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Jesus' Son: Stories Denis Johnson
Publisher: Harper Perennial

Told through a train wreck of regret and longing, the stories in Jesus' Son unapologetically expose the malignancies of the human heart. However, while all of these stories are amazing and inspiring, they pale in comparison to the greatest story ever told. The underlying difference is that one is a prophet – a great one at that; and the other, the Son of God! BIBLE STORIES THEATRE OF FINE & PERFORMING ARTS - Awareness In The Arts for Children & · RSS · Follow In contrast, the good news is Jesus knew the Father and his disciples knew that the Father sent the Son. JESUS' SON was recommended to me as the perfect tryout book for Johnson's literature. Son of Man is an updated story of the life of Jesus set in the fictional State of Judea that is modern day South Africa – complete with warlords and child soldiers. The unnamed narrator is only known to us by his nickname: Fuckhead. Jesus' story of the Prodigal Son portrays a God who is like the father, never giving up on his children. Jesus could directly command the dead man to get up. For whatever reason, despite others reading it and recommending it highly, I avoided it. Here's how the story goes, Abraham had 2 sons, one through his slave Hagar and one through Sarah. Think about the parable of the Prodigal Son. By the time Jesus gets to the end of the lost son story, it had to be obvious that the theme was about lost things. The story of how God sent His only Son Jesus Christ to die on the cross for our sins! When prophet Mohammed came after hundreds of years after Jesus, he did not have to prove Jesus existed because everyone at that time knew. I have had Johnson's story collection (connected story collection, that is) Jesus' Son (1992) on my shelf for a long time. Tryout turned out to be the keyword, here.