Tony Trout

 I'm last!!!

I'll say this again:    I'M LAST!!!!

Nope!!  Ya'll got it SO wrong!  I'M LAST!!!!

Glad to hear that you were able to go back to church ,   I will be praying for you that the Lord will provide transportation 

Thanks, I appreciate it.  I'm trying to talk my parents into letting me drive their car and them use Dad's truck - but, we'll see what happens.  

I finally got to go back to church about three weeks ago - but haven't been back since because since I only have my permit, I can't drive myself to church until I get my license and my own car.  Plus, my parents are very overprotective and they're scared (well, my overprotective Mother is) that I would get in an accident.  While I understand that, I cannot let that fear overcome me or rule my thoughts.  

It would really help if I could find an affordable car that's got good gas mileage....  

I understand the issue of headaches since I had migraines since public school but I would ask you to pray and ask God to help you with your temper as I would hope that your mom is only concerned about your well being on the road.

On the other hand I am so surprised that the pastor of your previous church did not turn your talents for music into something the congregation would enjoy. You could have accompanied the songs sung by the congregation and the choir. ( If you played any instrument it would sound great). Your pastor should have used your talents and turned them into glory for God and not turned you away. But hold no grudge or resentment toward him as it in the end only affects you not him.

Littlelambseativy, 

I actually was the pianist at my former church since I had been 15 years old along with also being the pianist for the small P&W team we had the last few years I was there - and I just simply got very tired of my former Pastor also calling me every time when there was something going on at the church because a lot of nights, I didn't feel like going due to severe back problems and leg problems (I'm constantly in pain from both).  I feel like he wanted me to quit because he wanted me @ church every chance he could get.  He came by the house a few months ago to ask if I would come back and I politely told him, "No."  Plus, his doctrinal beliefs did not sit well with me - for one, he doesn't believe in the Rapture!  He's one of the ones who think we'll go through the entire tribulation.  Myself?  I believe that God is gonna get us out of here before that takes place.  

(Sorry, I know this wasn't a doctrinal issue but...I had to mention that because I felt like it was important).

I was worried about the headaches because they have been sometimes centered either in or around the shunt I have in my head - but, thank God, the x-ray came back just fine!  I was just being cautious because shunts normally (at least in my case) last seventeen years such as this one has.  

My driving is actually coming along very well and I'm getting a LOT better at keeping the car in between the lines than from when I first began driving back in January.  So, I'm thankful for that, definitely.  

I just hope and pray that no restrictions are placed on me when I try to obtain my license in July, 2014.  

Take Care/God Bless/Your Brother-In-Christ, 

Tony Trout

There may some litigation going on and the the church leaders have been told to hold off. On the other hand the leadership should have police record checks  to see if those who volunteer are are at least currently OK. Perhaps because of the situation no one wants the responsibility because of insurance issues. Why the choir is using the bus???? something is off!!! Is there no other church where you may find great fellowship??

This is the only church that I've found who fully accept me as I am and they don't "hound" me for what I used to do (play secular music - my former pastor for 13 years would get on my back every week because of said music career and he even took me outside the church once and actually TOLD me to stop playing, period, or God wouldn't bless me....and I've been blessed MAJORLY since I left my old church because for one thing, after years of seeking for it, I was finally filled with the baptism of the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in tongues - and I've been a majorly changed man ever since!  That night when the Lord filled me with the baptism, I spoke in tongues from the time I left the church until I got home - which amounted to about forty-five minutes!).  

I don't believe (God forgive me!) that this would have happened at my former church because I always felt such a bondage when I would try to worship and I felt like I couldn't worship freely like the Lord wants us to.  

Also, ever since I've gotten my driving permit, my own Mother is trying to stop me from going where I'm desiring to go because of the distance (thirty-five miles) that the church is from where I live and she even had the gall to go to the driver's license place and ask about whether a "distance limitation" could be placed on me since I'm disabled - and I got angry at her VERY quickly after I found that out!  She's been doing her best to try to (at least, I feel she is) sabotage my wanting/yearning to be at the church I now attend!  

(Sorry I haven't responded sooner, I've had some health issues - swollen legs and most recently, headaches close to where the shunt is in my head - rear their ugly heads).

Praying! 

Thanks, I really need it and I appreciate it.  *sigh*

Hey, everyone.....

I haven't been here in a while...and I apologize.  My health hasn't been good.  

Anyway, I have a prayer request.....:

I attend a church that is thirty-five miles from home - and I absolutely LOVE the worship atmosphere and the freedom I feel there and I love the people.  However, I haven't been there in four months due to the following: 

I had been riding the church van to attend services because, even though I have my permit, my very overprotective mother will NOT let me drive to church because the van stopped running after one of the riders was caught with a young girl (this kid is also young - only a teenager) and he was doing things he shouldn't be doing with this girl.  However, instead of taking him off of the van permanently, the church completely took the DRIVER'S priveledges away because of the incident - and it's made me very, very angry and upset because it has left me without a way to get to church (other than hitch-hiking - and I'm not that stupid to do something like that).

