Prodigal God Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

Name: Prodigal God Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith
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ISBN: 9780525950790

ISBN-10: 0525950796

ISBN-13: 9780525950790

Edition: 2008

Authors: Timothy Keller

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The Prayer of Jabezused a little-known story of the Bible to redefine success for Christians. The Prodigal God uses a famous story of the Bible to redefine nothing less than the central Christian message for believers and skeptics alike. Newsweekcalled renowned minister Timothy Keller a C. S. Lewis for the twenty-first century in a feature on his first book, The Reason for God. In that book, he offered a rational explanation of why we should believe in God. Now, in The Prodigal God, he uses one of the best-known Christian parables to reveal an unexpected message of hope and salvation. The Prodigal Son is the most well-known parable in the Bible. Incredibly, it is also almost universally…

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List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/30/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 160
Size: 5.22" wide x 7.56" long x 0.73" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Timothy J. Keller was born in 1950. He received a B.A. from Bucknell University in 1972, a M.Div. from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in 1975, and a D.Min. from Westminster Theological Seminary in 1981. He was ordained by the Presbyterian Church in America and served as a pastor in Virginia for nine years. He is founding pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City, New York. He has written several books including Grace Changes Everything, Generous Justice: How God's Grace Makes Us Just, and The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism, which won awards from World Magazine and Christianity Today.



The Parable



The People Around Jesus: "All gathering around to hear him."


Two Kinds of People


Why People Like Jesus but Not the Church



The Two Lost Sons: "There was a man who had two sons."


The Lost Younger Brother


The Younger Brother's Plan


The Lost Elder Brother



Redefining Sin: "All these years I've been slaving for you."


Two Ways to Find Happiness


Two Lost Sons


A Deeper Understanding of Sin


Both Wrong; Both Loved



Redefining Lostness: "The older brother became angry and refused to go in."


Anger and Superiority


Slavishness and Emptiness


Who Needs to Know This?



The True Elder Brother: "My son, everything I have is yours."


What We Need


Who We Need



Redefining Hope: "He set off for a far country."


Our Longing for Home


The Difficulty of Return


The Feast at the End of History



The Feast of the Father: "He heard music and dancing."


Salvation Is Experiential


Salvation Is Material


Salvation Is Individual


Salvation Is Communal


Babette's Feast