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In ‘Other’ Words: The Prodigal Son
2008-08-05 06:25:00 I‘ve read this quote quite a bit lately, actually trying to find a different approach to it, because I know I write often of our deceased son, yet, my thoughts keep coming back to Matthew once again. Before he died we did not think of him as a prodigal child and seemed to have ”normal” teen struggles with him. Yet, he made a foolish decision that took his life. At the beginng we would often converse of his reaction when he arrived in heaven - was it of shock or shame or did the awe of Jesus and heaven overcast that? We ached in real pain those first months, barely feeling like we could live from day to day. Around this time a song by Jeremy Camp was on our Christian radio station, “I’ll Take You Back.” I remember my husband saying he’d just weep out in the garage as he was doing repairs, hearing that song. As any parent of a prodigal or deceased child, we certainly, no matter what, would take our child back. Imagine, how mu...
Sevendust 'Prodigal Son' Video
2008-05-23 00:00:00 Sevendust are out with the video to their new single 'Prodigal Son', from the Atlanta, Georgia alternative metal band's seventh studio album 'Chapter VII: Hope & Sorrow', out now through the band's own 7 Bros. Records label. Watch it below the fold.
The prodigal son
2008-03-09 23:11:00 or not exactly… So I have returned (not really) to my original blog home, Gullyside Anyway, I’ve been contemplating closing down/archiving/deleting this blog but have been reluctant in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
By: Gullyside
Prodigal Son
2008-03-03 02:44:00 Today in Sacrament Meeting a young man got up and bore his testimony of the saving power of Jesus Christ. He said it had been 10 years since he had come to church and how grateful he was to be back. I didn't know him personally but was extremely touched by his pure and simple testimony. It made me recall the parables of the Prodigal Son, and the Lost Sheep in the New Testament and also the story of Alma, the younger, from the Book of Mormon. I felt like celebrating for this brave young man and to encourage him to "press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men"... and to "press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end." 2 Nephi 31:20Jesus taught, "What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it? And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing." - Luke...
The Prodigal Son Returns!
2008-02-11 14:39:00 Having spent the weekend in Chicago with the Capuchin brothers, I feel refreshed and renewed about the task ahead, the debt I need to pay, and what my life will be like in less than six months. I learned several things about the Postulancy, Pre-Noviciate, and the Noviciate. Also I had a chance to meet some of the other candidates who have applied and would be in my Postulancy class.I see why I wanted to just get to August 1. Not because I wanted to simply run away from my problems, but because the desire to live in community, to share my faith and knowledge with brothers, to live that consecrated life, and to know that everything I am doing is because of my devotion to God. Yet not everything about community happens within the 4 walls of the friary. Here are a few of the things I learned about Capuchin living:We are all brothers and sisters, creatures created from God. That means I am as connected with my family as with people I don't know, as with the Earth, the wind, the stars......
Rembrandt van Rijn - The Return of the Prodigal Son
2008-01-22 19:59:00 Title: The Return of the Prodigal Son Artist: Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-69) Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 262 x 206 cm Location: The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia The Return of the Prodigal Son is arguably Rembrandt Harmensz.van Rijn’s finest work; certainly it is the most famous from his late career. The painting depicts the Biblical story of the prodigal son from the book of Luke, Chapter 15. In the parable, the younger son of a wealthy father begs to be given his inheritance early. When his father gives it to him the young man leaves the family home and goes to a foreign country where he lives a life of dissipation, squanders his wealth, ruins his health, and finally is reduced to working as a swineherd. Eventually, the son sees the error in his ways and returns to his father, uncertain of his welcome, but humbling himself at the old man’s feet, and begging to be taken back into the family. Significantly, the father forgives his son without hesitation and orders a fa...
The Prodigal Son
2008-01-08 14:44:00 The parable of the Prodigal Son is perhaps the most loved parable of Jesus Christ among many Christians, and probably the most told as well. Why the popularity, so to speak? For one, it speaks volumes of God’s love for us sinners. Secondly, most of us see ourselves in the prodigal son that returned to his father ...
