John Robinson

My wife and I had used a box fan for years to create "white noise" for sleeping, but it was pretty bulky not to trip over during the night. Last November we bought a white noise machine from Amazon that does the same thing, but it's small enough to sit on our nightstand. Hope that helps you!

Liberalism doesn't have to make sense, Cobalt. Everyone knows that. ?

If anyone is still thinking the Boy Scouts will pull out of their suicidal dive, think again. And any Christian who allows their son to remain a part of this damnable group needs to have their head examined. https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/05/22/boy-scout-world-jamboree-leadership-requires-condoms-readily-and-easily-accessible-for-event

For a while I was about ready to board that get-out-of-Dodge stagecoach myself. What stopped me is it seems the mods finally got rid of the cultists who seemed to dominate every thread on Worthy for a few months. I guess if I could change anything, it would be somehow to make full-gospel people like me feel a little more welcome here, but really, that's more of a heart issue than a mod issue. For now, I'm staying.

Let me preface this by stating I am an unashamed, full-gospel Christian. My wife and I were saved in the early 70s back in the old Jesus Movement days, and in the intervening 45 years we've seen God do some amazing things. That said, in my opinion, what this church is doing is plain old bat-crazy. Read the article, and tell me what you think. http://www.faithwire.com/2018/04/25/well-known-atlanta-pastor-is-adding-scantily-clad-aerialists-into-worship-services/

But searching for new mods brings up a different question: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Or in English, who guards the guards? In other words, what standards would a moderator have to meet? Lord knows we wouldn't want someone who's a member of a known cult--and Worthy has at least a couple of those--or someone with a dark ax to grind, like that fellow here who's made about eleven billion posts on how much he hates church. Would there be a litmus test for a mod? Who would determine what's on it, and what's a passing score? It would seem to be very much how a church picks an elder, using the spiritual matrices listed in the Word. It's a daunting task, and I know I have too many prickles and burrs in my own life to assume the task. But take it to the bank, the barbarians are at the gate, and absent some SERIOUS moderation, Worthy will take the same path to oblivion that have shuttered the doors on other Christian sites.

Annette, my wife and I have done this for over 45 years, ever since we got saved. But we're full-gospel folks, so I suppose that makes us a little weird!

I've been a member of Worthy for quite a while now, and I think this thread may be the oddest one I've ever seen. Oh, well. Rock on, ya'll, and be sure to tip your waitresses!

Thanks again, Gary. By the way, since the JB trilogy didn't sell well (I found out too late that Christian publishers have no idea--zero, none, nada--of how to sell fiction to men, I left that arena and have since moved to secular houses. Pitfall (in my pic to the left) came out two years ago and is the first of a proposed new series, and last year just for grins my wife and I (together we compose the pen name Cameron Bane) wrote a science fiction thriller we've been shopping around. Man, I got this thread REALLY off track. Sorry, folks!

Thanks so much, Gary! Much appreciated. Did you mean you've read all four books in my sig? Thanks again. And yeah, ol' Noodles is still alive and kicking. We now return you to your regularly scheduled thread, already in progress.

Woo-hoo!!

What are these ... "posts," you speak of, MG? Nobody ever reads MINE.

Ah, okay, didn't see that, Yowm. Thanks.

Surprised I'm the first to post this. http://fox8.com/2018/02/21/the-rev-billy-graham-passes-away-at-99/I I won't be surprised when the usual trolls on here start slamming him. Rest in peace, bro. You fought the good fight, you kept the faith, and now you're home!

Welcome back, Julia. Welcome home.

Ellie White was a nutter, and didn't abide by the same onerous rules she makes every other SDA live under. And even disregarding all the other weirdness the denomination demands, the fact they think abortion on demand is just swell--and their hospitals willingly perform these abominations--would cause me to run away from that bunch like my hair was on fire.

Sounds like JW junk to me. Pass.

I know Lee's daughter Allison (like me, she's a Christian writer), and believe me, Lee is a very solid guy.

Ellie White was a nutter, and the fact a group of jackanapes would place her disjointed scribblings above the Word of God should cause a Christian to run away like their hair was on fire.

No, hon, I'm not pointing out any poster in particular, just the general herd of SDAs/legalists who are flocking to Worthy like hyenas to a watering hole. Hang around here long enough and you'll see it for yourself.

The SDAs (and others) seem to have infected Worthy, starting thread after thread after world-without-end thread here. I wonder how many people have been driven off this site because of it? I confess I'm about one hair away from going myself. To paraphrase Reese in the Terminator, they "can't be bargained with ... can't be reasoned with. [They] don't feel pity, or remorse, or fear, and [they] absolutely will not stop... ever" sowing their awful seeds of a works-based salvation here and elsewhere. It's sad, really.

I have no problem with legalists per se. If they want to try keeping all 613 OT commandments, more power to 'em (but here's a hint: if they break just one, they've broken them all, so there is that). My concern is some of them allude--and some outright say--that if I don't do as they do, then my salvation is suspect. There's where we part ways

I like to read the KJV cross-referenced with the Amplified Bible, which expands on the word usage. Pretty meaty stuff!

I can see the ad copy now: Christmas is Satanic 2017 is so last year! Beat the rush! Hop on the Christmas is Satanic 2018 bandwagon TODAY!

I have no problem with it. I was a combat infantryman, and my oldest son (now a pastor) was a weapons specialist in the 82nd Airborne, 15th PsyOps Bttn.