- We all can relate to losing something important. Is it a rite of passage for parents to lose a child for a brief moment?
- Historical context of the lost and found parables.
- Jesus and hanging out with the "sinners." Jesus loved people because they were people, not because people achieved things, but because they were people.
- Jesus came to save, not simply to encourage.
- Part of holiness and perfection is to be forgiving and loving.
- The beautiful, amazing, wasteful grace. God is amazing
- People are more important than material
- Practicing scripts--Love interrupts
- Being a Christian is difficult, not being one is much worse.
- The service to God is the reward in itself. "You have always had me."
- Hard heartedness in churches--Being the older brother