I Just Can’t Do It!

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong. 2 Corinthians 12:10 NASB Weak – If you read the list of trials in the first part of the verse and stop before you come to the final…

Contextual Issues

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

Not that I speak from want; for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am. Philippians 4:11 Content – Most Christians have spiritualized this verse.  We read this as if it were about an inner state of equilibrium of the soul.  Because we think of Paul’s statement as a declaration of spiritual…