This coming Sunday is Mother's Day, and it's fitting that we celebrate those who have made untold sacrifices on behalf of their children.

To the moms in our listening audience today, we salute you.

But surprisingly, today on InSight for Living, Chuckswendall will speak not about motherhood, but instead about fatherhood.

This message was originally delivered on Father's Day 2022, and it's the next study in our brand new series called Restoring Your Families Foundation.

Chucks is teaching from Luke 15 in a message titled, A Father Everyone Admires.

One of the things I've always loved about storage, Jesus told, they're real.

Are they realistic? Maybe they didn't actually happen, but the scene that he portrays in his story happens all over.

The best way for you to get the most out of this, yes, very familiar story, is for you to put yourself in the place of the people within it, seriously.

Rather than sitting objectively back, arms folded almost like you've heard this all your life, like having your Bible upside down, I've been there before, I know what this is about.

You really don't, because you know what the future holds.

You don't know where you're going to be next week. If you're here, still with us, you don't know what your family will be going through.

You don't know what phone call will come in. You don't know what knock at the door will result in.

What I suggest you see this as it for the first time. The story is in Luke 15, the gospel by Luke.

I wanted to begin reading at verse 11 from the new living translation that will go all the way down to verse 24.

This is a very real situation repeated multiple times in life, in all cultures, in all languages, in all parts of our world, because we all have an old nature that kicks in and takes over.

And often it's the parents who have to pick up the pieces. And here's a dad who did a masterful job of that in this story that we're going to read.

Luke 15 beginning at verse 11, follow along, do your best to identify with someone in the story.

Jesus told him this story, a man at two sons, the younger son told his father, I want my share of your estate now before you die.

So his father agreed to divide his wealth between his sons. A few days later, this younger son packed all his belongings and moved to a distant land.

And there he wasted all his money and wild living. About the time his money ran out, a great famine swept across the land and he began to starve.

He persuaded a local farmer to hire him and the man sent him into his fields to feed the pigs.

The young man became so hungry that even the pods he was feeding the pigs looked good to him.

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