and all Rangernetters:
I recall most of those things you talk about but unfortunately I only go back about three years with Royal Rangers. I don't yet have many summits with Royal Rangers but I have crossed many summits in my life. I have a lot of stories to tell from my life before Rangers, some of them I would like to forget, mostly the ones before I received Christ. The times of walking closely to Christ are the best ones. The last three years of being a Royal Ranger Commander has been the most satisfying. Not only am I teaching the boys the skills I take most pride in doing but I have seen boys come to Jesus Christ and still growing strong in His word. I know I may have something to do with this. What it is I do not fully know, perhaps it was one of the devotions I gave that made some boys decide to live their lives ever more closely to the Lord.
One of the analogies I often tell the boys is that life is like a journey (like in Pilgrims Progress). They will constantly be making choices in their journey through life. The most important decision they will make is when they decide to follow Jesus. After that they will still make decisions to sin or not to sin, to grow in the Word or not to grow in the Word. What decisions they make will have effect on their lives. I tell them to make the wise choices and learn from Gods Word so they can make the right choices.
The late Bill Monroe, "The Daddy Of Bluegrass" had a song on one of his albums called The Old Crossroads. He sings "Now listen to me now my brother don't let ole Satan take your hand, you'll be lost in sin forever you"ll never reach the Promised Land"............................................ "The old crossroads now is waiting which one are you going to take...... One leads down to destruction, the other up to the Pearly Gates"
Onward In Gods Service
Randall A. Hermanson
Commander OP#1
FCF 1998
Woodstock Il.
Hmmmm...........How about.........
1.1962- Kennedy and Kruschev ready to kill us all over missiles in Cuba
2.1964- The Beatles on Ed Sullivan
3.1963- Seeing Lee Harvey Oswald murdered on TV and knowing that we would
never
know who really killed JFK
4.1968- LBJ saying he would not seek nor accept his party's nomination for the
Presidency in.
5. "Easy Rider"
6. Disco Music (yuck....I just got a shiver)
7. Bill Gaither was a little too radical with his Christian music and
obviously not
of God ;-)
8. 1970 - I still had to push my hair back out of my eyes (SIGHHHHHH)
9. 1987 - My first Pioneer meeting
10. Johnnie Barnes homegoing- just missed him by two years at our district
Pow
Wow. Still say that the High Adventure cover for that was the best they
ever
had.==================
Let's get busy makin' memories for the new generation. Good ones of campouts
and
rope bridges and stories around the fire and altar services where God grips
their hearts and they're never the same. Of tents in the rain and hot dogs
with just enough
ash on them to make them good and crunchy. Of sore feet and sore backs but
the good feelin' of makin' the summit and lookin' back at where you've been
and realizing that
you've just done something that few of your buddies will.Let's do that guys.
Ad Dare Sevire
Gary "Burn'n Heart" Rothwell
Sr. Cdr.
Outpost 59, Potomac District
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