Burn, Baby, Burn

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

Though I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, I do not forget Your statutes.  Psalm 119:83  NASB In the smoke – What is a wineskin in the smoke?  If we don’t understand this metaphor, we won’t understand why the psalmist connects it with obedience.  So, in order to comprehend his phrase, we need to know…

Horrifying Decrees

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

“Indeed, I gave them no-good decrees, and laws that did not offer them life.” Ezekiel 20:25 No-Good Decrees – Brevard Childs, professor of Biblical theology at Harvard, says that this verse is an example of “the clearest sign of the brokenness of the Old Testament covenant . . . once given as a source of…