God Demonstrates His Grace - Aug 20
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🗓️ 20 August 2019
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
The story of the prodigal son moves my heart to delve into new depths of God’s limitless grace. I find myself in every facet of Jesus’ words of this story. I identify with the younger son’s rebellion. I identify with the older son’s judgement and resentment. I identify with the experience of the father’s compassion and love.
Today we begin a week long focus at this lifegiving, and perception shattering story of Jesus, the story of the prodigal son. May God draw you even closer to him this week, and teach of you his redemptive and life changing love.
Our Scripture for today comes from John 1:6, and today's worship is Coming Home by Housefires.
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| 0:00.0 | The story of the Prodigal Sun moves my heart to delve into new depths of God's limitless |
| 0:09.9 | grace. |
| 0:10.9 | I find myself in every facet of Jesus's words of this story. |
| 0:15.0 | I identify with the younger son's rebellion. |
| 0:18.0 | I identify with the older son's judgment and resentment. |
| 0:22.0 | And I identify with the experience of the Father's |
| 0:25.1 | compassion and love. Today we begin a week-long focus at this life-giving and |
| 0:31.3 | perception-shattering story of Jesus, the story of the Prodigal Son. |
| 0:36.4 | They God draw you even closer to him this week and teach you of his redemptive and life-changing |
| 0:42.0 | love. |
| 0:42.9 | Welcome to the First of Team Podcast. Our verse for today comes from John 1 6. |
| 0:53.0 | Scripture says, Our verse for today comes from John 1 6th. |
| 1:03.2 | Scripture says, and from his fullness we have all received grace upon grace. |
| 1:09.6 | No single passage of scripture has impacted my life in greater ways than Jesus |
| 1:17.4 | parable of the Prodigal son. I find myself in every facet of this story. I see my own sin and pride in the foolishness of the |
| 1:26.8 | son to run from the father. I see the despair and destitution that results from my own sin as the sun longs for the |
| 1:35.2 | slop that he fed to pigs. I see my desperate need for forgiveness, grace, and |
| 1:42.1 | restoration and the son's return. |
| 1:45.9 | And more than anything, I see the unfathomable grace of my Heavenly Father as the Father |
| 1:52.2 | in the story runs out to embrace his disobedient and wayward child. |
| 1:57.0 | So rather than beginning this week on the Prodigal son with my thoughts on this story. I want to create space to allow the entirety |
| 2:06.0 | of Jesus's words in this transformative story to impact your life. Ask the Holy Spirit for fresh eyes today. |
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