CAMPFIRE MESSAGES from Pastors & Ministers of ICCAN

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Comment by Don Adkisson on May 15, 2017 at 10:07am

Echoes From the Campfire:  May 15 

     "Those nights of sleeping on the ground and in the rain take a toll on a man as he gets older."                --Lou Bradshaw  (Cain...Just Cain)

      "So I pray that God, who give you hope, will keep you happy and full of peace as you believe in him.  May you overflow with hope through the power of the Holy Spirit."                             --Romans 15:13 (NLT)

Comment by Don Adkisson on May 12, 2017 at 8:44am

Echoes From the Campfire:  May 12 

     "She has a rare quality of making a home wherever she is, and of finding the beautiful in every place."                                                                                                                                                         --Louis L'Amour  (Kilrone)

      "Her children stand and bless her. Her husband praises her: 'There are many virtuous and capable women in the world, but you surpass them all!'"                                                         --Proverbs 31:28-29 (NLT)

 

 

Comment by Don Adkisson on May 10, 2017 at 8:22am

Echoes From the Campfire:  May 10

      "They can't be men until they've learned how to endure pain."                                                --Max Brand (The Desert Pilot)

      "Do not take a purse or bag or sandals; and do not greet anyone on the road."                    --Luke 10:4 (NLT)

Comment by Don Adkisson on May 9, 2017 at 10:42am

Echoes From the Campfire:  May 9

      "What dual character he had--what contrast of thrill and pang, of blood and brain, of desert and civilization, of physical and spiritual, of nature--"                                                                       --Zane Grey  (Wanderer of the Wasteland) 

     "Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, 'Go south to the road--the desert road--that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.'"                                                                                                             --Acts 8:26 (NLT)

Comment by Don Adkisson on May 8, 2017 at 11:20am

Echoes From the Campfire:  May 8

      "Sometimes it is better to have the dream than the reality."                                                    --Louis L'Amour  (Kid Rodelo) 

     "Was it not you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea so that the redeemed might cross over?"                                                          --Isaiah 51:10  (NLT)

Comment by Don Adkisson on May 4, 2017 at 10:43am

Echoes From the Campfire:  May 4

      "Most folks set their sights too high.  They demand too much of life....  Let me tell you...the happy man is the man who is content with just what he needs...just so he has it regular."               --Louis L'Amour (Where the Long Grass Blows)

      "So he took another road and did not return by the way he had come to Bethel."                      --1 Kings 13:10 (NLT)

Comment by Don Adkisson on May 3, 2017 at 8:23am

Echoes From the Campfire:  May 3

      "But a man does what he has to do.  That's why a man is a man."                                           --Louis L'Amour  (To Tame A Land)

      "Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up."                                             --Deuteronomy 11:19 (NLT)

Comment by Don Adkisson on May 2, 2017 at 12:28pm

Echoes From the Campfire:  May 2

      "If he be a man indeed, he must always go on, he must always endure."mmmmm               --Louis L'Amour  (Galloway) 

     "So follow the steps of the good, and stay on the paths of the righteous."                      --Proverbs 2:20 (NLT)

Comment by Don Adkisson on May 1, 2017 at 11:05am

Echoes From the Campfire:  May 1

      "One thing I'd learned over the years:  never to waste time moaning about what couldn't be helped.  If a body can do something, fine--he should do it.  If he can't, then there's no use fussing about it until he can do something."                                                                                                    --Louis L'Amour  (The Sackett Brand) 

     "Therefore, the paths they take will become slippery.  They will be chased through the dark, and there they will fall.  For I will bring disaster upon them at the time fixed for their punishment.  I, the LORD, have spoken!"                                                                                                              --Jeremiah 23:12 (NLT)

Comment by Don Adkisson on April 27, 2017 at 7:25am

Echoes From the Campfire:  Apr 27

      "But one should never expect too much of time.  No man who begins a journey knows how it will end.  Or when."                                                                                                                                --"Louis L'Amour  (Callaghen) 

     "This is what the LORD says:  'Stop at the crossroads and look around.  Ask for the old, godly way, and walk in it.  Travel its path, and you will find rest for your souls.  But you reply, "No, that's not the road we want!"'"                                                                                                                 --Jeremiah 6:16 (NLT)

  

