Parable of The Hummingbird Wars Our house has a stone terrace across the front with lovely plants and shrubbery around the edges, thanks to the previous owners. With a glass-topped table and wrought-iron patio chairs, it makes a very pleasant…
Here's a new, very brief Parable that was inspired while doing a Bible study the other day. Parable of The Cycle of Salvation Adam and Eve were sinless and naked when they walked with God in the Garden of Eden.…
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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.
Since their marriage, they have been engaged in many local and foreign ministries, including three medical missions to Haiti and more than a half dozen to the Dominican Republic. Other mission trips have included medical and evangelistic ministries in Brazil and Myanmar.
The Covid-19 epidemic changed the direction of Jack’s business and ministry activities, and in 2020 Jack and Joyce moved from Metro Atlanta, to Knoxville, Tennessee. Since that move they have seen their service opportunities greatly expanded. Jack’s chair caning skills are still much sought after all over East Tennessee, and he teaches an annual chair caning class at the John Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, NC.
In addition to writing his Parables, Jack had also written an occasional piece of music, and some poetry, as well as practicing his artistic skills from time to time. Among his most favorite activities, though, is sharing his love for, and faith in, his Savior, Jesus Christ. He has said, “I’ll share Jesus with anyone at the drop of a hat–and I’ll even drop the hat.”
Reason that inspired you to come up with the book:
Jack has always used similes and metaphors, to illustrate some special point, and on one occasion a good friend suggested that he write some of them down and share them. As he began to think about how to do that, the format of the parable seemed the best way to present his examples in a meaningful way. The purpose of a parable is to present a thought, experience, or sometimes a daily occurrence, develop it, and bring it to a spiritual or inspirational conclusion. That thought process resulted in Jack’s books of Parables.
