Lectionary Lab PREMIUM Edition for the Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, Year B
August 4, 2024
Thinking the Texts by John Fairless
Well, we finally hit it; King David’s lowest point and the moment of his reckoning. After the misadventures with Bathsheba and the taking of her husband Uriah’s life, the great man might think he is finally in the clear. He takes the other man’s wife and “does the right thing” by marrying her and bringing her home. But…