When I think about how God’s Word still teaches us today through its timeless truths, my mind inherently turns to the spiritual insight we continue to glean from the parables Jesus spoke during His earthly ministry.

This month, I am looking at a few of Jesus’ parables and placing them in our contemporary setting to show how the Bible is relevant not just yesterday, but today and tomorrow.

I am dedicating this month’s series to Pastor Crouther, New Covenant Baptist Church, who has been the inspiration for this series, as he has the extraordinary gift of modernizing a parable of Jesus to preach a sermon that speaks directly to a contemporary audience.

This week, I will use the well known Parable of the Prodigal Son and contemporize it by using a similar scenario:

A wealthy man had two sons; the younger son demanded that his father give him his share of his father’s estate NOW!

The father heard his older son was outside pouting and he tried to persuade his older son to come in but his son said, ‘Wait, I’ve been here, and I never left, but my brother goes out, spends all of his money on clubbing, gambling and prostitutes, and he comes home and you forgive him and throw him a party!?