A new Gospel opens today with a historian's handshake: Luke has carefully investigated everything from the beginning, interviewed the eyewitnesses, and written an orderly account so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught.

Faith welcomes homework. As Luke starts with an old priest struck silent by good news, bring your questions along. This book was written for people who have them.

Zechariah had prayed for a son so long that he no longer believed his own request, and the answer arrived anyway, dated, named, and certain. God's promises do not expire when our expectancy does. The silence he carried home was not punishment so much as nine months of listening, doubt slowly composing itself into a song.

Luke's preface tells you how to hold all of it: this faith invites investigation. Certainty, in his Gospel, is built from eyewitnesses, records, and a God who keeps track of tears on a scroll. Bring your oldest, quietest prayer back out today. The God of Elizabeth's late answer has not lost your file.