Author: Skip Moen, Ph.D.

  • A NEW BOOK STUDY

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    On January 16, 2021, we will start the next book study at ivebeenskipped.com We will investigate David Lambert’s book, How Repentance Became Biblical (Oxford University Press, 2106). If you order the book on Amazon, please use this link and support At God’s Table with your order.  CLICK HERE. The class will be conducted Livestream via ZOOM,…

  • Do You Like Puzzles?

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    Stripped and distraught and despoiled, fainting heart and buckling knees and shuddering in all loins, and all faces lose their luster.  Nahum 2:11  Robert Alter Four in One Do you know the story behind Nahum?  Probably not.  It’s one of those short prophetic books that get lost in the splendor of Isaiah and the woes…

  • Children Under the Bridge Song

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    Good morning to all of you who support Children Under the Bridge. Here is a video for you to enjoy.  As you know, this wonderful lady and her young son are the real power behind our efforts with the street kids.  She is so dedicated to them.  She sent me this Christmas wish and I…

  • Generational Trust

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    Blessed be the man who trusts in the Lord, and the Lord becomes his trust.  Jeremiah 17:7  Robert Alter Trusts/ trust – The NASB translates Jeremiah’s words from YHVH with pretty much the same idea, but notice that the syntax (the word order) changes.  “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord and whose trust is…

  • Character Development

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age,   Titus 2:11-12  NASB Live righteously – Righteousness.  What do you think that means?  If righteousness is a gift from God, if it means being in right relationship with Him,…

  • Your Mental Health

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age,   Titus 2:11-12  NASB Live sensibly – Okay, first let’s be sure we read this phrase correctly.  “To live” is the verb modified by all of the following adverbs (sensibly,…

  • Get It While You Can

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age,   Titus 2:11-12  NASB Worldly desires – Do you find it disturbing that Paul’s view of ungodliness (asebḗ) is paralleled with kosmikós epithymías?  Reading it in translation might reduce your trepidation,…

  • Just Say “No”

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age,   Titus 2:11-12  NASB Deny ungodliness – arnéomai is the Greek verb of refusal.  “‘To say no’ in answer to a question; ‘to refuse’ in relation to a claim or…

  • Re-education

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men, instructing us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously and godly in the present age,   Titus 2:11-12  NASB Instructing – Everything you need to know about life you learn in kindergarten.  It seems that God thinks that’s true too.  The verb used here is…