Hi! My name is Mike Dittmer. I first wrote Parables as a series of sermons that I preached to my tiny church in the year 2009. I later selected 9 of the Parables to become The Rain Parables, a book within a book. A spectacular chain of events all started from a simple observation: God does not like to rain on Sunday School picnics! See The Parable of The Dry Sunday School Picnic. Later a farmer named John had asked me repeatedly to pray for rain, and God answered, but the rain had not been enough to break a severe drought. That had led me to pray for thirty days of light rain, which God answer...