A Friendly Guide to Lukes Gospel is an invitation to embark on a journey full of surprises. The author of Luke was an accomplished and sophisticated writer, with a keen sense of literary structure as well as a profound understanding of the universal nature of Gods love. For the reader who has perhaps become used to hearing gospels in Sunday fragments, Stuart Morans commentary encourages us to read Lukes Gospel as a whole book, seeing it as a story crafted by a master hand. For example, he shows the reader Lukes elegant balancing of the stories about the births of both Jesus and John the Baptist: the parallels are compelling and illuminating. And Morans analysis of the story of the Lost Son (known of old as the Prodigal Son) shows us the heart of Lukes insight into what Jesus was telling his disciples about God: that God loves us, even to a point that some would consider unwise.
