November 15th, 2026 - Deep Hope for Good News

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Scripture Passage: Luke 15:11-32

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Deep Hope
Last for now.
Your turn Tuesday.
New Year's Resonation

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Parables in Context
Now the tax collectors and sinners were all gathering around to hear Jesus.
2 But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered,
“This man welcomes sinners and eats with them.”

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Deep Hope for Good News
Shepherd, Woman, Father
Prodigal (Son, Sons, Father)

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His share
11 Jesus continued: “There was a man who had two sons.
12 The younger one said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’
So he divided his property between them.

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Liquid down the drain
13 Not long after that, the younger son got together all he had, set off for a distant country and there squandered his wealth in wild living.

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Money, weather, faith problem
14 After he had spent everything, there was a severe famine... and he began to be in need. 1
5 So he went and hired himself out to a citizen of that country, who sent him to his fields to feed pigs.

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Despair
16 He longed to fill his stomach with the pods that the pigs were eating,
but no one gave him anything.

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Sensible is a start
17 “When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death!

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Heartfelt confession
18 I will set out and go back to my father and say to him:
Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you.
19 I am no longer worthy to be called your son;
make me like one of your hired servants.’

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The Father's Heart
20 So he got up and went to his father.
“But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him;
he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.

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Confession Interrupted
21 “The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’
22 “But the father said to his servants,

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Super Celebration
‘Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. 23 Bring the fattened calf and kill it.
Let’s have a feast and celebrate.’”

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All good until this:
25 “Meanwhile, the older son was in the field... he heard music and dancing. 26 So he called one of the servants and asked him what was going on. 27 ‘Your brother has come,’ he replied, ‘and your father has killed the fattened calf

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Father runs out again
28 “The older brother became angry and refused to go in.
So his father went out and pleaded with him.

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Telling Tone
29 But he answered his father, ‘Look!
All these years I’ve been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders.
Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.

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Bitterness erupts
30 But when this son of yours who has squandered your property with prostitutes comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!’

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Father and Sons
31 “‘My son,’ the father said, ‘you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. 32 But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”