Buy my book " Joy in the Journey " on Amazon now 20% goes to missions Parables are simple life stories Jesus used to teach about spiritual truths. They raise intense curiosity, promising more for seekers. The interested ones will be inspired and uninterested will walk away uninspired. They are not myths or fables, nor are they doctrines or prophecies. The parable of "the prodigalson" one of the most popular stories ever told. It has been described as "the Gospel within the Gospel" because the gospel is the love story of God to mankind. A kind father and two sons lived together. The younger son rejected the home and claimed his inheritanace and went to a far away land. There, he wasted all his wealth and became lonely and homeless. Then he remembered about his life in his father's home and decided to return. He repented and returned to the father asking for forgiveness. The kind father took him back as son and arranged great welc...