Paul: A Biography

calling

• Like an artist sending his greatest-ever painting to a far-off gallery, he must have wondered a thousand times how it had been received.

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• Like the children of Israel in the wilderness looking for the pillar of cloud and fire, they are relying on the spirit of Jesus, wandering this way and that without a clear sense of guidance.

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faith-and-doubt

• Even at his own lowest moment 'the God who raises the dead' had come down to that same point. The poem may have functioned as one of the ladders out.

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• People turned away from idols and discovered, in Jesus, a God who was alive, who did things, who changed people's lives from the inside out.

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self-and-identity

• There was what Luke calls a paroxysmos: a blazing, horrible, bitter row. Nobody came out of it well.

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• Jesus, whose powerful message could and did transform lives in the present time ahead of the final moment when he would raise his people from the dead.

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