Donald James Parker Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography
Donald James Parker
Acting
Biography
Donald James Parker is a native of Madison, South Dakota transplanted into middle Tennessee. He is the CEO of Sword of the Spirit Publishing and has written 19 novels and one non-fiction book. His new focus is screenplays and acting. He hosts the Blogtalk Radio show Wielding the Sword of the Spirit and is a writer for Examiner.com. His favorite pastimes include biking, fishing, and reading. Parker was a four year letter man in tennis at his Alma Mater Dakota State University. Parker retired from a career in computer programming that included stints at the Frank Russell Company, Microsoft, and PACCAR to write and produce movies.
Filmography Movies
Acting
Pickleball Princess
When a lifetime tennis player finds his favorite public venue converted into pickleball courts, his dislike for the upstart sport with plastic balls begins. After being challenged by one of his former tennis buddies, who has never taken a set from him, to try the new sport, he finally consents in order to rebut the claim that he is afraid of losing. That challenge leads to a change in trajectory of his life that sends a ripple effect into society.
From Pathos to Praise
Estranged Daughter (Lori) gets dumped by her deadbeat boyfriend and she ends up homeless. With no place else to go, she asks her father if she can stay with him, until she can get back on her feet. Lori's sister (Julie) is a self righteous do-good looks down on her sister and her struggle with addiction. After a family fight Lori turns to alcohol, but her father won't let her. He helps her find God again and allow her walk with Christ break her addiction.
Bridging the Chasm
When a doctrinal difference ends the life long friendship of two men, putting them on opposite sides of a chasm in the Body of Christ, one of them perseveres in love during a crisis to attempt to bring unity.
Best Friends Genetically Modified
Jackson's unhealthy eating habits lead to persistent nagging by his lady friend, which triggers Jackson to break off the relationship. Tony picks up the health baton and starts pressuring Jackson to take care of his body, emphasizing to him that the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit and that he cannot serve God with all his heart if his heart and other organs are laboring to fight off self induced toxin poisoning. Jackson takes sides in the ongoing battle for the right of people to choose their own medical treatment. He partners up with Tony and Julie to become a champion for those underdogs who fight against Big Pharma and the Monsantos of the world who reap a fortune as they seize power to run the lives of the little people and jeopardize the future of the planet in their attempt to misuse science and political science to usurp God.
Gramps Goes to College
Ty Bounds, a workaholic as a computer programmer for 35 years, has retired. No longer forced to work for a living, he seeks how he can spend his time serving God. Following the lead of the Holy Spirit, he returns to college to wage war against secular humanism and to mentor a new generation in truth seeking.
Best Friends Eternally
Jackson and Tony have been best friends since the Vietnam War bonded the two men with different worldviews. Tony dutifully informs his best buddy that they can be best friends until death does them part, but until Jackson gets right with God, they can never be best friends eternally. Despite Tony's persistence in preaching the gospel, that friendship thrives in the same fashion between the atheist and the Christian for about forty years, until Madison, Tony's granddaughter, arrives on the scene. While she is busy teaching Jackson about Jesus, her grandfather wanders off the straight and narrow course, compliments of an attractive lady, who despite being several years younger than the retired English professor, professes her love for Tony and lures him into her world.
Old Rugged Cross
Pastor Luke Wolfe is a man with a mission: to close down the rest of the churches in town and to build a facility that will be the gem of the community. He also aims to put a wedding ring on the hand of his church's pianist, the most attractive eligible woman in town. His plans hiccup when Pastor Evan Shephard arrives in town and rents the vacant church building formerly known as Old Rugged Cross. Not only does Wolfe have a new rival for the piano player's affection, but also for the hearts of the citizens of the town he desires to dominate, including his own son, the youth pastor of his mega church.
Best Friends Recycled
Tony and Jackson have been best friends since the Vietnam War. When Jackson lines up Tony with an attractive widow, he doesn’t consider that the dynamics of his friendship with Tony could be drastically altered. Just when it looks like Tony might be tying the knot again with a woman with whom he has fallen completely in love, a past mistake rises out of the ashes to jeopardize the mutually exhilarating relationship.
