When Love Fails to Confront

Aug 23, 2026 • Zach Merrill

What does it look like to bring someone close without truly restoring them? Zach Merrill shows us in 2 Samuel 14, King David welcomes his exiled son Absalom back to Jerusalem, but refuses to see him face to face. The distance is removed, but the division remains. It is a haunting picture of what happens when we settle for the appearance of peace instead of doing the hard work of real reconciliation.

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