September 28, 2009

Texts:
1 Samuel 18-19
2 Corinthians 1

Samuel:
The story of David just gets better and better.
Poor Saul. His son loves David. His daughter loves David. The people love David. Even God loves David.

Corinthians:
Welcome to Second Corinthians. As you may have heard me say in Sunday School last week, many scholars believe that this is a compilation of at least 2 letters by Paul to the church in Corinth. It is also possible that this letter (or parts of it) pre-date the one we know as "First Corinthians". In any case, chapters 10-13 seem to have a different tone than the earlier chapters. Think about these possibilities as you read this letter.

One interesting note at the end of chapter 1 is verses 17-22 is this idea of saying "yes" and "no". Paul points out here that Jesus is in the "yes" business. Another way of saying that is that in Jesus Christ, God's word to us is always YES! What does that say to you?