Excess more.

During today's conversation on back porch theology, we're going to exhale into a green

scriptural pastor that church father and ancient theologian John Calvin described as an anatomy

of all parts of the soul, the Psalms.

Every emotion in the human continuum is expressed somewhere in these 150 Psalms that were

all originally composed as songs, so in Jesus.

These biblical lyrics record both the dancing and the weeping of God's people.

As a matter of fact, they contain more bluesy kind of tunes and anything else, proving

that our Savior doesn't require us to sanitize our emotions or cull out the dark ones

before we approach him.

This left for us is immutable.

It does not change regardless of our emotional changes, whether we're in an up or down emotional

season.

So please grab a cup of coffee in your Bible unless you're driving or docking a boat,

of course, and come hang out on the porch with us.

Hey, hey, hey, welcome to the back porch.

Y'all, Ali and I are so tickled that so many of you are choosing to hang out with us

on the proverbial porch and have these just pretty honest, sometimes raw, really messy conversations

about God.

That's what theology means in the basic essence, the word theology, which can sound really

lofty and confusing, but at its core, theology comes from two root words, theos, which we first

to God and Lagos, which refers to words, phrases or conversations.

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