Politics as Usual?

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.  Philippians 3:20  NASB Citizenship –  When you read this verse, doesn’t anything seem odd to you?  It doesn’t matter if you read it in the NIV (“but our citizenship is in heaven.”)  Both English translations say…

A Case Of Mistaken Identity

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

telling about the conversion of the Gentiles and they caused great joy to all the brothers.  Acts 15:3 Conversion – The word “conversion” is used only once in the New Testament.  It is epistrophe.  It comes from two Greek words that literally mean “to turn toward or return.”  Anyone familiar with Hebrew immediately recognizes the…