I was talking with my friend, fellow disciple-maker and pastor-coach Ray Bandi, who told me he had been listening to my videos. About the last one, I said, “Be prepared to hear stuff you’ve heard before!” To which he said something very profound:

Just because I’ve heard it before doesn’t mean I’m thinking about it today. That’s why we need reminders. – Ray Bandi, New Hampshire, July 2020

Scriptures are filled with admonitions to remember:

Take care lest you forget the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. (Deuteronomy 6.12, ESV – also, Deuteronomy 4.23 and 8.11)

You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. (Deuteronomy 5.15, ESV)

You shall not be afraid of them but you shall remember what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt. (Deuteronomy 7.18, ESV)

Both we and our fathers have sinned; we have committed iniquity; we have done wickedness. Our fathers, when they were in Egypt, did not consider your wondrous works; they did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love, but rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea. (Psalm 106.6, 7, ESV)