illness

  • Sick to Death

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    I am bent over and greatly bowed down; I go in mourning all day long.  For my sides are filled with burning, and there is no healthy part in my flesh.  I feel faint and badly crushed; I groan because of the agitation of my heart.  Psalm 38:6-8 NASB No healthy part – Despite the fact that the idea is theologically untenable, the…

  • An Obvious Conclusion

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    And His disciples asked Him, saying, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man, or his parents, that he should be born blind?”  John 9:2  NASB That – Everything has a cause.  That’s the underlying assumption of the disciples.  It’s not incorrect.  It’s just that sometimes we look in the wrong places for the cause.  In the thought…