Oh, the tangled web we weave. My dad taught me at a young age to “never give Satan the foothold.” That implication was a warning to be careful of the choices you make, because “sin can take you further than you ever thought it would.” I look back and laugh at some of the conversations that I had with my dad as a young naive teenager, thinking I was invincible and not susceptible to “sin like that....  Read More

2 Samuel 11:2-5 “One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, 3 and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, “She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.” 4 Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. (Now she was...  Read More

I had just gotten over to the school...that is our rival school. The school was having an all-nighter, and me and some of my friends were going to “crash” their fun. Honestly, I was an immature teenager at the time, and this wasn’t going to end well...except something happened before the party even started. While I was at Taco Bell with a couple of my friends, some of my other friends went over to...  Read More

Main Point and Overview:   There is hardly a story in God’s Word more terrifying than David’s drama with Bathsheba and Uriah. Someone the Bible describes as a “man after God’s own heart” (1 Samuel 13:14) committed both adultery and murder. How is this possible? David got distracted from his mission. It’s terrifying because if it could happen to arguably the most passionate man of God in the Old Te...  Read More

Inheritance. It’s a word we are all familiar with; maybe you’re hoping to receive a family heirloom, vacation home, or a windfall of money as part of an inheritance. Maybe you are waiting . . . waiting for that rich uncle to die. Ok, that last part was meant to be funny. The movie, “Greedy” with Michael J. Fox and Kirk Douglas comes to mind. It’s a cute PG-13 comedy about a family who attempts to ...  Read More

When Jennifer and I first met in college…more than just a few years ago…I was not a Christian. We started dating and she soon invited me to go to church with her. I wasn’t particularly thrilled about going to church, but my interest in her overrode any misgivings about going to church. It was a church affiliated with the Baptist Student Union at Michigan State. It consisted entirely of students, w...  Read More