philip's blog
Caleb
On and off over the past year, I have been asking the Lord to "make me another of His Caleb's"... it was especially vivid for me last week when I had a great week full of incredible daily exercise... I was feeling ready to keep on innkeeping for another 10 years... no problem here old fella... :)
1874 was a long time ago....
Our friend Martha commented on Facebook about a little book she had read that really challenged her. This is what she said:
...that hook thing?
It started long before I ever knew anything about it... that hook thing. Actually... it is there in all of us... part of our original equipment... way back when Eve swallowed the first hook back there in the Garden... just eat from that tree and you will be just like God...if you think God can do great things...
...the hook
Did you ever catch a fish that swallowed the hook? I did... several times... always kinda ugly though... you know... trying to get the hook out... eventually I would stop struggling to pull the hook out... just slice the fish open... and then finally be able to remove it... still always a bit messy... now ... why did that ole fish have to go swallow the whole thing... I mean...
... with apologies to Yogi :)
Last time I mentioned... " Of course…. it isn’t finally over… till it’s finally over ….. 
"Actually... when most of world thinks... "it's all over"... it is really only the beginning... what we call life here on planet earth.... is only preparing us for what God has planned for us from the beginning....
"Actually... when most of world thinks... "it's all over"... it is really only the beginning... what we call life here on planet earth.... is only preparing us for what God has planned for us from the beginning.... ...it doesn't matter
Oh if we could only see how true it is.....that it doesn't matter.... it really does not matter! Whether I win or I lose... whether I get a booking tomorrow or do not get a booking tomorrow... whether the miracle I need happens or does not happen...
...epitaphs
Jerry Bruckheimer's desired epitaph: "He really entertained audiences; he made them feel better for a couple hours"...
I lied to you....
I did... I really did... I lied to you for about 30 years... that's why I took it all back last time... I need to start telling the truth instead... :)
Maybe it's my fault....
"Maybe it's my fault... maybe I led you to believe it was easy... when it wasn't... that failure gave me strength... that the pain was my motivation to press on...." hmmmm.... this was more than Michael Jordan talking to Lebron James in a cute commercial.... this has become my personal confession of the horror of my presentation of the Gospel...
...on the other hand
On the one hand we have the cop out on life of suicide... the one I've been talking about for a few days now...on the other hand... we have a society obsessed with keeping folks alive forever... as if we should all live forever... here is yet another Satanic twist on truth...
