Author: Skip Moen, Ph.D.

  • Time Out

    Today is my birthday. This year I am not on an airplane alone, flying to some teaching destination. Today I am in Reggio Emilia, Italy, with my wife Rosanne. I will have a great Italian meal and a good glass of wine and remember that God designed me for a purpose that has taken seventy-one…

  • Anonymous

    Because the midwives feared God, He established households for them. Exodus 1:21 NASB Midwives – Name one hundred important Biblical people. Better include some of these women since without them Israel would have expired in Egypt. But I’ll bet you can’t name them, or even one hundred that have names. I’ll bet that after you…

  • Confidential Informant

    But the word of the Lord came to Shemaiah the man of God, saying, 2 Chronicles 11:2 NASB Shemaiah – The prophet’s role is to deliver a message from God. It is not his message. He is merely the messenger. But to be a messenger requires a certain kind of relationship with the One sending…

  • What We Really Want

    “For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” Genesis 3:5 NASB You will be like God – Translated in this way, the serpent’s voice strikes us as the epitome of arrogance, hubris and folly. Of course we can’t…

  • The First Cut is the Deepest

    Then his wife said to him, “Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die!” Job 2:9 NASB Curse – Job’s wife has only a few words to say, but, according to David Penchansky, what she says summarizes the entire story of this suffering, righteous man. She speaks sarcastically, telling Job, “Curse God…

  • The Power of Love

    You might remember the recent post about the couple who live on the street behind the condo where I stayed in Manila.  The man was arrested for stealing food, food he needed to survive.  The woman “aged out” of an orphanage.  They have lived on the street of a year.  Here is a picture of…

  • Subtotal

    For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive, and abundant in lovingkindness to all who call upon You. Psalm 86:5 NASB Ready to forgive – There’s a lot of action in this verse. It combines words like ṭôb (good), ḥesed (lovingkindness) and sālaḥ (forgive). We’ve looked at ṭôb and spent considerable time with ḥesed,…

  • TACOMA CONFERENCE – APRIL 2018

    APRIL IN PARIS: Well, actually in TACOMA, WA   TACOMA CONFERENCE – Skip Moen will be in Tacoma for a weekend conference April 21-22, 2018 – Saturday afternoon and evening and Sunday afternoon. At the Salvation Army Community Center Expected Topics The Big Ten – Some important changes in our interpretation of the Bible occur…