Ex-Con

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

“O LORD, rebuke me not in Your wrath, and chasten me not in Your burning anger.”  Psalm 38:1  NASB Rebuke– “Rebuke me not.”  The verb is yākaḥ.  To convict.  To judge.  To reprove.  Perhaps the translation does not give us the fullest appreciation of David’s plea. Literally, “YHVH, not to me in your wrath convict.”  Don’t bring…

Paradigm Perplexities (1)

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

“Come now, and let us reason together,” says the LORD.  “Though your sins are as scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they will be like wool.”  Isaiah 1:18  NASB Reason – Certainly you’ve heard this verse more than a few times.  Does it mean that God wants…