Tell Me a Story: Devotions From Time of Grace MinistryEsimerkki

STORY #3: The Two Sons Thanks to this parable, the word "prodigal" has stayed in active circulation in people’s vocabularies. And although it is set up referring to two boys, its timeless truths have applied to plenty of good and bad girls as well. In Luke chapter 15, it is the third of the stories about lost things. In the previous two, Jesus described how tenaciously people in his hearers’ culture would pursue a lost sheep or a lost coin. His point: God doesn’t give up easily when his children wander away from him, and his rejoicing when they come back to him is intense. Read on . . .