Black Swan,
I would be honored to be your adopted sister! Thanks. I'm glad you enjoyed my thought and I'm glad you realize now all the ways you can be close to God.
Renee
Synergy
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A thought to start the day with...
by Synergy ingod gave us everything...except the one and only thing he wants for himself that he can't give himself.
this thing is something that we choose whether or not to give him.
he doesn't make us.
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Had a baby today!
by Cabin in the woods inthis is my oldest sons birthday.. i always did this little thing when they were tiny ... i would tell them about the day that they were born.
when they grew up i still called them and said remember what i was doing xx number of years ago?
then i would say something like it was such a nice day or starry night or whatever but it felt good.
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Oh Mary,
That just ripped my heart out! I am crying for you. I have tears in my eyes for you. I am a mother and mine are small and with me and I can only imagine how your heart feels. I am begging God right now to comfort you with his Holy Spirit. Nothing can be so painful as what your children do to your heart. I did the same thing to my mother when she left but look where I am now. God showed me the path to him and back to my mother. I have lifted you both up in prayer today and asked God to touch your childs heart that one day too you will be reunited and worshiping God together and have a relationship once again.
Your Sister in Christ,
Renee
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LEAVING JW'S FOR GOOD
by Lampshade Larry inhi peolpe, .
my name is yohann stromboli and i am leaving the jw orgonizatoin today.
i have had enough of their lies.
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I will be here to support you when it gets tough and you feel alone. The best advice I can give is what worked for me. Pray and don't stop. Beg God to show you who He really is and help you to deprogram from the cult. Ask Him to live in you like never before and then trust. He will inhabit you and you will be happier and freer than your wildest dreams.
You have a family in Christ and I am one of them. I will pray for you right now.
Renee
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A thought to start the day with...
by Synergy ingod gave us everything...except the one and only thing he wants for himself that he can't give himself.
this thing is something that we choose whether or not to give him.
he doesn't make us.
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My post was to those who have my outlook and those who don't. I love all people if you agree with me or not. I can't prove to anyone else that God exists, He only let's Himself be found by those who search. I can however, tell you why I believe in Him. I have had miracles in my life and I have my prayers answered...each and every one. He says, "yes", "no", or "later". My life has certainly been different since I've started worshiping Him.
To answer the question, "What happens if we don't worship Him correctly?" There's not a right or wrong way to worship God. As my post was meant to portray. WHATEVER you do that pleases him is worship. Helping a friend move is worship, feeding a stray cat is worship, rocking your baby is worship. It doesn't matter the church you go to or how much you give or what you wear or if you believe everything a certain way. Nothing BAD is going to happen to you if you worship differently, the point is just to love him, the worship comes naturally.I want each of you to have a wonderful day and give yourself a BIG hug and kiss from me!
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A thought to start the day with...
by Synergy ingod gave us everything...except the one and only thing he wants for himself that he can't give himself.
this thing is something that we choose whether or not to give him.
he doesn't make us.
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God gave us everything...except the ONE and ONLY thing He wants for Himself that He can't give Himself. This thing is something that WE CHOOSE whether or not to give Him. He doesn't make us. All He does is want and hope that we give it. What is it?
Our Worship. That's all he wants. What is worship? Simply...Anything that pleases God. Worship is prayer, song, church fellowship, partaking of communion, trusting God with our money when we tithe, Bible reading, but it's also this...
How we drive, how we answer the phone, how we talk to our neighbors, co-workers, how we greet the waitress, the teller, the cashier. It's how we take care of our animals, how we treat our yard, how we care for our home, even the look on our face. Did you think that when you pet your dog you're worshiping God or when you serve your spouse a cup of tea you're worshiping God or when you answer your phone with a smile you're worshiping God? Thinking about this will add a new demention to everything you do all day long. See how much better your days get when you think of how everything you do can be a part of your worship that God so wants. Your smiles will get bigger, your chores will go faster, your home will stay cleaner, your heart will be happier. Because you're no longer thinking about how things make you feel, your making things part of your worship...the one thing YOU can choose to give God or not.
Blessings to you. Love to you all.
Renee
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X - JW or Apostate?
by In Between ini thought this might be interesting.
if it's been talked about before, i apologize in advance.
what differences do you think exist between the two?
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Certainly an Apostate. However, that "hatred" you mentioned is not there. I hate what has happened to me but I continue to pray daily for them, the ones left in, that they will find the truth about it and come into God's loving grace. I do feel the call to expose the false doctrine and at the same time show the truth from the Bible. God does call us to witness Matt. 24:14;28:19,20 but I bear witness to Jesus, NOT the Watchtower.
Renee
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Taped Call w/ JR Brown on Cano
by Synergy inon the silent lambs site there is a taped call with a media person and jr. brown.
he stated that jw's don't proclaim or feel that they have special chosen ones to lead nor do they feel as though they are the sole organization to get to god.
what crap!
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On the Silent Lambs site there is a taped call with a media person and JR. Brown. He stated that JW's don't proclaim or feel that they have special chosen ones to lead nor do they feel as though they are the sole organization to get to God. What crap! Total lies what they tell outsiders to save their butts and what they tell the r&f. All the reporter needs to do to get her questions answered is read what the WT has published, not get fed the PR guy's lies and skirted truths. Theocratic Warefare at it's finest.
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A project for seminary school
by Synergy innot only am i getting a college education, i'm getting a degree in theology from a seminary.
i haven't finished this or spell checked it but i thought i'd share my latest paper.
it's called, the word is alilve.
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Thanks for all the posts. I'm attending an independant Bible college. I haven't done any spell or gram. check on it yet. Nor is it finished. I just put it out there as my rambling thoughts and I was hoping someone could tell me if it made sense or not. This paper is for a class on Introduction to the Bible. Hope some of you got something out of it.
