A life long personal pursuit of worshiping God is not only what God came seeking for (John 4), and what we will be doing forever as Revelation 4 onward teaches us—it is what we are to be now. The definition of true believers as...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
David had a lifelong love for God that drew him to seek the Lord. He was drawn toward the Lord with an embracing kind of love. He is a model placed before us in God's Word of what pleases the Lord.Start with me at the beginning of Psalm 18,...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
When life winds down, strength gets exhausted, and the end is in sight for you--which summary will fit your life? * Will you look back on life like Solomon? Ending with bitterness, seeing all as vanity, and ending in emptiness? * Or will...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
It is hard to fully comprehend how much lasting impact one single human life can accomplish. Think of just David's brief lifetime. Three thousand years ago he lived and died—yet today millions and millions of people read, quote,...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Jesus gave all of us something to look forward to. He told us what He would like to say to each of us when we arrive safely home to dwell with Him forever--'Well done good and faithful servant'!Christ's well done is what any of us would call,...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Psalm 31 confronts all of us with a serious question—'Am I seeking the Lord deliberately with all my heart—or just coasting along spiritually'?Many weeks ago when we began this look at David's life we read God's epitaph for David's...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
When David is at the bottom, comes to his weakest point—and gets hit while he is down, what does he do? He writes a Psalm. A Psalm is a worship song, truth offered to God in worship that is to be shared by participation. David invites us...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
One of the oldest and meanest tricks in the book is to hit someone when they're down. Just sneak up on them when they are distracted by something else and hit them with a knockout blow. That is one of Satan's tactics.He used it on Joseph...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
David's final years from God's perspective, begin with his fall into sin with Bathsheba.Everything from 2 Samuel 11-12 (Bathsheba) to 1 Kings 2 (David's death) is touched, affected, and colored by that event.God forgives the sins, and God forgets...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
To know God is the greatest treasure in all of life. The treasure of knowing God comes to us through His Word. Are you finding the treasures of God? He has left them out in plain sight in His Book the Bible.Please open with me to one of the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
