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CAMPFIRE MESSAGES from Pastors & Ministers of ICCAN
Come sit around the campfire and
let the Word of God speak to your heart.
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Comment by Don Adkisson on April 4, 2016 at 8:30am
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Echoes From the Campfire: April 4
"Sometimes responsibility had an uncomfortable fit, like a right boot on a left foot." --Elmer Kelton (The Day the Cowboys Quit)
"I alone am not able to carry all this people, because it is too burdensome for me." --Numbers 11:14 (NASB)
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Echoes From the Campfire: April 1
"The salt would be gone. There just wouldn't be any flavor. There wouldn't be much meaning left." --Jack Schaefer (Shane)
"You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste (its strength, its quality), how can its saltness be restored? It is not good for anything any longer but to be thrown out and trodden underfoot by men." --Matthew 5:13 (AMPC)
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Echoes From the Campfire: March 31
"It made him feel small and frightened, knowing that God's power was infinite and beautiful, that He was truly working to provide for all of his creatures." --Bobby Cavazos (The Cowboy From the Wild Horse Desert)
"It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in." --Isaiah 40:22 (NKJV)
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Echoes From the Campfire: March 30
"We should have talked about dignity and freedom; those things count for more than money. Money's soon spent, and when it's gone it leaves no mark. But when a man loses dignity, that leaves a mark on him that stays." --Elmer Kelton (The Day the Cowboys Quit)
"For lack of discipline they will die, led astray by their own great folly." --Proverbs 5:23 (NIV)
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Echoes From the Campfire: Mar 29
"Facts were cold hard things. He had hidden his real identify; he had buried the past; he had risen on stepping stones of his dead self to honest useful service; he had earned peace and victory, if not real happiness." --Zane Grey (Nevada)
"But as for me, I will never boast about anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. The world has been crucified to me through the cross, and I to the world. For both circumcision and uncircumcision mean nothing; what matters instead is a new creation." --Galatians 6:14-15 (HCSB)
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Echoes From the Campfire: Mar 28
"I just kept hobbling along, never looking back because I new the sight of how little I'd done would discourage me. My eyes were on the trail ahead, as they'd always been." --Louis L'Amour (Passin' Through)
"But Jesus said to him, 'No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.'" --Luke 9:62 (HCSB)
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Echoes From the Campfire: Mar 24
"Whatever a man describes, that's his word. His promise. A man's word is everything." --Cotton Smith (Dark Trail to Dodge)
"For no matter how many promises God has made, they are 'Yes' in Christ. And so through him the 'Amen' is spoken by us to the glory of God." --2 Corinthians 1:20 (NIV)
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Echoes From the Campfire: Mar 23
"One does not surrender his conscience, his soul, when he accepts a job. Each of us is still a man, and individually accountable for his sins." --Elmer Kelton (The Day the Cowboys Quit)
"David’s conscience troubled him after he had taken a census of the troops. He said to the Lord, 'I have sinned greatly in what I’ve done. Now, Lord, because I’ve been very foolish, please take away Your servant’s guilt.'" --2 Samuel 24:10 (HCSB)
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Echoes From the Campfire: March 22
"It's never a pleasure to see a 'For Sale' sign in a man's eyes." --Luke Short (Saddle By Starlight)
"I run the race then with determination. I am no shadow-boxer, I really fight!" --1 Corinthians 9:26 (Phillips)
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Echoes From the Campfire: Mar 11
"Most humans kept their principles in a hazy background while they continued to follow the whims of impulse." --Charles A. Seltzer (West)
"Above all, be strong and very courageous to carefully observe the whole instruction My servant Moses commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right or the left, so that you will have success wherever you go." --Joshua 1:7 (HCSB)
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Echoes From the Campfire: Mar 10
"Don't hang on to your fear. Let yourself hope. It is only brave people who find life beautiful." --William MacLeod Raine (Challenge To Danger)
"But sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence." --1 Peter 3:15 (NASB)
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Echoes From the Campfire: Mar 9
"I wish we didn't go so fast. People nowadays haven't time to draw a comfortable breath." --Zane Grey (The Call of the Canyon)
"But Moses said to the people, 'Don’t be afraid. Stand firm and see the Lord’s salvation He will provide for you today; for the Egyptians you see today, you will never see again. The Lord will fight for you; you must be quiet.'" --Exodus 14:13-14 (HCSB)
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Echoes From the Campfire: Mar 8
"He was one of those quietly efficient men who always did more than his job demanded or than its payscale justified." --Elmer Kelton (The Man Who Rode Midnight)
"Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will stand in the presence of kings. He will not stand in the presence of unknown men." --Proverbs 22:29 (HCSB)
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Echoes From the Campfire: Mar 7
"Nobody in his right mind invites difficulties, you simply cope with those that do arise. But you don't try to avoid your duties."
--Louis L'Amour (The Californios)
"How happy is the man who does not follow the advice of the wicked or take the path of sinners or join a group of mockers! Instead, his delight is in the Lord’s instruction, and he meditates on it day and night."
--Psalm 1:1-2 (HCSB)
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Echoes From the Campfire:
"From this valley they say you are going;
I will miss your bright eyes and sweet smile.
For they say you are taking the sunshine
That has brightened our pathway awhile."
--unknown
"If I go away and prepare a place for you, I will come back and receive you to Myself, so that where I am you may be also. You know the way to where I am going.”
--John 14:3-4 (HCSB)
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Echoes From the Campfire: Mar 3
"There is a weariness of the flesh, and that can be borne. Beyond that is a weariness of the bone, far harder to abide, but possible. But the final weariness, of the nerves and brain, when a man may at any moment pitch unconscious from the saddle, is the worst and most unendurable torments." --Paul I. Wellman (The Comancheros)
“Come to Me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. All of you, take up My yoke and learn from Me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for yourselves. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” --Matthew 11:28-30 (HCSB)
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Echoes From the Campfire: Mar 2
"No matter how desperate a situation might be, he could always find in it something at which to laugh. He laughed going into danger and coming out of it, with a joke or a pleasantry always trembling on the end of his tongue."
--Clarence E. Mulford (Bar-20 Days)
"But He knows the way that I take; When He has tested me, I shall come forth as gold. My foot has held fast to His steps; I have kept His way and not turned aside."
--Job 23:10-11 (NKJV)
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Echoes From the Campfire: Mar 1
"If is the most futile word in the language. There ought to be a law against the use of it, at least in the past tense." --Elmer Kelton (Bitter Trail)
"But let your word ‘yes’ be ‘yes,’ and your ‘no’ be ‘no.’ Anything more than this is from the evil one." --Matthew 5:37 (HCSB)
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Echoes From the Campfire:
"When he hired on he did the same as give his word. If he's broken his word, he'll pay for it, like a man pays for everything he does." --Luke Short (Ramrod)
“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. The hired man, since he is not the shepherd and doesn’t own the sheep, leaves them and runs away when he sees a wolf coming. The wolf then snatches and scatters them. This happens because he is a hired man and doesn’t care about the sheep." --John 10:11-13 (HCSB)
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Echoes From the Campfire: Feb 27
"When the long day is over you'll be glad to see the chief
With a pot of black coffee another full of beef,
Some sourdough biscuits to take the place of pie
When he hollers, 'Come and git it' it's root hog or die...."
--unknown
"May God give to you— from the dew of the sky and from the richness of the land— an abundance of grain and new wine."
--Genesis 27:28 (HCSB)
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