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  • The Necessity of Despair (2)

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    I am reckoned among those who go down to the pit; I have become like a man without strength,  Psalm 88:4  NASB Down to the pit – “Modern man’s greatest fault, Kierkegaard maintains, is his total self-reliance.  It is his nineteenth-century delusion that he has progressed beyond his ancestors.  This conceit derives from egotism.  There is but…

  • The Necessity of Despair (December 7  2018)   

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    I am reckoned among those who go down to the pit; I have become like a man without strength,  Psalm 88:4  NASB Down to the pit – “Modern man’s greatest fault, Kierkegaard maintains, is his total self-reliance.  It is his nineteenth-century delusion that he has progressed beyond his ancestors.  This conceit derives from egotism.  There is but…

  • Personal Involvement

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    Wash yourself therefore, and anoint yourself and put on your best clothes, and go down to the threshing floor; but do not make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking.  Ruth 3:3 NASB Wash/anoint/put on/go down – Listen!  It just isn’t possible to experience the Bible in translations.  You can read it, of course, but it won’t really belong to you because it…

  • The Necessity of Despair

    BySkip Moen, Ph.D.

    I am reckoned among those who go down to the pit; I have become like a man without strength,  Psalm 88:4  NASB Down to the pit– “Modern man’s greatest fault, Kierkegaard maintains, is his total self-reliance.  It is his nineteenth-century delusion that he has progressed beyond his ancestors.  This conceit derives from egotism.  There is but one…