1. Gretchen Ronnevik is the author of Ragged: Spiritual Disciplines for the Spiritually Exhausted and co-host of the podcast, Freely Given.
  2. Godly, upright in heart, righteous. Sinful, sorrowful, wasting away.
  3. It can all seem so unfair. The wicked prosper and the ones who look to God seem to suffer the most.
  4. We are celebrating our 100th episode by answering listener questions that were sent in.
  5. Psalm 60 is a lament that begins with a harsh and bitter accusation, namely that God has rejected us. David complains about rejection, loss, national tragedy and
  6. Pain and suffering; it can feel like punishment from an angry God, and we try to figure out the cause, to our own frustration.
  7. Waiting on God can seem like slow motion torture sometimes.
  8. Judas, Peter, and you are all betrayers of Jesus, and yet He does the work necessary to forgive your sins.
  9. The day of Jesus' death races ever nearer, and we see both a woman who believes upon Him and a man who betrays Him.
  10. One at the right hand, and one on the left . . . but Jesus doesn't think that means what they think it means.
  11. . . . to which Jesus answers, "Why? What have you heard?" Jesus challenges all the doubts about Himself and demands we believe in who He truly is.