Stephen Arterburn and Sam Gallucci
Road Warrior: How to Keep Your Faith, Relationships and Integrity When Away from Home (p. 67), Waterbrook Press, 2008
John was a successful Christian businessman in his forties. He considered himself a casual drinker and liked to spend time at the bars in the hotels where he stayed. He would say to himself, I will have only one drink tonight, but the truth was that he liked drinking too much to quit after just one. He also liked talking to the people he met in the bar.

John was firmly committed to his wife, but often he would slip into conversation with the women he met in the bars. They were often just as lonely as he was. One scotch and soda after another would lead him through the conversation.

Sometimes he caught himself flirting with these women. When he went back to his room, he was always alone, but he would fantasize about whomever he had just talked with.

The longer he traveled, the more comfortable he became with this routine. One dark night of drinking turned into a darker night of fantasizing…

2 Samuel 11:1-5
New International Version
In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out with the king’s men and the whole Israelite army. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah. *But David remained in Jerusalem.*

One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, “Isn’t this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite?” Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. (She had purified herself from her uncleanness.) Then she went back home. The woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.”