What Grace Looks Like (Prodigal Pilates, Part 4)
It looks like the bishop scene in the movie version of Victor Hugo's Les Miserables (Columbia/TriStar Pictures, 1998). The bishop in that scene demonstrates what Christ, "the true elder brother" did…
Considering Culture (Prodigal Pilates, Part 3)
I just realized the elder brother in the parable of the prodigal sonS is an even bigger jerk than I thought a week ago. Notice how the presence of the elder…
What’s So Good About Friday? (Prodigal Pilates, Part 2)
Good Friday. Besides the redemptive act of the just dying for the unjust (that is, Jesus Christ dying for YOU and ME), there is something that distinguishes this Friday from all others, and…
The Prodigal God Pilates
This spring some friends and I are stretching ourselves through the parable of the prodigal son (or more correctly, the parable of the two lost sons) as we simultaneously read Timothy Keller's,…