Bringing Home the Prodigals (Part 2 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 8 October 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
As the father of a prodigal child, Rob Parsons understands your pain. In this heartfelt message, he encourages parents of prodigals to always “leave a light on” for their wayward child. He notes that sometimes parents carry too much guilt over the prodigal child’s circumstances, and also encourages us to not be overly critical of our children. (Part 2 of 2)
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| 0:00.0 | God is at work and he's calling his people to rise in truth. Truth Rising is a powerful new documentary from Focus on the Family and the Colson Center. See how ordinary Christians choose courage in a culture that needs truth. Watch Truth Rising today and find out how you can become an agent of restoration and hope. |
| 0:24.1 | Visit truthrising.com today. |
| 0:26.9 | That's truthrising.com. |
| 0:30.9 | God is at work, and he's calling his people to rise in truth. |
| 0:35.6 | Truth Rising is a powerful new documentary from Focus on the Family and the |
| 0:40.4 | Colson Center. |
| 0:41.7 | See how ordinary Christians choose courage in a culture that needs truth. |
| 0:47.3 | Watch Truth Rising today and find out how you can become an agent of restoration and hope. |
| 0:54.2 | Visit truthrising.com today. |
| 0:56.9 | That's truthrising.com. |
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| 1:19.1 | Last time on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly, Rob Parsons recounted the powerful tale of |
| 1:25.7 | the prodigal son. |
| 1:31.1 | It's the ancient story of the boy who broke his father's heart and he went to a far country and one day he ends up in a pigsty |
| 1:36.2 | somewhere and he thinks I want to go home and he makes up a speech and I'm no doubt as he's |
| 1:41.1 | walking home he's rehearsing that little speech in his heart. What he doesn't know is every day since he left. |
| 1:47.0 | The old man has climbed onto the flat roof of the little house, and he's looking down the road. |
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