1. Psalm 81 is another description of the errors of God’s people throughout history.
  2. Gretchen Ronnevik is the author of Ragged: Spiritual Disciplines for the Spiritually Exhausted and co-host of the podcast, Freely Given.
  3. The Lord looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.
  4. It can all seem so unfair. The wicked prosper and the ones who look to God seem to suffer the most.
  5. Pain and suffering; it can feel like punishment from an angry God, and we try to figure out the cause, to our own frustration.
  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. One at the right hand, and one on the left . . . but Jesus doesn't think that means what they think it means.
  10. What does it mean for God to be a "pure act?"