Psalm 22 As we continue in our series of psalms that are directly quoted in the New Testament, we come to Psalm 22 which opens with a verse that we have no difficulty placing in the New Testament. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? There are seven times Jesus spoke on the…
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…
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…
II Kings 4:8-38 The first year Annie and I were married we had very little money. I had graduated from seminary and Annie was finishing her final year of university. I worked doing small jobs as a carpenter, getting a house ready to be renovated, and shoveling snow during the blizzard of ‘78. After shoveling…