at MOVIECLIPS.com<\/a><\/div>\nMr. Martin does an amazing job portraying the character in this scene.\u00a0 The look of awe on his face at that moment describes quite eloquently the feeling I get when I spend time in Your Presence.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Heavenly Father, thank You once again for a rejuvenating weekend.\u00a0 It always refreshes me to find Your Messages to us in so many varied ways and places.\u00a0 You truly are the God of \u201cMiracles and Wonders\u201d<\/em>.\u00a0 Amen.<\/p>\n~Phather Phil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dear Lord; Happy Monday Father! Thank You Father, for yet another lovely weekend!\u00a0 Shannon and I were able to get out with some friends for a \u201cdate night\u201d Friday evening, and on Saturday a friend of Jonathan\u2019s from Kay\u2019s Kamp came for a visit.\u00a0 He hadn\u2019t seen Matthew since Kamp last summer, so it was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[505,350,182,1016,412,639,321,772,1012,1018,581,625,915,825,610,1011,4,173,442,619,42,628,1010,228,24,966,444,5,593,916,580,808,976,116,222,190,1006,1009,104,133,783,355,824,377,1014,434,1007,304,385,1013,55,587,572,41,683,290,1017,629,174,832,227,117,95,1015,1008,631,114,49,449,378,379,138],"class_list":["post-682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-emails-to-god","tag-afternoon","tag-amazing","tag-boys","tag-brokenness","tag-busy","tag-changes","tag-christ","tag-christian","tag-christian-preacher","tag-con-man","tag-control","tag-date-night","tag-dear-lord","tag-depressed","tag-different","tag-faith-healer","tag-family","tag-father","tag-favorite","tag-feeling","tag-focus","tag-friday","tag-fried-wontons","tag-friend","tag-friends","tag-god","tag-happy","tag-healing","tag-heavenly","tag-heavenly-father","tag-hidden","tag-high","tag-house","tag-jonathan","tag-joy","tag-kids","tag-leap-of-faith","tag-liam-neeson","tag-light","tag-love","tag-matthew","tag-message","tag-messages","tag-miracle","tag-miracle-of-healing","tag-miracles","tag-miracles-and-wonders","tag-monday","tag-movie","tag-performing-miracles","tag-perspective","tag-power","tag-powerful","tag-presence","tag-realize","tag-resistance","tag-revivals","tag-saturday","tag-school","tag-schoolwork","tag-shannon","tag-son","tag-spirit","tag-spiritual-transformation","tag-steve-martin","tag-sunday","tag-thank-you","tag-weekend","tag-witness","tag-wonder","tag-wonderful","tag-work"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p18mMc-b0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=682"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682\/revisions\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phatherphil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>One of the movies I watched on Sunday afternoon was an old favorite of mine (I actually have it on Laserdisc).\u00a0 It\u2019s a 1992 film called \u201cLeap of Fath\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/a> which starred Steve Martin as a con-man Christian preacher and faith healer named Jonas Nightengale who travels across the country hosting revivals and performing \u201cmiracles\u201d<\/em> for the crowd.\u00a0 On his way to Topeka, one of the trucks breaks down and strands the troupe in a depressed farming town called Rustwater.\u00a0 Jonas decides to do their show in the small town while waiting for the truck to be repaired, and is quickly met with resistance from the local sheriff (played by Liam Neeson) who seeks to expose him for the charlatan that he is.\u00a0 Jonas\u2019 perspective however, soon changes when a local handicapped boy begins to make him examine his faith in a different light.<\/p>\n