Timothy E. Crosby

The Gospel of Luke is written by a Greek convert doctor who joined Paul on his several of his missionary journeys but given his outsider background is unique in all the Bible. The Undiscovered Jesus: Hidden Truths from the Book of Luke is the supplement book for the Adult Sabbath School Bible Study Guide (2nd Quarter 2015) by Tim Crosby who brings out interesting facets from the pages of the Gospel, explains the context of the actual Greek to give new insight to familiar passages, and writes in an engaging style. For nearly the 157 pages Crosby is a wonderful read, but unfortunately his diatribe on modern Communism in Chapter 10 “The Kingdom of Darkness” is quite simply one of the worst things I’ve read in one of these supplemental books as what facts he gets right are equaled by what he gets wrong. Unfortunately, due to Crosby alluding to what was coming in the previous chapter and contrasting his “Kingdom of Darkness” with the “Kingdom of Light” in the next chapter it spread this taint further than just the 14 pages that chapter contained. This is a hard book to rate and review as so much of it was very good, but the part that was bad is just something I can’t believe the same person wrote.… (mer)