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Monday, March 19, 2007
Come Home Soon
Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32
It's one of the most familiar stories in the entire Bible. Artists naturally love it for all its dramatic pathos. Evangelists, too, for pretty much the same reason. A prison chaplain once said he seriously considered posting a sign on the back wall of his chapel, for every visiting minister to see: "PLEASE, do NOT preach on the Prodigal Son!" His literally captive audience didn't need anybody to remind them of their bottomed-out plight. Least of all someone who would stroll back out into a life of middle-class comfort once the hour was up.
So familiar, this story. So universal with its archetypal markers of family dynamics. Such a pure and simple parable of God's unconditional love
And so, to keep my hearers with me, I needed to find some fresh way of retelling Jesus' story about one dad with two completely opposite kinds of son. Or were they?
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posted by Jack Buckley at
3:34 PM
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