Kristian's Kaleidoscope: Installment 6

Happy late Father’s Day to all the dads! I don’t know about you, but my dad’s day was great. It was so relaxing and fun; I hope everyone else’s was as great. In my opinion, we need more days to celebrate so we can get more time off.

For all those who attend the 8:30 drive-in service yours truly will be preaching this coming Sunday. We will continue in the book of Luke, so get ready to hear someone different for a change. Also coming up in July is VBS! If you haven’t signed up, well get on it! 

For those of you who are not in your twenties, my C2 (college and career) class has been studying Psalms along with those of you who attend Wednesday night. In our study, we have all ready gone through Psalm one, two and three. I tell you this because I want to share a little bit of what we have learned. First, through our studies, we have learned that Psalms one and two are the introduction to the book. Psalms one and two set the tune for the entire book of Psalms. The first chapter deals with being righteous and what will happen to the righteous and the wicked. While Psalm two deals with Jesus coming and saving the righteous. With that, I taught the Greek name of the Psalms, which is “Psalterion”. The word means, “to pluck.” The reason for this is the Psalms were to be song. They were for music so the word makes sense in that essence. The word Psalter can be another name for the Psalms as well. Also, we discussed how some of the Psalms were prophetic in a way because they were spoken from David about David but also Jesus. Some Psalms were meant for David, Jesus, and us. We talked about the Psalms being in 5 parts. Each part of the Psalms ends in a doxology, and scholars believe this to be true so that when the priest read the books of the torah in the synagogues that they could accompany each book with a Psalm - 5 books and 5 parts of Psalms to read together. When studying the book of Psalms the word selah comes up a lot, you will notice, in between the verses. The word means to pause; it is a musical direction. Selah is equivalent to our rest symbol in modern music. The over arching theme we learned from the Psalms was the righteous will be blessed through Jesus.

            That was just a little bit of what we have been learning and going over in class. I hope if you haven’t gotten a chance to check out our Wednesday night Bible studies, you will!! For all of you that just graduated, I look forward to you coming to C2. If you have any questions, just ask me, your friendly neighborhood intern. 


Kristian Beasley
Ministry Intern
Remember Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”