Ricky Nelson was a star for many years on his parents tv show "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" and show cased his numerous songs on that program thus helping him to become a major rock star of that era. In one music poll I read about, Ricky Nelson beat out Elvis Presley for the #1 position of favorite male singer.

Nelson had numerous hit records, lots of women, lots of money and then it all fell apart for him.
He got married to Sharon and chose to spend a lot of his money on drugs for him and his wife. Some of the stories I read about his wife while they were both living the "high" life defy adequate description.

Eventually she woke up and detached herself from the "high" life they had spent together.

Unfortunately Ricky Nelson never did and he with his new "squeeze" Helen died in a fiery plane crash on December 31st 1985 on a plane once owned by Jerry Lee Lewis, Jerry appropriately named, it seems, "the killer".

[URL=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2ssbgThljU]]] What was yet what might have been[/URL]

“Sing forth the honour of his name, make his praise glorious.”
Psalm 66:2

1517 wrote:
When Christ returns it is over. It is not a play with different acts. Rapture theology is new (19th century) and is based more in sensationalism than biblical truth. We should, as others have stated, focus on the King's return and not on the itinerary.

However, based on past experience I don't choose to be here part of the demonstration. Perhaps, someday I will give such a demonstration in much length on my own website.

I was saved in my late 20's having never been exposed to the gospel prievious to that time. I had grown up exposed musically to the rock era when the main stars were people such as Brenda Lee, Connie Francis, Pat Boone, Elvis Presley, Ricky Nelson, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Fats Domino etc.

Every singer I have mentioned I liked to a degree and they produced records some of which I liked very much. If I had to pick my favourite rock song from that era it would probably be Ricky Nelson's, Poor Little Fool. [URL=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmASthKcsA4]]] Poor Little Fool[/URL] was Nelson's first #1 record and reached that position in August 1958.

Looking Back on that song and the singer who sang it from today's perspective I sometimes sadly think the title probably ended up being a perfect statement about the singer himself.

One of various jobs in my life was taxi cab driver. I recall decades ago sitting in cab stand late at night approximately 200 feet from a night club in which Ricky Nelson was giving a live performance.

I realized because of circumstances too involved to detail here that there was an extremely good chance that my next cab fare was going to be Ricky Nelson...

I remember a couple of years ago a discussion arose about Buddy Holly. I have forgotten who contributed what I am about to restate but I am certain my memory is correct about it.

The contributor stated that Buddy Holly's brother believes Buddy Holly died a saved man. Both brothers apparently had been exposed to strong Baptist preaching, and by strong I mean Godly, saved, Spirit filled Baptists who knew well the Bible and the true Gospel.

I am so tired I can hardly think straight, so until tomorrow sometime, Lord willing, good night all

I had [URL=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtoCw2iOTSc]]] this vision[/URL] about the movie but I don't believe I was caught up to the third heaven at the time.

Clarke Kent, I believe based on 1 Corinthians 6 that believers shouldn't engage in lawsuits againt believers in the world's courts.

Clarke Kent wrote:
Doesn't Paul say in his first letter to the Corinthians, chapter 6 talk about it is shameful for Christians to take each other to court, that they need to settle their conflicts in the church? That makes you wonder whether the Calvary Chapel is really a church at all, but just another denomination, sorry, I mean business enterprise.

1 Corinthians 6:1 KJV

Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?

The next seven verses amplify the first verse even further.

Shane, I want to launch a lawsuit about as much as I wish to hit my head a couple of times with a sharpened axe. Sometimes I think if I could have my way I would go and live in a cave somewhere and wait to die or for the Rapture, which ever came first. I unfortunately have to confess to not having a particularly great desire to be here.

I see that I was correct in regard to my memory concerning Dolores and I will now confess to somethings I was reluctant to admit because of possibly being embarrassed.

I thought you were one of the 4 but I wasn't absolutely certain. While I was trying to cure my own blindness a post from GSTexas came up and I thought GSTexas was one of the four but I wasn't absolutely certain.

The fourth person I did not recall at all and my apologies to the fourth person for that fact.

