The returning prodigal deserves nothing, but the father in love gives him everything ... of God’s personal love. The shepherd rejoices to find one lost sheep from a flock of a hundred, the ...

Using Rembrandt’s oil painting “Return of the Prodigal Son” as a ... "God is a Father who not only welcomes us back, but rejoices and throws a feast for his son who has returned home after ...

He rejoices when even one sinner repents ... What’s beautiful about the prodigal son story is how the father responds to the older son. Just as he ran to the younger son in love, he also goes out to ...

“I am used to him not knowing how old I am,” the writer recalls of her 13-year-old self, who received letters that read like fiction from a father who never visited her boarding schoo ...

It wasn't until I was much older that I realized the story was infinitely more about the father's love than the prodigal's misconduct. Only recently, however, have I begun to discover that the ...

I spoke about Luke, Chapter 17, and the teaching, parable, Jesus told about the prodigal son ... back and asked his father for help, his father sees him and runs, yes runs, to him and embraces him. He ...

I think all fathers do. At any given instance, responding to a wayward or prodigal child could be distressing for a father. No remedy from this world could be available. But there is such an ...

Atiku Abubakar’s plea to foment an opposition is like an old man who just woke up to realise he had children. A macho model who should have known he was a model macho. He is also like the ...

Here, Dürer captures the prodigal's utter destitution and the very moment he decides to go home, ask his father's forgiveness and request to be treated as a servant. Most interpreters understand ...

We first see the father as a provider. Do you remember how the entitled prodigal son demanded that his father give him the “portion of goods that falleth” to him (v. 12)? The father was such ...

His father hopes he will return quickly, but that doesn’t happen. Another ‘prodigal son’. The shame ... Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, ...