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Name: George Kurtz
Age: 55
Gender: Male
Relation: Single
Current City: Endicott
Current Zip: 13760
Country: United States
Interests and Hobbies: Reading the Holy Bible of late. Trying to find, or put together, a reliable group of Christian friends on the Internet to exchange views, insights, questions, answers, and simple fellowship support. Writing to new friends when time allows and writing inspired and/or spiritual ponderings as I read through the bible - or, as the Holy Spirit guides me. (Or wakes me up in the middle of the night!) And also, of late, I find that I tend to examine, question, and doubt the philosophical views that I grew up with and having drilled into my head. Spooky... I also found that I like teaching that which I can in my limited capacity. But it is fun all the same! And it also gives me a joy I long thought I could never know again. Praise Jesus for all the small little wonders in our lives. Amen I try to stay as well informed as I can of world religions, world currencies, world events, world powers, and world politics. Also I am compelled to track the Beastsï¿½ implementation of the microchip and its subtle introductions into our lives as a 'logical' means to make all our lives oh so ever much easier! And I try to keep an eye on the continued persecutions of God's children and those martyred in His name. I use: * http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/, * http://www.christianpost.com/, * http://www.csmonitor.com/, and * http://www.bbc.co.uk/ websites to name just a few. Excellent sources of information on todayï¿½s worldly events if one were to go ahead and ask me. And you have my permission to to ask meï¿½
Favorite Movies/Shows: It's a Wonderful Life w/Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed. I mainly stick to Christian and family orientated movies - and some animation flicks too. (I am still young enough to enjoy my cartoons and/or animation as far as I know?)
Favorite Music: Not very much at all since I became a Believer in Christ. But I am finding some really good groups and singers here on GodTube. Like Mercy Me, Hillsong Church, and Jeremy Camp. Oh, and that little 11 yr. old Ashleigh Marie - we might be hearing from that little one before too long I think.
Favorite Books: The Holy Bible, The 'Left Behind' series (12 Books) by: Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins, Battlefield of the Mind by: Joyce Meyer, Angelwalk by: Roger Elwood. [Lord of the Rings Trilogy by: J.R.R. Tolkien, Clan of the Cave Bear series by: Jean M. Auel.] These books I can recommend to those not interested in reading the Bible. There are, of course, several other good authors out there as well that I have enjoyed in my past but there are too many to list here and they redirect my attentions to where I do not want my attentions to be redirected from.

About Me:

