Posts by BFD

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Single? Do You Cook for Yourself?

by compound complex in

jw
friends

dear friends,.

as i cook away, preparing a hearty breakfast before the robust walkabout that awaits me, i recall an earlier conversation with a married friend whose wife prepares him beautiful meals.

if you're a single person, it's typical to throw something together hastily and eat it on the run.

BFD

I do cook for myself. It is only me but I gotta eat. I enjoy it most of the time but, there I times when I wish I had someone to cook for me once in a while. I do sit in the dining room and enjoy my dinner meal semi-formal even alone. Never was one to sit in front of the TV or computer while eating.

I am not big on breakfast, usually just a buttered bagel, OJ and coffe. Lunch is usually leftovers from the previous night's dinner. I like to make big meals and freeze them so on days like today when the temps get so hot I do not have to put the stove on. Just pop something in the microwave an viola a home cooked meal.

BFD

9

What A Heat Wave!

by NewInTown in

it's very hot here for so early in the year.

i'm so glad i'm not at one of those awful outdoor assemblies!

BFD

I had to install my window A/C in the bedroom last night. I woke up freezing!

Yesterday it was 93 degrees here.

BFD

48

Please, I need helpful suggestions.....

by New light for you in

jw
friends

i've been reading this board for a while, but never posted, but now everything has changed and i have nowhere to go for suggestions- .

my witness husband (robert7) in december, the night before the assembly, told me that he isn't a witness anymore, doesn't want to be involved anymore, doesn't believe it.

of course, i'm a good witness, take the kids out in service a few days a week every week... very active in the cong.my first reaction was that "i cant love him if he doesn't love jehovah" and it really looked like we surely would get a divorce in jan/feb.

BFD

Welcome, NewLight. I really don't have any advise I just want to aopologize for my smartass remark on Robert7's thread.

It seems you let the cat out of the bag. I don't know if it is possible to put it back in. Some others here will have better advise.

Welcome and good luck to you.

BFD

35

Need suggestions... how do I respond to my elders?

by Robert7 in

jw
friends

so our fade is not going so well.

too many people have been asking about us, and therefore giving us attention.

we've had no choice but tell select few friends that we're discouraged, and one that we're having a hard time believing the fds in general.

BFD

Just tell him you're thinking of going to college to further your edumacation.

BFD

28

Happy Birthday, JK666 ? *

by FlyingHighNow in

jw
friends

is it your birthday?

.

this is what i found when i looked for frank zappa actions figures or dolls:.

BFD

Happy Birthday, John....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2wgxwdPYFE

BFD

31

Guess who I met this afternoon...

by changeling in

jw
friends

my husband and i met oompa today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

ask me anything.

maybe i'll answer truthfully, or maybe i won't.. changeling :).

BFD

Were you able to get your arms around his hump when you hugged him?

BFD

17

Martin Luther Sounds like He's talking about the WTBTS in the 1500's!

by AuntBee in

usually i'm just a lurker.

i'm a chrirstian concerned for a jw teen, and wanting to understand what he's going through, and where he's coming from i don't usually post, but this morning i came upon this while reading from the sermons of martin luther , volume 1. he's speaking about luke 21:28.. "the godless fanatical preachers are to be censured who in their sermons deprive people of these words of christ and faith in them, who desire to make people devout by terrifying them and who teach them to prepare for the last day by relying upon their good works as satisfaction for their sins.

here despair, fear and terror must remain and grow and with it hatred, aversion and abhorrence for the coming of the lord, and enmity against god be established in the heart; for they picture christ as nothing but a stern judge whose heart must be appeased by works, and they never present him as the redeemer, as he calls and offers himself, of whom we are to expect that out of pure grace he will redeem us from sin and evil.. such is always the result where the gospel is not rightly proclaimed.

BFD

Luke 21:8

8 He replied: "Watch out that you are not deceived. For many will come in my name, claiming, 'I am he,' and, 'The time is near.' Do not follow them.

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=luke%2021:8;&version=31 ;

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

BFD

17

Martin Luther Sounds like He's talking about the WTBTS in the 1500's!

by AuntBee in

usually i'm just a lurker.

i'm a chrirstian concerned for a jw teen, and wanting to understand what he's going through, and where he's coming from i don't usually post, but this morning i came upon this while reading from the sermons of martin luther , volume 1. he's speaking about luke 21:28.. "the godless fanatical preachers are to be censured who in their sermons deprive people of these words of christ and faith in them, who desire to make people devout by terrifying them and who teach them to prepare for the last day by relying upon their good works as satisfaction for their sins.

here despair, fear and terror must remain and grow and with it hatred, aversion and abhorrence for the coming of the lord, and enmity against god be established in the heart; for they picture christ as nothing but a stern judge whose heart must be appeased by works, and they never present him as the redeemer, as he calls and offers himself, of whom we are to expect that out of pure grace he will redeem us from sin and evil.. such is always the result where the gospel is not rightly proclaimed.