February 2011
ok... so here's a tip....
Not mine.... not my tip... just some words from T. Austin Sparks... that I believe with all my heart...
"The Lord has not called upon us to form churches. That is not our business. Would to God men had recognized the fact! A very different situation would obtain today from what exists, if that had been recognized."
"The Lord has not called upon us to form churches. That is not our business. Would to God men had recognized the fact! A very different situation would obtain today from what exists, if that had been recognized."
got any tips?
So... have you got any tips, Philip... you know... any tips about life .... how to live... how to make something out of all this.... Come on now old fella... after 75 years on the planet .... have you learned anything you'd maybe like to pass along... ? :)
George Warnock?
Ever heard of him... George Warnock? I never did... who is this guy anyway? Well... my friend Bodie sent along a little somethin'..... as he is prone to do... all the time... got me a little excited.... as he is also prone to do... all the time.... :)
martha... martha...
Martha was a doer... I understand that... I was a doer... a doer that needed to undo all my doing.... “Martha, Martha, you are worried and bothered about so many things; but only a few things are necessary, really only one, for Mary has chosen the good part...."
how come is it....?
Over and over and over... just kept happening ....after the perfect church fell apart... my purpose in life kept changing... I had to keep reinventing it... or go down the tubes... how come is it you think?.... could it possibly be that .... "that whole built-in concept was a lie… right from the beginning… a lie…" like I was saying the other day...
the pattern continues
It will go on and on forever... the pattern will... that's just the way pattern works... the pattern continues until I see the lie and stop believing it.. our purpose in life is not about doing some great thing... having some wonderful ministry... being a success ... however we might define success...
see any pattern here?
Let's see if you can pick up a pattern here a little quicker than I did.... I'll even give you a hint... here's how it plays out... listen.... here is the lie.... "Philip.... God has this great purpose for your life... He will bring about this great purpose thru you....His humble servant... Philip" Wow... go for it big guy!
Depressed?
Talked about depression last time... do you know anyone that's depressed... are you depressed today? Pretty normal this time of year. I think it really has a lot more to do with something other than the weather.... we need more than some anti-depressant pill... more than even springtime and the sunshine that comes with it...
enjoying the snow?
People are sending in all their pictures of mountains of snow on Facebook....along with their tales of being snowbound in some way or another...and all the back breaking labor involved in trying to stay ahead of it all...
He cares about everything
I did promise I would try to get back to this "contradictions" thing.... I had just said something that appears to be a contradiction... at least to my rational mind it seems to be a contradiction:
