Author: Skip Moen, Ph.D.

  • Getting Saved

    The one who loves his life loses it, and the one who hates his life in this world will keep it to eternal life.  John 12:25 NASB Keep it – Want to know how to get saved?  Yeshua gives you the simple answer: hate your life in this world.  What?  How can the one who embraced…

  • The Third Heaven

    I know a man in Christ, who fourteen years ago—whether in the body I do not know, or out of the body I do not know, God knows—such a man was caught up to the third heaven.  2 Corinthians 12:2  NASB Out of body – This strange verse (and the following two verses) needs some…

  • Rerun

    Blessed are those whose ways are blameless, who walk according to the law of the Lord.  Psalm 119:1  NIV According to – When we began the long study of Psalm 119, we started by investigating the Hebrew terms for “blessed,” “blameless,” and “walk.”  But we probably should have taken a long look at the preposition bĕ as…

  • Forever Certain

    For His kindness has overwhelmed us, and the truth of the Lord is eternal. Hallelujah!  Psalm 117:2  (Chabad) Overwhelmed – When was the last time you felt overwhelmed by God’s graciousness?  Have you given any thought to the amazing blessing of being alive today?  Does a tune of thankfulness hum in the background of your…

  • PSALM 119 now available as a book

    As a result of demand, I offer the study of Psalm 119 as a PDF book.  Because of the difficulties of printing the Hebrew text with diacritical marks, I decided to provide this as a download PDF which will retain all the pointing and the colored text. Here is the LINK Thank you for your…

  • The Long and the Short

    Praise the Lord, all nations; Sing His praises, all peoples!  Psalm 117:1  NASB Praise the Lord – We spent more than 180 days looking through the longest psalm in the Bible (Psalm 119).  After all that time, I wondered if the shortest psalm carried the same theme.  So, here it is, just two verses: הַֽלְל֣וּ אֶת־יְ֖הֹוָה…

  • The True Faith?

    but these have been written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that by believing you may have life in His name.  John 20:31  NASB By believing – I received an email advertisement.  It contained the following: So, of course, I was interested.  Not because I wanted to know the…