Speaker
Michael Prodigalidad
5 sermons · All speakers
The Youngest Son's Journey: Craving, Choices, and Consequences
The parable of the prodigal son in Luke 15 opens a searching examination of the youngest son's craving for the world, his reckless squandering of his inheritance, and the providential famine that reduces him to feeding pigs. The sermon traces how unchecked desire leads to impulsive departure from the father's house, wasteful living, and humiliating destitution. The application is immediate: the youngest son's trajectory is recognisable in any heart that dreams of a 'far country' and resists the safety and provision of home.
Hitting Rock Bottom: A Story of Redemption and Hope
The parable of the prodigal son illustrates the depth of human sin and the sovereign grace that brings a sinner to repentance. The younger son's descent into destitution — feeding pigs in a far country, longing to eat their food — pictures the miserable estate of every soul apart from God. Godly sorrow, distinguished from mere regret, drives the son to confess sin against both his father and against heaven. The sermon presses the listener to consider whether they have yet come to themselves, recognizing their own ruin and the mercy that awaits in the Father's house.
God's Unconditional Forgiveness: A Promise for ALL
The parable of the prodigal son proclaims that God's forgiveness is unconditional and extends to every category of sinner without exception. No depth of moral failure, addiction, or shame places a person beyond the reach of divine mercy. The sermon presses home that repentance — however hesitant — is met not with rejection but with restoration, and calls every hearer to turn from sin and trust the Savior who washes and purifies.
The Three Parables in Luke 15: Why God Repeats His Message of Love
Why does Scripture record three parables about lostness in a single chapter? Drawing on Luke 15, this exposition argues that divine repetition is not redundancy but pastoral mercy — God driving home the same nail of love and grace until it holds. The sermon calls both the familiar and the first-time hearer to lower their defences and receive afresh the truth that God knows every individual, whether near or far, and actively seeks the lost.
The Prodigal Son
Luke 15:11–32, the parable of the prodigal son, confronts two kinds of lostness: the deliberate rebellion of a son who demands his inheritance while his father still lives, and the self-righteous resentment of an elder son who cannot rejoice at his brother's return. The sermon traces the younger son's descent, his coming to himself in godly sorrow and repentance, and the father's extravagant, undeserved welcome as a picture of God's readiness to receive returning sinners. The older son's unresolved anger is pressed upon those whose confidence rests in their own moral performance rather than in grace. The sermon closes by pointing to Christ as the true older brother who, unlike his counterpart in the parable, laid down his life to make repentant sinners co-heirs with himself.