Every Word My Story (2)

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

A psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. Shepherd – Back to Paleo-Hebrew, the text David used to write this psalm. Now that we know mizmor David is memorial and emotional instruction, we can look at the next key word in the Masoretic text, roi (shepherd). The first thing we…

A Little Short

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

“Suppose the fifty righteous are lacking five, will you destroy the whole city because of five?”  Genesis 18:28 Are Lacking – David knows the God who provides.  Abraham knows the God who permits.  “I shall not want” uses the same verb as “fifty lacking five”.  What does this tell us about the character of God? …