Author: Skip Moen, Ph.D.

  • This is NOT a Christmas Present

    But it is something I want to do for all my readers. For a limited time, you may download one (one only please) of the photos on this link (this offer has expired) without any cost.  My gift.  These are high-resolution digital images suitable for printing, framing, putting up as screen savers or whatever you…

  • Impossible Prayer

    “If one goes to defile himself, openings are made for him; and he who goes to purify himself, help is afforded him.” Tractate Shabbat 104a Openings – Recently a man in China asked me to pray for him. He was having violent dreams and he was afraid that those dreams would cause him to act violently….

  • 92 to 0

    “Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.” John 8:24 NASB Believe – John uses the Greek “believe” in one form or another ninety-two times in his gospel. It is never once a noun. Pisteuo is a…

  • End of Story!

    Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the [a]sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” Genesis 1:26 NASB Let them…

  • Not Applicable

    Therefore it is not surprising if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness, whose end will be according to their deeds. 2 Corinthians 11:15 NASB According to their deeds – Paul was afraid that his readers would be led astray. He was afraid they would embrace “another Jesus,” one not found as leader…

  • A Divinely Arranged Encounter

    Some years ago I was on an airplane (as usual) heading for wherever.  I was in an aisle seat.  A man came along and sat at the window.  Then a woman, clearly his wife, joined us, sitting in the middle.  I was reading Our Father Abraham and sometime after the plane took off, the woman asked if…

  • Fair Warning

    For if one comes and preaches another Jesus whom we have not preached, or you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you have not accepted, you bear this beautifully. 2 Corinthians 11:4 NASB Another Jesus – Paul is afraid. He’s afraid that the Corinthians will be deceived…