Family Failures

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the Lord will take me up.  Psalm 27:10  NASB Will take me up – One of the greatest tragedies of life is to be forsaken by your parents.  Not orphaned but abandoned.  Recovery from that circumstance is extremely difficult, if even possible.  Parental abandonment is life threatening, not just…

Revising the Text

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

He was despised and forsaken of men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and like one from whom men hide their face He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.  Isaiah 53:3  NASB Despised and forsaken – In Messiah Journal, Special Supplement of 2011[1], Steven Lancaster and James Monson examine the Isaiah…