Have you ever felt sorry for yourself? If so it is likely because you feel hard done by. My life shouldn’t be like this. It can make us sad, or discouraged, we can feel self-pity or perhaps just despondent. Sometimes we might think, why do I bother, or what’s the point. Often at the root […]
The day after Jesus has fed the 5,000 all the people go again to find Jesus. They even travel across the lake in order to get to him, believing that he could once again feed them. Yet later, when Jesus says you need to believe in me – that is too hard, a step too […]
This parable reveals to us a Stifled Son who Spends and the Forgiving Father who offers Freedom. The dictionary defines the word prodigal as meaning…Wasteful or recklessly extravagant: lavish or lavishly abundant. In understanding the word we can see how the younger son in seeking freedom lived prodigally. But we also see that the Father, […]