Year: 2011

  • 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…

  • Scared to Death (1)

    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 Every work – Scrupulous!  Rigorous!  Meticulous!  Do those adjectives describe your life before the Lord – or are you one of the many who seem to think that God’s…

  • Human Dualism

    Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.  Genesis 2:7  NASB Living Being – Will we ever get past Genesis?  Probably not.  The depth of this account of creation can hardly be plumbed.  Once more we return…