1. Waiting on God can seem like slow motion torture sometimes.
  2. This Psalm was written when David had to fake insanity to escape danger as he was on the run from King Saul.
  3. Psalm 1 shows us the true state of life and death.
  4. This majestic Psalm reminds us who is in charge and Lord of all.
  5. The heavens declare the glory of God, and we are wise to meditate on God's revelation through creation.
  6. Psalm 37 shows us that God is making all things new, and covering His own with protection.
  7. We asked Chad Bird about what it means to wrestle with God. Later this summer, he's coming out with his book on Jacob: "Limping with God." Our discussion went from Jacob being renamed to "Israel" which means "wrestles with God" and how wrestling with God was a keyhole to the crucifixion.
  8. There has been a lot of calls to fear lately in our world. As alarming things happen in every news cycle, and fear feels like the responsible thing to do, Katie and Gretchen talk about how the opposite of fear isn't apathy, it's hope.
  9. Only God creates clean hearts.
  10. Get behind me bourgie theology! Pick up your cross and turn on your radio to Ringside Preachers. Talking about Rush Limbaugh’s legacy, shaking hands like a man and not a fish, and you-know-who: Jesus.
  11. Is it cooler to think there is a grand secret conspiracy based on human trafficking or that human trafficking happens far more often and far more normally than we are comfortable with? And how did we create a culture that produced Marilyn Manson and is simultaneously shocked and offended by him? Oh yeah, we are really all idiots incapable of running our own lives let alone the world!