Sooner or later it’s bound to happen. A child will climb into your lap and ask the question, a friend facing some struggle will want to know, or lifting up the floorboards of your own faith you will examine your basic assumptions. From age to age the question is the same, WHAT IS GOD LIKE?

People in Jesus’ day needed an answer to the God question, too; so Jesus gave us the greatest story ever told. A certain man had two sons. We call it the Parable of the Prodigal Son, but really it’s a story about a loving father who is so full of grace that he lavishes love on his wayward boys. The Bible never gets better than here in Luke 15. If you ever wonder about the true nature of Deity; if life has left you skeptical about the personality of God; then ponder it no more. The story of the prodigal …