I now see that I partially answered "how the Lord answered our prayers" but more is required.

I had a convergence of three things happen that greatly affected my mind, was extremely painful, and convinced me I was possibly about to die and that Satan was involved in bringing these things together at the exact same time.

At some level of understanding I don't totally comprehend I thought that if I'm about to go out into eternity I'm going to try to go out doing one last thing correctly.

I know from memory that you are quoting me precisely but I need to see the thread that all my words occur in and it may be beneficial to other people also.

At the moment God has me totally blind to what ever else I said, in that thread/threads that you are not quoting from me.

I've already stated what you quote from me is according to my memory precisely accurate.

Shane, I consider it theoretically possible that the answer to your question that ends "God and his mercy?" is yes. But I also consider it probable that the correct answer is no.

I believe that one of 4 people I think prayed for me and whom I believe I thanked was Dolores. Maybe that information can help someone get to the posts I need to answer Frank coherently. In any case I at this moment can't come up with a solution to what Frank wants.

I also have to go out shortly and won't be able to respond to any thing here for awhile.

Shane wrote:
Is it not better to suffer wrong than to enter suit among non believers? Consider the ravens... they neither sow nor reap, yet your father feeds them. How much more are you worth?

The ravens are clearly used by the Holy Spirit in Scripture, as well as sparrows, as a metaphor for unsaved people.

Knowing I am saved, I conclude I am worth a lot "more" to God than a collection of unsaved people.

However, I also know that God is concerned in love for unsaved people (John 3:16). So your admonition brings out a deeper thing to consider:

John A is a successful layer I went to school with. He and I were in the same class for several years. He will give me a free consultation concerning the possiblility of my suing someone or something.

To sue or not to sue? That is the question.

I find the topic of this thread very timely indeed for I have been seriously considering initiating a lawsuit since last week.

Bringing a lawsuit against someone or something is a very serious matter indeed in the eyes of God for there are very many spiritual principles involved in the introduction of such a lawsuit.

Judges 13:17-18 KJV

And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour? And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?

Manoah sought a name so that a particular someone could be honoured. But the particular someone understood something Manoah didn't: God didn't count it a season for honouring a particular somone by name so the name was kept secret.

God uses various spiritual principles concering name asking and revealing vs not revealing. The one asked to reveal a name shouldn't be in any big hurry to reveal or not reveal until he or she has considered what God wants in regard to the particular situation involved:

1 Kings 18:7-8 KJV

And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Art thou that my lord Elijah? And he answered him, I am: go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.

In the quoted passage Elijah is directly asked if he is Elijah to which Elijah replies "I am".

1 Kings 18:7-8 equals an opposite season to Matthew 11:2-6 in that the 1 Kings passage in a season of time involves a person plainly and directly answering a question in regards to the question of who he is. While the Matthew 11:2-6 passage on the other hand, in a different season of time, rejects a direct plain answer in order to get a person through the hearing of deeds to conclude the answer to the same basic question of are you a particular person.

There is an opposite season to the season just illustrated: the season for keeping a name totally secret:...

Ecclesiastes 3:1 KJV

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

Our text indicates there is a season for every thing that happens. Our text is amplified by following verses from that chapter:

2. A time to be born a time to die; a time to plant and time to pluck up.

Notice how the first two examples of things occurring in different seasons are opposites of each other. That pattern continues in the following different seasons things:

3. A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4. A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5. A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6. A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

At 9/28/14 2:13 PM, I gave Scripture, Matthew 11:2-6, which illustrates a season for drawing one's own conclusion about a person's identification through observing what a person says and does.

There are opposite seasons to the season illustrated in Matthew 11:26. We will consider a couple of them...

Christopher000 wrote:
Sleeping beauty...Dopey, is that you?
: )

As you are no doubt aware Dopey is a moniker I use frequently. I once in a while, use another moniker in the same way in principle that I use Dopey, that is, I endeavor to give glory to God through a moniker seldom used as I do when using my main primary moniker of Dopey.

John UK wrote:
Wow, we never get such exciting things happening in Wales.

The Americans, of course, are the best of all at keeping such things properly balanced: