Aren’t You Lucky?

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

He also chose His servant David and took him from the sheepfolds; from the care of the ewes with nursing lambs He brought him to shepherd Jacob His people, and Israel His inheritance.  So he shepherded them according to the integrity of his heart, and guided them with his skillful hands.   Psalm 78:70-72  NASB Ewes with nursing lambs – “The…

When Is It Enough?

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

Look to the pact, for the dark places of earth fill with groans of outrage. Psalm 74:20  (R. Alter translation) Fill – Asaph’s psalm of despair reads like today’s newspaper for followers of YHWH.  He cried out, “Why, O God, have You abandoned us forever?”  He describes the insults to God’s own name perpetrated by…