Tag: King David
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‘Forget not all his benefits’, urged King David
Yesterday, I wrote that Christianity doesn’t offer “cheap grace”. That’s the idea that someone can claim to be a Christian, spend a lifetime ignoring God and then expect to be saved at death. Christianity, in fact, involves becoming a disciple. Some might find the consequences of that unappealing compared with the excitement of the world.…
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What does Handel’s ‘Zadok the Priest’ refer to?
When I was 20, I started a massive Handel phase. In those days, CDs were dominant and I bought Handel’s Zadok the Priest and then a recording of his oratorio Solomon. Although we’d covered some of King David’s life in Sunday school, the events at the end of his days recalled in Zadok the Priest…