The Slippery Slope

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

I have inclined my heart to perform Your statutes forever, even to the end.  Psalm 119:112  NASB Inclined – How many times have you heard a warning about “the slippery slope”?  It usually concerns some action you’re about to take that will inevitably lead to more bad things.  The idea is that a small change causes other small…

Inscribed

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

“Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands;”   Isaiah 49:16 Inscribed –  It was common practice in ancient cultures to engrave laws and decrees on tablets of stone or metal.  In this way, the permanence of the law was insured.  This word (haqaq) means to carve or engrave or portray.  It is…