Backwash – REWIND

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

 In this you greatly rejoice, even though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been distressed by various trials  1 Peter 1:6  NASB Various – Peter uses an interesting adjective to describe the testing of our faith.  It is the word poikilos.  It does not mean “many.”  Instead it means “of a wide…

Undercover Adam

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

And Joseph her husband, being a righteous man, and not wanting to disgrace her, desired to put her way secretly. Matthew 1:19 To Disgrace – We don’t have much trouble identifying the Hebraic pattern in the gospel of John.  “In the beginning was the Word” is deliberately arranged to parallel “In the beginning God” from…