David: Turning Points | Sin and Accountability | 3/5

Ashland Church of Christ
Aug 17
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Guest Speaker: Jamie Allen

August 17, 2025

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About Today’s Message:

📖 Sermon Title: Sin and Accountability

📚 Series: David: Turning Points

👤 Speaker: Pastor Jamie Allen

📍 Text: 2 Samuel 11:26 – 12:24

📅 Date: August 17, 2025

Bathsheba is pregnant. Uriah is dead. King David is responsible. Surely, this is a defining turning point in David’s life. But the real story comes next—God loved David too much to let him remain trapped in sin. So He sent Nathan, a prophet and friend, to confront the king with truth and call him to repentance.

This moment challenges us too. Sometimes we must lovingly confront others about sin. Sometimes we must humbly receive correction ourselves. In this message, Pastor Jamie Allen unpacks both Nathan’s courage and David’s response, showing us how accountability, repentance, and forgiveness can restore joy and bring us back to God’s heart.

Will you resist correction, or will you embrace accountability as a path to grace and growth?

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📝 Sermon Notes

Baptism

💧 Celebrating Baptism – Doug King

We celebrated as Doug King took the step of baptism! 🙌 It was a joyful moment of witnessing God’s grace and Doug’s commitment to follow Jesus.

If you’ve been thinking about baptism or want to learn more, we invite you to visit our Baptism page for details and to connect with us.

We praise God for what He is doing, and we look forward to more lives being transformed!

📅 Upcoming Message – Sunday, August 24, 2025

Series: David: Turning Points

Lesson #4 – Helping the Hurting

Text: 2 Samuel 9:1 – 13

Speaker: Pastor Jamie Allen

💙 Helping the Hurting – Kindness and Compassion

Next Sunday in David: Turning Points, we’ll look at a beautiful example of David’s heart. After becoming king, he remembered his promise to his best friend, Jonathan, and sought out Jonathan’s son, Mephibosheth—a man who was disabled and overlooked by society.

Instead of ignoring him, David invited Mephibosheth to his table and treated him like family.

This powerful act of compassion shows us how God calls His people to care for the broken, the overlooked, and the hurting.

We live in a world full of need. Sometimes the greatest witness we can offer is not through words, but through kindness.

Join us as we discover how David’s kindness reflects the heart of Christ and how we, too, can extend grace and compassion to those around us.

Worship

A special song performed by our very own, Sarah Campbell

Deeper

These Bible reading plans are more than just daily devotionals—they’re invitations to go deeper in your faith. Whether you’re exploring the wisdom of Proverbs, the bold challenge of James, or the redemptive story of Samson, each study is designed to draw you closer to the heart of God.

Take your next step:

Reflect with journal prompts
Talk it out in small group discussions
Pray through the lessons
Apply the truths to your everyday life

Don’t just read the Word—live it. Dive into one of these studies and let God transform your mind, strengthen your walk, and equip you to follow Jesus more faithfully.