Christians should live as though they have already been raised to new life in the new creation, but will wrestle constantly with this because they are thoroughly enmeshed still in the old creation.

the body we have now fits the old creation; our resurrection bodies will fit the new creation.

If we locate our humanity entirely in our ability to be rational, then this raises troubling questions about the humanity of people who cannot exercise reason. If, however, we locate humanity in being made in the image of God then all human beings, whatever their capacity, are fully human and they remain fully human for the entirety of their life.

Soul-making implies a deliberate intention on our part to pay attention to who we are called to be and to seek regular refreshment so that we can grow more and more into the people God yearns for us to be.

Ageing should not be feared. It is what our bodies, the bodies we have now, are designed to do. Relying on techniques to mask our age is one of the modern equivalents of living ‘according to the flesh’.

The glory of our bodies now is connected to being who we are called to be in our context; just as the glory of the heavenly bodies is to be who they are called to be in their context.

what we think really does make a difference to how we act in the world; how we act affects what we think about.

Times of illness challenge us into relationship with our bodies.

If we accept Paul’s view of ‘spiritual’, as that which pertains to the Spirit of God, then such a view includes our bodies, since God’s Spirit gives life to them.