Author: Skip Moen, Ph.D.

  • ISRAEL TOUR NUMBER 2 SUMMARY

    THIS IS A SUMMARY OF THE SECOND ISRAEL TOUR IN 2015.  I forgot to include the schedule in the previous announcement. If we have enough response (we need a minimum of 20), we will make a second trip to Israel in 2015. October 8 arrival in Israel.  October 18 departure.  As with the other tours, you…

  • God of Sorrow

    When I remember God, I moan; when I meditate, my spirit faints. Selah. Psalm 77:3 ESV Moan – What do you feel when you remember God? Does a radiant joy spread across your face? Or are you one with Asaph, discovering that remembering the Lord causes you great pain? Were you taught that God likes…

  • Joined at the Shoulder

    “What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate.” Matthew 19:6 NASB Joined together – Every translation I checked has the same wording, “joined together.” But that doesn’t quite capture the overtones of this very unusual Greek verb (syzeugnymi). The verb literally means, “yoked together.” It is found only twice in the LXX (Ezekiel…

  • The Test of Glory

    “I am the Lord, that is My name;
I will not give My glory to another,
Nor My praise to graven images.” Isaiah 42:8 NASB Will not give – In the famous Servant Song of Isaiah, YHVH declares that He will not give (hand over, set, place, allow or surrender) His glory to another. On the basis…

  • At Home in the Wilderness

    Thus says the LORD, “The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness” Jeremiah 31:2 NASB Wilderness – Not everyone finds grace in the wilderness. God says that His people, the ones who have survived the sword, the ones He calls Israel, find something unexpected in the wilderness. They find grace. Imagine the…

  • At God’s Table

    Then they spoke against God; they said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?” Psalm 78:19 NASB Wilderness – Can He? Can God prepare a table in a place where no one can live? Life as it comes to us says, “No! God is not able to provide in the midst of our empty…

  • ISRAEL 2015 – NUMBER 2

    JUST IN CASE YOU DIDN’T SEE THIS ALREADY, I am sending it out again.  On September 2 the invitation with the pricing details will go out.   The first Israel Teaching Tour of 2015 was sold out in 18 hours.  There are at least 12 people on the waiting list in case someone cancels.  So…