Author Topic: Prayer Thread (Read 27135 times)

Texas Lawdog · « **Reply #40 on:** August 24, 2009, 03:05:33 PM »

That's a good story, Del.

Leo Tanner · « **Reply #41 on:** August 24, 2009, 04:17:15 PM »

It reminds me of that old song from Pearl Harbor...

Down went the gunner a bullet was his fate
Down went the gunner an then the gunners mate
Out came the chaplain and he gave the boys a look
He manned the gun himself and he laid aside his book

Texas Lawdog · « **Reply #42 on:** August 24, 2009, 05:52:23 PM »

Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition!

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Leo Tanner · « **Reply #43 on:** August 24, 2009, 06:02:32 PM »

Thas right Pop, I knew ya'd be all over that one.

Texas Lawdog · « **Reply #44 on:** August 24, 2009, 06:26:06 PM »

It's one of my favorites.

Charlie Bowdre · « **Reply #45 on:** August 24, 2009, 08:53:06 PM »

Truth to those words.
Dutchy

Delmonico · « **Reply #46 on:** August 24, 2009, 08:57:49 PM »

Used to shoot a lot with a former pastor at a former church the Ex and I went to. when he got transfered we all got a page for a scap book to do for them, yep, pictures of us shooting and that line.

Texas Lawdog · « **Reply #47 on:** August 25, 2009, 08:37:40 AM »

Folks in Wartime need to feel that they're doin' God's work fighting the enemy.

Charlie Bowdre · « **Reply #48 on:** August 25, 2009, 11:17:27 AM »

Old saying likely true

No atheists in foxholes ... or as we call em north of the Medicine Line ...slit trenches.
Dutchy

Leo Tanner · « **Reply #49 on:** August 25, 2009, 12:52:04 PM »

I noticed that when Steve got out of boot camp he was a lot more religious than ever used to be. Not in the annoying way, he just really appreciates knowing that HE is with him. It was quite a change.

Delmonico · « **Reply #50 on:** August 25, 2009, 05:07:21 PM »

Quote from: dutchy on August 25, 2009, 11:17:27 AM

Old saying likely true

No atheists in foxholes ... or as we call em north of the Medicine Line ...slit trenches.
Dutchy

Interesting, down here or at least in Civil War times a slit trech is not a place you'd want to be in.

Texas Lawdog · « **Reply #51 on:** August 25, 2009, 07:08:41 PM »

If they are dropping in Artillery, You take cover where you find it.

Delmonico · « **Reply #52 on:** August 25, 2009, 07:26:09 PM »

Quote from: Texas Lawdog on August 25, 2009, 07:08:41 PM

If they are dropping in Artillery, You take cover where you find it.

Well of course, but given a biit of time I'd prefer other cover.

Leo Tanner · « **Reply #53 on:** August 25, 2009, 08:35:42 PM »

I'm sure no one prayed harder than the cannon fodder. Sometimes the upper ranks did some harsh things to achieve their goal.

Texas Lawdog · « **Reply #54 on:** August 26, 2009, 02:28:32 AM »

Descretion is the better part of Valor!

WaddWatsonEllis · « **Reply #55 on:** August 26, 2009, 10:13:12 AM »

Reminds me of the sayin', attributed to several, but made known by the cartoonist Ernie Pyle;

"There are no atheists in foxholes'.

WaddWatsonEllis · « **Reply #56 on:** August 26, 2009, 10:22:43 AM »

But getting back to the 'purpose' of this thread, I wanted to share a website with you.

Rick Warren of Saddleback Church and author of 'The Purpose Driven Life', has a webpage with a non-sectarian one or two page devotional.

I signed up for it and now get a daily devotional emailed to me to help me get my day started with the right perspective.

It now is so integral that my morning coffee and breakfast are not the same without my printed devotional to read with it.

Here is the webaddress to sign up:

http://www.purposedriven.com/profilecenter/openPreferencePage.do?trkid=ddnews

P.S. I appologize if this sounds like a sermon, but I feel so strongly about this that I am ready to take the chance with it .....

I am attaching this days devotional to this reply ...

Some of us, even though we’re believers, think whenever we’re having problems that God’s getting even with us; that God’s just trying to get back at us.

It’s like the guy who was driving up to a mountain lake and on the way up it starts snowing, so he gets out to put chains on his tires. While he’s doing this, another car comes along and slams into his car. And he watches in horror as his car goes over a cliff.

He continues up the mountain on foot, in the snow and sleet, and he’s getting sick from the cold. Then, as he rounds a corner, he sees that his cabin has burned down. He starts hitting his head against the wall, and asks, “Why me, God.” The heavens part and a voice says, “Because some people just tick me off.”

Some of you really feel that is the way God feels about you. You think that whenever you’ve got a problem, God is ticked off. But the Bible says, “I am the God who forgives your sins, and I do this because of who I am. I will not hold your sins against you” (Isaiah 43:25 TEV). God doesn’t hold a grudge. If you have received Jesus as your Savior, then there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ. He doesn't rub it in, he rubs it out. He doesn’t rehearse it, he releases it.

Charlie Bowdre · « **Reply #57 on:** August 26, 2009, 11:14:06 AM »

WWE

Good words for sure. Not a word of doubt.
Thank You for sharing.

Del
I know what ya mean>>

God Bless and Stay Safe.

Dutchy

Silver Creek Slim · « **Reply #58 on:** August 26, 2009, 09:20:52 PM »

Thanks fer sharing that, WaddWatsonEllis

Slim

WaddWatsonEllis · « **Reply #59 on:** August 26, 2009, 11:04:56 PM »

SC Slim,

My pleasure ... I was hoping it would be liked as much as I do....

After a few weeks, as I said my cofee and cereal just doesn't taste right unless I have printed the mornings devotional and am reading it along with breakfast ....

I am a fairly dyed in the wool Philistine who is trying to change ... and Rick Warren's Devotionals seem to be chipping away at that flinty surface I have built up lo all these years ... yet gently enough that I don't feel the abrasives ..... *S*

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