So, Who Is This Guy?
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Dr. Moen,
Thank you for the opportunity to hear your testamony. It encourages me to continue to press on toward the mark of the High Calling which is in Christ Jesus.
Gee Skip. Imagine that. You are just like the rest of us. Well, at least I can ceratinly relate to your story. Thank God for Phlippians 1:6.
After listening to Who is this Guy? What an awesome story. God actually turned your bad around and now your life has meaning and you have purpose. What an awesome way of putting it. I can listen to your teaching. You also have a great teaching style. You are real and honest. That is what we are looking for. God bless you!!!!
It seems you have settled down somewhat & accepted your lot in this new endeavor – no longer striving or worrying about how it is all going to get done – just practice what you preach!!! 🙂
Yes, I’m glad you shared these things with us – because I have wondered about all your accolades & degrees, etc. – seemed it didn’t quite fit in with what you are now – but this video shows more of the real you & I now understand where that part of you came from & how you feel about it now. Isn’t it wonderful yet a little scary sometimes how God can turn our lives so fastly on a dime & BOOM – we are in a different place within a twinkling of His eye!!! 🙂
I first learned about you from a dear friend named John Shaw.I am so greatful that you have embraced the gift that God has given you. God’s work through you is so inspirational and causes us to press in more toward him and be a light in the world. I love you!!!!
Your sister in Christ
Nikkia
Skip —
You’ve told tidbits of your story in classes you’ve taught over the years, but I never quite got it. What a powerful testimony about the price of rebellion (a lesson I know all too well), alignment with the puposes of God, and submission to His authority. It really spoke to me. I’m beached and broke right now! I wonder what purpose God is trying so hard to reveal to me.
Wonderful and disarming testimony Skip…so fortunate to have met you in the Cayman Islands many years ago when I thought you were just another wealthy retired businessman… never judge the book by its cover!
Praise God, You have become part of my day and I bless you for your diligence. The body needs to be re-alligned and your wielding of the word is bringing lives into divine order. You are one of God’s men for the times.
Skip:
I enjoyed listening to your testimony although I had the privilege of hearing it before. It was this wandering away experience and then turning to the One true God, Jesus that allows us to be richly blessed. It reminds me of Paul, murdering the Christians (being so far away) and then meetiing Jesus along the way, and now we grow richly by the written Word and his life in prison. I love the way the Old Testament is intertwined with the New Testament. Surely the bible would not be complete without both. Teaching me, as you do through this ministry, has been challenging and enriching. Often, I have to read and re-read your articles to attempt to get the depth of where you are with Christ. Thank you for allowing me to journy with you on this pilgramage.
Kelly
Skip,
Thanks for the video.
I was glad to see that At God’s Table still has your “Story Behind Today’s Word” at
http://www.atgodstable.com/article_view.cgi?s=2&l=en&a=100
Are you going to be removing the web pages that are currently in “At God’s Table” ?
— Truthful L. Kindness & “Blessing” the Wheelchair Service Dog
Hi Skip,
As I have said before I have loved you guys since the first time we met in a home for bible study.
This video is interesting about you. I wonder if you have thought of what has happened in your life this way. It is your life and your opinions and I still am a mama and have to put in my opinion.
Perhaps I was a Jewish Mama in another life.
I am wondering if we do not serve a God who loves us so much that he allows us to make our own decisions throughout our feasts and famines. We chase the gods that we think will do us well. Unfortunately God does not say whoaaaaaaaaaaa…stop going that way, he lets us go on and right or wrong we do. Then some where along the lines we find that our decisions to chase the god that we were after or are after, rears it’s ugly head and says, gotcha. That’s all there is, ain’t no more in my little bitty kingdom that you have been trying to get. You had it and now it is mine. A choice gone astray. A bad decision. A broken person. Hopes dashed. And the god we followed laughs in our face. We are given his reward. humiliation, anger and our hope is dashed.
The God we love, then picks us up and says, I love you child, let me help you become the person I designed you to be, because we crawl to him broken, and bruised by the world.
I believe that is the God who rescued you when all else was done. He sent friends to help support your mental health, They came from all walks of life. We prayed and we were blessed.
God bless you as you continue your Joruney with Him.
Olive
A great story Skip! The personal touches in the new site make for a much richer experience. Praise Yeshua and let us pray that you continue to help others understand better the fullness of the Biblical/Hebraic Roots. It is a great ride indeed!
Shalom … and make sure you get some REST on Shabbat! 🙂
Thanks for sharing.
Marilyn
Skip, your comment “There is only safety in His character.” reminded me of this quote from Augustine:
Laziness pretends to yearn for rest, but what sure rest is there except in the Lord?
Luxury would gladly be called plenty and abundance, but You are the fullness and unfailing abundance of unfading joy.
