Toil and Tears

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

Blessed are those whose way is [a]blameless, who walk in the Law of the Lord.   Psalm 119:1  NASB Blameless – The Hebraic world knows no systematic theology.  That’s a Greek invention.  What it knows is the lived reality of God’s interaction in the everyday world of men and women.  The Hebraic world doesn’t have creeds or hard-and-fast doctrines…

The Beginning of Everything

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.”  Exodus 20:2  NASB Who – For Israel, everything began with “who.”  ʾăšer, used thousands of times in the Bible, is a particle of relationship.  Interestingly, contemporary ancient cultures seem to have a different view.  “Taking into consideration…