Contented Blessing

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

Jabez called upon the God of Israel saying, “Oh that you would bless me . . .”  1 Chronicles 4:10  ESV Bless – This word is barak.  Examining it as a noun, we find that receiving a blessing in the Old Testament means getting something favorable from someone greater.  The paradigm case is the transmission…

Couch Potato

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

Blessed is the man to whom YHWH does not charge iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile. Psalm 32:2 Guile – There are two important verbs for blessing in the Hebrew text.  The first is barak. This is the verb used to bless God and it is the verb used by God to…