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The Bible tells us that David was a man after Gods own heart, but what does that mean in practice? David, the Old Testament shepherd, king, and psalmist, offers an answer in the shape of his own incredible life.
Poet, musician, courageous warrior, and national statesman, David distinguished himself as one of Gods greatest men. He modeled invincible confidence in the face of impossible circumstances. He made decisions with wisdom and equity. And he wrote with transparent vulnerability and quiet trust. But how well do we really know David?
In Great Lives: David, the first volume in Charles Swindolls bestselling Great Lives series, Swindoll gives us a closer look at this incredible man who had his fair share of difficulties. Throughout his life, David was gripped by destructive passion, rocked by family chaos and personal tragedy, and motivated by political expediency. Like all of us, David was far from perfect, but Swindoll teaches us that David had the chance to become great when he placed himself at the Lords disposal.
As Swindoll guides us through Davids remarkable life and legacy, he asks and answers key questions along the way, including:
Join Swindoll as he teaches us that we can all endeavor to live a life marked by the humility, dependability, and integrity of David.
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Publications by Charles R. Swindoll
ADULT BOOKS
Active Spirituality
The Bride
Compassion: Showing We Care in a Careless World
The Darkness and the Dawn
Day by Day
Dear Graduate
Dropping Your Guard
Elijah: A Man of Heroism and Humility
Encourage Me
Esther: A Woman of Strength and Dignity
The Finishing Touch
Flying Closer to the Flame
For Those Who Hurt
Gods Provision
The Grace Awakening
Growing Deep in the Christian Life
Growing Strong in the Seasons of Life
Growing Wise in Family Life
Hand Me Another Brick
Home: Where Life Makes Up Its Mind
Hope Again
Improving Your Serve
Intimacy with the Almighty
Joseph: A Man of Integrity and Forgiveness
Killing Giants, Pulling Thorns
Laugh Again
Leadership: Influence That Inspires
Living Above the Level of Mediocrity
Living Beyond the Daily Grind, Books I and II
The Living Insights Study BibleGeneral Editor
Living on the Ragged Edge
Make Up Your Mind
Man to Man
Moses: A Man of Selfless Dedication
The Mystery of God's Will
The Quest for Character
Recovery: When Healing Takes Time
The Road to Armageddon
Sanctity of Life
Simple Faith
Simple Trust
Starting Over
Start Where You Are
Strengthening Your Grip
Stress Fractures
Strike the Original Match
The Strong Family
Suddenly One Morning
The Tale of the Tardy Oxcart
Three Steps Forward, Two Steps Back
Victory: A Winning Game Plan for Life
Why, God?
1997 by Charles R. Swindoll.
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All Scripture quotations in this book, except those noted otherwise, are from the New American Standard Bible 1960 , 1962 , 1963 , 1971 , 1973 , 1975 , and 1977 by the Lockman Foundation, and are used by permission.
Other Scripture quotations are from the following sources:
The New International Version of the Bible ( NIV ), 1983 by the International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.
The Living Bible ( LB ), 1971 by Tyndale House Publishers,
Wheaton, Ill. Used by permission.
The Modern Language Bible, The Berkeley Version in Modern English. 1945 , 1959 , 1969 , by Zondervan Publishing House.
Used by permission.
The King James Version of the Bible ( KJV ).
ISBN : 978-1-4002-0224-9 (trade paper)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Swindoll, Charles R.
David: a man of passion & destiny: profiles in character / from Charles R. Swindoll.
p. cm.(Great lives from Gods word: 1)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN : 978-0-8499-1382-2
1. David, King of Israel. 2. Bible. O.T.Biography. i. Title. ii. Series.
BS580.D3.S95 1997
222'.4092dc21 97-9020
[b] CIP
Printed and bound in the United States of America
10 11 12 13 14 EPAC 5 4 3 2 1
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D EDICATION
It is with much delight
that I dedicate this volume
to the four men in our family:
My sons, Curt Swindoll and Chuck Swindoll
My sons-in-law, Byron Nelson and Mark Dane
May each of you, like David,
become a man after Gods own heart.
May your lives, like his,
be marked by
humility, dependability, and integrity.
David: A Man of Passion & Destiny
O ur world is desperately in need of models worth following. Authentic heroes. People of integrity, whose lives inspire us to do better, to climb higher, to stand taller. This has always been true.
Maybe that explains why biographies of great men and women have fascinated me throughout my life. I can still remember the first Bible I owned because of the colorful pictures of various characters interspersed through its pages. I spent many a Sunday morning, sitting beside my parents in church, fighting boredom by leafing through that Bible, staring at those strong-hearted ancients. Each one loomed larger than life as I relived each drama, imagining the sounds, entering into the action-packed scenes portrayed on the pages.
There was Noah, surrounded by every animal in the zoo, riding out the storm.
There was Jacob, wet with sweat, wrestling with an angel who had a pair of huge, mysterious wings.
There was Joseph with his coat of many colors, looking at the angry faces of his brothers.
Next was Moses, leading the Hebrews across the dry bottom of the Red Sea as the waters were miraculously pushed aside.
Then came one of my all-time favorites, Samson with bulging muscles, arms outstretched between two marble columns.
Esther, with her glistening queens crown, was pictured in an opulent setting as she knelt before the king, pouring out her heart on behalf of her people.
Amidst a treacherous sea, Jonah was being swallowed by a giant fish.
Mary was pouring ointment on Jesus feet.
Peter, with the reflection of a fire flickering off his face, stood in the shadows as a rooster was crowing in the distance.
Paul, under a laserlike light from heaven, was blinded as he stood beside his mount on the road to Damascus.
There were others, all intriguing... all igniting ones imagination to take over and live the scene yet again.
My love for biographies has intensified as time has passed. While building my library over more than forty years, I have taken special delight in collecting and digesting great biographical works, most of them no longer in print. I still find delight in reentering those scenes from antiquity. My soul is stirred and my heart inspired as those saints of old, people of whom the world was not worthy (Heb. :) play out their lives, make their mistakes, accomplish incredible feats, and finally pass on into glory. What encouragement, what enrichment!
The words of the Russian poet, Boris Pasternak, come to mind, It is not revolutions and upheavals that clear the road to new and better days, but someones soul inspired and ablaze.than thirty years in the pastorate, I found the lives of those inspiring men and women to be rich sources of sermon material. Again and again I found that people were ministered to in deep and meaningful ways whenever I spoke on the characters of the Bible.
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