About this episode
The episode explores Romans 8:28 in the context of God's purpose amidst suffering and tribulation.
Romans 8:28 gets quoted like a comforting poster, but we want to read it like Paul wrote it: as a claim about God’s purpose that holds steady in tribulation, distress, persecution, and loss. The “good” isn’t that suffering feels good, or that life becomes easy. The good is that God is conforming His people to the image of His Son and He uses every thread of our story to do it. We trace the full chain in Romans 8:28-30, step by step: foreknowledge, predestination, calling, justification...
People in this episode
Host: Jason DeMars
Topics covered
- God's purpose
- suffering
- spiritual growth
- Romans
- Christian theology
Keywords
- Romans 8:28
- suffering
- God's purpose
- spiritual growth
- Christianity
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Romans 8:28, Romans 8:28-30
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