“For my son was lost, and now he’s found!” Those are some of the most amazing words we read in scripture. We sing songs about it.  We write stories about it. . . the lost coming home. We dream about it for our own lives, in our own families.

My whole life, I have loved this parable, found in Luke 15. What’s not to love? A wayward son comes back home to a father who is waiting for him. Not only waiting, but a father who runs to him, embraces him, and welcomes him back into the family.

But I believe my entire life I have missed perhaps the real purpose of the parable. And maybe you are like me. Because this father had two sons. And in reality, both sons were lost. And the story was told by Jesus to an audience of elder brothers as well as younger brothers.

Join us as we begin an incredible study into the Prodigal God of the Bible, the one who reaches out with “reckless extravagance” to bring the lost home. In this, Part 1, Pastor Mike looks at the big picture of this most amazing parable in Luke 15, and what it teaches us about human nature and the God we most desperately need.