Door de drie afwisselende verhaallijnen met regelmatig kleine cliffhangers wordt er spanning opgebouwd, die zeker nog niet opgelost wordt tegen het einde van het eerste boek, integendeel.

The artwork is very interesting although controversial.

Walking from Portugal to Egypt for Peace and Community. Be patterns, be examples in all countries, places, islands, nations wherever you come; that your carriage and life may preach among all sorts of people, and to them; then you will come to walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone. Wednesday, June 19, 2013. I may have inspired a few people as I walked, and they may become better peacemakers than I have been. In any case, I hope I have achieved something for the good of humanit.

The resurrection of Jesus Christ means the available power of God confronting and transcending the power of death here and now in the daily realities of our lives. Thursday, June 13, 2013. Kierkegaard on the practice of self-denial. And yet he perhaps has not quite understood himself.

You called in trouble and I rescued you, I answered you in the secret place of thunder. Once upon a time, when I read the Bible, I saw flannelgraph people. People in static attitudes, dressed in impressive ancient costumes, saying their lines. Now when I read the Bible, I see people. People meeting God in a place they never could have imagined. In the secret place of thunder.

If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. My aim is to know him, to experience the power of his resurrection, to share in his sufferings, and to be like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. The Apostle Paul, Phil. Sunday, March 27, 2005.