Author: Skip Moen, Ph.D.

  • Paradigm Perplexities (2)

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    “If you consent and obey, you will eat the best of the land; but if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.”  Isaiah 1:19  NASB Consent and obey – We love Isaiah 1:18, especially when we think it endorses rational debate.  But I doubt many of us realize that this next…

  • The Winepress

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    On September 11, 2011, I published the article “The Winepress,” a look at John 16:33.  Fortunately, one of our community noticed that I misread the Hebrew word tsarah.  I have now revised that article.  You can read the corrected edition here. Sorry for the mistake.  I hope that those of you who keep all the…

  • Something’s Happening At Central Washington State University

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    My name is Michael Moen.  My father is Skip Moen.  I am a senior at Central Washington State University in Ellensburg, Washington.  I will graduate with a degree in psychology, but my real objective this year, and for years to come, is to help people my age understand how important it is to have a…

  • Paradigm Perplexities (1)

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    “Come now, and let us reason together,” says the LORD.  “Though your sins are as scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they will be like wool.”  Isaiah 1:18  NASB Reason – Certainly you’ve heard this verse more than a few times.  Does it mean that God wants…

  • Questions Without Answers

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    But Jesus answered and said to them, “I will ask you one thing too, which if you tell Me, I will also tell you by what authority I do these things.”  Matthew 21:24  NASB Answered – Have you noticed how many times Yeshua doesn’t answer the question?  Have you noticed how often His reply is…

  • The Joy of Being Afraid

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    How blessed is the man who fears always, but he who hardens his heart will fall into calamity.  Proverbs 28:14  NASB Fear always – We are apt to recite the fact that Scripture exhorts us some 366 times not to fear.  This could lead us to imagine that fear has no place in the life…

  • Scared to Death (2)

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    For God shall bring every work into judgment, with all that is hidden, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.  Ecclesiastes 12:14  Jay Green Judgment – “The strength of the yetzer ha’ra is precisely in convincing us that we do not need these words of instruction because we are above believing in such…

  • Scared to Death (1)

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    For God shall bring every work into judgment, with all that is hidden, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.  Ecclesiastes 12:14  Jay Green Every work – Scrupulous!  Rigorous!  Meticulous!  Do those adjectives describe your life before the Lord – or are you one of the many who seem to think that God’s…