Monkey See, Monkey Do

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

It came about when Israel became strong, that they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but they did not drive them out completely. Judges 1:28 NASB Completely – What happens when God’s people don’t finish the job? The book of Judges answers that question with a very dismal and discouraging portrait of incomplete performance. From…

An Incomplete Life

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

In Hebrew there are really only two verb tenses; complete actions and incomplete actions.  That’s because Hebrew “sees” the world with a completely different framework than Indo-European languages.  It sees the world in terms of actions rather than time.  Our Indo-European languages offer many more shades of meaning in verbs.  We have past, present and…