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"I Shall Not Want": Desire is Good, Actually

"I Shall Not Want": Desire is Good, Actually

second in a guest series by Myles Werntz on Psalm 23 and the moral life

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Jul 29, 2022
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The first statement that the 23rd Psalm drives into us is the largest framework of the moral life—that we live our lives on borrowed time and borrowed soil, led by the God who is bound up in time with us. God is not the cosmic tyrant, but the shepherd, the Holy One in the tent in the desert, the crucified Lord lying dead.

This frame, that the LORD is the…

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Professor and author/editor of eight books in ethics/theology. Available for consultation for churches, universities, and nonprofits.
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