Who's Your Daddy?: Life Lessons from the Prodigal Son - Softcover

Cosby, Dr. Kevin W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0978557204 ISBN 13: 9780978557201

Publisher: Simmons Press, 2017

Synopsis

In Who’s Your Daddy? Dr. Kevin Cosby explores ways that the experience of the Prodigal Son mirrors the lifecycle of every person’s relationship with God. Using vivid imagery and true-to-life situations, Dr. Cosby shows how we all can build healthy relationships with our Heavenly Father and with our children. This book on the Prodigal Son will help people gain the tools necessary to coach and be coached through life. By having more good coach-parents, we will help reverse the downward spiral of our young people and even many of our adults. With more good coach-parents, we will stop mass-producing prodigals—bright young man and women who waste their advantages in search of frivolity. Prodigality is part of everyone's spiritual maturation process; however, the key is to know when and how to return home to the Father. Relationships are perhaps the most important reality in the human experience. Our relationships with other human beings and our relationship with the One who made human beings determine our perspective on life, our ability to function, our aspirations, and our ultimate destination. This book is about losing your way but then climbing out of wretchedness; it’s about the depths of the Father’s love and about the ingratitude and dissatisfaction of the seemingly “good son.” Dr. Cosby examines the many facets of issues that Jesus raised in this parable through the continuum of relationships: father and son. Part of the reason why the Prodigal Son had enough sense to go home from the hog pen was because he remembered he had a good home to go back to. That means some of what his father had taught and lived had rubbed off on him and left an indelible impression on his heart. He had enough of his father’s love in him that, even though he squandered his inheritance and was living in a wild and crazy hog pen, he knew that it was peaceful and pleasant at his father’s house. He remembered his identity. This book demonstrates how parents must teach their children, just like the father taught the Prodigal Son and his brother. Dr. Cosby delves into details of the story that most people overlook, which makes the truth of the story more relevant. What was going on with the older brother? Was the older brother justified in resenting the father’s celebration of the prodigal’s return? Had he been treated unfairly? And how does this story relate to Jesus’ deliverance of the demoniac in Mark 5? Read the book to discover the answer.

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Dr. Kevin W. Cosby earned a Bachelor’s degree from Eastern Kentucky University, a Master of Divinity degree from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and a Doctor of Ministry degree from United Theological Seminary. He has been awarded honorary doctorates from Eastern Kentucky University, Bellarmine University, and Campbellsville University. Since 1979, the Reverend Dr. Kevin W. Cosby has served as Senior Pastor of St. Stephen Baptist Church in Louisville, Kentucky. Due greatly to his practical and dynamic Bible teachings, the congregation has grown from 500 to approximately 14,000 members with three large beautifully appointed campuses: a 1,000-seat church in Louisville, and 500-seat churches in Jeffersonville, Indiana and Radcliff, Kentucky. In 2010 Outreach magazine recognized St. Stephen as one of the 100 largest churches in America, and Emerge magazine identified it as one of six “super churches” of the South. St. Stephen has the largest Christian African American education program in Kentucky and sponsors development of the full person, through education, science, art, music, and culture. Annually it awards $50,000 in college scholarships. Under Dr. Cosby’s vision, St. Stephen has grown to become the largest private black employer in Kentucky and has led the city’s economic investment in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the nation. Dr. Cosby’s leadership brings blacks and whites together to channel social and economic capital into poor neighborhoods. Dr. Cosby promotes black entrepreneurship, hard work, self-reliance, accountability, and ethical wealth building. St. Stephen leads by example. A debt-free institution controlled by blacks, its $23 million in assets include more contiguous property than any other black private institution in West Louisville. In 2005 Dr. Kevin Cosby became the 13th president of Simmons College of Kentucky, Inc. and has reclaimed the college’s original mission of offering a full curriculum for impoverished African American youth. Under his visionary leadership, Simmons gained accreditation by the Association of Biblical Higher Education (ABHE). In 2015 the U.S. Department of Education granted Simmons status as the nation’s 107th Historically Black College or University (HBCU). Simmons offers baccalaureate and associate degrees in business, cross-cultural communications, music, religious studies, and sociology—all designed to strengthen African American churches, families, schools, businesses, and media.

About this edition

• Publisher: Simmons Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0978557204
• ISBN 13: 9780978557201
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 110