1. We all can relate to losing something important. Is it a rite of passage for parents to lose a child for a brief moment?
2. Historical context of the lost and found parables.
3. Jesus and hanging out with the "sinners." Jesus loved people because they were people, not because people achieved things, but because they were people.
4. Jesus came to save, not simply to encourage.
5. Part of holiness and perfection is to be forgiving and loving.
6. The beautiful, amazing, wasteful grace. God is amazing
7. People are more important than material 
8. Practicing scripts--Love interrupts 
9. Being a Christian is difficult, not being one is much worse.
10. The service to God is the reward in itself. "You have always had me."
11. Hard heartedness in churches--Being the older brother