1. Gretchen Ronnevik is the author of Ragged: Spiritual Disciplines for the Spiritually Exhausted and co-host of the podcast, Freely Given.
  2. It can all seem so unfair. The wicked prosper and the ones who look to God seem to suffer the most.
  3. What if God doesn’t hear me? The doubts and fears that lurk beneath our faith can rise up and speak to us in our worst times of struggle. Colin Heinrich sings “When Hope Disappears".
  4. Pain and suffering; it can feel like punishment from an angry God, and we try to figure out the cause, to our own frustration.
  5. Fear and great joy at Jesus' resurrection! But also rejection and refusal.
  6. Waiting on God can seem like slow motion torture sometimes.
  7. Judas, Peter, and you are all betrayers of Jesus, and yet He does the work necessary to forgive your sins.
  8. The day of Jesus' death races ever nearer, and we see both a woman who believes upon Him and a man who betrays Him.
  9. Following Augustine's proposition that prayer can lead to a cooperative relationship between God's will and man's, Paulson, the alternative prayer that Luther highlights with the petition "Thy will be done."
  10. One at the right hand, and one on the left . . . but Jesus doesn't think that means what they think it means.