Why This Matters

The Heart Behind “The Last Words of Paul”

There are plenty of stories in scripture filled with fire and triumph.

This isn’t one of them.

Paul’s final letter — 2 Timothy — isn’t written from a pulpit or a platform. It’s written from a prison. Not a metaphorical one, but a cold, damp Roman cell. He’s alone. He’s been abandoned by many of the people he once led. He knows what’s coming. And yet… he writes. He still speaks.

That tension — between despair and devotion, between fading strength and unwavering faith — is what drew me to this letter. And it’s why I keep coming back to it.

This performance isn’t a reenactment. It’s not costumed theater or a church skit. It’s an attempt to bring voice to something real — the final outpouring of a man whose faith endured through shipwrecks, beatings, rejection, and silence. A man whose body may have been in chains, but whose hope remained unshaken.

I created The Last Words of Paul to invite people into that space — not just to hear scripture, but to feel the weight of it. To sit in the quiet tension between legacy and loss, and to remember that faith doesn’t always shout. Sometimes, it just keeps going.

Because this letter wasn’t only for Timothy.

It was for all of us — the weary, the called, the ones still holding on.