Religion & Spirituality
The lives of David and Abraham loom large in the Bible. In fact, we can know very little about the big story of Bible if we are not familiar with the stories of these two people. The gospel of Matthew opens with these words: "This is the genealogy of Jesus the Messiah the son of David, the son of Abraham… " Jesus is introduced as the heir of these two great, complicated individuals who both walked in unique nearness with God and whose names became synonymous with the great promises of God to humankind.We're going to revisit the life of David. Perhaps more so than any other person in the Bible, we get to look at the interior life of David. He is certainly the defining personality of his day, and even more, his life shaped and helped to define much of the life of the Jewish people for centuries. He lived large. He won big. He failed spectacularly. And he allowed us a front row seat to see it all.