Alright, so this should clear a few things up (maybe not all that it is intended to clear up...).  A few more (hopefully) clarifying points on Kierkegaard--the need for passionate committment and difficult work (the thing is, his ideas are hotly debated among scholars, and are so voluminous that it's difficult to convey them in a brief podcast...I'm just using Kierkegaard to prove my point. If you get what I'm saying without him, then just forget about him for now!).  Also, some verses that I quoted but did not give book and chapter and verse numbers for are read in their entirety, and the notions of a loving, merciful God and of Christ's blood making us sinless are reconciled with the ideas of anxiety, difficulty, and perpetual feelings of inadequacy...just listen to it, it'll make more sense that way!