The Necessity of Despair (December 7  2018)   

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

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

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…