Contributed by Shawn Miller on Jul 5, 2009
PETER AND THE PRODIGAL
Peter and the prodigal son had one thing in common, that is they both turned from unfortunate circumstances to find salvation from their father! Peter was sinking because he lost faith from fear of this world, and the
...read more
Denomination:
Assembly Of God
Contributed by Brian Mavis on Jun 12, 2001
based on 59 ratings
| 5,327 views
The Prodigal Son in the Key of F
Feeling footloose and frisky, a feather-brained fellow forced his father
to fork over his farthings. Fast he flew to foreign fields and
frittered his family’s fortune, feasting fabulously with floozies and
faithless friends. Flooded with flattery he financed a
...read more
Scripture:
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Jun 15, 2008
Ed Vasicek on the Parable of the Prodigal Son
If some Dr. Spock-like psychologist wrote this parable, he might say that the Prodigal left home because his father oppressed him, or that he was sheltered from life by his overly-protective mother and the poor financial prospects in a profit-driven
...read more
Denomination:
Independent/Bible
Feeling footloose and frisky, a foolish fellow forced his father to fork over his fourth of the family farthings and flew far to a foreign field where he fast frittered his father's fortune feasting foolishly with faithless friends. Fleeced by his fellows and folly, and facing famine he found
...read more
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
The late Joe Bayly was a gentle, godly Christian leader. I once heard him tell how one of his sons rebelled back in the days of the hippie movement. He grew his hair long and moved into a communal flophouse. Late one night, Bayly received a call informing him that his son was being held at one of
...read more
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
based on 4 ratings
| 4,107 views
The prodigal Son was allowed to spend his inheritance and go hungry so that he
...read more
Denomination:
Pentecostal
Contributed by Charles Mallory on Mar 22, 2001
based on 155 ratings
| 7,907 views
THE FATHER’S REACTION TO THE PRODIGAL SON AND HIS ELDER SON MIRRORS THE ANSWER ABRAHAM LINCOLN GAVE TO A QUESTION HE WAS ASKED ABOUT HOW HE WOULD TREAT THE ALL THE CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS ONCE THE CIVIL WAR WAS OVER.
EXPECTING VENGEANCE AND EVEN THOUGHTS OF EXECUTION BECAUSE OF
...read more
Scripture:
Denomination:
Free Methodist
Contributed by Ray Searan on Feb 20, 2007
The prodigal son came to his father and said, "I want to be free. Give me what is mine." Then he wandered into the far country, saying, "I’m free! I’m free!" However, his freedom was brief. His friends left him when his money ran out, and he found himself enslaved to a Gentile taskmaster and to a
...read more
Denomination:
Assembly Of God
Contributed by A. Todd Coget on May 23, 2002
based on 40 ratings
| 1,914 views
[Prodigal Brings Christ Home, Citation: J. Granger, Sons: A Father’s Love (Word, 1999), quoted in Men of Integrity, Vol. 3, no. 2]
My son called.
Through years of drug abuse, Scott had stolen from our family, manipulated us, and failed us.
It had been a relief not to hear from him for two
...read more
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by John Stevenson on Dec 25, 2004
based on 3 ratings
| 5,138 views
I love the story of the Prodigal Son. You know the story. He went from the love of a father to the stench of a pigsty. An inheritance squandered. A life wasted. Forlorn and dejected. And then he resolved to return home. We read about the speech he had prepared. He would recount his own
...read more
Denomination:
Evangelical Free
I think you are all familiar with the parable that we call the “Story of the Prodigal Son.” Well, I want us to consider it again with a little different twist. Listen to the story in a modern setting as told by Philip Yancey in his book “What’s so Amazing about Grace?”
Yancey tells of a prodigal
...read more
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
THE PRODIGAL SON'S RETURN...
We were sitting in Church a few weeks ago while the minister delivered a
sermon based on the timeless story of the prodigal son.
When he got to the point where the father sees his son returning and races out to meet
him, the minister said loudly and with
...read more
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
FUNNNNNNNNNNY!!
A Pastor was doing the children’s devotional in the church service one Sunday when he called all of the kids to the front and asked them this question: “Boys and girls, in the Parable of the Prodigal Son, who was the saddest of all to see the younger brother come back home from the
...read more
Denomination:
Evangelical/Non-Denominational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"Love never reasons, but profusely givesgives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles
...read more
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do
...read more
Contributed by Brian Matherlee on Nov 28, 2007
based on 1 rating
| 859 views
i. (From “The Hurting Parent”, pg. 78ff.) A couple with two daughters still at home received a call from their wayward son late one night. He had called from a hotel and told his mom, “I’m hurting and really hungry…tell me what to do.” His voice drifted off and a strong voice broke in. It was
...read more
Denomination:
Wesleyan
Contributed by Tom Mccrossan on Jun 18, 2003
based on 2 ratings
| 2,140 views
The greatest difference of religions lies between the Bible which says we can never save ourselves - that salvation is the gift of God through faith in Christ Jesus (Eph. 2:8-9); and all the other religions which say a person will be saved, reborn, made whole, or achieve fulfillment by keeping
...read more
Denomination:
Presbyterian/Reformed