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Fourth Sunday in Lent, March 30, 2025

Prodigal Kingdom

“Prodigal Kingdom” A sermon based on Psalm 32, Corinthians 5:16-21, and Luke 15:1-32 at the First Congregational UCC of Onekama, Michigan on the Fourth Sunday in Lent, March 30, 2025 by the Rev. Alison Andrea Young.

The “Prodigal Son” is a story many of us learned about in Sunday School. Like Aesop’s Fables it was meant to leave us with a moral teaching. The prodigal son was a bad person. He took the money his father gave him and wasted it, then came crawling back home when he was homeless and starving—literally surviving on the pea pods left for the pigs to eat. At least that’s what I remember from what I was taught. The word “prodigal” has a thoroughly negative connotation for most of us.. . .

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