Comment by Don Adkisson on April 26, 2017 at 8:02am

Echoes From the Campfire:  Apr 26

      "One learns its way and its life, and moves with care, and never ceases to be wary, for the desert has traps and tricks for the careless."                                                                                      --Louis L'Amour  (Hondo)

      "As marauders lie in ambush for a victim, so do bands of priests; they murder on the road to Shechem, carrying out their wicked schemes."                                                                                --Hosea 6:9 (NLT)

Comment by Don Adkisson on April 25, 2017 at 10:12am

Echoes From the Campfire:  Apr 25 

     "He's still a tenderfoot and he'll be one even if he stays out here the rest of his life."               --John Benteen  (Fargo)

      "They asked each other, 'Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?'"                                                                                              --Luke 24:32 (NLT)

Comment by Don Adkisson on April 24, 2017 at 8:02am

Echoes From the Campfire:  Apr 24

      "Nor could he bear to leave the lands of immense distances, the purity of the air, the vast sweep of the mountains, plains and forests, the smell of his lonely campfires, the feeling of a good horse under him, and the song of the lonely winds.  It was in his heart now, in his blood and bones, and in all the convulsions of his brain."                                                                                   --Louis L'Amour  (The Rider of Lost Creek) 

     "Enter through the narrow gate.  For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it."                                                                                     --Matthew 7:13 (NLT)

Comment by Don Adkisson on April 21, 2017 at 10:59am

Echoes From the Campfire:  Apr 21 

     "In this life, you only get so many opportunities.  You must take advantage of them while you can."                                                                                                                                                          --Bobby Cavazos  (The Cowboy From the Wild Horse Desert)

      "The sluggard says, 'There's a lion in the road, a fierce lion roaming the streets!'"               --Proverbs 26:13 (NLT)

Comment by Don Adkisson on April 20, 2017 at 8:18am

Echoes From the Campfire:  Apr 20 

     "He saw the truth and he felt something that he could not name.  He would not be a fool, but there was no harm in the dreaming.  And unquestionably, beyond all doubt, the dream and the romance that had lured him to the wilderness were here, hanging over him like the shadows of the great peaks.  His heart swelled with emotion when he thought of how the black and incessant despair of the past was gone."                                                                                                               --Zane Grey  (The Rainbow Trail)

      "And it will be said: 'Build up, build up, prepare the road!  Remove the obstacles out of the way of my people."                                                                                                                                 --Isaiah 57:14 (NLT)

Comment by Don Adkisson on April 19, 2017 at 10:35am

Echoes From the Campfire:  Apr 19

      "Men rise on steppin'-stones of their dead selves to higher things."                                        --Zane Grey  (The Mysterious Rider)

      "To say to the captives, 'Come out,' and to those in darkness, 'Be free!'  They will feed beside the roads and find pasture on every barren hill."                                                                             --Isaiah 49:9 (NLT)

Comment by Don Adkisson on April 18, 2017 at 8:37am

Echoes From the Campfire:  Apr 18

      "What does a name mean?  Nothin, until a man makes it mean something."                        --Louis L'Amour  (Passin' Through)

      "The way of peace they do not know; there is no justice in the paths.  They have turned them into crooked roads; no one who walks along them will know peace."                                          --Isaiah 59:8 (NLT)

Comment by Don Adkisson on April 17, 2017 at 11:15am

Echoes From the Campfire:  Apr 14 (this should have been posted last Friday, sorry)

     "You serve a friend by doing what he would do for himself if he could."
               --Max Brand

     "Set up road signs; put up guideposts.  Take note of the highway, the road that you take...."
               --Jeremiah 31:21 (NLT)

Comment by Don Adkisson on April 17, 2017 at 11:09am

Echoes From the Campfire:  Apr 17

      "Regrets are not actions."                                                                                                                --Loren D. Estleman (The Hider)

      "Do not go out to the fields or walk on the roads, for the enemy has a sword, and there is terror on every side."                                                                                                                        --Jeremiah 6:25 (NLT)

Comment by Don Adkisson on April 13, 2017 at 8:15am

Echoes From the Campfire:  Apr 13

      "Get people spoiled to luxury and pretty soon it's not a luxury anymore, it's a necessity."                --Elmer Kelton  (The Good Old Boys)

     "Yet my people have forgotten me; they burn incense to worthless idols, which made them stumble in their ways, in the ancient paths.  They made them walk in byways, on roads not built up."                                                                                                                                                      --Jeremiah 18:15 (NLT)

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