Author: Skip Moen, Ph.D.

  • What to Do with Gentiles?

    So the young men who were spies went in and brought out Rahab and her father and her mother and her brothers and all she had; they also brought out all her relatives and placed them outside the camp of Israel. Joshua 6:23 NASB Outside – mihuts. That’s what you do with Gentiles. You save…

  • Insatiably Unsatisfied

    And this is the condemnation: that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. John 3:19 KJV Evil – Jewish psychology revolves around the power to choose. In spite of the fact that Freud was a Jew, the Jewish theology of the self is not…

  • Homeless Prayers

    But you, when you pray, go into your inner room, close your door and pray to your Father who is in secret, and your Father who sees what is done in secret will reward you. Matthew 6:6 NASB When you pray – Silent prayer, the paradigm of Christian meditation, has always alluded me. No sooner…

  • AND THE WINNER IS

    Guess what?  My photo of the Chinese fisherman WON the Adorama Pics 2014 photo contest.  Thanks for your votes.  Thanks to Christina who arranged the wonderful trip to China.  Here is the Adorama winning notification link. CLICK HERE

  • Salvation History

    For You have delivered my soul from death, indeed my feet from stumbling, so that I may walk before God in the light of the living. Psalm 56:13 NASB From death – Was David saved? He certainly thinks so. In fact, he notes that as a result of being saved from death, he has the…

  • Jesus Wept

    You have taken account of my wanderings; put my tears in Your bottle. Are they not in Your book? Psalm 56:8 NASB My tears – “How difficult it is to expose our heart’s core, our heart of hearts to anyone, even to God. So it is with God. He will not expose us to that…

  • Rosanne’s Roots

    Today we traveled to Ciminna, up in the mountains outside Palermo.  This is the place where Rosanne’s great grandfather was born.  When he was only a teenager, he came to America alone, later returning to bring his brothers and sisters.  We found records of this side of Rosanne’s family dating about more than 200 years,…

  • Hebrew Umbrellas

    When I am afraid, I will put my trust in You. Psalm 56:3 NASB I will put my trust – Hebrew is a sparse language. One word may be called into service in many different ways. For example, you know that shema means both “to hear” and “to obey.” This is a small umbrella compared…