Youth Pastor and Worship Leader, Jared Earhart, teaches from Luke 15, the story of the Prodigal Son.

1. The Prodigal Son
Luke 15:11-32

2. What Does “prodigal”
even mean?

4. What Does “prodigal”
even mean?
“forth” and “to drive”

5. Luke 15:11-32

6. Why does Jesus tell this
parable?

8. Three Main Characters
Younger Son’s Actions & Father’s
Response
Older Son’s Response & Father’s
Response to him
Meditation & Application

9. The Father

10. The Prodigal (younger)
Son

11. The Older Son

12. The Story

13. The Younger Son’s
Response

14. Working for a Gentile
Feeding Pigs
“Desireing their food”

15. V.18 “Father, I have sinned against Heaven
and before you”
V.19a “I am no longer worthy to be called
your son”
V.19b “Treat me as one of your hired
servants”

16. The Father’s Response to
the Younger Son

18. “Sanctified Imagination”

20. The Older Son’s
Response

21. The Father’s Response to
the Older Son

22. V.31 “…Son, you are always with me”
– Secure
V.31 “…all that is mine is yours”
– not a threat
V.32 “It is fitting to make merry and be glad,
for this your brother was dead, and is alive,
he was lost, and is found.”
– the appropriate response

23. Application & Meditation

24. Which Son are you?

25. What is Our Response to
the Father Welcoming
others Home?

27. What does the father’s
action Show us about God
(Heavenly Father)?

28. Mercy – forgiving
Grace – restoring

29. How do we return to
God? (Three ways)

30. Return to God’s
- Presence
- Attitude
- Desire

31. Luke 15:24 “For this son was
dead, and is alive again; he
was lost, and is found.”