Brothers and fellow Compatriots,
Below is my message for Sunday, January 29th. As always, please feel free to forward or reply. Your comments
are most welcome. It may also be used as a chaplain's article for your camp or other newsletter.
Again, I want to thank those who forward my messages to others or post them on other sites. For this I am very
grateful.
May our Lord continue to bless each of you in His service and in service to our most worthy Cause.
Bro. Len Patterson, Th.D
Chaplain, Army of Trans-Mississippi
Chaplain, Central Texas Brigade
Member, Chaplain's Corps Committee
Sons of Confederate Veterans
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God Needs You!
For nearly forty years I have stood before dozens of congregations, as either a pastor, evangelist, or visiting
minister, and preached thousands of sermons. However, of all the messages I've delivered, there are no more than
six or so that I have preached more than once. One such message is titled, "An Old Man and a Stick." During this
message, I recount various Bible stories of how greatly God used simple, small, and seemingly weak people to
accomplish monumental tasks. Then after each account, I would remind the congregation of how God used an old
man and a stick.
The old man and a stick is, of course, Moses. God used Moses to confound the most powerful man on earth, and
defeat the greatest empire in the world. Moses then led a nation of millions in a desert wilderness for forty years. It
was Moses who received Gods Law, and wrote the first five books of the Old Testament. When God called Moses
and sent him to Egypt to begin this great work, he was just was an eighty-year-old man with a walking stick.
Under the inspiration of God's Spirit, the Apostle Paul writes, "But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world
to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to
bring to nought the things that are: that no flesh should glory in His presence." (1 Cor. 1:27-29)
These verses tell us that since God uses foolish things, weak things, base things, things which are despised, and
things which are not, He can use you and me. God doesn't need our money, our strength, our youth, or even our
courage. He just needs us. He needs us to be faithful and committed to Him, and the work He has called us to do.
I believe that our Lord has a plan and a purpose for the Sons of Confederate Veterans, and that plan includes those
who are faithful and true to our Cause. Simply, God needs you!
But, we also need God. Moses would not have succeeded, or even attempted the work God called him to, without
God's help. My prayer for each member of our honorable Confederation is that we seek god's will and guidance in
the work committed to us by Gen. Stephen Dill Lee, which is as it should be.....our defining characteristic.
Bro. Len Patterson, Thd.
Chaplain, Army of Trans Mississippi
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Below is my message for Sunday, January 29th. As always, please feel free to forward or reply. Your comments
are most welcome. It may also be used as a chaplain's article for your camp or other newsletter.
Again, I want to thank those who forward my messages to others or post them on other sites. For this I am very
grateful.
May our Lord continue to bless each of you in His service and in service to our most worthy Cause.
Bro. Len Patterson, Th.D
Chaplain, Army of Trans-Mississippi
Chaplain, Central Texas Brigade
Member, Chaplain's Corps Committee
Sons of Confederate Veterans
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
God Needs You!
For nearly forty years I have stood before dozens of congregations, as either a pastor, evangelist, or visiting
minister, and preached thousands of sermons. However, of all the messages I've delivered, there are no more than
six or so that I have preached more than once. One such message is titled, "An Old Man and a Stick." During this
message, I recount various Bible stories of how greatly God used simple, small, and seemingly weak people to
accomplish monumental tasks. Then after each account, I would remind the congregation of how God used an old
man and a stick.
The old man and a stick is, of course, Moses. God used Moses to confound the most powerful man on earth, and
defeat the greatest empire in the world. Moses then led a nation of millions in a desert wilderness for forty years. It
was Moses who received Gods Law, and wrote the first five books of the Old Testament. When God called Moses
and sent him to Egypt to begin this great work, he was just was an eighty-year-old man with a walking stick.
Under the inspiration of God's Spirit, the Apostle Paul writes, "But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world
to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to
bring to nought the things that are: that no flesh should glory in His presence." (1 Cor. 1:27-29)
These verses tell us that since God uses foolish things, weak things, base things, things which are despised, and
things which are not, He can use you and me. God doesn't need our money, our strength, our youth, or even our
courage. He just needs us. He needs us to be faithful and committed to Him, and the work He has called us to do.
I believe that our Lord has a plan and a purpose for the Sons of Confederate Veterans, and that plan includes those
who are faithful and true to our Cause. Simply, God needs you!
But, we also need God. Moses would not have succeeded, or even attempted the work God called him to, without
God's help. My prayer for each member of our honorable Confederation is that we seek god's will and guidance in
the work committed to us by Gen. Stephen Dill Lee, which is as it should be.....our defining characteristic.
Bro. Len Patterson, Thd.
Chaplain, Army of Trans Mississippi
Sons of Confederate Veterans
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