1. Godly, upright in heart, righteous. Sinful, sorrowful, wasting away.
  2. Craig and Troy love Psalm 51 because of the truth it speaks: we are sinful, and God is gracious. When God cleanses, we are indeed made clean.
  3. Even from the moment of the Fall, God has never left us without His gracious promise of redemption. God moves first to cover us.
  4. Satan didn't lie, but he told Adam and Eve exactly what would happen. The only thing he didn't say is whether or not they would like it.
  5. The struggle is real. That is to say, the struggle with sin. Can we make ourselves holy? Can we find within ourselves the strength to make it better?
  6. We join Rev. Bob Hiller for a discussion on praying the "right way," as well as what happens when we pray for other people.
  7. We invited back our friend, Pastor Bob Hiller, to talk to us about how to pray. Bob is also a co-host and the Lutheran perspective on the "White Horse Inn" podcast.
  8. Pain and suffering; it can feel like punishment from an angry God, and we try to figure out the cause, to our own frustration.
  9. Waiting on God can seem like slow motion torture sometimes.
  10. Peter's profound promises to perfectly protect the progeny of the Padre putter out. Jesus is tormented to His core knowing what He is about to face, but commits Himself for you.
  11. 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."
  12. The Thinking Fellows revisit the doctrine of sin.