In Good Company

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.  Titus 3:3  NASB Disobedient, deceived, enslaved – “Foolish” keeps company with a host of friends.  You remember that Greek term anóētos with all its nuances.  Well, Paul provides a list of some of the compatriots of anóētos.  The…

Inevitability

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing; my strength fails because of my iniquity, and my bones waste away. Psalm 31:11 Fails – Sin contains its own consequences.  There is no separation between the act and the result.  Unlike our system of justice, the Hebrew view does not think of…