Month: September 2011

  • Joined at the Hip

    “And a second is like it, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”  Matthew 22:39  NASB Is like it – Most Christians can recall Yeshua’s declaration of the two great commandments.  They might not know that both come from Deuteronomy or that the first one is part of the daily Shema, but they know the…

  • Paradigm Perplexities (2)

    “If you consent and obey, you will eat the best of the land; but if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.”  Isaiah 1:19  NASB Consent and obey – We love Isaiah 1:18, especially when we think it endorses rational debate.  But I doubt many of us realize that this next…

  • The Winepress

    On September 11, 2011, I published the article “The Winepress,” a look at John 16:33.  Fortunately, one of our community noticed that I misread the Hebrew word tsarah.  I have now revised that article.  You can read the corrected edition here. Sorry for the mistake.  I hope that those of you who keep all the…

  • Something’s Happening At Central Washington State University

    My name is Michael Moen.  My father is Skip Moen.  I am a senior at Central Washington State University in Ellensburg, Washington.  I will graduate with a degree in psychology, but my real objective this year, and for years to come, is to help people my age understand how important it is to have a…

  • Paradigm Perplexities (1)

    “Come now, and let us reason together,” says the LORD.  “Though your sins are as scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they will be like wool.”  Isaiah 1:18  NASB Reason – Certainly you’ve heard this verse more than a few times.  Does it mean that God wants…

  • Questions Without Answers

    But Jesus answered and said to them, “I will ask you one thing too, which if you tell Me, I will also tell you by what authority I do these things.”  Matthew 21:24  NASB Answered – Have you noticed how many times Yeshua doesn’t answer the question?  Have you noticed how often His reply is…

  • The Joy of Being Afraid

    How blessed is the man who fears always, but he who hardens his heart will fall into calamity.  Proverbs 28:14  NASB Fear always – We are apt to recite the fact that Scripture exhorts us some 366 times not to fear.  This could lead us to imagine that fear has no place in the life…

  • Scared to Death (2)

    For God shall bring every work into judgment, with all that is hidden, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.  Ecclesiastes 12:14  Jay Green Judgment – “The strength of the yetzer ha’ra is precisely in convincing us that we do not need these words of instruction because we are above believing in such…