Paul the Apostle
243From Saul to Paul
31 Aug 2026
22:14¶ 66
“This might be a good point to interject, and please add in what I forget here. He was born in Tarsus, which was a…”
22:41¶ 67
“He was known to the high priest. He was present at the stoning of Stephen, the first Christian martyr, and approved. He was a…”
23:10¶ 69
“I think you said he studied with Gamaliel and then eventually was considered one of the Pharisees. He was a Benjamite and was of…”
242Baptism and Rebirth
6 Jul 2026
29:44¶ 111
“There’s a good chapter break because now we come to chapter 9 and Saul. We were introduced to him briefly. He was the young…”
30:42¶ 115
“He’s breathing out slaughtering against the disciples of the Lord. The word Christian hasn’t been revealed yet so they’re called disciples, Nazarenes, followers of…”
31:19¶ 117
“Interesting that women were included, because often women were ignored in ancient and classical society. You didn’t care about the women, you just had…”
241Stephen the Martyr and Simon the Sorcerer
30 Mar 2026
6:56¶ 32
“That is one of the things that maybe is not directly referenced, but in multiple places it seems that Paul remembers this, because yes,…”
7:19¶ 33
“Of course there were no chapter breaks in the original, so the “and” leads us directly into the next connected thought. Saul was consenting…”
8:54¶ 38
“We’ve turned the word martyr into someone who gets executed, because here’s precedent, but in the Old Testament the witnesses were the ones who…”
177The Story
22 Jan 2024
38:20¶ 112
“You can see this in the life of Paul, “…touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.” And then, “Oh wait, I struggle.…”
38:39¶ 113
“He did not have a consistently higher opinion of himself even as he walked longer with God. He began to see more clearly. “If…”
171Tithing
7 Aug 2023
9:20¶ 41
“But it does make more sense for Paul to be willing in his role as an apostle, as essentially an itinerant minister, to be…”
9:53¶ 42
“Particularly in the area of Corinth and the areas thereabout he was very adamant that he would not take pay from any of those…”
8:20¶ 39
“I also think it’s important that we remember Paul was traveling to multiple different churches to establish new ones. He wasn’t someone from the…”
161The Day of Small Things
17 Apr 2023
34:37¶ 109
“These are areas I’m familiar with, but you could talk about this in terms of building a new church or starting some kind of…”
34:56¶ 110
“Eventually somehow from that he’d lay the roots and foundations for a new small congregation, which would usually be pretty small. He’d spend some…”
35:11¶ 111
“That’s not how we do things. It’s not how my denomination handles missions, and my denomination could honestly learn from Paul a good deal.…”
127Conspiracy of Light
18 Jul 2022
31:52¶ 101
“The first time he got into trouble with a local government they beat him up, and afterwards he thought apparently, “Wait. There was a…”
32:13¶ 102
“Paul has figured out by now, “No, that’s now how this should have happened,” so he says, “They have beaten us openly, uncondemned Romans,…”
32:47¶ 105
“This is not Paul being vindictive. This is Paul saying, “They’ve messed with God’s representatives, with the spokesmen of the gospel once. They’ll do…”
18Faith, Community, and Justification
3 May 2020
8:11¶ 25
“Galatians is in many ways a commentary on the book of Genesis and particularly on the life of Abram. We see Paul using the…”
8:38¶ 26
“But after Paul left, some people came along – Judaizers, we call them – who said something along the lines of, “How’d you come…”
33:39¶ 114
“Paul in writing to the Galatians is very kind. He’s straight-up and it’s tough love, but he continues to speak of them as saints,…”