Most of us know how this parable ends. Slow down anyway, and touch the underlined words. The father may be more scandalous than you remember.
Begin the walkThe younger son said, Father, . And he set off for a distant country and squandered it all.
To ask for your inheritance early was to wish your father dead.
When he came to his senses, he said, I will go back to my father and say, I am to be called your son.
Repentance often begins not with sorrow, but with an empty stomach.
While he was still a long way off, his father saw him and , and threw his arms around him, and said, Bring the , for this son of mine was lost and is found.
The father was watching the road. He had been watching it for a long time.
The older brother became angry and refused to go in. But the father said, , and everything I have is yours.
There are two ways to be lost: in a far country, and in your own good behaviour.
Hear the whole message as it was preached, then take one verse with you into the week.
Choose one, and the passage will meet you there. Your verse stays on your device. Only an anonymous count of which path people chose this week reaches the church, so they know how to pray. No message, no name.
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If this touched something heavy, do not carry it alone. Ask the prayer team to hold it. Anonymous is completely fine, and anything urgent reaches a real person the same day.
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