Bierkergaard: The Writings of Soren Kierkegaard
"The Father of Existentialism" Danish writer, poet, philosopher, and Christian thinker Soren Kierkegaard, has much to teach us about our lives. Join me weekly as we take on his writings and think about how his brilliant and profound insights illuminate our way in a complicated and confusing world. I contribute a considerable amount of my own processing of Soren’s ideas and add my own personal experiences. As Soren would wish his readers to do. This is spiritual insight and truth for the real world.
Latest episodes
Sep 25, 2024 • 50min
God Is With Him At Night When Sleep Refreshes
Soren observes that people can go to church and not experience God. At all. As if God is not there. Yet, the Christian has God in him and with him all of the time.
Sep 18, 2024 • 45min
Everything Can Come To Nothing
Can we, like the Apostle Paul, "Boast in our weakness?" That is a spiritual confession that frees us to accept God's grace. Some discussion of outward observance vs. inward obedience is explored. Too often outward observance actually works against accepting God's grace. Like we can do it on our own.
Sep 11, 2024 • 40min
Is Not That Kind of Losing A Winning?
In this section of the Upbuilding Discourse of "Needing God" the deeper self counsels the first self that 'Even in this moment, everything can be changed." Soren does not want his readers to place their hope on the inconstancy of the external world. He likens us to children who can be swayed by a trinket of externality and thus forget our need for God. He wants us to lose that first self to find our deeper self.
Sep 4, 2024 • 46min
To Become Nothing Seems Hard
Jesus says that without him, we can do nothing. That is to try and make ourselves right with God without him. Becoming nothing is freeing. All of our strivings, efforts, fruitless chasing of the wind. Rest in him. What seems hard makes life less difficult.
Aug 28, 2024 • 42min
We Are Capable Of Nothing At All
We are capable of nothing at all in regards to earning God's favor. It is by Grace alone by Faith alone. We are capable of nothing "Until the fire of God's love ignites the blaze."
Aug 21, 2024 • 40min
All Our Sufferings Are Brief And Short
God's grace even makes our sufferings brief and short.
Aug 14, 2024 • 43min
Be Contented With The Grace Of God
Soren reminds us of that Scripture verse that "Godliness with contentment is great gain." So it is first Grace, then Godliness, then Contentment.
Aug 7, 2024 • 44min
To Need God Is A Human Beings Highest Perfection
Soren reminds us that with God, one does not need a lot for a contented life.
Jul 31, 2024 • 49min
The Soft Breeze of Self-Denying Joy
It is very freeing to be decreased. We can fly through the incarcerating iron bars of the world when we are not saddled with the inordinate self and its suffocating desires.
Jul 24, 2024 • 38min
The Sun Descending
When John the Baptist said "He must increase and I must decrease" it wasn't mere words. He acted on it immediately. And began decreasing. And in prison, he became discouraged and needed Jesus to affirm that he was indeed the Christ.
