Author: Skip Moen, Ph.D.

  • Promises to Keep

    “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life.” John  3:16  NASB Eternal life – “Man’s task is to make the world worthy of redemption.”[1]  But wait!  Why should I worry about making the world worthy of redemption when I’m waiting to…

  • The End of the Empire (9)

    “Therefore this is what the Lord of armies says: ‘Because you have not obeyed My words, behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,’ declares the Lord, ‘and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, My servant, and will bring them against this land and against its inhabitants and against all these surrounding nations; and I will [a]completely destroy…

  • Purposeful Prayer

    One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.” Luke 11:1  NIV To pray – “The purpose of prayer is not the same as the purpose of speech.  The purpose of speech is to inform; the…

  • Futile Exercises

    One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.” Luke 11:1  NIV To pray – Perhaps it would help a bit to know the etymology of proseuchomai, the usual word for “to pray” in the Greek…

  • The Heartache of my Soul

    One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.” Luke 11:1  NIV Us – Have you discovered that you don’t have the right words for prayer?  You want to communicate with God, but when you actually…

  • Theory or Practice

    One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.” Luke 11:1  NIV Teach – Do you know how to pray?  Do you know the purpose of prayer?  Do you understand the importance of prayer?  Great, you’re…

  • Shameful Prayer

    One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.” Luke 11:1  NIV Teach us – Do you find it odd that the disciples asked Yeshua to teach them to pray?  We know, of course, that they…

  • Terrifying Prayer

    One day Jesus was praying in a certain place. When he finished, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John taught his disciples.” Luke 11:1  NIV Teach us –  “To live without prayer is to live without God, to live without a soul.”[1]  When I first read Heschel’s words some…

  • One What?

    I and the Father are one.  John 10:30  NASB One – Philip Jenkins expresses what most Christians believe when he writes, “In the New Testament, Jesus says quite explicitly that he is identical with God: ‘I and the Father are one,’ he declares.”[1]  It certainly seems so, doesn’t it?  In fact, it is so commonly…