Why do I keep calling him a "warlord"?

I've been using the term so frequently that I can forget how much it takes people off guard. The term "warlord" has a vicious undertone, and it doesn't fit with David's baby-faced and innocent image that many have.

David was a rough man. He never stopped being so. Carefully reading the text leads us to believe that this was not necessarily bad because he had tasks to complete that were given by God, but any doubt as to his warlike nature is put to rest when one reads 1 Chronicles 28:3, where D...