1. Do your work with your sword on your hip.
  2.    In the first half of Psalm 107 we hear about the troubled, the wanderers, the shipwrecked, ruined ones who cried out to God in their distress. Izzi Ray sings "All the Way Home".
  3. In our series about prescriptive vs descriptive, we walk through the story of Esther. Though this book does not mention God, it refers to the promises of God to redeem.
  4. In today's episode, Scott Keith and Daniel Emery Price turn our attention to 2 Samuel 6:1-11, a strange passage that recounts the story of King David's attempt to bring the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem leading to the death of Uzzah.
  5. Chad calls this Psalm a walk of shame through Israel's history. But the Psalm includes the word "nevertheless...". Very encouraging words to those who know they fail. Andrea Hammond sings "Here I Confess". 
  6. This week, Caleb and Scott are joined by Dan Price to introduce the latest 1517 Podcast, "Tough Texts." On Tough Texts, Dan and Scott address classically tricky passages of Scripture and meet these texts with a plain reading.
  7. Listen up, God! Here comes a confession.
  8. In this episode, Dr. Paulson begins to outline what Luther means when he talks about the "plain text" of Scripture.
  9. In this first of 2 episodes on Psalm 106, Chad addresses the Psalms bleak descriptions of Israel's failures. Alex Mackey sings "My Hidden Sin"
  10. Dr. Paulson discusses the devastating impact of Scriptural interpretation that tries to get around the difficult and real passages of the text.