The Sin of Refusing

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

“Blessed is anyone who does not stumble on account of me.”  Matthew 11:6  ESV Stumble – David Flusser points out that the Hebrew verb behind this Greek gospel expression is a word that means “to be led into sin, to go astray from the right understanding of the will of God.”[1]  In other words, the…

Jesus the Offender

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

“And blessed is he who keeps from stumbling over Me.” Matthew 11:6 Stumbling over – The scandal of Jesus.  That’s the word.  Skandalizo, “to cause to stumble or to take offense”.  It comes from the noun that means the trigger of a trap.  It’s the thing that we bump into and suddenly we are caught….