Ashes to Ashes

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

My soul is satisfied as with [d]marrow and fatness, and my mouth offers praises with joyful lips.  Psalm 63:5  NASB Marrow and fatness – What does David’s poetry have to do with the official English Burial Service?  Well, “ashes to ashes, dust to dust” comes from the Burial Service, not the Bible.  It is supposed to be derived…

Counting Calories

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

Their eyes swell out through fatness; their hearts overflow with follies.  Psalm 73:7  ESV Fatness – Asaph’s description of the physical qualities of the wicked is certainly metaphorical.  Asaph is not writing about corneal edema.  He is poetically describing the results of a life of opulence; a life that pursues luxury.  But his use of…