Parables That Inspire the Soul
Everyday stories with spiritual depth—encouragement, wisdom, and faith from the heart of Jack Worrill.
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Jack Worrill
Jack was born, reared, educated and married in Atlanta, Georgia. After his graduation from Georgia Tech, he spent a short period in South Carolina as an Industrial Engineer. Upon returning to Atlanta he entered the Advertising and Printing business, the last fifteen in his own Direct Mail Advertising agency.
Following that period, Jack discovered his skills as a Craftsman, restoring, repairing, and re-caning chairs and rockers in Metro Atlanta, and the Southeast. His ministries grew to include teaching caning, leading Lay Evangelism and Christian witnessing classes, and serving at first as interim choir director, and later as a bi-vocational Minister of Music.
After losing his first wife, Lyn, to cancer in 2010, he responded to what he calls a “holy nudge” in 2011, and began a relationship with Joyce Smith who also lost her husband in 2010. In 2012 their mostly on-line friendship became a genuine courtship and they were married in November of that year.
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Parables For The Purposeful Walk
In the tradition of the typical parable-everyday thoughts and experiences, developed and concluded with a spiritual application, directing the reader’s attention to the working of God-“Parables for The Purposeful Walk” are intended to focus the reader’s attention on the Presence of God in the ordinary events of each day of the reader’s life. The goal of these brief writings is to encourage the reader to look for and recognize the desire of God to guide and strengthen the reader’s commitment to undertake and persist in the Purposeful Walk that brings those who do so into the full and meaningful life intended for each of us.
Parables for Plain People
During his nearly fifty years as Sunday School teacher, song leader, and choir director, Jack Worrill has developed an appreciation of the parable as a means of illustrating important spiritual truths. These Parables for Plain People are presented in the traditional parable form:
An illustration, current event, personal experience, or observation with a short development, followed by a spiritual application. Each reading takes from three to five minutes to read and finishes with a challenge to respond to the spiritual message.
Jack’s Parables for Plain People are all based upon his keen awareness of the presence of the Holy Spirit, purposefully working out His Will in even the most ordinary daily events, in the lives of those who put their faith and trust in Him.
More Parables for Plain People
Since the release of his first book, Parables for Plain People, the author has been asked often why these observations of his are called “parables.” The reply is always the same: The Sunday School definition of a parable is “An earthly story with a heavenly meaning.”
“Each parable is brief, but packed with discernment and occasional humor, and most readers find it hard to stop reading after only one or two. This is just the book for you if you need encouragement in times of difficulty, stress, or troubles. Many turn to it for comfort in times of sadness and grief. Some have even found it to be a rich resource for devotional talks and readings.”
Books
Amazing! I too have had these thoughts. Praying that the Lord would lead me to folks who need to hear the Word. We need to expect every day that our light will be shining to show the way.
S. Davis, Jefferson, GA
Once again you have expertly woven a beautiful message of redemption into one of your parables. May we all be anxious to partner with Creator God … as we watch the Restorer and Refinisher bring beauty out of ashes.
K. Mercer, Terra Haute, IN
Thank you for your stories … wisdom, knowledge, and understanding are also guiding my life journey this year. Thank you for your words of wisdom.
D. Danner, Smyrna, GA
… at the end of your parable, I like the way you clarify that, ‘… we don’t truly hear Him unless we are prepared to do something about what we hear.’ Good point to ponder, and then act upon!
K. Goodloe, Honduras
