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The Road to Ruin (2 of 5)
by Jeff Schreve
I want to speak to you today on this subject: ''The Road to Ruin.'' We're in a series called ''Lost'' from Luke chapter 15. And in Luke chapter 15, we have three parables that Jesus told to try and reach and teach the Pharisees, who couldn't stand the fact that Jesus would welcome sinners and eat with tax collectors and sinners. And so Jesus told about a sheep. He said, ''Which one among you, if you had a 100 sheep and you lost one, you wouldn't go and leave the 99 in the open pasture and go search after the one that was lost.'' That's normal. That's natural. That's what you do. So He told a parable about a lost sheep. He told a...
God Leaves the Lights On
by James Merritt
He was a rebel, college drop-out, a party boy, a carouser. He smoked, drank hard liquor, was a brawler, and was well known by all of the local police authorities, and had more than one visit down to the jail. 2. By his own admission he was the classic example of the prodigal son. Today he stands to succeed the most respected, admired, and perhaps famous American of the Twentieth Century - Billy Graham. His name is Franklin Graham. Today, Franklin Graham not only has a tremendous benevolent ministry called ''The Samaritan Purse,'' but is now preaching the gospel just like his father to thousands and thousands of...
Prodigal Returns (4 of 4)
by Frank Damazio
Jesus is alive; He is risen; He is not in the tomb or grave; death could not hold Him down. The resurrection is the most profound foundation to the Christian message: our leader lives! The alive savior seeks out all people to know Him personally and to live a life under His lordship. Jesus came to seek and save the lost and today, celebration day, Jesus seeks to move in your life and to make all things new. God is closer to you than you think and more eager to connect with you than you can imagine. I. LOSTNESS A. LOST 1. When a person experiences a time in life when he/she awakens to the realization that something is missing...
How Does God Feel about People Who Mess Up? (2 of 7)
by Stan Coffey
If you have your Bible turn to Luke 15:25. And today is the second in a new series of lessons called ''Timely Answers to Key Questions''. And these lessons are from the gospel of Luke. And in the gospel of Luke we find parables not found in any of the other three gospels. Although both Matthew and Mark record the parables of Jesus, there are some parables only found in Luke and this parable is one of them. It is the parable of the prodigal son. And we are talking today about ''How Does God Feel About People Who Mess Up?'' And we are going to see that there are some that mess up by going to a far country. There are other...
The Distant Heart (10 of 11)
by Roger Thomas
The story of the Prodigal is one of Jesus' best-known parables. It is also one of the least understood. It is not that it is hard to understand. Like all of his stories, this one is simple, straightforward, and true to life. But we still often miss the point. We miss it because we are distracted. Who can hear this tale and not get caught up in the story of the Prodigal's foolishness. He is the stereotypical rebellious adolescent who doesn't know how much he doesn't know. He reaps what he sows and learns a valuable lesson in the process. His is the classic story of the great turnaround. If only all prodigal children could get...
What to Do When Your Child Is a Prodigal
by Miles Seaborn
I noticed some years ago a pattern when dealing with parents and children. (Let me hasten to day, nobody has all the answers). The more I counsel therefore, I'm learning I don't have all the answers. The only thing I know for sure is what God's Word says, and I'm learning to stand on it more than what I think. It comes out a whole lot better. Some parents have three children, and one turns out bad or they have four and two go astray. They come from godly homes, raised in the same circumstances, same principles and environment, yet to the wrong way. Parents have done the best they could (not perfect, but who is..
The Lost Son (3 of 4)
by Jim Perdue
Today, we continue our series entitled Lost with the story that I believe is the climax of the Luke 15. In fact, this sermon is the climax of this series. We have seen the story of the lost sheep, the story of the lost coin and today we see the story of the lost son. Remember, each story is the same but different. Each story is about something lost but the value of that which is lost increases as the chapter continues. Also, there is one major theme that this chapter teaches us: God loves the lost and actively seeks to save them. Through all of these parables we see the value of one lost soul; that's a soul that Jesus died for! *Before we...
When You Have a Prodigal Child (4 of 8)
by Jim Henry
I learned some years ago, in counseling with parents, that no one has all the answers. And the longer I minister, the more I am sure of that, because I'm still learning. The only thing I know is what God's Word says, and I'm learning to stand on it more than what I think, and find that I come out a whole lot better. In talking to those parents who did the best they could to have godly homes, I found that still so many times they would have one or more children who would go astray. Even though the children were raised in the same circumstances, with parents who were maybe not doing a perfect job -- what parent has? But doing the...
The Joy of God over the Returning Sinner
by Jesse Hendley
If you have your Bibles, turn with me to Luke 15. The subject today is the joy of God in welcoming a sinner home to Himself in total love. Somehow there is in the mind of people the idea that there is a reluctance on God's part to receive us unto Himself or to really believe that He loves us enough to joy over us when we turn to Him, but when we read Luke, the 15th chapter and verse 23, we read these words, ''Let us eat, and be merry.'' Now the occasion was the return of a man's wayward son. (Jesus is using it to tell us the joy of God, then, in welcoming the sinner home to himself or the Lord's portion in our salvation.) Jesus...
