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Sure, you can wrap your headlight in duct tape to keep it in place. You can absolutely use a few metal coat hangers to keep your muffler from falling off your car. No one’s going to pull you over for replacing your rear passenger-side window with cardboard and a trash bag.



But does that make it right?



When your car is broken, there’s a right way to fix it and a wrong way to fix it.

When your heart is broken, there’s a right way to fix it and a wrong way to fix it.

 This week in The Life and Lyrics of David, we explore a disturbing Psalm that helps us find the right way to right the wrongs that have been done to us.

They pass you the ball, you take the shot at the buzzer, and the ball bounces off the rim.

The boss gives you the project, you develop and pitch the idea, and the client rejects the campaign.

Family looks to you for guidance, you make the best suggestion based on market trends, but they lose everything.

The disgrace of failing when others put their trust in you can feel impossible to come back from.

This message in our series The Life and Lyrics of David reveals the truth of what happens when our failures are confronted by God’s grace.

If a restaurant offers to comp your meal for no apparent reason, you're going to let them, right?



If the airline offers to upgrade you to first class just because they have an extra seat, you're going to take it, right?



If your boss says to take tomorrow off to be with your family, you're going to take advantage of the opportunity, right?



In each of these cases, you're being offered something you don't deserve. But you still have to be willing to receive whatever it is you don't deserve.



This week in The Life and Lyrics of David, we're looking at several characters that are tempted to behave according to what they think they deserve, asking ourselves if we're pushing away what's being offered because we think we don't deserve it.

They pass you the ball, you take the shot at the buzzer, and the ball bounces off the rim.

The boss gives you the project, you develop and pitch the idea, and the client rejects the campaign.

Family looks to you for guidance, you make the best suggestion based on market trends, but they lose everything.

The disgrace of failing when others put their trust in you can feel impossible to come back from.

This message in our series The Life and Lyrics of David reveals the truth of what happens when our failures are confronted by God’s grace.

If you want to go into space, you have to go in a rocket. If you want to explore the depths of the ocean, you have to go in a submarine. There are places in life that, if we want to go, there is a specific way to get there.



This week in The Life and Lyrics of David, we examine a difficult story from David's life that reveals the lengths to which God will go to be with us, and what is required of us to be with him.

Looking at old photos can unleash a tidal wave of details of what were, until that moment, forgotten memories. We remember why were in that location, who all went with us and who we met when we were there, the smells that surrounded us, the emotions inside of us, and so many other details that our hearts become overwhelmed in the cognitive flood.



When the photo captures a good memory, it sparks a desire to be with those people in that place all over again. We want to relive the joy and peace and hope that defined that moment. Especially when we lack joy and peace and hope in the present one.



This week in The Life and Lyrics of David, we’ll look at a psalm that hands us a blueprint for how to leverage memories of God’s goodness in the past to cultivate hope in his promise to cover us in his goodness all the days of our lives.