Top Highlights

• coming to grips with who you are and being transparent about what your life is like beneath its polished exterior. It is painful to be real, but that’s the way we impact others most deeply
• “How Firm a Foundation” have not sunk deeply into their hearts before that point in their Christian lives, a quick and desperate act of foundation repair on my part will not suddenly help them to unravel the mystery of suffering.
• Paul’s defense of his credentials as an authoritative spokesperson of Jesus Christ will run as a subtheme throughout this letter.
• That does not mean, however, that the wickedness, pain, and suffering were in and of themselves good. In those cases God is the good redeemer of the bad situation.
• They are not reasons why the bad things should be thought of as “good.”