• The Story Is Told (By Ernest Hemingway) Of A ...  PRO

  Contributed by Bruce Howell on Feb 1, 2001 (message contributor)

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  Scripture:  Luke 15:11-32, Luke 15:1, Nehemiah 4:1-23

  Tags:  Love, Father, Forgiveness, Son, Family, Lost, Fatherhood, Prodigal, Found, Descriptions Of God, Forgiveness For Others, God's Provision  (view more)  (view less)

  Denomination: Wesleyan

The story is told (by Ernest Hemingway) of a father and his teenage son who had a relationship that had become strained to the point of breaking. Finally the son ran away from home. His father, however, began a journey in search of his rebellious son. Finally, in Madrid, in a last desperate effort to find him, the father put an ad in the newspaper. The ad read: “DEAR PACO, MEET ME IN FRONT OF THE NEWSPAPER