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  • Pass Interference

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    It happened in the days of Ahasuerus—that Ahasuerus who reigned over a hundred and twenty-seven provinces from India to Ethiopia.  Esther 1:1  JPS It happened – Some time ago we investigated the Hebrew phrase miqreh (see Today’s Word on Ruth 2:3).[1]  It’s used for “happy accidents,” accidents that are really somehow orchestrated by the invisible…

  • Not Yet

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    Then Moses and the sons of Israel sang this song to the Lord, and said, “I will sing to the Lord, for He is highly exalted;
The horse and its rider He has hurled into the sea.”  Exodus 15:1  NASB Sang – Sanhedrin 91b, one of the rabbinic tractates, notices that the verb used to describe…