Safe Haven (Rewind)

In You, O Lord, I have taken refuge; let me never be ashamed; in Your righteousness deliver me.  Psalm 31:1  NASB 1995 Never be ashamed – It’s been almost four years since I wrote this study of Psalm 31.  We covered every verse in that month.  Four years later I wonder if anything has really changed.  Maybe…

First and Last

And the man and his wife were both naked, but they were not ashamed.  Genesis 2:25  NASB Naked – Camile Paglia made this observation about the Bible: There are no sexual personae in the Bible, except among harlots.  Biblical character is unitary and homogenous.  Psychic splits are of the ‘whited sepulcher’ kind, where the self…

Safe Haven

In You, O Lord, I have taken refuge; let me never be ashamed; in Your righteousness deliver me.  Psalm 31:1 Never be ashamed– “Where do you feel safe?” asked my friend, the therapist.  The answer scared me.  Where do you feel completely accepted, warts and all?  Where are you safe enough to be transparent about your feelings, your…

Public Relations Management

Guard my life and save me.  Let me be not ashamed, for I shelter in You.  Psalm 25:20  Robert Alter translation Ashamed – You know it must be a big deal if David brings it up twice, once at the beginning and now at the end of his song.  The word is bosh, and it…

Shamed or Ashamed?

My God, in You I trust.  Let me be not shamed, let my enemies not gloat over me.  Psalm 25:2  Robert Alter translation Be not shamed – The Hebraic world is public.  Its concepts of integrity, reliability, honor and disgrace are public.  What happens in the world of the community determines character.  The Greek world…

A History of Shame – Rewind

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.  Romans 1:16  NASB To the Jew first – Paul was not ashamed, but don’t cut his sentence short.  He was not ashamed of the good…

Me, Myself and Us

 And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.  Genesis 2:25 ESV Wife – Scholars have known for a long time that the Hebrew word for woman, ishshah, is not etymologically related to the Hebrew word for man, ish.  We made an observation about this when we noticed that Adam changes…

Second Best

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. Romans 1:16  NASB To the Jew first – Paul was not ashamed, but don’t cut his sentence short.  He was not ashamed of the good…