I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different gospel; which is not really another, only there are some who are disturbing you, and want to distort the gospel of Christ. Galatians 1:6-7 Gospel – What if we have it all wrong? What…
and now Israel, what does the LORD require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, . . . Deuteronomy 10:12 ESV Fear the LORD – Moses Luzzatto explores the…
“And if it is with difficulty that the righteous is saved, what will become of the godless man and the sinner” 1 Peter 4:18 NASB Godless man – Peter calls these people “godless” and “sinners.” “Godless man” is the Greek word asebes. It literally means, “without worship.” This is a person who does not honor…
At the entrance, sin lies in wait. Talmud, B. Sanhedrin 91b. In wait – Commenting on Genesis 4:7, the rabbis note that sin takes opportunity to entice us from the moment of entrance into the world. “To be born is to leave the simplicity, the ‘sincerity,’ of life-with-mother and to cross a threshold into a…
In a few days I will return to South Africa – this time with a specific mission in mind. Yes, I will still teach in many different locations, but this time I plan to make a short video documentary about the lives of those white Afrikaners who live in such terrible poverty, brought on by…
“Why then have You brought me out of the womb? Would that I had died and no eye had seen me! I should have been as though I had not been, carried from womb to tomb.” Job 10:18-19 NASB Had not been – The story of Job challenges the belief that God is just. All…
Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6 ESV Train up – In the movie Inception, Leonardo DiCaprio takes on the task of reconfiguring the thoughts of a man who is about to inherit an empire created by his father. …
Hey EVERYONE! I finally got a job… THANK GOD! They only want me to work part-time; so, the hours are minimal… but I accepted the position, anyway, because it’s said to expand at some point in the future… it started on Monday, 9/17/12. Every one of Skip Moen’s readers, https://stage.skipmoen.com/, who helped me financially over the…
How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! If I would count them, they are more than the sand. I awake, and I am still with you. Psalm 139:17-18 ESV Count – Certainty is one of the great problems of life. What can we know for sure? …
“He who has found his life shall lose it, and he who has lost his life for My sake shall find it.” Matthew 10:39 NASB Lose – “But what about my needs?” That’s the problem, isn’t it? We treat relationships in the same way we treat any other possession. We are relationship consumers. Our culture…
