What if the greatest barrier between us and God isn’t our sin, but our expectation of how God will respond to our sin? In this message, we look at Rembrandt’s The Return of the Prodigal Son alongside Jesus’ most famous parable to uncover how shame reshapes our expectations of love. By tracing Rembrandt’s life, the prodigal’s journey, and the heart of the Father, we discover a gospel truth that is both unsettling and freeing: God was for us before we came home, while we wandered, and when we finally turned back.