Author: Skip Moen, Ph.D.

  • God in the ER

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    “Name her Lo-ruhamah, for I will no longer have compassion on the house of Israel, that I would ever forgive them. . . And the Lord said, “Name him Lo-ammi, for you are not My people and I am not your God.”  Hosea 1:6, 9  NASB I am not your God – Hosea is a tragic book.  It is…

  • The Real Question (2)

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    “Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish.” Jonah 3:9  NIV His fierce anger – “A better god has been discovered who never takes offense, is never angry, never inflicts punishment.”[1]  If Tertullian is right, then the king of Nineveh is grossly mistaken.  Too bad he made…

  • Cabbala

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    Who’s on First?  Cabbala and the Church Nearly seventy-five years ago, Abraham Heschel wrote an essay on Jewish mysticism.[1]  Originally published in 1949 in a collected volume of essays by many authors, it’s likely that you never heard of it and more likely that you haven’t read it. Republished in 2017 as a short book, this…

  • The Real Question (1)

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    “Who knows? God may yet relent and with compassion turn from his fierce anger so that we will not perish.” Jonah 3:9  NIV Who knows? – The king of Nineveh asked one of humanity’s most important questions.  Does God change His mind?  When the king of Nineveh asked this question, it was possible to imagine an empirical answer.  Yes,…

  • Not Possible

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin.  For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. Romans 7:14-15  NASB Hate – Step back and think about this verse.  Is it really possible…

  • Paul of Tarsus, LCP

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    For we know that the Law is spiritual, but I am of flesh, sold into bondage to sin.  For what I am doing, I do not understand; for I am not practicing what I would like to do, but I am doing the very thing I hate. Romans 7:14-15  NASB Bondage – What if we read Paul’s letter to the Romans not as…