Jesus does not divide the world into the moral "good guys" and the immoral "bad guys". He shows us that everyone is dedicated to a project of self-salvation, to using God and others in order to get power and control for themselves. We are just going about it in different ways. Even though both sons are wrong, however, the father cares for them and invites them both back into his love and feast.

Only if you are part of a community of believers seeking to resemble, serve, and love Jesus will you ever get to know him and grow into his likeness.

When you say, "Come in Jesus as my caregiver, stay out as my Lord," he can't. He's both.

But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.

God so loved us and hates suffering that he was willing to come down and get involved in it.

Jesus cannot be just liked. His claims make us either kill him or crown him.

You don't fall in love. You commit to it.