Author: Skip Moen, Ph.D.

  • Doubled Duty

    Bless the Lord, O my soul! O Lord my God, You are very great; You are clothed with splendor and majesty, Psalm 104:1 NASB Majesty – Get dressed! Ah, but remember that in ancient cultures what you wore was often a sign of your status in life. Today we have an array of choices that…

  • Another Realm

    I said, “You are gods, and all of you are sons of the Most High. Nevertheless you will die like men . . .  Psalm 82:6-7 NASB Sons of the Most High – Michael Heiser’s book, The Unseen Realm, raises a very interesting and controversial point. The biblical worldview includes another realm, a world of…

  • The Living Facts

    Now these are the ordinances which you are to set before them: Exodus 21:1 NASB Ordinances – “The service of God is an extremely concrete, an extremely real, literal, and factual affair. We do not employ symbols to make Him understand what we mean. We worship Him not by employing figures of speech but by…

  • THE INLAND EMPIRE IS CALLING

    SPOKANE, WASHINGTON JULY 29-30, 2016 GREAT PEOPLE – GREAT TOPICS – A GREAT TIME TO LEARN Here is the link to register for the Inland Empire Conference hosted by Jim and Kelli Roark.  If you are ANYWHERE in the area, you need to come to this one!  It has always been a time of amazing…

  • A World Apart

    You shall have no other gods before Me. Exodus 20:3 ESV Before – “But it is only in the modern societies of the West that nonreligious man has developed fully. Modern nonreligious man assumes a new existential situation; he regards himself solely as the subject and agent of history, and he refuses all appeal to…

  • A Few Remarks on Exegesis

    My view of exegesis has certainly developed over several decades. I used to think that a good lexicon, a solid historical understanding of doctrine, and prayer were all that was required in order to know what the Bible says. That paradigm was shattered long ago. In its place I have come to realize several important,…

  • Reminders

    To know wisdom and instruction, to discern the sayings of understanding, Proverbs 1:2 NASB The sayings – The NASB translation of ‘emer renders the Hebrew with a nod toward oral communication. The ESV uses the stricter “words,” a translation that could easily lead us the think of written material. Of course, Solomon’s proverbs are both,…