The time eventually comes for an all-systems failure. You have nursed your car for 250,000 miles with only minor repairs and maintenance—brakes, tires, an alternator—but then, one after another, all the dominoes tumble: Engine blows, transmission cracks, the exhaust falls out. This . . . Continue reading →

We saw how Psalm 38 laid out in gruesome detail the slow perishing of the psalmist. All his systems have shut down; there is no fixing him. It is time to close this book, bury this dead, and move on. Yet even . . . Continue reading →