The Bigger Picture

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

For I am ready to fall, and my sorrow is continually before me.  For I admit my guilt; I am full of anxiety because of my sin.  Psalm 38:17-18  NASB Sin – Before we can understand the psalmist’s anxiety, we need to know what he means by the Hebrew term ḥaṭṭāʾt, translated “sin.”  As we’ve mentioned, sin is a religious…

David and the Midrash

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

“With reproofs You chasten a man for iniquity; You consume as a moth what is precious to him; surely every man is a mere breath.”  Selah.  Psalm 39:11  NASB Reproofs– The apostolic letters don’t stray far from roots in the Tanakh.  We should not be surprised.  The letters are commentary on the Bible of the apostles, the Tanakh.  So…