Luke's Story: The Jesus Chronicles - Softcover

LaHaye, Tim; Jenkins, Jerry B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0425232190 ISBN 13: 9780425232194

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 2010

Synopsis

Millions of readers made the Left Behind series bestsellers. Now the third in the authors' bestselling Jesus Chronicles is available in trade paperback.

This biblically inspired novel, third in the bestselling Jesus Chronicles, tells the story of Luke-the Gospel writer whose belief was built on the power of faith alone. Luke, who hadn't met Jesus, is skeptical of His miracles, until events in his own life irreversibly change him.

Pledging himself to Christ, he begins a Gospel based on the conversion stories of believers and interviews with those who knew Him best—the disciples who spent three years with Jesus and, most important, His mother, Mary. The result would be a Scripture rich in the miraculous stories of the Lord's divinity, intended to appeal to women, nonbelievers, and the disenfranchised-and that would speak to the heart of Christians all over the world.

About this title

About the Author

Tim LaHaye is a noted author, minister, and nationally recognized speaker on Bible prophecy. He is the founder and president of Tim LaHaye Ministries, and the cofounder of the Pre-Trib Research Center, established for the purpose of exposing ministers to Bible prophecy. He holds a doctor of ministry from Western Theological Seminary and a doctor of literature from Liberty University. A pastor for thirty-nine years, LaHaye has written more than fifty nonfiction books and co-authored the Left Behind, the most successful Christian fiction venture in publishing history, with Jerry Jenkins.

Jerry B. Jenkins, chairman of the board of trustees for the Moody Bible Institute of Chicago, is the author of more than 175 books. Dr. Jenkins's writing has appeared in Time, Reader's Digest, Parade, Guideposts, and dozens of Christian periodicals, and he is a contributing editor to Writer's Digest magazine. He owns Jenkins Entertainment, a filmmaking company, as well as the Christian Writers Guild.

From AudioFile

Robertson Dean's spellbinding performance makes this fictionalized account of the life of Luke especially believable. Dean captures the culture and spirit of a slave named Loukon, later known as Luke in the New Testament gospels, who lived in Syrian Antioch in 20 AD. Dean portrays Theophilus, Loukon's kind owner, with compassion as he agrees to pay the teen's tuition to school to learn medicine. Dean's depiction of Loukan's meeting with the heretical killer Saul, later known as the Apostle Paul, on the road to Damascus, is dramatic and believable. Seamless dialogues between Paul and Luke and later on between Jesus's mother, Mary, and Luke are powerfully characterized. Dean brings the ancient Mediterranean biblical world to life. G.D.W. © AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0425232190
• ISBN 13: 9780425232194
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 432