Year: 2012

  • Ruth 1:12-21

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    Here is the audio file for Ruth 1:12-21. [audio:https://skipmoen.com/audio/ruth-chapter-1-verse-12-21.mp3] (To listen, hit the Play button above, or right-click here, select “Save as…” and download the file to your computer.)

  • Ruth 1:6-12

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    Here is the audio file for Ruth 1:6-12. [audio:https://skipmoen.com/audio/ruth-chapter-1-verse-6-12.mp3] (To listen, hit the Play button above, or right-click here, select “Save as…” and download the file to your computer.)

  • The Partial Future

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    But Naomi replied, “Turn back, my daughters!  Why should you go with me?  Have I more sons in my body who might be husbands for you?”   Ruth 1:11 Turn back – Once again we encounter the verb shuv in this story.  One commentator points out that shuv in Jeremiah has seventeen different nuances.  We should…

  • Too Familiar

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in Your sight, O LORD, my rock and my Redeemer.  Psalm 19:14 NASB Words – Adin Steinsaltz makes the following comment in his book, Simple Words:  “Because we know these words for such a long time, because we seem to know…

  • Personal Shuv

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

     They broke into weeping and said to her, “No, we will return with you to your people.”  Ruth 1:9-10  JPS Return – Literally this verse reads, “No, it is with you that we return to your people.”  Eskenazi points out that the focus of the women’s concern is Naomi, not their personal plight nor their…

  • Yesterday and Today

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.  Jude 4 Crept in unnoticed – Now how is this possible?  How can it be that some slip…