Author: Skip Moen, Ph.D.

  • Degree Mill

    “But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.”  John 14:26  NASB Teach – In academic circles, a “degree mill” is a company that offers you pieces of paper that claim you have…

  • The God Who Feels

    And when the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD relented from that calamity and said to the angel who was working destruction among the people, “It is enough; now stay your hand.” . .    2 Samuel 24:16  ESV Relented  – Sometimes you have to know the history of a…

  • Holy Contradiction, Batman!

    For as many as are of the works of the Law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed is every one who does not abide by all things written in the book of the Law, to perform them.”  Galatians 3:10  NASB Works of the Law – Most Christians are taught that Paul converted…

  • Construction Material

    So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh.  Genesis 2:21  ESV Ribs – Except for this passage (side of man) and 2 Samuel 16:13 (side of hill), this word (sela’) is usually about an…

  • Puzzling Pole

    And YHWH said to Mosheh, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole. And it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live.” So Mosheh made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole. And it came to be, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when…

  • Accusative Assignment

    Also, he has put all things under his feet and made him head over everything for the Messianic community, which is his body, the full expression of him who fills all creation.   Ephesians 1:22-23  Complete Jewish Bible Head – The Greek word kephalen in this verse is a singular, feminine noun in the accusative.  This…

  • Prayer Request

    Cheryl Durham just told me that her sister-in-law just died at age 55.  She is asking for prayer for her brother who is suddenly without a wife he loved and treasured.