I asked for the leadership of the church to keep me informed of the van running again and I didn't hear a single word until this past month when I found out that the van was going to be used to take the church choir down to the Atlanta Braves baseball game (the church has an AWESOME choir and P&W team!) and sing the National Anthem this past July!!!  I started questioning things like:  "How can they use the van to take the choir down to the ballgame BUT they can't find someone to drive it to pick people/members up for services???"   The fact is that not a single soul will step up and realize the need of other people (not just myself) that are wanting to be in service but can't because nobody will step out and take on the role of driving the van - and that's a pitiful shame, IMO.  They're more concerned about getting a new sanctuary built than getting people in church - to me, they have their priorities BACKWARDS!!!! 

Due to all of this, I've become very depressed - sometimes severely - and there have been times when I've thought of just "throwing in the towel", period, and quitting church altogether because THAT'S not what a church is supposed to be about YET, I still long to attend there again.           

I just don't know what to do...my Mom is angry because I haven't been to church in months because of this - yet, if she would let me drive (she would have to be with me, anyway!) the problem would be solved.  I would ask the ex (she only lives about ten minutes away and attends there regularly as a member) but I know that she would flat out say, "NO!" to me (which, in my mind, is not being Christ-like towards a fellow believer no matter what the status of things between her and I).

This situation really makes me question "church" - period.  And that's sad.....

I just feel so lost and alone and un-loved and un-wanted....I lay in bed some nights crying because I can't be there.....I get angry.....depressed.....you name it.....

Just please pray.....I'm so very hurt over this.....it seems like I get the raw end of the deal when something like this happens and it winds up in-directly affecting me.....:'(

Dawn, 

My "bucket list" (as they call it) would be the same as yours so, I hope you don't mind but, I just copied and pasted your response:  
 

Get Married

Have at least one Child

See my family members become Christians

God Bless, 
Tony Trout 

Ah Ha! I finally remembered to pin this!

I hope the websites are useful to everyone, thanks again brother Joe.

I ran across those a few months ago when just searching for "Names Of God/G-d" on Google and bookmarked all of them. I still have NOT gotten through them all.

Jade

Wonderful, absolutely wonderful, praise His name.

I would like to speak about something pertaining to your saying, you are still sinful. Instead of using you as an example I will use myself.

When I was lost and without God, I was a sinner. Even though I was a sinner I did a lot of very good things, wholesome and upright things. These good things however did not, and could not give me a righteous nature, one, being born of God. I had a sin nature, had I died in my sin, all those good things could never change me or my situation.

Now, being that I am born of God and have the Lord Jesus in my heart, I am a new creation, with a new identity. It is a righteous identity, I am righteous, I am the righteousness of God. Now I say this was not my own doing, it was his, I did not deserve it, I only received it. I have a new nature now, God's nature. I am not a sinner. I was a sinner saved by Grace and changed instantly into the likeness of Christ, in the spirit. (Let me say here before I go any farther, just because I say I am not a sinner, by no means am I saying that I do not sin. I do sin.) Now that I know that I have a righteous nature, I am able to live above sin to the point that it has no power over me. However, should I fall and sin, it does not change the new nature I now have in Christ Jesus. I can not have dual natures, or go back and forth between natures, I am just like my Father God.

I am so sorry if I offended you, this is not my intent. The only reason I touched on this part of your beautiful testimony is that I have a deep passion for believers to know their true identity in Christ. This is why we are referred to as saints. If satan levels a charge against us, he has no ground to stand on and because we are found in Christ Jesus, God can only dismiss the charges he levels against us.

Please understand that it was not my good pleasure to make this seem as though you needed correcting, you need no correcting.

Please take this as encouragement as this is my intent.

I am thankful to God that you are a part of His body and pray that God richly blesses you to over flowing.

Shalom

quasar

Quasar,

I was going to ask those very same questions that you did. Thank you for answering them for me.

"Once saved, always saved." I feel cross hairs upon me here...

I will disagree with the "Once saved, always saved" argument. I fully believe that when Christ saves you, that your soul is permanently "sealed" by the Holy Spirit and, unless you willingly choose to absolutely and totally walk away from God and not have anything else to do with Him, then you ARE saved until you take your last breath. Now, I believe that, if a person "backslides" then that's another story altogether.....

Tongues are un-Biblical? You have GOT to be *edited* me! As a person who recently re-dedicated himself to Christ and received the gift of tongues on the night of February 3, 2012, I (for one) believe that it IS Biblical.

I wish (now) that I had never, ever opened and read this thread because it's very discouraging......

