For a study series with some of the gang from my church, I’ve been reading Timothy Keller’s The Prodigal God. In this short but profound book, Keller reexamines the so-called Parable of the Prodigal Son. He points out that the story is really about two sons, the younger brother, who squanders his share of his father’s fortune, and the elder brother, who in the end cannot fathom why his father has readopted the younger. The title of the book alludes to the fact that the father in the story expends lavishly in order to bring the younger brother back into the family.