Prodigal Son – A Preacher’s Ponderings

Come to the party

Fourth Sunday in Lent; 27 March 2022; Lent 4C (RCL); Joshua 5:9-12; Psalm 32; 2 Corinthians 5:16-21; Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32.

Reconciliation is hard work. All too often, when we think of the forgiveness of sin, we think that God has done this once and for all, and that’s all there is to that. However, Paul tells us that in Christ, God was reconciling the world to Godself, not holding their trespasses against them. Not hold their trespasses against them is just the first step of reconciliation. One has then to move past the consequences of those trespasses.

Lost and found

31 March 2019
Fourth Sunday in Lent
Lent 4C (RCL)
Joshua 5:9-12
Psalm 32
2 Corinthians 5:16-21
Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32

The parable of the Lost Son comes as the third of three parables concerning things lost and found. The first is the one sheep out of 99, and the second is the one coin out of ten. Now, we have one of two. Stories of younger sons and elder sons abound in the scriptures of Israel. Ishmael and Isaac, Esau and Jacob, Joseph and his brothers – always the younger son comes out on top. Perhaps Israel experienced itself as the unlikely, lucky younger son. Continue reading “Lost and found”