By: Joie de Vivre
Advent: the re-uniting with the Prodigal Son
2007-12-09 12:21:00 Mary McClearyProdigal Son, 1996Mixed Media Collage on paper, 60 x 83 x 5 in.Collection of Ellen Tuchman and Harry Orenstein, Dallas, TexasIn Mary McCleary's retelling of Jesus's parable of the prodigal son, the feast that celebrates the prodigal's return becomes a Texas-style family barbeque.Seventeen figures fill the large image.A couple dances as a man plays the fiddle. Women bring platters of fruit and pour lemonade. One young boy takes a forbidden sip of beer.The father, a middle-aged rancher with an ample belly, looks lovingly at his newly returned son, decked out for the occasion in a pink sequined cowboy shirt.The disconsolate elder son looks on from the background.Unlike some modern religious art, it does not descend into kitsch
The Prodigal Son Returns...again...
2007-10-29 20:54:00 Six months hiatus;May 11, 2007 - College "Graduation,"July 7-14, 2007 - Built a house in Juarez, MexicoAugust 4, 2007 - Got engaged (and set a date - February 29, 2008)August 4 - 21, 2007 - Fort Collins, Colorado - Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaAugust 29, 2007 - Moved to Kalispell, MTSeptember 4 - October 25, 2007 - Student taught for eight weeks in the fifth grade classroom at Trinity Lutheran SchoolOctober 29, 2007 - Started six week experience in sixth grade at Trinity Lutheran SchoolSo, what's new with you?RIDGWAY, Pa. - It's furry and walks on all fours. Beyond that, about the only thing certain about the critter photographed by a hunter's camera is that some people have gotten the notion it could be a Sasquatch, or bigfoot. Others say it's just a bear with a bad skin infection.--------------------------------------------"It appears to be a primate-like animal. In my opinion, it appears to be a juvenile Sasquatch," said Paul Majeta of the bigfoot group.---------------------------...
10/02/07 - Life Journal - The Prodigal Son
2007-10-03 21:24:00 But the father said to his slaves, 'Quickly bring out the best robe and put it on him, and put a ring on his hand and sandals on his feet; and bring the fattened calf, kill it, and let us eat and celebrate; for this son of mine was dead and has come to life again; he was lost and has been found.' And they began to celebrate.Luke 15:22-24We've all read the parable of the prodigal son, if you haven't check it out here at Bible Gateway. It is a story, not of taking for granted the son that had stayed with the father, but of the joy in seeing the lost son who figuratively has died and come to life again. The father had to be literally be standing on his roof to see the son coming home when he was "still a long way off".(verse 20)We spend so much energy in joyful praise with our fellow Christ followers but how many of us are standing on the roof of our house day and night searching for the lost son, waiting and praying for his return to life? Yes, Sundays we need to dig deeper into H...
A MODERN DAY PRODIGAL SON
2007-09-25 17:35:00 Over the last few weeks at Rex Boyles' blog, the theme has been the Prodigal Son. There have been some powerful post about the prodigal son's return home, the Father and the older brother. When you get time stop by and check them out. In Phillip Yancey's book "What's so Amazing about Grace," Yancy retells the story of the Prodigal Son from a modern day view point. It is a powerful story and it's definitely worth sharing. Here's the story ...THE RUNAWAY A young girl grows up on a cherry orchard just above Traverse City, Michigan. Her parents, a bit old-fashioned, tend to overreact to her nose ring, the music she listens to, and the length of her skirts. They ground her a few times, and she seethes inside. "I hate you!" she screams at her father when he knocks on the door of her room after an argument, and that night she acts on a plan she has mentally rehearsed scores of times. She runs away. She has visited Detroit only once before, on a bus trip with her church youth group to...
By: Trey Morgan.net
Bucks County's "Prodigal Son" Returns
2007-09-13 03:15:00 Why, look who showed up in Bucks County recently (to campaign for Repugs Jim Cawley and Charles Martin running for re-election as county commissioners, of course). It?s our own former U.S. House Rep Jim Greenwood!(I mean, it had to be so he could shill for Repugs, right? The only other reason for his appearance would be if he?d gotten lost wandering from ?K? street.)The Courier Times story notes the following?At Penn-Vermont Farm on Rolling Hills Road, Greenwood announced that he is now the honorary chairman of the campaign to re-elect incumbents Charley Martin and Jim Cawley. He and his wife, Tina, will host a fundraiser for the pair at their home in Upper Makefield in October.And how?s this for a subtle dig at Dems, in this case Steve Santarsiero and Diane Marseglia, the two commissioner candidates running against Cawley and Martin?The choice of Penn-Vermont Farm to make the announcement was no accident. Martin and Cawley are running primarily on the issue of open space and farmla... |
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