The Prodigal God
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The Prayer of Jabez used a little-known story of the Bible to redefine success for Christians. The Prodigal God uses a famous story of the Bible to redefine nothing less than the central Christian message for believers and skeptics alike.Newsweek called renowned minister Timothy Keller “a C. S. Lewis for the twenty-first century” in a feature on his first book, The Reason for God. In that book, he offered a rational explanation of why we should believe in God. Now, in The Prodigal God, he uses one of the best-known Christian parables to reveal an unexpected message of hope and salvation.The Prodigal Son is the most well-known parable in the Bible. Incredibly, it is also almost universally misunderstood. Taking his trademark intellectual approach to understanding Christianity, Keller uncovers the essential message of Jesus, hidden in plain sight for centuries. Within this parable is the lost message of Jesus—where he outlines just how his followers are supposed to love and accept one another so they can join him in Heaven. With this book, both the devout and skeptics will see Christianity in a whole new way.
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This book was amazing, and very insightful into the true meaning of what it means to be a follower of Christ saved by Him alone. Dr. Keller does a great job breaking down and explaining the background, main points, and central message behind Jesus' parable of the prodigal son. We are all either, prodigal sons who treat God's Grace cheaply and aren't convicted by Christ's sacrifice to change our ways and do good deeds of love just as Christ did on the cross, seeking to go our own way and fulfill our own desires; or elder brothers who are arrogant and think that because we stick to the moral code of the Bible and we serve God, we deserve grace and are owed, trying to be our own savior and earn God's love given to us through Jesus instead of just accepting it and celebrating the growth of God's kingdom. This is a book every follower of Christ should read.
