Psalm 16 When Paul wrote to Timothy and said, (2 Timothy 3:16) All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, what Scripture was he talking about? I pointed out last week that we are sometimes surprised to discover that when the early church read the Bible, there was…
Oasis Conference Philippians 3:7-14 When Clement spoke on Sunday night he gave a summary of what would be talked about in the teaching sessions of the Oasis Conference. As he worked his way through Philippians 3:7-14 he talked about Paul’s desire to know Jesus. There was nothing more important to Paul than knowing Jesus. For…
Psalm 14 I would imagine that when we read our bibles, we spend most of our time reading in the New Testament. There are great stories in the Old Testament and we love the historical sections, but we get bogged down in the law and the prophets and then escape to the New Testament. When…
Psalm 2 Although Psalm 2 does not identify the author of the psalm, the early disciples in Acts 4:25 identified this psalm as a psalm of David. In Acts 13:33 Paul identified this psalm as the second of the psalms. From these two New Testament references, it is clear that the early church read Psalm…