Author: Skip Moen, Ph.D.

  • Defining Moments (2)

    Then Moses said to God, “Behold, I am going to the sons of Israel, and I will say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you.’ Now they may say to me, ‘What is His name?’ What shall I say to them?”  Exodus 3:13  NASB Has sent me – Sometimes divine…

  • Defining Moments (1)

    Then Moses said to God, “Behold, I am going to the sons of Israel, and I will say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you.’ Now they may say to me, ‘What is His name?’ What shall I say to them?”  Exodus 3:13  NASB Has sent me – Perhaps character…

  • Character Reference

    Then Moses said to God, “Behold, I am going to the sons of Israel, and I will say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you.’ Now they may say to me, ‘What is His name?’ What shall I say to them?”  Exodus 3:13  NASB What – What a stupid question! …

  • Who Are You?

    Yet I have been the Lord your God since the land of Egypt; and you were not to know any god except Me, for there is no savior besides Me.  Hosea 13:4  NASB Any god except Me – Martin Buber comments on passages like this one in Hosea: “Only by acknowledging YHVH as One, Whom they are willing to follow in…

  • A Civilized World

    When God began to create heaven and earth—the earth being unformed and void, with darkness over the surface of the deep and a wind from God sweeping over the water—God said . . .  Genesis 1:1-2  JPS A wind from God – One might reasonably argue that this text forms the backbone of the Western…

  • He Speaks!

    “Many daughters have done worthy things, but you—you surpass them all.”  Proverbs 31:29  Robert Alter You—you – This hymn to wives is well known in religious circles.  Apparently written by the mother of King Lemuel, it is not only a glorious recounting of the strength and valor of a wife, it is also a stern…