How to Deal with a Rebellious Child (1 of 2)
by Ernest Easley
Raising children is the hardest job I've ever had! Raising children has been more challenging and more consuming than pastoring Baptist people. I remember as a young parent of three reading one day where the Psalm 127.3-5 said, ''Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb is a reward,'' thinking, ''Reward? A reward for what? How did I deserve this?'' Some days I thought my children were a part of the curse, my mother's curse! Yes, my mother cursed me when I was young. You say, ''Ernest, how can you say that your mother cursed you?'' Well, it's easy. She pronounced the curse when she said...
The Prodigal Pig
by Jerry Vines
I want to talk with you about a subject which has troubled me through the years of my ministry. It has not only troubled me, but it has troubled all Bible preachers, and it has troubled many Christians. Probably it has been a source of some disturbance in your own life. What has troubled me through the years is that there are many people who have professed that they know the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior, they say that they have been saved, but they give no evidence by their life that they have really received the Lord Jesus Christ. What about these people who profess to know the Lord and there is no evidence...
The Prodigal Who Stayed At Home
by Dr. Ed Young
It was a marvelous story that Jesus told, wasn't it? Charles Dickens calls it the most beautiful story in all of literature. Pick up your Bibles when you are by yourself. Open to Luke 15, read these tories. Read this story of the parable of the prodigal son and I can guarantee you one thing, it will make its way straight to your heart. There is a beauty,there is a humanness about it that is irresistible. Young son - ''Give me.'' He was attracted by the world of music and laughter and excitement and glamour and sensuality. Doesn't that sound human? That's as up to date as this morning's paper. And he just left everything with the inheritance that...
The Prodigal Son (1 of 3)
by Eddie Snipes
For the next three weeks, we are going to study the parable of the prodigal son. We call it the prodigal son, but it's more than just a story about a wayward son. It's one of the richest illustrations ever told. It's about a son whose life was changed by the love of his father, and a brother who didn't understand grace. We are going to study this story from all three perspectives, that of the son, the father, and the brother. Let's begin by reading the entire illustration from Luke 15:11-32 11 Then He said: ''A certain man had two sons. 12 ''And the younger of them said to his father, `Father, give me the portion of goods...
The Prodigal Brother (3 of 3)
by Eddie Snipes
In the previous studies, we looked at the prodigal son and the prodigal's father. The heart of the story is not about the son, but the love of the father. The parable of the prodigal was introduced by Jesus when the religious people of that culture criticized Him saying, ''This man receives sinners and even eats with them!'' They were appalled by the concept of having fellowship with people of lesser character. As we discussed in an earlier message, in that culture, to sit down at the table with someone was to proclaim your acceptance of that person. No respectable leader would be caught speaking to a prostitute, thieving tax...
The Prodigal's Father (2 of 3)
by Eddie Snipes
Last week we discussed the prodigal son, and how he believed his sins drove him away from his father's love. However, his failures revealed the depth of his father's love in a way that he could not understand until he had nothing but failure to offer him. In the same way, we don't understand the depths of God's love for us until we begin to understand that we have nothing to offer God but sin. In the flesh, even our righteous acts are sin, for as Jesus said, everything that is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is of the Spirit. The works of the flesh cannot produce anything of the Spirit. When we begin to...
The Two Petitions of the Prodigal
by George H. Morrison
I wonder if my readers ever noticed that the Prodigal made two petitions to his father. The first was: "Father, give me." "Give me the portion of goods that falleth to me." The son was growing weary of the home. He felt acutely that he was missing things. The world was big, and the days were going by, and he was young, and he was missing things. It is always bitter, when the heart is young and the world is rich in visions and in voices, to dwell remote and feel that one is missing things. The fatal mistake the Prodigal made was this-he thought that all he wanted was far off. He thought that the appeasing of his restlessness lay...
The Prodigal Prophet (1 of 5)
by Joe Alain
Boundaries mark the limits within which we live our lives. There are different kinds of boundaries. There are natural boundaries, these are pretty easy to identify and understand. In our area, the Gulf of Mexico and the Hillsborough River are boundaries of this type. Rivers, oceans, forests, mountains are all natural geographical boundaries. But there are other natural boundaries as well. For instance, we cannot just swim across the Gulf of Mexico or hold our breath for hours, or run as fast as a cheetah or take flight like the Ruby Throated Hummingbird which does fly over the Gulf of Mexico, taking some 11-18 hours...
The Prodigal Prophet (32 of 66)
by Tony Thomas
Fishermen are known for their fishing tales, right? Here's a picture of my biggest smallmouth caught out of Walnut Creek. That fish weighed between two and three pounds - and it was delicious! Steve did three times better out of the same creek. My wife caught a nice one behind our eldest daughter's house. Dan Guard caught a six-pound lunker out of the Ohio River in a fishing contest. And David Emmert caught this massive catfish with his bare hands! What was he thinking? The story of Jonah is the story of a big fish catching a man. We're in a series called Route 66 and we're going through the Bible one book at a...
The Prodigal Daughter (2 of 5)
by Bob Ingle
Well, I hope you brought your bible, and if you did please open it to the book of Ruth. This is the second message in our series from Ruth, and today we're going to be talking about 'The Prodigal Daughter'. We've all heard of the Prodigal Son in the NT, but do you know about the Prodigal Daughter of the OT? Well, after today you will. The book of Ruth is often described as a love story. And it is. It's not a romance novel, but it is a love story. And most people enjoy a good love story. It's like the girls at a Christian college I heard about who were in their dorm room praying as a group. One of them prayed out loud: ''Lord, give us...
