God Demonstrates His Grace
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🗓️ 22 August 2022
⏱️ 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 1:16, and today's worship is Death Was Arrested by NorthPoint Inside Out.
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| 0:00.0 | The story of the prodigal son moves my heart to delve into new depths of God's limitless |
| 0:09.2 | grace. |
| 0:10.2 | I find myself in every facet of Jesus' words of this story. |
| 0:15.0 | I identify with the younger sons rebellion. |
| 0:17.9 | I identify with the older son's judgment and resentment. |
| 0:21.6 | And I identify with the experience of the father's compassion and love. |
| 0:26.6 | Today, we begin a week-long focus at this life-giving and perception-shattering story of Jesus, |
| 0:33.4 | the story of the prodigal son. |
| 0:35.6 | May God draw you even closer to him this week and teach you of his redemptive and life-changing |
| 0:41.3 | love. |
| 0:42.3 | Welcome to the first-of-team podcast. |
| 0:44.3 | Our verse for today comes from John 1-6, Scripture says, and from His fullness we have |
| 1:02.4 | all received grace upon grace. |
| 1:07.4 | No single passage of Scripture has impacted my life in greater ways than Jesus' parable |
| 1:13.4 | of the prodigal son. |
| 1:15.5 | I find myself in every facet of this story. |
| 1:19.0 | I see my own sin and pride in the foolishness of the son to run from the father. |
| 1:25.0 | I see the despair and destitution that results from my own sin as the son longs for the |
| 1:30.7 | slop that he fed to pigs. |
| 1:33.6 | I see my desperate need for forgiveness, grace, and restoration in the son's return. |
| 1:41.3 | And more than anything, I see the unfathomable grace of my Heavenly Father as the father |
| 1:47.7 | in the story runs out to embrace his disobedient and wayward child. |
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