Gilbert House Fellowship #384: 2 Samuel 19–20
2023-08-06
POLITICS IN David’s day was just brutal and bloody as it is today.Continue Reading
Gilbert House Fellowship #383: Psalms 26, 40, 58, 61–62, 64
2023-07-23
DAVID’S CAPACITY for self-examination is remarkable. Many powerful people throughout history found it difficult, if not impossible, to admit flaws and learn from mistakes.Continue Reading
Gilbert House Fellowship #382: Psalms 3–4, 12–13, 28, 55
2023-07-16
ONE OF THE hardest things you can do is give thanks to God in the middle of trouble.Continue Reading
Gilbert House Fellowship #381: 2 Samuel 16–18
2023-07-09
DAVID WAS NOT a good father. That’s obvious from the way his own children treated each other—and him.Continue Reading
Gilbert House Fellowship #380: 2 Samuel 14–15
2023-06-25
TALK ABOUT ingratitude: David’s son Absalom, who’d fled to his grandfather’s kingdom of Geshur, returned to Jerusalem after a two-year exile and apparently began scheming to remove David from the throne as soon as he came home.Continue Reading
Gilbert House Fellowship #379: Psalms 32, 51, 86, 122; 2 Sam. 13
2023-06-18
THE PSALMS this week follow our chronological reading order, meaning they were written by David after he was confronted by the prophet Nathan for conspiring to kill Uriah the Hittite so that David could take his wife, Bathsheba.Continue Reading