Does God Do It All?

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

I will cry to God Most High, to God who accomplishes all things for me.  Psalm 57:2 [English]  NASB Who accomplishes all things – Poetry is difficult to understand.  Just ask my Italian students who are studying Walt Whitman or Edgar Allen Poe.  Poets like to manipulate the language, strike unusual parallels, twist resonance, and bend meanings in…

The Two-Edged Sword

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy.  James 3:17  NASB Unwavering – Write up your list of excuses.  Go ahead.  Make sure you get them all.  I’ll wait. The root behind the Greek word adiakritos is krino, a verb that means…