August 4, Ordinary 18B (2 Samuel 11:26—12:13a; Psalm 51:1–12) There is no one who does not need God’s mercy and no one who may not have it. by Kelli Joyce. July 29, 2024. Sunday’s Coming. A God who ...

Psalm 51 does not let any of us off the hook—not the progressives, the evangelicals or the feel-good agnostics. In what one commentator has called liturgical hyperbole, we are blasted with emphatic, ...

Psalm 51 is a good example. This beautiful prayer of repentance reads completely differently when we know what David has done to earn Nathan’s rebuke and how his sin has been exposed.

There is something close and personal in the reading of Psalm 51. These are confessional words David wrote after committing the terrible sins of adultery and murder. In verse two David writes ...