With everyone trying to match the right present with the right person I thought I’d step in and help by recommending a book for Christmas.
Tim Keller’s excellent new book ‘The Prodigal God’ is, and I don’t say this lightly, probably the best book I have read this year. He looks at the parable of the lost son and considers that both sons in the story were equally lost. The younger lost, in the traditional sense, the older son lost in the religious, Pharisaical sense.
Note that it was the older brother that didn’t appear at the feast at the end of the story..
Buy the book, give it as a gift, read it yourself.