You've probably heard the story before. A son tells his father that he doesn't want to wait for the funeral, or the reading of the will. His father is worth more to him dead, so he asks for his ...

Have you ever had to apologize or ask for forgiveness and you wrote out your apology or rehearsed it over and over in your head so, at the right moment, you would say it perfectly and sincerely. Well, ...

The parable of the prodigal son came to have new meaning for me after I preached on the passage in a small Christian church in Turkey. My congregants could read meaning, for example, into the famine ...

All of us have our favorites, and one of my favorite Bible story is that of the Prodigal Son. A heartwarming story told by Jesus Christ and recorded by Dr. Luke in the 15th chapter of his book. Why is ...

Sinners liked Jesus. But the Pharisees and religious people didn't approve. And so they grumbled about him. But Jesus doesn't call it that. He begins the story by saying, “There was a man who had two ...

One of the most beloved parts of the Bible is the parable of the prodigal son. In the context of Luke 15 it serves to explain why Jesus spent so much time and energy on ministering to such religiously ...

When I preach on the parable of the prodigal son, I always get stuck on the elder brother. I wish there were a fifth gospel in the New Testament devoted to reaching out to that guy because he's ...

Dutch theologian and Scripture scholar Henri Nouwen first encountered Rembrandt van Rijn's "The Return of the Prodigal Son" on a poster on the door of an office at the L'Arche community in France.