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Brad Sullivan 4 Lent, Year C March 6, 2016 Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church, Bay City, TX 2 Corinthians 5:16-21 Luke 15:1-3, 11b-32 The Parable of the Extravagantly Forgiving Father Everyone needs forgiveness. We need to give forgiveness, we need to receive forgiveness. We need the grace and healing that comes with forgiveness. That’s because we all have scars and wounds inflicted upon us over the course of our lives, and we are also all the cause of other peoples’ scars and wounds. As much as we need food, water, and air, we are starving and suffocating without forgiveness. Without forgiveness, our past wounds keep on hurting us over and over, and they keep us from living the life of God’s kingdom. Everyone needs forgiveness. That’s why God gives forgiveness so extravagantly. We call the parable which we heard today, “The Prodigal Son,” or the wasteful son. He spent his inheritance wastefully and e