The Prodigal Life: Coming all the way home to God
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Oct 12, Glenda rated it it was amazing. A Good Read Read as part of my daily devotions.
It has good points and gave me things to consider. I recommend this book. Jul 21, William rated it it was ok Shelves: When I read the preview of this book at the end of " Notes of Thanksgiving," I expected to give this book 4 stars, easily. It presented a different application of the story of the Prodigal Son than I was accustomed to hearing, and I was encouraged that it seemed to hold up. Unfortunately, that ends shortly after the preview did. The author frequently misinterprets and misapplies scripture in dangerous ways that may mislead new or little-read Christians.
There is encouragement to be had for tho When I read the preview of this book at the end of " Notes of Thanksgiving," I expected to give this book 4 stars, easily. There is encouragement to be had for those mature enough not to be led astray by her poor theology, though. May 18, Sally Beaudean rated it it was amazing.
The Prodigal Life: Coming all the way home to God by Pauline Creeden@P_Creeden
A personalized version of a well-known parable I feel empowered after reading this book -- because it reminds me that the source of the power is not me. It's good to be reminded from time to time that the only way to grab success is to let go. It's all about God's plan in God's time. Feb 04, Indie Books For99 rated it it was amazing. Christians often stumble over the parable of the Prodigal Son. The message of Jesus seems strange - it's OK to go off into the world, blow all our money, and then come begging back to our parents? I feel frustrated as I understand the other son's anger.
Well here we have Pauline Creeden giving us an explanation that can be quite helpful. May 22, Basil Cheddar rated it it was amazing. Practical Steps for our walk with God I gave this book five stars because it references the steps we need to put our trust in God and let God take care of all the problems and temptation we face daily. Jun 18, The Book Man rated it it was amazing. Feb 04, Doug J rated it really liked it.
Great reminders This book is full of great reminder for us on how we should live and function. Great read for everyone. Julie Arduini rated it really liked it Dec 29, Ehrika Robertson rated it liked it Apr 30, Marjory rated it liked it Jul 26, Michelle rated it it was amazing Sep 02, Newell rated it it was amazing Jul 06, Daniel rated it really liked it Mar 08, Melody Swindell rated it it was amazing Mar 03, Rebecca McCaffrey rated it it was ok Jun 20, Kian rated it it was ok Apr 01, Almost the only time we ever hear it is in the title of this parable.
It comes from Latin roots that mean "forth" pro- and "to drive" agere.
Editorial Reviews. Review. "I read the ebook but would love to see in paperback so I can have copies to share with those who cannot read it otherwise. Though I. The Prodigal Life has 27 ratings and 7 reviews. Glenda said: A Good ReadRead as part of my daily devotions. It has good points and gave me things to co.
It indicates the quality of a person who drives forth his money--who wastes it by spending with reckless abandon. All three parables are on the subject of recovering the lost, which is the implicit explanation of why Jesus receives sinners and eats with them: They are lost, and he wants to recover them. Interestingly, the parable of the prodigal son and the parable of the lost coin occur only in Luke.
Jesus' parables are based on real-life situations, though they often veer off from the expected course of events in surprising ways. Those surprises teach us lessons. Here, Jesus relates the situation of a father who has two sons, one of whom can't wait for his inheritance. In Jewish society, there were laws regarding how inheritances were typically divided. The oldest brother got a double share cf. How many fathers would receive that suggestion well today?
The Prodigal Life: Coming all the way home to God
How many would comply with it if one of their children asked it? This is a truly astonishing request, and it would have been even more astonishing in the ancient world. In a society that highly reverenced parents, it would have been equivalent to saying: Despite the breathtaking--and insulting --audacity of the younger son's request, the father grants it! This reflects the amazing indulgence that God shows toward us.
Profile of a Dead Man. Comments are published at our discretion. Heaven's Riches week Study Guide. Carol Bostian rated it really liked it Oct 08, The road is narrow, and hard to stay on. The returning son must have been astonished!
Even when we are acting as selfishly as the prodigal son, God indulges us. He yields what is his and allows us to misuse it out of respect for the freedom that he has given us. But he knows that the misuse of our freedom will have no better results than it did with the prodigal son's misuse of his freedom, and God trusts that we will learn our lesson and come back to him. In context, this means that he abandoned the Holy Land to go, voluntarily, into exile into a gentile, pagan country where he could live loosely without being censured by fellow Jews living all around him.
He wanted to get out of God's land so that he could live in sin and fund his sinful lifestyle by what he took from his father. But eventually the resources he had were exhausted and a hard time came.
If he had not spent what he had on loose living as we will later learn, on prostitutes , he would have had the money he needed to weather the hard time, but he didn't. Thus he was reduced to a state of hunger and had to subject himself to a pagan humiliation 1 and to feed the pagan's pigs humiliation 2. He would have been happy just to eat as well as the pigs humiliation 3 , but nobody gave him anything to eat, not even from the pigs' slop humiliation 4. Having been brought to such a low state, he recalled how his righteous father treated even his hired servants better: Even being treated as one of his father's hired servants would be better than the treatment he is receiving in the gentile world.
If we are bent on leaving God, things will go badly for us. We will be humiliated in the uncaring world. The farther we get from the Father's loving care, the worse off we will be, and our best course is to return to God and his forgiveness. While he is still at a distance, the father sees him, has compassion upon him, runs to him, hugs him, and kisses him. This is far from the humiliating reunion that the son might expect based on his previous audacious and insulting treatment of his father! Rather than treating his younger son as a mere servant, he turns to the actual servants and orders a celebration.
He is to wear a fancy robe! There is to be a fancy feast for everyone! There is to be music and dancing! There is usually at least one major lesson per parable for each major figure in it, and now we come to the lesson that the older brother can teach us. When that happens, we discover that he's not just angry with his brother, he's angry with his father, too. He points out that he has never disobeyed his father's commands but that his father has never given him a kid a young goat so that he could slaughter it and have a party with his friends.
In contrast, the younger brother has "devoured your living with harlots" wasting a third of the father's estate! The older brother sees this difference in treatment as a manifest injustice toward him and is angry with his father because of it. As we will see, he even seems to be worrying about his own security in the family since the father is showing such seeming favoritism to the younger son.
First, he tells him: His place is secure. Second, he tells him: The younger soon took his third, so the two-thirds that remain will go entirely to the older son. This means that the current celebration does not represent a threat to the older brother or his inheritance. Instead, it is a celebration of joy occasioned by the return of the son.
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