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  • Put on Your Thinking Cap

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,  2 Timothy 3:16  NIV Is useful – No, we’re not going to spend any more time investigating the meanings of “Scripture” or “God-breathed” or any of the participles of action that follow.  We’ve been over that ground time and again.  What…

  • Three in One

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    You scrutinize my path and my lying down, and are intimately acquainted with all my ways.   Psalm 139:3  NASB Intimately acquainted with– Actually, the text doesn’t really say this.  The last word in the sentence, hiskanet-tah, comes from the verb sākan.  The translator has added “intimately” in order to capture the tone of this psalm.  The verb…