The Prodigal God
Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith
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4.6 • 365 Ratings
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- $13.99
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
The New York Times bestselling author of The Prodigal Prophet uncovers the essential message of Jesus, locked inside his most familiar parable.
Newsweek called 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, Keller takes his trademark intellectual approach to understanding Christianity and uses the parable of the prodigal son to reveal an unexpected message of hope and salvation.
Within that parable Jesus reveals God's prodigal grace toward both the irreligious and the moralistic. This book will challenge both the devout and skeptics to see Christianity in a whole new way.
Customer Reviews
Great Read!
Anyone who grew up in the church has heard this story a million times. I love the way Keller writes this easy to read and understand breakdown of Christ’s teachings of the prodigal son. We all can relate to the young son but it is the heart of the older son that needed to be explained. It’s a short book and a fast read. Highly recommend.
Awesome read
From beginning to end it challenged me to look to Christ. So many things in this life pull our attention away from the Father, but he is waiting for us in the end at the feast. The writing was easy to read and very challenging.
The Prodigal God
It read more like a sermon than a book. In my opinion Tim spends a lot of time, too much time, rehashing and restating what it means to be an older brother and what an “older brother” looks like today instead of who the Father is and what He does. The book would have been more appropriately titled, “The Elder Brother Today”.