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Amazing Love

The Parable of the Prodigal Son

Author

J. R. de Witt

Category Sermons/Expositions

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500 in stock

Weight	0.34 lbs
Dimensions	7.13 × 4.75 × 0.5 in
ISBN	9780851513287
Binding	Paperback
Topic	Spiritual Growth
Original Pub Date	1981
Banner Pub Date	Jan 1, 1981
Page Count	160
Scripture	Luke
Format	Book

Book Description

An easily read and moving book, Amazing Love, by J.R. de Witt, is an introduction not only to the meaning of the parable, but to the heart of real Christianity.

How did the Parable of the Prodigal Son, possibly Christ’s best-known parable, get its name? It could easily have been called the Parable of the Waiting Father.

Jesus told the story to illustrate the joy which there is in heaven over one sinner who repents, and so he spoke of a wanderer. But to over-emphasize that aspect of the story would be a mistake. The joy in heaven is joy in the presence of the angels, not the angel’s joy. It is the joy of God as his amazing love welcomes the wanderer home.

Table of Contents Expand ↓

1	‘A Certain Man Had Two Sons’	9
2	‘Father, Give Me’	20
3	‘He Began To Be in Want’	35
4	‘When He Came to Himself!’	48
5	‘I Will Arise and Go to My Father’	62
6	‘Father!’	84
7	‘His Father Saw Him, and had Compassion’	95
8	‘He Ran, and Fell on His Neck, and Kissed Him’	107
9	‘And They Began to Be Merry’	119
10	‘He Was Angry, and Would not Go in’	136