Author: Skip Moen, Ph.D.

  • Cancer in the Body (Rewind)

    watching diligently that not any lack from the grace of God, that no root of bitterness growing up may disturb you, and through this many be defiled; Hebrews 12:15 (translation J. Green) Defiled – Does it seem like sometimes it’s just too much to continue on this path?  Are you wearing down in your quest…

  • Amanda’s Update

    Hi all!  Here’s an update on how things are going for me and my family: Since your amazing outpouring of love and support, my husband has talked to several companies, but unfortunately these talks haven’t yielded much.  He does have another meeting today, so we shall see what God will do.  However, although these doors…

  • Justice as Antidote (Rewind)

    Who understands the power of Your anger and Your fury, according to the fear that is due You? Psalm 90:11  NASB Power – Read the first verse of this psalm.  No, not the first English verse.  Read the first verse in the Hebrew text.  Let me help you:  tefillah le-Moshe ish ha-Elohim (A prayer of…

  • Shake, Rattle and Roll

    He only is my rock and my salvation,
My stronghold; I shall not be greatly shaken. Psalm 62:2 NASB Shaken – In Hebrew, the word for “shaken” is ‘emmots. It is from the same root as the word for yoke (motsa’). Both of these words carry the imagery of a pole used as a walking stick…

  • Sticks and Stones

    “Is this not the fast which I choose,
to loosen the bonds of wickedness,
to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free
and break every yoke?” Isaiah 58:6 NASB Every yoke – Do you want to be yoked with the Lord? Ah, that’s a sign of pleasant comfort—the confidence of knowing you…

  • Blinded by the Light

    Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings. Genesis 3:7 NASB Opened – Your eyes are opened! What do you see? If you were in the Garden, you would see that when your eyes were opened…

  • The Backwards Man

    But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. Genesis 6:8 NASB Favor – It comes as no surprise that the Hebrew noun translated “favor” is hen. Usually understood as grace, the word is crucial for recognizing that God’s actions toward men are not motivated by Man’s essential goodness but rather by the nature…

  • Satan’s Own

    Then I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given to them And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony of Jesus and because of the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received the…

  • John Adam on the Sounds of Heaven

    John Adam, mathematician and reader of Today’s Word, has contributed some interesting and powerful material in the past.  Here is his latest.  I think you will enjoy John’s insights. Heavenly Acoustics The array below represents, in a sense, two dimensions of time. The speaker utters sounds in time moving downwards. The hearer hears the sounds…