Sermon Notes

Castles in the Sand
The Father’s House – Father’s Day
June 21, 2026

Luke 15:20
But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.

Luke 15:24
For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ So they began to celebrate.

Younger son, “I can never be a son again.”

Father’s Wisdom, “You will always be my son.”

Luke 15:27-30
27 “Your brother has come,’ he replied, ‘and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound.”
28 “The older brother became angry and refused to go in. So his father went out and pleaded with him.
29 But he answered his father, ‘Look! All these years I’ve been slaving for you and never disobeyed your orders. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.
30 But when this son of yours who has squandered your property with prostitutes comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!’

Your righteousness does not give you the license to exclude others because of their sin.

Older son, “I’m a true son who never left.”

Father’s Wisdom, “This is your brother. He was dead and is alive again.”

Luke 15:31-32
31 “‘My son,’ the father said, ‘you are always with me, and everything I have is yours. 32 But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’”

Both sons, “Give me what I think I deserve.”

Father’s Wisdom, “You are not an only child in the Family of God.”

You can spend your whole life in the Father’s house and still miss the heart of the Father.

You are not an only child in the Family of God.

Whose presence at the feast would make you refuse to go in and eat?

1 John 3:1
See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!

You are not an only child in the Family of God.