This week Pastor Laitinen and Pastor Zarling interview Pastor Wayne Laitinen, Jeremy’s father. We discuss Luke 15:1-3, 11-32. It’s the story of a cruddy son, a cranky brother, and a crazy father. It’s the story of how we Christians can be the younger son who misuse the inheritance of forgiveness, life and salvation our heavenly Father gives us. It’s the story of how we Christians can be the older son who looks down on others who are caught in sin and unbelief. It’s the story of two sons who want the Father’s stuff, and all the Father wants to give them is a relationship with himself.
Most of all, it’s the story of our heavenly Father’s crazy, reckless, wasteful, prodigal love for his children. But it’s also a story told by the third son – the perfect son of God who rejoices when his lost and dead siblings are found and made alive again – through him.
Stay thirsty, my friends. Quench that thirst in the Water of Life.