Kaf

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

My soul languishes for Your salvation; I [ah]wait for Your word.  Psalm 119:81  NASB כָּֽלְתָ֣ה לִתְשׁוּעָֽתְךָ֣ נַפְשִׁ֑י לִדְבָֽרְךָ֥ יִחָֽלְתִּי כָּל֣וּ עֵ֖ינַי לְאִמְרָתֶ֑ךָ לֵ֜אמֹ֗ר מָתַ֥י תְּֽנַֽחֲמֵֽנִי כִּֽי־הָ֖יִיתִי כְּנֹ֣אד בְּקִיט֑וֹר חֻ֜קֶּ֗יךָ לֹ֣א שָׁכָֽחְתִּי כַּמָּה יְמֵ֣י עַבְדֶּ֑ךָ מָתַ֬י תַּֽעֲשֶׂ֖ה בְרֹֽדְפַ֣י מִשְׁפָּֽט כָּֽרוּ־לִ֣י זֵדִ֣ים שִׁיח֑וֹת אֲ֜שֶׁ֗ר לֹ֣א כְתֽוֹרָתֶֽךָ כָּל־מִצְו‍ֹתֶ֥יךָ אֱמוּנָ֑ה שֶׁ֖קֶר רְדָפ֣וּנִי עָזְרֵֽנִי כִּמְעַט כִּלּ֣וּנִי בָאָ֑רֶץ וַֽ֜אֲנִ֗י לֹֽא־עָזַ֥בְתִּי פִקֻּדֶֽיךָ כְּחַסְדְּךָ֥ חַיֵּ֑נִי…

Kingdom Passports (1)

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

But of Zion it will be said, “This one and that one were born in her”; And the Most High Himself will establish her.   The Lord will count when He registers the peoples, “This one was born there.” Selah   Psalm 87:5-6  NASB Born there – Football in Italy is a religion (that’s “soccer” for Americans).  The rivalry between teams is…

The Hitchhiker’s Guide (17)

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

“For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is life not more than food, and the body more than clothing?”  Matthew 6:25  NASB Do not be worried – We often read Yeshua’s words in…

This World Is Not My Home

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

I am not asking You to take them out of the world, but to keep them away from the evil one.  John 17:15  NASB Take them out – I don’t know about you, but I would just as soon have had Yeshua skip this request.  In fact, in my earlier years I would think to…

The Kingdom on Earth

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

The kingdom of heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found and hid again; and from [a]joy over it he goes and sells everything that he has, and buys that field.  Matthew 13:44  NASB Hidden in a field – Stop reading this parable as if it were about some ethereal spiritual realm far removed from…

The Law of the Kingdom

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

They will not teach again, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the Lord, “for I will forgive their wrongdoing, and their sin I will no longer remember.”  Jeremiah 31:34  NASB They will all know Me – Yeshua…

Chambers-Made (1)

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be provided to you.  Matthew 6:33  NASB Will be provided – For many years I started my day with a page from Oswald Chambers’ My Utmost for His Highest. My copy in the original 19th century English is so worn that the covers are…

Citizen Responsibility

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be provided to you.  Matthew 6:33 NASB Kingdom – What does it mean to seek the Kingdom of God?  The answer might surprise you because it depends on a shift in paradigms that occurred more than two millennia ago.  In the early days of Hellenism,…

Kingdom Consciousness

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

and saying, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel.”  Mark 1:15 NASB Kingdom of God – What is the gospel?  It’s the “good news,” right?  I mean, that’s what euangélion means—“good news.”  And what is the “good news”?  In the Christian West the answer is usually something…

Shout Out!

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

However, you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him.  Romans 8:9  NASB If indeed – eiper (εἴπερ) is an exclamation point in Greek.  It is used to intensify an expression.  Paul…