Luke

The physician's orderly account: the road to Jerusalem, the Savior of all people, and the risen Lord who opens all the Scriptures.

Four inspired accounts of one life — three seen together, one seen on its own — and the honest question of how they relate.

This is the church's first breath. The men and women who had walked with Jesus took His message out of Jerusalem, and within one lifetime it reached the capital of the world.

Magnificat, Benedictus, Gloria, Nunc Dimittis: the earliest Christian hymnody, its Old Testament DNA, and the hours the church has sung it since.

Luke keeps accounts: the low lifted, the self-secure emptied — the Magnificat, the blessings and woes, the banquet, Lazarus, and Zacchaeus as one ledger.