A Walk With God: Luke

by R.C. Sproul

This has been superseded by 9781845507312

Genres: Christian, Theology

432 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Dr. R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) was founder of Ligonier Ministries, an international Christian discipleship organization located near Orlando, Fla. He was founding pastor of Saint Andrew’s Chapel in Sanford, Fla., first president of Reformation Bible College, and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine.

Ligonier Ministries began in 1971 as the Ligonier Valley Study Center in Ligonier, Pa. In an effort to respond more effectively to the growing demand for Dr. Sproul’s teachings and the ministry’s other educational resources, the general offices were moved to Orlando in 1984, and the ministry was renamed.

Dr. Sproul’s radio program, Renewing Your Mind, is still broadcast daily on hundreds of radio stations around the world and can also be heard online. Dr. Sproul produced hundreds of lecture series and recorded numerous video series on subjects such as the history of philosophy, theology, Bible study, apologetics, and Christian living.

He contributed dozens of articles to national evangelical publications, spoke at conferences, churches, and academic institutions around the world, and wrote more than one hundred books, including The Holiness of God, Chosen by God, and Everyone’s a Theologian. He signed the 1978 Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy and wrote a commentary on that document. He also served as general editor of the Reformation Study Bible, previously known as the New Geneva Study Bible.

Dr. Sproul had a distinguished academic teaching career at various colleges and seminaries, including Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando and Jackson, Miss. He was ordained as a teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church in America.

Reviews

[Terence Tan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Imagine a young man wakes up in the morning. He has to go to school. He needs to wash up, eat breakfast, many things to prepare. His mind is racing for the new day.

But he doesn’t do any of that. This young man has decided to wake 10 minutes earlier every morning so that he would have time to do a devotion. His daily devotion.

For material, he doesn’t want to do “Our Daily Bread”. He has already done that. He found the bite-sized devotion useful but now what he really wants is to go through the Bible. He wants to read the Bible but it’s so hard. And he is so busy. He doesn’t have the time to do an in depth study and if we are being honest, even if he had the time, he wouldn’t know how.

So this young man wakes up, opens “A Walk with God” by R.C. Sproul and reads. There are no knots to untangle. He doesn’t even need to have two books in front of him. A Bible and the devotion. He finishes the devotion. Gives thanks to God. And the day kicks off.

The young man does this every day and after 104 days, he finishes the book. He says to himself, “I understand Luke! I know why he wrote what he wrote and I see God more clearly now than before.”

With this confidence, he reads other books of the Bible, maybe with help or without. And he has achieved this level of confidence because a teacher once showed him chapter by chapter, what Luke wrote in his Gospel. A teacher showed him that there is nothing scary about exposition. And that teacher, R.C. Sproul wrote this book for that purpose.

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[Jessica · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very good!

[Jim Teggelaar · Rating 4 out of 5]

Along with Steve Brown and Eugene Peterson, R.C. Sproul is one of the Reformed thinkers that have most influenced my theological views. This is another conservative, thoughtful, verse-by-verse commentary on a New Testament book of the Bible, this time Luke. Written awhile ago, it lacks a bit of the detail and incredibly careful observation that his most recent commentaries have. Still a winner, though.