Author: Skip Moen, Ph.D.

  • Up to date Delays

    Many of you have written wishing us blessings on our return to Italy.  Well, it hasn’t happened yet.  We were supposed to fly on August 31, but some medical issues suggested we delay a bit, so we did.  Then we discovered that Italy changed the entrance requirements on September 1 (during which time we would…

  • Backing Up

    And all the people were watching and hearing the thunder and the lightning flashes, and the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it all, they trembled and stood at a distance.  Exodus 20:18  NASB At a distance – It’s a nice translation but it doesn’t really tell us what happened.  In order…

  • Prophetic Hallucinations

    And within it there were figures resembling four living beings. And this was their appearance: they had human form.  Each of them had four faces and four wings.  Ezekiel 1:5-6 NASB Human form – With the verse, Ezekiel begins to share his visions.  Commentators and end-times prognosticators have had a field day with Ezekiel’s descriptions.  Maybe that’s because they…

  • A Little More to Read

    I have excerpted material from the following academic PDF so that you can have a better understanding of some of the issues surrounding the Dead Sea Scrolls and the impact on modern biblical translations.  Enjoy.   Excerpts from: Emanuel Tov Understanding the Text of the Bible 65 Years after the Discovery of the Dead Sea…

  • Sacrificial Lambs

    For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly practice justice between a person and his neighbor, if you do not oppress the stranger, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor follow other gods to your own ruin, then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I…

  • Keeping Them Down

    For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly practice justice between a person and his neighbor, if you do not oppress the stranger, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor follow other gods to your own ruin, then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I…

  • Neighborly

    For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly practice justice between a person and his neighbor, if you do not oppress the stranger, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor follow other gods to your own ruin, then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I…

  • Emphatic Duplication

    For if you truly amend your ways and your deeds, if you truly practice justice between a person and his neighbor, if you do not oppress the stranger, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor follow other gods to your own ruin, then I will let you live in this place, in the land that I…

  • 13.3% X 2

    casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.   1 Pet 5:7  NASB (1995) Anxiety – Occasionally I write something that is so essential to my own well-being that I think someone else must have been the author.  This edition of Today’s Word first appeared on 11 March of this year, but now…

  • Blood Guilt

    So you shall not defile the land in which you live; for blood defiles the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of the one who shed it.  Numbers 35:33 NASB Defiles – ḥānēp.  That should be a word added to your…