Don Adkisson's Blog (61)

“Take things as they come and stay cheerful.”

               --Elmer Kelton (The Day the Cowboys Quit)

"I know also, my God, that You test the heart and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things; and now with joy I have seen Your people, who are present here to offer willingly to You."

               --1 Chronicles 29:17 (NKJV)

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Interesting how a person can look at something…

     “A chigger bite is triflin', too, but after a while it itches where you've got to scratch it.”

               --Elmer Kelton (Texas Standoff)

     "Catch us the foxes, The little foxes that spoil the vines, For our vines have tender grapes."

               --Song of Solomon 2:15 (NKJV)

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     There were two times that stand out in my mind. The first was a camping trip to Arkansas and Tennessee. The first night we camped in Arkansas and I…

     “Don't waste time worrying about the mistakes of yesterday. Each morning is a beginning. Start from there.”

               --Louis L'Amour (The Cherokee Trail)

     "But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully."

               --2 Corinthians 9:6 (NKJV)

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The fight never ends. Never think that it does. Oh, it may quiet down some, but it is always working even if subtly…

“They were sitting in the shade watching weeds grow. It doesn't take a whole lot to keep some folks entertained.”

--Lou Bradshaw (Blue Valley)

"The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever."

--Isaiah 40:8 (NKJV)

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What is it within man where he seeks to be autonomous? Of course it is the fallen, sinful nature, but that same nature cries out for God. Some are able to squelch that sound, but it is still there…

“We'll face it then. Nobody lives their life without having to face things from time to time.”

--Louis L'Amour (Hondo)

"If that is our case, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king. But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up."

--Daniel 3:17-18 (NKJV)

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Are you good with secrets?…

“We'll face it then. Nobody lives their life without having to face things from time to time.”

--Louis L'Amour (Hondo)

"If that is our case, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king. But if not, let it be known to you, O king, that we do not serve your gods, nor will we worship the gold image which you have set up."

--Daniel 3:17-18 (NKJV)

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Are you good with secrets?…

     “Evil men must not be allowed to persist in their evils...they are a blight upon the land.”

             --Louis L'Amour (Brionne)

     "But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one."

             --2 Thessalonians 3:3 (NKJV)

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     What in the world is going on? That may be the question on your lips. In some places, mass hysteria--"we're all gonna die." Stay home, don't go out. No groups of ten or more,…

     “Life isn't about owning the most land or building up a fortune of the nicest things money can buy. Life is about getting to know the Creator of our souls, the One who loved us enough to suffer and die for us.”

               --Kenneth S. Pratt (Willow Falls)

     "And He is the radiance of His glory and the exact representation of His nature, and upholds all things by the word of His power. When He had made purification of sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty…

     “A man can always try to run from things he doesn't like to remember, but I've never heard of it working out.”

             --Luke Short (The Whip)

     "I know how to be abased, and I know how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I have learned both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need."

             --Philippians 4:12 (NKJV)

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Hope, where has hope gone? People have gone crazy, running around in a panic; just being…

     “If trouble rubs the polish off a man he ought to stay home.”

               --Frank Bonham ("The Seventh Desert")

     "Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, to which you were also called and have confessed the good confession in the presence of many witnesses."

               --1 Timothy 6:12 (NKJV)

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Do you want the Holy Spirit to accomplish God's will and purpose in your life?

     If so, then look at the road you…

     “How cheap are the principles for which we do not have to fight, how easy it is to establish codes when all the while our freedom to talk had been fought for and bled for by others.”

               --Louis L'Amour (North to the Rails)

     "Then all his disciples deserted him and ran away."

               --Mark 14:50 (NLT)

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In the Book of Colossians, Paul writes that Luke and Demas greet you (4:14) and then in the last letter written by Paul,…

     “The road before me now stretched long and lonely, a road I must walk with a gun in my hand.”

               --Louis L'Amour (Silver Canyon)

     “Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able."

               --Luke 13:24 (NKJV)

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     In my life I've traveled down various kinds of roads. They varied from highways covered with black ice to washboard roads filled with dust. There have…

     “Old age is our reward for our tryin' to live right and work hard.”

               --Lou Bradshaw (Double Trouble)

     "I will be the same until your old age, and I will bear you up when you turn gray. I have made you, and I will carry you; I will bear and save you."

               --Isaiah 46:4 (HCSB)

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     I have often been asked what my favorite Scripture is, or what is my favorite book of the Bible. That is a hard question to…

     “Honor should mean more. Sometimes I think people have gone crazy.”

               --Louis L'Amour (Utah Blaine)

     "For our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction; just as you know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake."

               --1 Thessalonians 1:5 (NASB)

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     When I was in the Air Force, I served under the Air Defense Command, Air Training…

     "This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone."

          --Taylor Caldwell

     “The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me [Moses] from among your own brothers. You must listen to him."

          --Deuteronomy 18:15 (HCSB)

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     I fully believe that the Lord is always there with us. That is one of the greatest pieces of news for the believer, the Christian, those who have accepted Him, been born-again and are…

Echoes From the Campfire     

     “How terrifying to think of one small soul alone with the Creator—not alone as in prayer, but mute, voiceless, waiting for His word!”

               --Zane Grey (Captive of the Desert)

     "Against You, You only, have I sinned, And done this evil in Your sight— That You may be found just when You speak, And blameless when You judge."

               --Psalm 51:4 (NKJV)

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          "I come to the Garden…

Echoes From the Campfire     

     “On a late afternoon when the clouds gather around the peaks and the lightning begins to play its games over the mountain meadows, the high country is no place to be, but it can be spectacular to watch from a safe distance. At such times the hills can be alive with the sound that isn't music, but it has a magnificence of its own.”

               --Louis L'Amour (Passin' Through)

     “Listen to Me, you who know righteousness, You people in…

Echoes From the Campfire     

     “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 torment.”

               --Paul I. Wellman (The Comancheros)

     "For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become…

Echoes From the Campfire

“A man can have a little bit and feel rich, or he can have a lot and feel poor.”

--Elmer Kelton (The Time It Never Rained)

“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon."

--Matthew 6:24 (NKJV)

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In my earlier years I spent some time learning how to tie knots. I figured that a person…

Echoes From the Campfire

     “When a man believes in a thing strongly enough, there is a price too high to pay. There is a point where compromise costs him too much.”

               --Elmer Kelton (The Time It Never Rained)

     "Then you shall again discern Between the righteous and the wicked, Between one who serves God And one who does not serve Him."

               --Malachi 3:18 (NKJV)

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     Complacency, compromise, and outright…