Reddit reviews The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

I'm a Presbyterian(PCA) and I would strongly recommend Timothy Keller. I think that you would find him very insightful. You can go here and there are some free sermons. He seems to me to be one of the most rational and intelligent theologians out there, but yea I would strongly advise him. He has also written some books and you can find them on Amazon. The books I would suggest by him are Reason for God, Counterfeit Gods, and the Prodigal God.

Read the father's response. "My son, you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. But we had to celebrate and be glad, for this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found."

Also note the older son's use of the word "slaving" to describe his "faithfulness" to his father.

I keep hearing great things about the book The Prodigal God by Tim Keller. It expounds on the parable and is written for those who identify with either of the two sons.

The Gospel. The Gospel. The Gospel.

It's what separates Christianity from religion.

I listen to this capture of it on audiobook relatively once a month.

You should read The Prodigal God.

From a review: "Keller's approachable treatise tackles the parable of the Prodigal Son as it relates to Christians, most especially those who have come to believe that the church is fraught with hypocrisy. He reinterprets the parable to show that the Christian church is made up of "younger brothers" (those who are wayward, stubborn, and unfaithful) and "elder brothers" (those who are haughty, jealous, and close-minded) as a way of understanding how the younger brothers become alienated from the elder-brother-run church community."

If you're interested in his books, I recently finished reading Prodigal God and have a copy of Reason for God sitting atop my "todo pile" at home.

Prodigal God was a short read, but it was just enough to expound upon the familiar parable with a new insight. The crux of his argument was that "prodigal" is a more fitting description for God's own love for us (and the father in the story) rather than the lost son that we all associate with the word. He seems to have a knack for presenting fresh perspectives on things.

If you get a chance, I'd recommend either, although Reason for God is going to be the more substantial of the two.

Have you read Crazy Love by Francis Chan? My wife is reading it right now. Some others I like are Prodigal God by Tim Keller, Systematic Theology by Wayne Grudem, When People are Big and God is Small by Edward T. Welch, and Knowing God by J.I. Packer