RC
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A project for seminary school
by Synergy innot only am i getting a college education, i'm getting a degree in theology from a seminary.
i haven't finished this or spell checked it but i thought i'd share my latest paper.
it's called, the word is alilve.
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Not only am I getting a college education, I'm getting a degree in Theology from a seminary. I haven't finished this or spell checked it but I thought I'd share my latest paper. It's called, The Word is Alilve
The word "Bible" conjures a plethera of connotations depending on who is using that noun. For definition this paper is expounding on the two testament document made up of 66 books that complete what is known as the Bible Cannon. This book took some 1400 years to complete. It was penned by 40 men but inspired by God. The 66 books that make up "The Bible" is, by far, the most fascinating piece of literature of all time. Hebrews 4:12 tells us that "the word of God is living". There is no other book that holds as much power that it would be called 'living'. Reading one passage can alter someone's life forever. Yet if you've read it thousands of times you will still learn something new each time. The more you read it, the more you learn. It's never a rerun of old information. That's why, I believe, Paul called it 'living'.
There are eight sections or divisions of scripture. In order they exist as:
Law (5)
History (12)
Poetry (5)
Prophecy (17)
Gospel (4)
History (1)
Letters (21)
Prophecy (1)
There are many who would argue that the Bible contradicts itself, or is incomplete. Only a lack of knowledge could enable one to come to that bogus conculsion. When you completely understand each of these eight divisions of scripture you have to acknowledge the undeniable harmony that permiates the book. From Genesis 1:1 to Revelation 22:21 there is a solid story line and a dominate theme. If one verse was omited or added the balance of numerical precision or prophecy fulfillment would not harmonize.
What is the Bible? Simply, God's special revelation of Himself
What is the dominate theme? Jesus Christ
It is interesting to note that most skim through the Old Testament to get to the Gospel, or Good News that Jesus spoke. We all know Jesus didn't come into the Bible until the first four books of the New Testament so many disregard it as irrelevant. There are dozens of prophecies in the first 39 books of the Bible that point the way to Jesus. These prophecies give us a clear guideline to show that Jesus Christ was in fact the promised Messiah. That alone makes the Old Testament valuable as it gives solid evidence to show 'anyone who demands a reason of the hope in us.' If Jesus is your topic of choice, you wouldn't want to skip over, or miss the intrecate details of how woven into the books of Genesis - Malachi He is.
Messianic prophecy is not the only time we find Jesus in the Old Testament. God is made of three, God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. How do we know that in all the times the penetuch mentions the Lord or God, that they aren't speaking of Jesus? There are dozens of scriptures in Leviticus that begin with the words, "The Lord Spoke." Could that not have just as easily been God the Son (Jesus) as God the Father?
We tend to leave Jesus out until we get to Matthew but since He is the dominate theme wouldn't it make sense that he is included from beginning to end? If we believe John 1:1, "In the beginning was the Word", why would we not think that Jesus is not part of the OT? If he was "In the beginning", he would be present in the beginning of the Bible. A matter of personal idea here, since Jesus is The Word, could it be He that was handing down the Law to Moses at Mt. Sinai? That is the first written word, document of words, law full of words, that God gave his people.
To understand how perfectly Jesus fufilled 'The Law', we first have to know what 'The Law' was. To understand how God deals with the modern-day church we first have to understand how He dealt with the Nation of Isreal. If we were going to hit just the main topics of the Old Testament we would come up with a 15 point outline. In chronological order they are:
Creation
Fall
Flood
Nations
Patriarchs
Bondage
Wilderness Wanderings
Conquest
Elders
Judges
United Kingdom
Divided Kingdom
Southern Kingdom
Babalonian Captivity
Restoration
To read the Bible like a novel, the aforementioned, would be at least great entertainment. There are heros, villans, plots, murders, conspiracies, love stories, wars, kings, armies, governments, slavery, redemption, supernatural events, and the list could go on. God, I feel, wrote the Bible in dementions. Whereas solid food belongs to mature Christians, milk to new newer Christians or the unconverted, the Bible has levels of understanding. God made one book for all people and every person, no matter their maturity level, never stops learning from it. Example: Read an account, any account and you will see first the obvious, then perhaps, a historical fulfillment, then maybe a modern-day fulfillment. Still reading the same account you go back and study again deeper, this time you realize it could be a prophecy for the coming future, or it has a literal and symbolic meaning or fulfillment. What once looked like a tangled mess you start to see as straight, strong, links in a perfect chain. The Psalmist recorded at Psalms 119:130"The unfolding of your words gives light, it gives understanding to the simple."
Moving to the New Testiment we start with the geneology of Jesus Christ, his birth, life, ministry, sacrifice and ressurection. "From Glory to Glory." Apostolic times, the early church, and finally the Bible concludes with a fascinating prophecy of comming events. The final 27 books make so much reference to the first 39 that it is pretty much impossible to do without them. I reemphasize the importance of the Old Testiment because it is widely overlooked as nothing more than a history of what happened to a bunch of Jews thousands of years ago. In fact it is the history of each one of us. My desire now is to gain all the knowlege I can about my human history and make a deeper connection with my savior through a part of His word to me that I often took for granted.
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If you had a couple of JW email addresses....
by JH in.
i dont know if you have the email addresses of some of the witnesses in your congregation, but if you did, would you send them links and send them apostate stuff..... .
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I've emailed them before. The UN and 607 thing. Also emailed dozens of times about my ex living with a woman and I wouldn't let it go until he was Df'd. They never responded to any of my emails but I sent several. Finally I quit and decided they could leave their head stuck in the sand if they wanted to.