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Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons In fact, the story’s not about us at all. We find out that if the father in this story is a stand-in for God, God’s not keeping score the way everybody else keeps score. In a culture where shame lessened everyone’s respect for you, God demonstrated God’s willingness to dive face-first into the slop to show us how much we’re loved.But God’s also willing to risk humiliation to find the entitled older brother and listen to his whining about how—after all he’s done—he’s never got so much as a case of beer and a cheese ball for a party with his friends. Think about it. God embraces humiliation to preserve a relationship with both the irresponsible brat and the entitled fussbudget.Subscribe to us on iTunes!Sermon text: web | d