Your dad makes you come to church, but he can't make you listen.

At least that's what you've always muttered to yourself.

But this morning you listen because the preacher speaks of a God who loves prodigals

and, well, you feel like the worst sort of one.

You can't keep the pregnancy a secret any longer.

Soon your parents will know.

The preacher will know, and the preacher says god already knows and

you wonder what god thinks this is max lakato could you use some grace you know grace is god's best idea

rather than tell us to change he creates the change do we clean up so he can accept us no No. He accepts us and begins cleaning us up. What a

difference this makes. Can't forgive your past? Christ can. And he's on the move aggressively

budging you from grace-less to grace-shaped living, a forgiven person who forgives others. This is grace.

Grace is everything Jesus.

This is Max Locato.