Relevant Verses: 2 Samuel 11-12; Psalm 51

Leading Question: How much time should one take to ponder the seamy side of Scripture?

The title for this lesson could just as easily be “The Cost of Sin,” for the lesson encompasses David’s sin with Bathsheba and its aftermath. As told in 2 Samuel 11 and 12, it is lurid, painful, tragic.

Paired with this unhappy story is that great penitential Psalm, Psalm 51. But I would like for us ponder this sordid event in the light of the experience of a devout and passionate brother who displayed a thinly disguised distaste for the Old ...