The Emperor’s Thumb

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

“But I have this against you, that you have left your first love.”   Revelation 2:4 Against – It’s an up and down matter.  Greek prepositions, like this one, almost always have a root meaning in some kind of physical space movement.  Kata is no exception.  The root meaning is movement downwards.  For example, in 2…

Left

BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

“But I have this against you, that you have left your first love.”  Revelation 2:4 Left – How many times have we left behind something that we thought was a stepping-stone along the way only to discover that it was the essential foundation of everything else?  If this weren’t so true, we would never have…