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Veteran author and speaker Phil Callaway is no stranger to daunting challenges. He has been laughed atrepeatedlyby large crowds of people from Halifax to Hong Kong. He fathered three children in three years, spent much of last year on airplanes built by the lowest bidder, and flipped an out-of-control ATV, which doesnt mean he sold it for a profit. So who better than Phil Callaway to boldly accept a challenge that would make the average person run and hide?
Phil promised to tell the truth for an entire year, and he wasnt joking. Twelve months later, his journal was crammed with successes, near-successes, and outright failures. During his year-long experiment with veracity, he made a disastrous financial investment, fielded hundreds of intrusive questions from friends and strangers, attended a thirty-year class reunion, and waded into possibly the most revealingand hilarioussituations he has ever documented.
Find out what happens when a follower of Jesus does his level best to always tell the truth. There is no doubt youll be entertained. But dont be surprised if you are left with a question: how might your life be changed if you sold out to the truthwith no exceptions?
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To Be Perfectly Honest
This book is fabulous and funny. I couldnt read it all at once because my doctor doesnt want me to tear my stitches! These journal entries can help alter the way we view our speech and relationships, Gods grace, and our own integrity. To be perfectly honest, I plan to plagiarize everything Phil has written here!
B RYAN D UNCAN , Grammy Awardwinning musician
Reading Phil Callaways writing is one of lifes pure pleasures. His books are not just a pleasure to savor, like eating a perfectly ripe pear. They are full of firm insights that give grace for the daily race, especially when the journey is hard.
E LLEN V AUGHN , New York Times best-selling coauthor of Its All About Him and author of Time Peace
Phil Callaway may be known for his humor, but he takes on a serious topic in To Be Perfectly Honest: He tries not to lie for one solid year. Thankfully, he takes us along on his 365-day journey with his sense of humor firmly intact. Youll enjoy this bookno lie.
M ARK J OSEPH , Foxnews.com, author of The Lion, the Professor, and the Movies: Narnias Journey to the Big Screen
Phil is what youd get if you tampered with the genes of Garrison Keillor, Dave Barry, and my fourth-grade Sunday school teacher. Dont buy a copy of this book. Buy a few dozen.
J OEL F REEMAN , author of God Is Not Fair, chaplain for the Washington Bullets
Phil Callaway
I love Phil Callaway because he manages to accomplish what few writers canmasterfully blending laughter with learning.
L EE S TROBEL , best-selling author of The Case for Christ
Very few authors make me laugh out loud. Phil Callaway makes me roar. Maybe thats why I savor his books like a cup of hot chocolate. Sipping each story slowly, rolling it around my mouth to get the full flavor. Then spitting it all over the room in reaction to the hilarious truth.
K EN D AVIS , author and comedian
Reading Phil Callaway is like playing in holy sand. Youre having so much fun you dont realize how much has gone into your shoes and is now sticking to your life.
C HRIS F ABRY , author and host of Chris Fabry Live!
God speaks through the small and ordinary in extraordinary ways. Phil has listened and heardand thankfully decided to share it with us.
M ICHAEL C ARD , author, teacher, and singer/songwriter
Phil Callaway is master of the funny bone and the heart tug. He pretends to be just a fellow traveler, but Im not fooled: he knows the ground well, and Id follow him anywhere.
M ARK B UCHANAN , author of The Rest of God and Hidden in Plain Sight
T O B E P ERFECTLY H ONEST
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All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the King James Version. Scripture quotations marked (ESV) are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version, copyright 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a division of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked ( MSG ) are taken from The Message by Eugene H. Peterson. Copyright 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2001, 2002. Used by permission of NavPress Publishing Group. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked ( NIV ) and quotes on . Scripture quotations marked ( NKJV ) are taken from the New King James Version. Copyright 1982 by Thomas Nelson Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Scripture quotations marked ( NLT ) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.
Details in some anecdotes and stories have been changed to protect the identities of the persons involved.
Copyright 2011 by Phil Callaway
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Published in the United States by WaterBrook Multnomah, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House Inc., New York.
M ULTNOMAH and its mountain colophon are registered trademarks of Random House Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Callaway, Phil, 1961
To be perfectly honest : one mans year of almost living truthfully could change your lifeno lie / Phil Callaway.1st ed.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-1-60142-385-6 1. Truthfulness and falsehoodReligious aspectsChristianity. 2. Callaway, Phil, 1961 I. Title.
BV4647.T7C35 2011
241.673dc22
2010051163
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For all who lived near me during this wonderful,
traumatic year. Especially my forgiving friends.
S ome phone calls change your Saturday; some your entire year. When my editor called, he couldnt have known he would accomplish both.
Ive had an idea for a while, said Ron. It will make for a great book, and youre just the guy to write it.
Im human. I was flattered.
Is it about understanding women? I asked. About being sensitive to my wifes needs?
Why?
Im good at those things, Ron. I am most excellent.
Are you telling the truth?
Uh why do you ask?
Well, thats what this book is about: complete and total honesty. I want you to see if you can tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth for an entire year.
Im sorry, I said, youre breaking up on this end. (I pretended to hang up, and judging from the prolonged silence, he thought I had.) The truth is, as my Native American friend Roy likes to say, I had reservations.
For some, a lieless year would be an easy assignment. Their natural habitat is the truth. Not me. I lie for a living. Oh, Im not a used-car salesman or a politician. Nor do I write copy for bank advertisements. Its worse. I am a humorist. I stand in front of audiences and tell stories. These stories are 99 percent trueat least as far as I can remember. But sometimes I add just enough salt to keep a tale savory, just enough falsehood to keep people interested. Some of the things I describe may not technically have happened, but they might just as well have.
After pretending to get back on the line, I leaked all this information to Ron as if he were my priest. He seemed to listen attentively, though he could have been working a crossword puzzle, texting his wife, or reading e-mail. I told him the assignment would be complicated by the fact that I have been a chronic fudger all my life. Most people dont know this because I have become so adept at it. I fudge that Im fudging.
And to be honest with you, I learned it at church. The church my family was part of seemed to reward falsehood. Nothing seemed to be more important than a persons outward appearance, so from an early age, I learned to fake my faith. Whenever anyone asked, Id claim that Id been having my devotions. Id sing I love to tell the story of Jesus and His love when I would sooner have had my eyebrows plucked by spider monkeys than talk to anyone about God.
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