Seek and Save: Reflections on the Gospel of Luke (The Daily Quiet Time Reflections Series, Band 19) - Softcover

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"For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost" (Luke 19:10). Of the four Gospels, none is more insistent than Luke's that Jesus did not simply wait for the lost to find their way home — He went looking for them. A shepherd leaves ninety-nine sheep to chase down one. A woman sweeps her whole house for a single lost coin. A father runs to meet a son who is still a long way off. A tax collector climbs a tree just to see, and is sought out and found instead.

Seek and Save is the nineteenth volume in The Daily Quiet Time Reflections Series, continuing the same daily, one-reading-at-a-time approach used throughout — most recently in Ransom for Many: Reflections on the Gospel of Mark. Drawn from more than a decade of daily Quiet Time writing and Sunday School teaching at First Baptist Church in Dallas, Eugene Han walks through all twenty-four chapters of Luke's Gospel across twelve chapters, from the angel's first appearance to a doubting priest in the temple to the ascension of the risen Christ from the Mount of Olives.

This is not a technical commentary written for seminarians. It is a layman's companion for ordinary believers who want to walk slowly through the longest and most comprehensive account we have of Jesus's earthly life — the birth narratives, the parables found nowhere else in Scripture, the meals shared with outcasts, the road to the cross, and the empty tomb — and see clearly, chapter by chapter, the Savior who came looking for them.

Each chapter includes:

• A close, readable walk through that day's reading, grounded in careful study but written for everyday readers
• Attention to Luke's distinctive concern for the poor, the outsider, and the overlooked
• Honest engagement with hard passages, alongside the warmth of Luke's most beloved parables
• Reflection and discussion questions, ideal for personal devotion or small-group Bible study

Whether you are reading through the Gospels for the first time or returning to Luke with fresh eyes, this book offers twelve chapters of careful, faithful reflection on the Gospel that calls itself, in its own key verse, the record of a Savior who seeks and saves.

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