Beware of Pastors Always Trying to Find a “New Angle”

A few months back, I was listening to a podcast of a pastor I very much respect.  He was teaching on The Prodigal Son, Luke 15:11-32.  When he got to the part when the younger brother was living in a “far country” and earned a living feeding pigs, all of a sudden that became the story.  Here was the “new angle.”