Show Notes:

0:00 - Intro + Welcome

3:19 - The reason why many of my friends have left the Christian faith

4:00 - How salvation is often described

5:08 - Anger is one of the attributes which unfortunately gets associated with God

6:00 - Broken dinner party analogy

7:45 - "And they think that's what God is like."

8:15 - Bruce's response

11:55 - The problem of evil

14:07 - Dying to yourself grants access to everything you've ever wanted

14:34 - Bruce on the topic of agency regarding salvation

16:50 - How Jesus set about to defeat evil his entire ministry, not just on the cross

21:00 - "Something much bigger is going on here."

21:58 - God is in the know when it comes to the bigger picture

22:15 - The importance of humility in this topic

23:08 - Bruce on "The Big Picture"

24:27 - Paul on the heart of God in Jesus

26:12 - Bruce on proper attitude regarding salvation

29:38 - Bruce on what "the wrath of God" actually means.

31:10 - "What we think about God is the biggest question we can ask in life."

31:15 - From what or from whom are we being saved?

32:57 - One of the problems with the topic of salvation is it becomes so individualized

34:00 - Salvation gives us purpose for the here and now

35:35 - "We've forgotten the bigger story from the beginning of the Bible until the end."

37:00 - God's helping us get out of the mess we got ourselves into

37:52 - "Don't be so quick to blame God in this equation."

40:40 - This was never "Plan B"

41:05 - Closing thoughts from Paul

42:28 - Acoustic performance of "Save Me"