The book opens with a parable: On Christmas morning one gift remains, beautiful and complex, given to all the family, but with no manual to tell how to put it together. Jesus, the Gift, comes with no divinely dictated instruction to say what his brief life and his message mean; so that, from the beginning, his followers have been offering their interpretations, sometimes sharply disagreeing. This author, with a lifetime perspective, examines and sifts together what the three synoptists, Mark, Matthew and Luke, record as remembered sayings of Jesus, listening for those moments when the Gift's own voice seems to come through.

One Man's Inspiring Journey of Vision and Service
Part memoir and part anthology-this book is a spiritual autobiography. Don describes in vivid scenes the road he has taken through a long life and the epiphanies that have come to him along the turnings of that road. And because he has a gift of lyric poetry, he includes a rich selection of poems written as his life experience unfolds, marking the evolving of a sensitive spirit.

One Man's Inspiring Journey of Vision and Service
Part memoir and part anthology-this book is a spiritual autobiography. Don describes in vivid scenes the road he has taken through a long life and the epiphanies that have come to him along the turnings of that road. And because he has a gift of lyric poetry, he includes a rich selection of poems written as his life experience unfolds, marking the evolving of a sensitive spirit.

What was it like, in the Greco-Roman world of the late first century, to sit down to write a gospel, specifically, the Gospel According to Luke? Extensive scholarship has recently been focusing on Luke/Acts, the two-volume New Testament writing. This book uses such scholarship, but in an imaginative way. It sets out to follow Lukas, the author, through the whole process of writing his first part, the gospel. We are given, paragraph by paragraph, the complete gospel text in a vigorous translation, but interspersed with Lukas