David The Great: Deconstructing the Man After God's Own Heart

David The Great: Deconstructing the Man After God's Own Heart

<DIV>KING DAVID was a complicated, conflicted man of flesh. But too often he is viewed as an Americanized shepherd boy on a Sunday school<BR /> felt board or a New Testament saint alongside the Virgin Mary. Not only does this neglect one of the Bible’s most complex stories of sin and<BR /> redemption; it also bypasses the gritty life lessons inherent in the amazing true story of David. <BR /><BR /> Mark Rutland shreds the felt-board character, breaks down the sculpted marble statue, and unearths the real David of the Bible. Both noble<BR /> and wretched, neither a saint nor a monster, at times victorious and other times a failure, David was through it all a man after God’s own heart.</DIV>