The Sin of Noah

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

I was mute and silent, I refrained even from good, and my sorrow grew worse.   My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned;  Psalm 39:2-3a  NASB Refrained– A short while ago we examined these verses. We concluded that David’s experience of deliberate silence caused emotional and physical separation from others and from himself.  Based on the…

Don’t Say a Word

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

I was mute and silent, I refrained even from good, and my sorrow grew worse.   My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned;  Psalm 39:2-3a  NASB Silent– Listen!  Silence is a good thing, right?  Don’t we long for an escape from the din around us?  The traffic, the elevator music, the indecipherable human clamor of…