Love Waits
A small town girl who has just moved to the big city is pressured by peers at school to lose her virginity.
The Good Book
A small New Testament passes through the hands of fourteen strangers. For seven of the individuals, their lives will never be the same.
Production
Pickleball Princess
When a lifetime tennis player finds his favorite public venue converted into pickleball courts, his dislike for the upstart sport with plastic balls begins. After being challenged by one of his former tennis buddies, who has never taken a set from him, to try the new sport, he finally consents in order to rebut the claim that he is afraid of losing. That challenge leads to a change in trajectory of his life that sends a ripple effect into society.
Pickleball Princess
When a lifetime tennis player finds his favorite public venue converted into pickleball courts, his dislike for the upstart sport with plastic balls begins. After being challenged by one of his former tennis buddies, who has never taken a set from him, to try the new sport, he finally consents in order to rebut the claim that he is afraid of losing. That challenge leads to a change in trajectory of his life that sends a ripple effect into society.
Pickleball Princess
When a lifetime tennis player finds his favorite public venue converted into pickleball courts, his dislike for the upstart sport with plastic balls begins. After being challenged by one of his former tennis buddies, who has never taken a set from him, to try the new sport, he finally consents in order to rebut the claim that he is afraid of losing. That challenge leads to a change in trajectory of his life that sends a ripple effect into society.
Bridging the Chasm
When a doctrinal difference ends the life long friendship of two men, putting them on opposite sides of a chasm in the Body of Christ, one of them perseveres in love during a crisis to attempt to bring unity.
From Pathos to Praise
Estranged Daughter (Lori) gets dumped by her deadbeat boyfriend and she ends up homeless. With no place else to go, she asks her father if she can stay with him, until she can get back on her feet. Lori's sister (Julie) is a self righteous do-good looks down on her sister and her struggle with addiction. After a family fight Lori turns to alcohol, but her father won't let her. He helps her find God again and allow her walk with Christ break her addiction.
Bridging the Chasm
When a doctrinal difference ends the life long friendship of two men, putting them on opposite sides of a chasm in the Body of Christ, one of them perseveres in love during a crisis to attempt to bring unity.
From Pathos to Praise
Estranged Daughter (Lori) gets dumped by her deadbeat boyfriend and she ends up homeless. With no place else to go, she asks her father if she can stay with him, until she can get back on her feet. Lori's sister (Julie) is a self righteous do-good looks down on her sister and her struggle with addiction. After a family fight Lori turns to alcohol, but her father won't let her. He helps her find God again and allow her walk with Christ break her addiction.
Bridging the Chasm
When a doctrinal difference ends the life long friendship of two men, putting them on opposite sides of a chasm in the Body of Christ, one of them perseveres in love during a crisis to attempt to bring unity.
Old Rugged Cross
Pastor Luke Wolfe is a man with a mission: to close down the rest of the churches in town and to build a facility that will be the gem of the community. He also aims to put a wedding ring on the hand of his church's pianist, the most attractive eligible woman in town. His plans hiccup when Pastor Evan Shephard arrives in town and rents the vacant church building formerly known as Old Rugged Cross. Not only does Wolfe have a new rival for the piano player's affection, but also for the hearts of the citizens of the town he desires to dominate, including his own son, the youth pastor of his mega church.
Best Friends Genetically Modified
Jackson's unhealthy eating habits lead to persistent nagging by his lady friend, which triggers Jackson to break off the relationship. Tony picks up the health baton and starts pressuring Jackson to take care of his body, emphasizing to him that the body is the temple of the Holy Spirit and that he cannot serve God with all his heart if his heart and other organs are laboring to fight off self induced toxin poisoning. Jackson takes sides in the ongoing battle for the right of people to choose their own medical treatment. He partners up with Tony and Julie to become a champion for those underdogs who fight against Big Pharma and the Monsantos of the world who reap a fortune as they seize power to run the lives of the little people and jeopardize the future of the planet in their attempt to misuse science and political science to usurp God.
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