Just Give Me Money

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

The Law of Your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces. Psalm 119:72  NASB Is better – We missed it!  If you read this verse in Hebrew you would immediately notice that the same word we found in the previous verse (ṭôb- lî, “good for me”) is the opening word in this…

The Best Things in Life

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

It is good for me that I was afflicted, so that I may learn Your statutes.  Psalm 119:71 NASB Good for me – Read it again.  Slowly.  Pause on the first phrase.  Do you really believe what the poet writes?  Is it goodto be humbled, oppressed, forced into submission, punished?  Before you let your theological better…