Archeological evidence for the exodus.

Hey everyone, I've been studying about this very impressive evidence for the Jewish exodus. Particularly the locations of the Red Sea crossing, Mt. Sinai, the golden calf alter, Moses alter, and the split rock of Horeb. It has to do with the archeological research of Bob Cornuke and the unrelated research which was done much earlier by Jim and Penny Caldwell.

Here is a link to a video about these discoveries.

Something else that I have been doing recently is playing around with "Google Earth", it's a program you can download off of Google, just search for it and you will find it easy. With it you can almost locate any area on earth. I can locate my house and every major place that I have been to along with any other place I want to see.

And because I want to see these places for myself, I've been on Google Earth searching the Jabel Al Lawz area for the very things that Cornuke, the Caldwells, and many others say that shows that the Bible exodus really did happen and it happened in Jabel Al Lawz.

Now what I'm about to put up here are the coordinates from Google earth where these various landmarks of the Exodus are located. For those of you who have never used Google Earth yet, the coordinates on Google earth are at the bottom of the screen when you start the program.

When you first start the program you have a search box on the upper right hand side. From there you type either the address or the location you want to view. For the exodus locations you type in "Jabel al Lawz, Saudi Arabia" and hit search and it will take you right into the area.

Now to find the various locations, match the coordinates up and you should either see the very thing on the satellite image or there will be photographs of the monument (s) themselves in the specific area. Now then, here are the specific monuments and their coordinates.

Red Sea (Reed Sea) crossing site

(Shown on Google Earth as "Jewish progress")

29'02'37.66'N 34'46'31.39" E elevation 2518ft.

Mt. Sinai:

28 ' 35' 04, 19 N 3521' 01.89 E elevation 7406ft.

Moses Alter *animal shoot* (the place where Moses herded oxen in preparation to be sacrificed)

28'35'03.84 N 35'22'43.41 E elevation 5119ft.

Possible Israeli campsite

28'34'59.82 N 35'23'22.78 E elevation 4978 ft.

Golden Calf Alter

28'34'52.81 N 35'23'45.96 E elevation 5016ft.

Fence and Guard house

28'35'09.37 N 39'23'09.40 E elevation 4961ft.

Split Rock of Horeb

28'43'24.32 N 39'14'22.61 E elevation 3449ft.

Anyways, I find this very very exciting, I look forward from hearing what Gman, Bippy and others here think. Anyway, thank you all for your time. God bless.

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!

BOO!!!!!!

They're also remaking "Dirty Dancing"! Personally, I think that's a slap in the face of the memory of Patrick Swayze. I, for one, don't think he'd go along with it if he were still alive.

I know things are getting discussed in two separate threads. But I wanted one place where perhaps we could hammer this particular issue out.

Last night, before the president's speech, the word was that Osama was killed in a raid that occurred a week ago. (I'm not the only one who saw this.) Today, the word is the raid occurred yesterday.

?????

The reports last night declared Osama was killed by a bomb. Today, the word is he was shot through the forehead.

?????

Last night it was declared the DNA evidence confirmed it was Osama. If the raid occurred yesterday, how did the DNA evidence get processed in time?

?????

Why is no one, even from Republican, thanking the role of General Patraeus by name?

?????

I would appreciate insight or knowledge into the inconsistencies.

I don't know about some of these reports but I did hear that he was shot through the forehead in the left eye and he held a woman in front of himself in defense before they shot and killed him.

By all accounts, this happened within a forty-minute timeframe last night in a gunfight.

That's really all that I know....I didn't hear of the report until Obama's speech last night.....

I joined the group just now on Face Book. My name/screenname is: Tony Trout and you can also find me on Face Book under the same name.&nbsp; If you add me, please specify that you're from the Worthy forums and I will add you.&nbsp; <br>

This is false. There is no truth to it.

Here's what Snopes has to say.

Cell Phone Numbers Going Public?

DOUBLE WOW!! :blink: :o

I just get so fed up with celebrities making public statements about political issues.

In regards to celebrities making political statements, I wish that some (ok...all) of them would take the viewpoint that Elvis Presley took when asked about politics. He said, "I'd just soon to keep my own personal views about that to myself because I'm just an entertainer".

okay, let me get this straight, we now have a corner in the corner is a tent beside a treehouse on a spot, a spot in a garden, somewhere in the mountains and the whole things owned by some guy called Tony?

Yep........that pretty much sums it up.

Except that he seems now to have abandoned it......after all the hard work I put in clearing the surrounding brush and driving off the racoons.

He's probably tucked up in a quilt somewhere in front of the TV. He just couldn't handle the outdoor life, I guess...

It's not for everybody

Ehh....I've just been uberly (very) busy and haven't had time to visit.....

No man can forgive sin. Only Jesus/God.

Praying for you, Angelique!