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A few years back, in a state prison in Hominy, Oklahoma, they had an area in the kitchen they called the “pig slop” pit, into which they would throw all kinds of animal renderings and other food wastes, which they would put into big barrels there. Every so often, at regular intervals, a vendor would come by and pick up those barrels and haul them off, and use the waste to feed his hogs. One of the inmates of the prison, being creative, saw an opportunity there, and one day he slipped into the area unnoticed, and climbed into one of those barrels. The truck came and took him off, and he was for a very short time successful, but when he climbed out of the barrel at a service station, someone reported him, and he was arrested and sent back to prison.

This morning we are looking at the story of another man who found himself in trouble in pig slop – the story of the Prodigal Son. It is probably one of the best-known “stories” of all time. One of the reasons this story is so famous is that it is very much “the story of us all”. We have all experienced the things the son in this story went through, in one form or another — and the truth is, we must experience some of them if we ever want to have a relationship with God and see heaven. See if you can recognize yourself in this young man’s story, and if you can say: “This Is My Story …” Continue reading →