Author: Skip Moen, Ph.D.

  • Personal Ethics

    You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am the Lord. Leviticus 19:18 NASB Neighbor – Ethics is a relational concept. It does not exist as an inner, entirely personal formation. To be ethical there must be a movement from an inner…

  • One Day at the Spa

    Thus says the Lord, “Do justice and righteousness, and deliver the one who has been robbed from the power of his oppressor. Also do not mistreat or do violence to the stranger, the orphan, or the widow; and do not shed innocent blood in this place. Jeremiah 22:3 NASB Innocent Blood – We live in a world much like the one that…

  • Common Wonders?

    If you look around, you see God’s amazing beautiful creations everywhere.  But you have to look with “new” eyes.  This is the common Lilac-breasted Roller.  It is so common in Sabi Sands, South Africa, that no one stops to take a photo.  So I said to my guide, “It might be common in Africa, but…

  • Mostly Blues

    “By the sweat of your face you will eat bread, till you return to the ground, because from it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.” Genesis 3:19 NASB Sweat – When it comes to music, I’m a blues man. Give me Clapton, B.B. King, Tommy Castro, Robert Cray or Debbie…

  • A Meditation

    Consider the lilies, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin; but I tell you, not even Solomon in all his glory clothed himself like one of these. Luke 12:27 NASB Consider – Today I was reading a great passage in the Oswald Chambers devotional. I have read his work on a regular basis for many…

  • Innocence Revisited

    Therefore the Law has become our tutor to lead us to Christ, so that we may be justified by faith. Galatians 3:24 NASB Our tutor – It seems that the world of human relationships often strives to regain the feeling of innocence lost long ago in the mistaken choices of growing up. Since so few of us really have…

  • Incomplete Creation

    Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.” Genesis 2:18 NASB Not good – God looked at His own work and decided it wasn’t good enough. Don’t you find that a bit surprising? Doesn’t God create perfectly? But here we have evidence…