Emphasis Preaching Journal

Most Sunday school children know of David and Goliath. Fewer know of David’s adultery. Almost none, however, could correctly state that David, who wrote wonderful prayers and songs, was also a systematic, genocidal mass murderer (1 Samuel 27). For the sake of our Christian faith, students should learn all this. How can people do terrible things and also be wonderfully artistic, even religiously so? Consider Pablo Picasso. He demonstrated and pioneered the great changes in twentieth-century art.