I used to think myself as having a modicum of semi-to-partial intelligence. Up and until, that is, I met the Lord. Now I have to sit, stand ï¿½ be beside myself and seriously wonder just how on Godï¿½s provisional blue world I ever made it this far! Finally, only after 50+ years, have I come to the understanding that I do not understand that which it is that I thought I understood. Ya understand!? Because if I had any contemplative understanding of what I thought I understood I would not have been where I was or where I found myself to be. I could feasibly be past where I am now - although I do not know where exactly that is. Confused yet? Well thenï¿½ Nothing, as it turns out, as the Lordï¿½s truths reveal, is what it appears to be. What I thought to be truths are now blatant lies, misdirectionï¿½s and deceptions. Death too was never an intended ending but a birthing onto becoming something more than what we perceive ourselves to be today. Un-Human ï¿½ spirit ï¿½ Glorified, as it were. I often wonder how many people/Christians actually grasp the complete concept of becoming something other than human in appearance ï¿½ in substanceï¿½ ï¿½I was blind ï¿½ but now I do see.ï¿½ There could not be a truer statement at this point in my life as that is. I am, what I like to call myself, a ï¿½Newbieï¿½, at being a Believer in our Lord Jesus Christ and each day now it seems as though I learn something new not only about myself but the world at large as well. Which can be either wondrous or terrifying ï¿½ or both at the same time! Dependingï¿½ I can think of no other way for you to get to know me even briefly except possibly through my Baptismal Testimony, which, of course, is beyond personal to me. It is here, in its entirety, as was spoken in front of my church congregation. So, here it is for you to read if you care to: (Not mandatory for us to become friends.) I guess that my story would start about six years ago. But even in that I have second guessed the choices made in my life. Anyway, back then I became homeless and that can be attributed to drinking, drugging, and not caring about anyone or anything. Of course becoming homeless is a good testimony as to how much I cared. I didnï¿½t like me, I didnï¿½t like the world, and I blamed everything that was wrong in my life on everything and everyone else. I didnï¿½t like where I was and I couldnï¿½t see where I was going, or where I would end up. I lost everything and everyone that I loved that meant anything to me. It was that realization of the hurt that I caused that forced me to make some extremely unorthodox decisions in contrast to the way I was living at the time. I realized that my life wasnï¿½t what it was supposed to be, or what it was meant to be, or what I wanted it to be. All because of the choices that I made, my decisions - my "plan", if you want to call it that, simply wasnï¿½t working. I was my own worst enemy. I also realized that if my plan wasnï¿½t working out that I needed a new plan. So I vowed, to myself, to try and get back to the oneï¿½s I love, to regain some semblance of life. I knew that being a drunk, an addict, and homeless was not a good way to start out. So I put myself into a rehab center and then into a halfway house. That was over 4 years ago now and I have my own apartment chock full of nice stuff, my kids are back in my life and I just recently quit smoking cigarettes as well. I never dreamed that my life would turn out the way it has and I donï¿½t regret a single solitary thing. The only thing that I continue to second guess is whether or not those choices that I made were actually made by yonder truly. But as I think back about it I think not. My life has been literally reconstructed, redefined, and re-stored. I could never have made it this far this fast without a boatload of help ï¿½ and I know that you know what I mean. As I see it it was the Lord working hard, ï¿½onï¿½, and, ï¿½inï¿½, my life through all of it. My thanks to Him can simply never begin to cover it. It was after about 3 ï¿½ years of living clean and sober that I stared hearing about these, ï¿½Left Behindï¿½ books. All I knew, or heard, about the story was that it had some religious connotations to it. Something about the End Days, Armageddon, and something about this thing called, ï¿½The Raptureï¿½. The farther I read into those books the more scared I became. Scared because of the prophesies, scared of Godï¿½s wrath, scared of dying, scared of living, scared not to try and seek out the Lord ï¿½ and yes, scared of finding Him also. Those books lead me to a new awakening and new insights as they lead me straight to the bible. It has been about 3 or 4 months now since I began my walk with the Lord and in the light. Since I cried out, literally, to the Lord and prayed He forgive me my sins. Since I decided I no longer wanted to walk in darkness and that I longed for the light. Since I chose, ï¿½The Narrow Pathï¿½, as it is called. I call it, ï¿½A Tight Rope Walkï¿½. I call it this because I constantly debate, question, and doubt myself as I struggle and falter along the way on this path but yet I refuse to surrender this good path, this walk with the Lord. To me it is the good struggle ï¿½ it is the struggle to choose to live. Hence you find me here today because everything about me has changed, is changing, and the world all around me is different. Everything and everyone is different. So, seeing as I am battling without and within myself on a daily basis I figured I might better officially choose the best fight that I can fight considering it is my eternal soul that is at stake! And that is to fight for that which is good, righteous, and true. Fight for my eternal soul that God has given to me. Fight for the glory of God. I thank the Lord, our God, for hunting me down and revealing His truths to me these past 6 or so years, as He continues to show His truths to me. I thank Him for giving me the chance to choose how to live. I thank Him for guiding me on how not to choose death. I thank Him for loving this retch of a man before you. I thank the Lord Jesus Christ for dying for the sins of the likes of me, for the sins of all Mankind. I thank the Lord Jesus Christ for His resurrection and promise of eternal life. But, most of all, I thank Him for His patience with me and allowing me to be included in the family of God.

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