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  • In the Cut

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    I will also break the gate bar of Damascus, and eliminate every inhabitant from the [c]Valley of Aven, as well as him who holds the scepter, from Beth-eden; so the people of Aram will be exiled to Kir,” says the Lord.  Amos 1:5  NASB     Eliminate – Perhaps you recognize the symbolic, metaphorical use of this term.  It’s karat.  “The most important use of the root is ‘to cut’…

  • Cutting Ties

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    And He said, “Take your son, your favored one, Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him there” Genesis 22:2 Go – The climax of Abraham’s life comes in the moment when God asks him to cut away his future. This story closes something that began in Chapter 12…