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…
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David’s Stubborn Faith
Few things in life would be more terrifying than to become a prisoner of war. How especially frightening it would be if you were the soldier who had defeated your arch-enemy’s military superhero named Goliath. Send article as PDF
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…
David’s Action Plan for Betrayal
One of the more unpleasant facts of life is the truth that each of us will face betrayal. Every person will have his/her own Judas. Send article as PDF
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…
When God Repeats Himself
The key to learning is repetition. The key to learning is repetition. The key to learning is repetition. Send article as PDF
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…
The Bad and Good News about Betrayal
From the time of his youthful conquest of Goliath until his death as king about fifty years later, David’s life was associated in some way with the highest levels of Israel’s government. His initial association was in serving in King Saul’s court as…