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…