Here’s how the study works: Read the chapter mentioned in the heading several times during the week and share any words, thoughts, verses that stood out to you. Having a week for a chapter creates the opportunity to reread it several times and make additional comments as you feel inclined as well as make comments on other people’s insights.
v.31 'My son,' the father said, 'you are always with me, and everything I have is yours.'
Long time Christians sometimes forget the benefits we have in Christ.
v.31 'My son,' the father said, 'you are always with me, and everything I have is yours.'
Long time Christians sometimes forget the benefits we have in Christ.
v.7 I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.
God's accounting is so different to ours! We focus on how wonderful it is that there are 99 righteous persons. God's focus on the one sinner.
v.7 I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.
God's accounting is so different to ours! We focus on how wonderful it is that there are 99 righteous persons. God's focus on the one sinner.
v.17 When he came to his senses, he said, 'How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death!'
Even God's people who feel like they are workers, that is, even those with a poor understanding of their relationship with God, still have food to spare. We all have spiritual blessings that we can share.
v.17 When he came to his senses, he said, 'How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death!'
Even God's people who feel like they are workers, that is, even those with a poor understanding of their relationship with God, still have food to spare. We all have spiritual blessings that we can share.
v.4 “Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it?
The shepherd (Jesus) takes the initiative, seeking and searching, for the lost.
v.4 “Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Doesn’t he leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it?
The shepherd (Jesus) takes the initiative, seeking and searching, for the lost.
v.29 But he answered his father, ‘Look! All these years I’ve been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.
(From Constable’s Commentary) "The proud and the self-righteous always feel that they are not treated as well as they deserve.”
v.29 But he answered his father, ‘Look! All these years I’ve been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.
(From Constable’s Commentary) "The proud and the self-righteous always feel that they are not treated as well as they deserve.”