Show Notes
• What reception did this southerner get when he went to preach up north? • Why was it so urgent to tell his hearers that the main thing had stopped being the main thing? • Despite the doom and gloom how come this prophet also brought a message of hope?
More from Bible Biogs in 30 Minutes
• How do we know that Jesus actually existed? • Why is the story of his life more than just a biography? • What is it like to meet Jesus in person?
• Why didn’t he believe in Jesus to start with? • What caused him to change his belief? • Did he then pull rank as Jesus’ brother?
• What influence did his mother and grandmother have on his own faith? • Why was he trusted with so much despite his young age? • How significant was he for Paul, who’d been blinded by the light?
• How did he get his nickname? • What did he see in people that others couldn’t see? • How did he handle a major disagreement over the author of Mark’s gospel?
• How did a convinced persecutor of Christians become a history-shaping Christian himself? • Why did his lengthy trips by land and sea change the world forever? • What drove him to explain his transformed life with everyone he met?