Luke's Story by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins (Putnam Praise, 2009)
Luke's Story, the second book of LaHaye and Jenkins' Jesus Chronicles, uses the Bible, extra-biblical sources, and a lot of imagination to tell a reasonably credible story about the author of the Gospel of Luke. I found it more interesting than Mark's Story, though it suffers from many of the same defects. It's still seems like cheating that the authors get so much of their word count by lifting passages straight from the Bible, and their denominational slant is annoying. Worse, it lacks a first-century feel. I'm not sure I'd recognize an authentic setting, but I know the characters are spouting modern language, theology, and attitudes. Somehow I doubt that first-century worship looked quite so much like a modern American Baptist service....
However, there's more "story" to this book than there was to Mark's Story, which made it more enjoyable to read.
