that hints of the exact historical context of this Maschil.  That David has been recently betrayed is unmistakable: “my heart is severely pained within me…horror has overwhelmed me…it is…

The Folly of Atheism

       A fundamental and egregious intellectual flaw of atheism is that unless an atheist is omniscient (all-knowing), he cannot legitimately say, “I know that there is no God.”  Only an omniscient being would have the necessary and adequate body of knowledge to know whether…

Atheism’s Dirty Little Secret

       A number of years ago I read a fascinating book by R. C. Sproul titled If There is a God, Why are there Atheists?: A Surprising Look at the Psychology of Atheism.  The thesis of the book is that people have chosen atheism…

How David Dealt with Betrayal

     Death and life are in the power of the tongue (Proverbs 18:21).  Because of Doeg’s malicious and false insinuation to a paranoid king, the entire city of Nob—“both men and women, children and nursing infants, oxen and donkeys and sheep”—was so completely destroyed that…