Hey everybody, I'm Tim McEy and this is my podcast Exploring My Strange Bible.

I am a card carrying Bible history and language nerd who thinks that Jesus of Nazareth is

utterly amazing and worth following with everything that you have.

On this podcast I'm putting together the last ten years worth of lectures and sermons

where I've been exploring the strange and wonderful story of the Bible and how it invites

us into the mission of Jesus and the journey of faith.

And I hope this can be helpful for you too.

I also help start this thing called the Bible Project.

We make animated videos and podcasts about all kinds of topics in Bible and theology.

You can find those resources at thebibelproject.com.

With all that said, let's dive into the episode for this week.

Alright, well this is the third of a four part series we're doing on the podcast.

These were teachings that I did a number of years ago through the Book of Psalms.

It was a series that was learning how to adopt the poems and prayers in the Book of Psalms

as like a guidebook teaching me the language of prayer, what it means to talk to God in

the midst of any and every kind of situation that life might bring me.

And so this teaching was exploring what it means to talk to God when I have seriously

screwed up and hurt other people, hurt myself, dishonored others and God.

And how do you even talk to God in moments where you're feeling so ashamed and so guilty?

And there you go, Psalm 32 gives us a gateway into the language of true confession.

As I both prepared for this teaching, I still remember that this poem so profoundly expresses

what genuine confession is.

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