Promiscuity presents a show of liberality, but You are the most lavish giver of all things good. ‘
Covetousness desires to possess much, but You are already the possessor of all things.
Envy contends that its aim is for excellence, but what is as excellent as You?
Anger seeks revenge, but who avenges more justly than You?
Fear shrinks back as sudden change threatens the way things are and fear is wary of its own security, but what can happen that is unfamiliar or sudden to You, O God?
Or who can deprive You of what You love? Where is there unshaken security except with You?
Grief longs for those delightful things we’ve lost because it wills to have nothing taken from it, just as nothing can be taken from You.”
-Confessions, Book 2
Blessings,
Joni Buttke
Skip, thank you for sharing not only this testimony but your work in Holy Scripture. You have served me and I have benefited – grown – because of your research, writing, and presentations. Your life is an inspiration to be Torah observant. I want my life to be a channel by which God’s Word flows through me to others; just like you model. However, that flow will be meaningless unless it affects change in me too; I must allow God to change me. Thank you for allowing him to change you. Just this morning I met with other men and we discussed the impact of God’s authority as expressed in his law and his grace. Wow! This is the day he has made.
Skip, what a wonderful testimony to the faithfulness and , yes, character of God. When we were (are) not faithful, yet HE IS! God’s purposes and plans will come to bear because He is fruitful and always creative alive forevermore. It is so refreshing to see a smile on a brother’s face as a manifestation of God’s good and perfect gifts to His child!
Love reading your messages…keep ’em coming brother! Lifting you to the Throne!
Mary
Keep on keeping on!
Skip, what a blessing your testimony is to me and will be to so many others. I too took a long detour after being born-again on 1972 yet have been walking with Him in obedience now these last 3 years. It is true that we love Him because He first loved us and only after I fully surrendered to Him have I become obedient and faithful. God Bless you, your family, and all that the Lord leads you to do! Pam
Yesterday, March 8, I got a letter from my only life-long friend, Leigh. We have known each other since the forth grade. I thought my readers might like to see the observations of someone who has known me through thick and thin. Here’s what he has to say:
Hi, Skip!
I am not sure where this email will catch up with you, but I know that you will get it somewhere in the world–most likely in Spain! First, thanks for the beautiful pictures of the cathedrals in major Spanish cities! They are truly awe-inspiring, and were of course intended to be just that. Some years ago, I was chaperoning Joscelyn’s Northwest Girlchoir on a six week trip to Italy. One of the places that the choir was asked to sing was at the Vatican, and we had several hours to tour the building before the girls had to prepare for their participation in the mass. One of Joscelyn’s best friends, Emily, came up to me and put her head on my chest and started to cry. When I asked her what was wrong, she said, “I can feel God here!” I am sure that you must have had that same feeling in Spain.
As for all the changes you are making in your website, they are fascinating. It is always interesting to spend the time and go in and read (and view) the things there. I am not sure I fully understand what you are going to be doing long-term, but it sounds as if At God’s Table is eventually going to go away, to be replaced by SkipMoen.com? It would probably be wise to consolidate everything on one site that sends out Today’s Word and also becomes your contact point for book orders, your bio, and all of the other materials you have written and developed over time. I copy Today’s Word onto my computer every day so that I can go back to read and reread the information you provide each day. It would be great to have all of that stored on your website as well, with an index to boot. At any rate, best wishes to you and Patrick as you continue to work and refine the website! It is obviously growing like wildfire, which can be both a blessing and a curse!
I also wanted to let you know how much I appreciated your open self-knowledge and revelation in the “So Who Is This Guy?” video. I have watched from the sidelines as your friend and always tried to be there for you while you were doing exactly as you said for years–running away from God and remaining preoccupied with self. That has been at high cost to you and others, as you well know. But you are fully correct that the Skip Moen of years ago and the fellow that one might meet today are two very different people. Furthermore, few people I know would be able to honestly sit down and reveal themselves to others through a video like the one you made, including an honest admission of error along the way.The very fact that you made such a video is proof that you and God are in a far different place than you were “back in the day.” I often think of you in Biblical terms, recalling the stories of Biblical characters such as Noah or Paul who fought God’s will until God had to simply sweep everything away that they thought was important. Even Moses wanted to run the other way when God called, and argued with Him about his weaknesses and inability to lead. While I doubt that God will every knock you off your horse and strike you blind, or put you in the belly of a whale, He has had to do the same sort of thing to you, metaphorically speaking, to get you to listen. Since you valued money and material wealth so much, he simply knocked it out of your hands, all at once. And the road you have taken back is a far different and more rewarding road, in my opinion. It shows in everything you say and do, and I wish you the very best as you continue on the rest of the journey!