Nearing the end of a year spent in Acts: a church risen out of the ashes of the cross, through joy, tumult, persecution and victory.
Paul walks into the belly of the beast at Jerusalem — Israeli politics, embedded Romans, and the city where he knows what was done to Jesus.
Paul moving toward Jerusalem as one whose life mirrors his Messiah's — and the observation that you do not have to want where obedience is taking you.
Paul's farewell to the Ephesian elders: warned in every city that prison and hardship await, he counts his life worth nothing next to finishing the race.
Leviticus 25:1-7 and the sabbath rest built into the land itself. Rest is named as a value of the church, illustrated by Hemingway's habit of letting work go subterranean.
Philippians 2:1-11 and the mind of Christ, who did not treat equality with God as something to exploit but took the nature of a servant.