10/25/15
Chris Breslin
Luke 15:1-32
“Weary or bitter or bewildered as we may be, God is faithful. He lets us wander so we will know what it means to come home.” –Marilynne Robinson (Home)
“Jesus’s purpose is not to warm our hearts but to shatter our categories.” –Tim Keller
“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.” –Robert Frost
“The father puts no intermediate steps between forgiveness and celebration.” –Robert Farrar Capon
“Forgiveness is the boundary between exclusion and embrace.” –Miroslav Volf
“The Prodigal Goes Forth” by Leslie Emery
“The Return of the Prodigal” by Leslie Emery
“The Return of the Prodigal” by Romare Bearden
“Forgiving Father” by Frank Wesley
“The Return of the Prodigal Son” by Rembrandt van Rijn
“Reconciliation” by Margaret Adams Parker
Further Parables Reading
Confessions by Augustine of Hippo
The Cross & the Prodigal by Kenneth Bailey
Church Dogmatics (4.1) by Karl Barth
Sowing and Reaping by Emil Bruner
Kingdom, Grace, Judgment by Robert Farrar Capon
The Power of Parable by John Dominic Crossan
Parables of Jesus by Joachim Jeremias
The Prodigal God by Tim Keller
Short Stories by Jesus by Amy-Jill Levine
Reading the Parables by Richard Lischer
Kingdom Conspiracy by Scot McKnight
The Return of the Prodigal Son by Henri Nouwen
Tell it Slant by Eugene Peterson
Stories with Intent by Klyne Snodgrass
Exclusion and Embrace by Miroslav Volf
Soundtrack
Never Set in Stone by Jeff Crawford
You’re Coming Home to Me by Patty Griffin & Julie Miller
Prodigal by Michael Gungor Band
Please Come Home by Dustin Kensrue
Father’s House by Mipso
Parted Ways by Josh Moore
Prodigal Son by the Rolling Stones
Get to the Table on Time by M. Ward
