jesus always used illustrations to help people reason on the import of what he was saying.
here is an illustration followed by a reality;.
imagine that your heart went out to all those poor people who suffered when fukushima blew up, so much so, that when an internationally renowned charity asked for donations to help those in need, you donated $5000 to the cause.
"how it could possibly cost $9-$10,000 per day to use our own assembly hall?"
Well, it was built once, wasn't it? And that did cost some money, did'nt it? And that means loans will have to be paid, doesn't it? Just for the record, our convention hall has now been fully paid, zero loan or debt, and so there are no more calls for deficit and how much needs to be paid for a convention day.
jesus always used illustrations to help people reason on the import of what he was saying.
here is an illustration followed by a reality;.
imagine that your heart went out to all those poor people who suffered when fukushima blew up, so much so, that when an internationally renowned charity asked for donations to help those in need, you donated $5000 to the cause.
So - just to get it straight - what you think is correct seen from the side of the houseowner who had his house destroyed, is to have volunteer JWs rebuild his house for free, receive new furniture donated either as furniture or as money given by JWs, and THEN receive and keep the full amount of insure money paid to him by his insurance agency?
Both ways, in other words?
as people get older they inevitably lose more of their friends and family.
the doctrine that binds them to the truth like superglue is the doctrine of the resurrection.
they ache to see their dead rise.. so ... i die.
God keeps you in His memory, He is a God for the living, the from our viewpoint dead ones live in Him, He views them as living - and then he gives them a new physical body. I cannot see that as a clone, because they during all the in-between time have been living in His memory as individuals.
so i have a friend that is still "in" because of his elderly parents.
he attended the memorial and reported back to me what i thought was encouraging.
we have two congregations in the city i live in.
80 in our small rural congregation of 30 - an all-time high, more than 10 above the previous record!
as most suspected, the wts filed their brief, at least it looks that way..... http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.gov/search/case/dockets.cfm?dist=1&doc_id=2025979&doc_no=a136641.
it also notes aob in excess of word count limit.. wonder if they did that to buy more time?.
Could someone very shortly tell me poor non-US person the time-line or the actions, the "what is happening and what will happen next" of this case? Not what the case is about, but the way and manners the US system works or deals with a case like this. So that I can get an understanding of how the US system functions, as it is different from ours.
http://jwsurvey.org/governing-body-2/new-light-watchtower-magazine-leaked-from-organization-weeks-ahead-of-general-release.
if doctrinal explanations are missing from the article, it is because they are also missing from the magazine.. i would like to give my thanks again to my source for supplying me with the magazine article weeks ahead of its scheduled release.
it showed remarkable courage, because risks were taken.
On the attack from UN, Cedars, and its apparent incapability of doing anything these days, unless it is tricked into doing it by the US (as was shown in Libya), it is pretty much covered by the WT teaching that it is God who is making the UN carry out the attack. UN and man is not doing it by itself, but is doing God's will in this respect. If that factor is not brought in, I think we would have to wait for ....... quite some time ......... to see religion attacked by UN or any one of the present states for that matter.
so, the two local congregations were planning to hold their memorial together at 7:30 at the local community center, but they had to make a last-minute change to their own hall, and i'm pretty sure it was because of me.. let me explain.... at work on monday afternoon, a co-worker returned from her lunchbreak and showed me the memorial invitation that was waiitng in her door when she went home for lunch.
i noticed the sticker on the back indicated the memorial was being held, not at the local hall, but at the community center.
from a past (non-jw) event i attended there, i knew they didn't allow alcohol (unless you pay for security guards), so i wrote to the center's coordinator:.
Oh, how brave and manly. Human wisdom taken to its extreme.
If that was an example of the most intelligent thing you managed to do, I see no limits as to how childish people can behave.
after spending a month in cold,rainy, snowy conditions, and using up 100's of gallons of fuel in service.
jehovah certainly blessed our efforts!!.
we must have had zero invitees up from zero the year before!!!
"The JWs are only attracting disadvantaged, uneducated, social misfits."
1. Cor. 1: 26-29:
26 For YOU behold his calling of YOU, brothers, that not many wise in a fleshly way were called, not many powerful, not many of noble birth; 27 but God chose the foolish things of the world, that he might put the wise men to shame; and God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put the strong things to shame; 28 and God chose the ignoble things of the world and the things looked down upon, the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are, 29 in order that no flesh might boast in the sight of God.
(edit: sorry about that - i clicked submit before i finished writing the post.
and its now 11 years, not 10. anyway...).
hi folks.
Comoros
Check with the number of countries where there are restriction; a Moslem country with not-too-gentle attitude towards other faiths
Montenegro -
Comes from former Yugoslavia, but from 2003 to 2006 it was part of the union of Serbia and Montenegro.
South Sudan -
Comes from Sudan – obviously.
Tajikistan -
Check with the number of countries where there are restriction; a Moslem country with not-too-gentle attitude towards other faiths
Timor-Leste
Comes either from Timor or from Indonesia, check if the said figures go down coeespondingly.
Yugoslavia, F. R.
Divided into Bosnia and Hercegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, Kosovo
- removed in 2002 - introduced in 2012 removed in 2007 introduced in 2012 introduced in 2007 - removed in 2004
view of money and pride?.
jehovah?.
comments.
Certain eagles are reported to have drowned when they did not release
from their talons a fish that was too heavy to carry off.
Who writes this stuff? Are they trying to protect the identity of those eagles or perhaps just
shield their families from the shame?
More that it is not 100 % certain that they have drowned, I guess, that it has not been taped - not so much because of the shamefulness of having a greedy family member.
