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David and Bathsheba's story shows us that God always cares about the behavior and heart attitude of his children, so if we willfully sin, He often allows us to experience the consequences of our sin to draw out repentance and restoration.

The story of Bathsheba in the Bible is often eclipsed by the story of David. Bathsheba’s story has drawn, however, hers is a story of redemption. Let’s look at the story from Bathsheba’s view instead of David’s.

Did David rape Bathsheba? The answer requires going deep into what the Bible tells us about society, women's agency, and power in this period of history.

The short answer – “yes.” God absolutely cares about the little things in our lives since He’s numbered the hairs of our head (Luke 12:7). From another perspective, if the nations are “as dust on the scales,” what is big to God? (Isaiah 40:15).

As believers stand before the Lord, it’s the blood of Christ, which makes them clean. Cleanliness is not next to godliness, but those who are washed in the blood of Jesus are cleansed from the stain of sin.

The wormwood star is one of Revelation's most vivid images of divine judgment. But does it have important lessons for us today?

Despite popular opinion, the Bible never says there were three Magi, nor that they visited Jesus in the manger. Just who were the wise men who brought gifts, and why is this so important for the Christmas season? 

When Isaiah speaks about the brokenhearted and how God will comfort those who mourn, he says they will be called "oaks of righteousness" (Isaiah 61:3). But what exactly does it mean to be oaks of righteousness?

It was no accident that David had no one around to keep him accountable. Why should he? He was the king! But it was in that moment he made decisions that destroyed his life. So, how did a man after God’s own heart fall so far into sin?

In all of Scripture, the life of David may be the most dramatic recorded. While reading through this account, we inevitably stumble across the puzzling records of King David’s wives and concubines.

Uriah the Hittite is one of those characters in the Bible who comes in and out of God’s story quickly but whose life and actions have an impact for generations.

David's mighty men stood by him on every occasion, and some of them became famous in their own right. So what did they become known for?

No one is too sinful, broken, or tarnished to receive the gift of salvation and live a new life devoted to the Lord. The women in Jesus’ genealogy demonstrate that truth.

Addiction is insidious: it sneaks into almost every person’s behaviors or thought patterns (or both) in the guise of bad habits or even good ones.

The development of a baby in the womb is a miracle. And as a newly unveiled series of sculptures show, good art can portray the miracle powerfully.

Some problems in this world are so great that great faith is required to bring about solutions.

C.S. Lewis once said that we should read three old books for every new one. I think we should read three C.S. Lewis books for every new one. He never faced the coronavirus, of course, but in the late 1940s, the world was coming to grips with...

Christians have been accused lately of waging a "war on women." The war is real, but Christians aren’t the ones waging it.

An impressive road once served as the central axis for all of Jerusalem's pilgrims and visitors.