Author: Skip Moen, Ph.D.

  • God Will Take Care

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    With my many cares within me, Your consolations delighted me.  Psalm 94:19  Robert Alter Many cares – Aretha Franklin’s rendition of “God Will Take Care of You” is found on the best selling Gospel album of all time.  It’s powerful and worth listening to (CLICK HERE).  Since music is such an emotional experience, perhaps we…

  • The Sad Truth

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    Who will rise for me against evildoers, who will take a stand for me against the wrongdoers?  Psalm 94:16  Robert Alter   For me – Be sure you read this verse as it is written, not as you might expect it to be written.  What I mean is that we might expect “Who will rise…

  • The Rationale for Suffering (2)

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    Happy the man whom Yah chastises, and whom from His teaching He instructs, to make him quiet in evil days until a pit is dug for the wicked.  Psalm 94:12-13  Robert Alter Quiet – I’d like the NASB version to be true.  “So that You may grant him relief from the days of adversity, until a pit is…

  • The Rationale for Suffering (1)

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    Happy the man whom Yah chastises, and whom from His teaching He instructs, to make him quiet in evil days until a pit is dug for the wicked.  Psalm 94:12-13  Robert Alter Chastises – Are you happy?  Maybe today, but what about the days when nothing goes right?  What about those days when you truly…

  • Third Time’s a Charm

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us; and we saw His glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.  John 1:14  NASB Became flesh – Suppose for just a moment that John is thoroughly Jewish.  Suppose he is operating in the typical way Jews handled the Tanakh in the first century.  Suppose he’s writing…

  • Rules of Engagement (2)

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    Then God spoke all these words, saying,  Exodus 20:1  NASB All these words – Modern Jewish biblical scholars draw our attention to some difficult paradoxes.  Nachmanides is an example: Our teacher Moses wrote this book of Genesis together with the entire Torah as dictated by the holy One, blessed is He. . . . It…