Alexa

Felicitaciones a nuestro recién bautizado hermano gemelos siameses. Convención regional Pangasinan, Filipinas.

This is what Family Worship Night often looks like now in 2016

A picture says 1,000 words I guess.
Studying the Bible when I was a child in 1979 looked SO much different. And it involved actual reading of the Bible.
Hmmm..
Will these children be prepared to defend their beliefs in the future with only a Bible in hand?

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Through one man sin entered into the world and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because they had all sinned.—Rom. 5:12.
http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/dt/r1/lp-e/2016/11/24
The first to die was faithful Abel. (Gen. 4:8) Then Adam’s other offspring grew old and died. Did they inherit sin as well as death? The apostle Paul answers: “Through the disobedience of the one man many were made sinners.” (Rom. 5:19) Sin and death inherited from Adam thus became implacable enemies of mankind, inescapable for imperfect humans. We cannot exactly describe all that was involved in passing on their sad inheritance to Adam’s immediate and more distant offspring, but passed on it was. Fittingly, the Bible refers to inherited sin and death as “the shroud that is enveloping all the peoples and the covering that is woven over all the nations.” (Isa. 25:7) This suffocating covering, or shroud, this intricate webwork of condemnation, entraps all people. So the fact is that “in Adam all are dying.”—1 Cor. 15:22. w14 9/15 4:8, 9

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Kingdom Hall in Philippines sis in congregation kh of brother joel  

Kingdom Hall in Philippines sis in congregation kh of brother joel  

Where please was this taken?
Thank you 

A  REMINDER  TO  OUR  LOVING  SISTER  *WHITNEY  HEICHEL* ❤
Jehovah's  Witness  community  mourns  Whitney  Heichel.....

Whitney Heichel, 21, of Gresham was  ‘just a beautiful little person,’  her husband, Clint, said.  She was "just full of love,  and she was just a ray of light to everybody !"   ( very  sad  days  we  had  before  4 years, I  remember ) Whitney and Clint were so very happy ;-)  a wonderful  JW  couple  -  Whitney  was  so  liked  and  popular  by  all  JW  and  other  humans !
 
Jehovah will call you, dear Sister Whitney...  hope, we see us in paradise !
read  more...  http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/devastated-husband-slain-barista-grapples-agonizing-questions-article-1.1189678
( and  other  links...)

 The Oregonian, Ross William Hamilto/AP
Friends and acquaintances of Whitney Heichel gather at the Starbucks, where she worked,  Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012 in Gresham, Oreg.

Whitney  and  Clint  Heichel...  when  they  still  were  so  happy ❤

I am very sad to read this! But everyone of us know ,we are really living in the last days ... 2.Tim. 3:1
Some yrs ago it happened also to our kingdom Hall and a  behind Apartment!!
We have a brand new kingdom Hall! And they hit the Window of the entrance door with a Big Stone ! Later they Set the new Appartement for circuit overseers on fire!! 
I have to Note hear, i m living in a Catholic Small Town!!!
Finally the Police couldn t find anyone of the perpetrators!! 
Of course , each of us is very sad to hear such stories, but we don t want forget , that we should expect such happenings! Luke 21:12
 
 
 
 
 

How would they take morphine?

I just can't envision Sister NikL and other JWs with a joint in hand . . .

THE BARBER......
A Witness went to a barbershop to trim his hair. As is customary in these cases he made a pleasant conversation with the person who attended him.
They talked about many things and touched many subjects. Suddenly they touched on the subject of God. The barber said:
"Look, gentleman, I do not think God exists, as you say."
"But why do you say that?" Asks the brother.
"If God existed, there would be no suffering, not so much pain," he said, "if God existed, there would be no suffering. For humanity.I can not think that a God who exists allows all these things. "
The brother thought for a moment, but did not want to respond to avoid an argument and in view of which the subject was deep to explain. The barber finished his work and the brother left the business.
I walked a few steps and saw in the street a man with a beard and long hair; Apparently it had been a long time since he cut it and looked very disheveled. Then he went back to the barbershop and said to the barber,
"You know, barbers do not exist."
"How come they do not exist? If I am here, I am a barber."
- "Do not!" Said the client, "They do not exist, because if they existed there would not be people with a beard and hair as long as this man has."
- "Ah, the barbers if they exist, what happens is that these people do not come to me".
"Exactly!" Said the client, "That's the point. Jehovah God does exist, what happens is that people do not go to him and do not seek him, that's why there is pain and suffering."

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You are good Queen Esther  

You are good Queen Esther  

My pleasure, dear Alexa ;-)   Oops...  I just saw my date-mistake, haha !  In German we say, the  "mistakedevil"  came...   I repaired it, thanks ! 

Thank you Queen Esther for the daily text for this day  

Assist those who are weak.—Acts 20:35.
http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/dt/r1/lp-e/2016/10/20
You may know from personal experience that it can take time to recover from a debilitating physical illness. Similarly, a Christian who has been weakened by personal difficulties or very trying circumstances may need time to regain spiritual strength. True, our fellow believer will need to strengthen his own faith through personal study, prayer, and other Christian activities. But will we show patience until he regains his balance? And during that recovery, will we show enduring love? Will we strive to help those who are temporarily weak to feel valued and to sense our Christian affection? (2 Cor. 8:8) Never forget that as we provide support to our brothers, we experience the joy that only giving can bring. We also cultivate our capacity for showing empathy and patience. But there is more. The congregation as a whole grows in warmth and love. Above all, we imitate Jehovah, who considers every individual to be precious. w14 6/15 3:18, 19

Jesus began preaching and saying: “Repent, for the Kingdom of the heavens has drawn near.”—Matt. 4:17,
http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/dt/r1/lp-e/2016/10/19
Jesus taught his disciples to do the same work. He told them: “You will be witnesses of me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the most distant part of the earth.” (Acts 1:8) The early followers of Christ definitely understood what was required of them. At Antioch in Pisidia, for example, Paul and Barnabas boldly told their Jewish opposers: “It was necessary for the word of God to be spoken first to you. Since you are rejecting it and do not judge yourselves worthy of everlasting life, look! we turn to the nations. For Jehovah has commanded us in these words: ‘I have appointed you as a light of nations, for you to be a salvation to the ends of the earth.’” (Acts 13:14, 45-47) Since the first century, the earthly part of God’s organization has been making known his provision for salvation. w14 5/15 3:13