You will love the interesting and very compelling radio shot stories as told by Navigator Brett Clark! One is the capsule story of the founder of the Navigators, Dawson Trotman. Highlights: as a young man, a policeman was taking Dawson to the police station for DWI. On the way, with Dawson shedding tears in the back seat of the police car, the lawman asked him if he liked the way he was living. Response: “Sir, I hate it!” The policeman took Dawson to a public park and spent time with him. This, on a Friday, led to a promise to go to a Sunday School class two days later. The class was divided into two competing groups, each one challenged to memorize by the next two Sundays 20 verses. Liking competition, Dawson memorized all 20 of them. Nobody else did.
As a truck driver for a lumber yard, one of the verses he memorized burned in his heart and head. It was John 5:24 wherein Jesus said: “Truly, Truly, I say to you, he who hears my word, and believes Him who sent Me, has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed out of death into life.” {one of the verses I memorized through the Navigator Topical Memory System.)
During the next three years, he memorized a verse a day … totaling 1,000 verses from the bible!
Dawson prayed while at work: “Lord, I don’t know what this ‘eternal life’ is, but whatever it is, I want it!”
Hear Navigator Brett Clark tell this story … in his own words.
As a teenager, early after I received Jesus Christ into my life by faith, I became acquainted with the “Navigator Topical Memory System,” and, over time, memorized all the verses contained in it. With their urging me to “Review! Review! Review,” in time I memorized the 100 or so verses that founder Dawson Trotman has so arranged. (More about Dawson is available by clicking on … https://www.navpress.com/dawson-trotman.
And in memorizing each verse, we were urged to also memorize the reference … where in the bible it is located … in reviewing each verse. That way we would always know where in the bible to find it.
Think about it: when you memorize selected verses from the bible, you “Review, Review, Review” … thus, in the memorizing process, you naturally are meditating on the words you are memorizing. In so doing, you are advancing the challenge throughout the bible to “… meditate on God’s Word day and night.”
Such is in the flow of the first chapter of the Old Testament book of Psalms: “Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked; Nor stand in the path [lifestyle] of sinners; Nor sit in the seat of scoffers. But his delight in in the law of the Lord, and in his law he meditates day and night.”
That was 65 years ago! And today there is hardly a day when I don’t refer to one or more of these bible verses!
An updated Navigator topical memory system is available by clicking on … https://www.navpress.com/p/topical-memory-system/9781576839973 .
Again, you will love the very interesting and compelling short stories as told by Navigator staffer Brett Clark! Three of them are now available for anytime listening at our ministry website, www.haroldhendrick.com.
Some directly and indirectly related links to radio short stories from the past …
To hear … “Navigator Brett Clark highlights the life of ministry founder, Dawson Trotman: from drunkenness, to kind Cop, to challenge and memorizing 20 bible verses, to founding Navigators, to impacting the world!” … click on … https://harold-hendrick.com/2020/01/17/navigator-brett-clark-highlights-the-life-of-ministry-founder-dawson-trotman-from-drunkenness-to-kind-cop-to-challenge-and-memorizing-20-bible-verses-to-founding-navigators-to-impacting-the-worl/
To hear … [As told by Brett Clark of the Navigators, ministry partner of Pearl Harbor survivor Jim Downing] “With bombs falling on him at 1941 Pearl Harbor, Navigator Jim Downing prayed: ‘I’ll be with you in a minute, Lord!’” [In 2017 Jim Downing died at age 104 ½, ministering the Word until his death. He us listed in the Guinness’ Book of Records as the world’s oldest man to write a book]… click on … https://harold-hendrick.com/2019/05/14/with-bombs-falling-on-him-at-1941-pearl-harbor-navigator-jim-downing-prayed-ill-be-with-you-in-a-minute-lord/
To hear … “Missionary to students Mort Whitman and HHH talk about impact on us of the ‘Navigator Topical Memory System’” … click on … https://harold-hendrick.com/2015/06/29/student-missionary-mort-whitman-and-hhh-talk-about-impact-on-us-of-navigator-topical-memory-system/ and …
To hear … “Mort Whitman regarding the Chinese Communist University professor healed of cancer saying, ‘It must have been Jesus!’” … click on … https://harold-hendrick.com/2015/05/25/mort-whitman-re-chinese-communist-university-prof-healed-of-cancer-saying-it-must-have-been-jesus/
To hear … “Jim McNiel, known as the ‘Walking Bible,’ amid laughs, regarding the joys of memorizing, applying, living out the Bible´”… click on … https://harold-hendrick.com/2018/11/12/jim-mcniel-the-walking-bible-amid-laughs-re-joys-of-memorizing-applying-living-out-the-bible/
To hear … “Baptist Press Senior Editor Art Toalston; in midlife became passionate regarding Bible memory & meditation” … click on … https://harold-hendrick.com/2016/07/03/baptist-press-senior-editor-art-toalston-in-midlife-became-passionate-re-bible-memory-meditation/
To hear … “St. Louis businessman Pat Bradley was an alcoholic that led to his divorce. Enter Jesus into his life! He began www.crisisaid.org, helping the needy, hungry and those trapped in the ‘sex slavery’ worldwide” … [Had a drinking problem early in life like Navigator founder Dawson Trotman] … click on … https://harold-hendrick.com/2020/04/01/st-louis-businessman-pat-bradley-was-an-alcoholic-that-led-to-his-divorce-enter-jesus-into-his-life-he-began-www-crisisaid-org-helping-the-needy-hungry-and-those-trapped-in-the-sex-tra/
To hear … “Deidre Pujols [wife of major league baseball great Albert Pujols] regarding her fight against worldwide human sex trafficking. [2nd radio segment]. See www.strikeoutslavery.com and www.opengateintl.org” … click on … https://harold-hendrick.com/2020/03/26/deidre-mrs-hall-of-fame-baseball-great-albert-pujols-regarding-her-fight-against-sex-human-trafficking-worldwide-2nd-radio-segment-see-www-strikeoutslavery-com-and-www-opengat/