Living with Luke
The whole course, including the day-by-day reading guide which will help you journal your way through the whole of Luke, is available here in pdf form. Just click the titles.
Luke day-by-day (reading through Luke in ten weeks with questions and brief notes)
Lukes well organised account (an easy way to remember the whole story)
The Life in a Day (a chart of Lukes gospel using eght simple pictures)
the pre-dawn - four hundred years of silence is broken
the dawn - Jesus birth is announced, John the Baptist is born, then Jesus arrives
the morning 1 - Jesus early ministry, mostly in Galilee - but who is this man?
the morning 2 - Jesus early ministry, we see him training his apprentices
midday - The disciples recognise that Jesus is the Messiah and the Father confirms it
the afternoon - The long journey to Jerusalem
the evening - Jesus ministers in the Temple and his enemies close in
the darkness - Jesus is betrayed and crucified
the new dawn - He is risen!
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How we got the gospels
The essence of spin is to be simple, repetitive and easy to understand. The gospels are the opposite, full of information that could easily be used against their central claim. They tell a story of great complexity and seem keen to miss nothing out even if it prejudices their case. If the gospel writers strike some people as naïve it is because of their simple commitment to the truth. They believed that they should tell the amazing story of Jesus just as it really was...