The Thorn in the Flesh

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

You who have shown me many troubles and distresses will revive me again, and will bring me up again from the depths of the earth.  Psalm 71:20  NASB Revive – Don’t jump too quickly to those comforting thoughts about revival.  Pay attention to the beginning of this verse.  Who is the one who showed the poet’s many troubles…

He Leads Me

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

Like sheep they sink down to Sheol; Death will be their shepherd; and the upright will rule over them in the morning, and their form shall be for Sheol to consume, so that they have no lofty home.  Psalm 49:14  NASB Death will be their shepherd – Could there be any more chilling fate of the foolish?  Psalm 23…