Author: Skip Moen, Ph.D.

  • Endurance

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    So the last shall be first, and the first last.  Matthew 20:16 NASB Billboard Advertising – Iron Gate    Some things look better when they age.  Some things just become garbage.  At the beginning, it’s hard to tell.  But give it time and the differences become obvious.  That’s like us.  Hard to tell what life will…

  • COVID Catastrophes

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    “We’ll just connect on Skype.” “We can do a ZOOM conference.” “All the classes are on-line now.” Oh, did you think that the issues fostered by the COVID-19 virus were limited to medical and economic?  Did you believe that human isolation as a preventative measure was really a good thing?  That it “saved” innumerable lives?…

  • The Jewish Messiah

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    And He continued by questioning them, “But who do you say that I am?” Peter answered and said to Him, “You are the Christ.”  Mark 8:29  NASB Who – Most of us realize that virtually all the followers of Yeshua in the early part of the first century were Jewish.  That means Jews thought Yeshua was the Messiah long…

  • Miss-education

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    “One shall not sell a thing to a Gentile,” The Babylonian Talmud, Regulations Regarding Transfer on Shabbat Gentile – We have often noticed that paradigms determine interpretation.  Investigation is governed by what we expect to find.  It is never neutral.  Even in hard science, the theory defines the category of discovery, and as the history…

  • Cross Word Puzzles

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    “But I want you to know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins.” So he said to the paralyzed man, “I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home.”  Luke 5:24  NIV Authority on earth – I wrote Cross Word Puzzles seven years ago.  A lot has changed since then.  In…

  • The Opposite of Facts

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    For in hope we have been saved, but hope that is seen is not hope; for who hopes for what he already sees?  Romans 8:24  NASB Is not hope – Suppose I asked you, “What is the opposite of facts?”  You might answer, “Fiction.”  You would be thinking, “Facts are true.  Fiction is not true.  Therefore, fiction is the…

  • Do We Have to Wait?

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    And not only this, but also we ourselves, having the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our body.  Romans 8:23  NASB For our adoption – Once again Paul seems a bit confused.  Or maybe it’s just that old nemesis, Hellenism.  Does he really say that we are eagerly…