““UNIQUE AND UNUSUAL Luke is the only Gospel to share Jesus’ stories (“parables”) of the good Samaritan (10:25–37), the prodigal son (15:11–32), and the rich man and Lazarus (16:19–31). Luke is also the only Gospel to detail Jesus’ actual birth and words He spoke in childhood (both in Chapter 2). SO WHAT? It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from, or what you’ve done—Jesus came to seek and to save you.””
![“The greatness of our God lies in the fact that [He] is both tough minded and tender hearted. ... [God] expresses [His] tough mindedness in [His] justice and wrath and [His] tenderheartedness in [His] love and grace. ... On the one hand, God is a God of justice who punished Israel for her wayward…” quote by Martin Luther King Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8df/martin-luther-king-jr-2-1523_god_the-greatness-of-our-god-lies-in-the-fac_549073.jpg)
