Joan Kennedy

This is very much appreciated!!

You are a Star

Here is the meeting material for weeks of Meeting material for July 31–August 6 & August 7-13, 2023. TB  
Additional Highlights -August 7-13, 2023.doc Additional Highlights -July 31–August 6, 2023.doc Meeting Workbook and CBS week of August 7-13, 2023.doc Meeting Workbook and CBS week of July 31–August 6, 2023.doc Watchtower August 7-13, 2023.doc Watchtower July 31, 2023–August 6, 2023.doc Additional Highlights -August 7-13, 2023.pdf Additional Highlights -July 31–August 6, 2023.pdf Meeting Workbook and CBS week of August 7-13, 2023.pdf Meeting Workbook and CBS week of July 31–August 6, 2023.pdf Watchtower August 7-13, 2023.pdf Watchtower July 31, 2023–August 6, 2023.pdf

Again we thank you for all of your work.  We do appreciate it
 
 

i Have no idea what you are talking about. What is a VBS, a sophis, and “another little due”?

Here is the meeting material for weeks of July 17 -23 and July 24- 30, 2023. TB
Meeting Workbook and CBS week of July 24-30, 2023.pdf Watchtower Par. 8 Week of July 17-23, 2023.doc Watchtower Par. 8 Week of July 17-23, 2023.pdf Watchtower WEEK OF July 17-23, 2023.doc Watchtower WEEK OF July 17-23, 2023.pdf Watchtower WEEK OF July 24-30, 2023.doc Watchtower WEEK OF July 24-30, 2023.pdf Additional Highlights -July 17-23, 2023.doc Additional Highlights -July 17-23, 2023.pdf Additional Highlights -July 24-30, 2023.doc Additional Highlights -July 24-30, 2023.pdf Meeting Workbook and CBS week of July 17-23, 2023.doc Meeting Workbook and CBS week of July 17-23, 2023.pdf Meeting Workbook and CBS week of July 24-30, 2023.doc

“Mark Well the Ravens.” Michael Burnett, a class instructor and former missionary, delivered the talk with the above title. 
He said that we are going to have anxious thoughts on occasion.
But remember Jesus' counsel: “Mark well that the ravens neither sow seed nor reap, . . . and yet God feeds them.” (Luke 12:24)
According to the Law covenant, ravens were unclean, not fit to be eaten. They were to be considered loathsome. (Leviticus 11:13, 15)
In spite of their status, God feeds them. “So if you are confronted with major anxiety in the future,” said Brother Burnett, “think about the raven.
If God takes care of an unclean, loathsome bird, how much more so is he going to take care of you who are clean in his eyes.”
— Contributed

Thank you always on time you are a dianond

Here is the material for the weeks of June 5-11 and June 12-18, 2023. TB
Watchtower June 5-11, 2023.doc Meeting Workbook and CBS week of June 12-18, 2023.pdf Meeting Workbook and CBS week of June 12-18, 2023.doc Meeting Workbook and CBS week of June 5-11, 2023.pdf Meeting Workbook and CBS week of June 5-11, 2023.doc Additional Highlights -June 5-11, 2023.pdf Additional Highlights -June 5-11, 2023.doc Additional Highlights - June 12-18, 2023.pdf Additional Highlights - June 12-18, 2023.doc Watchtower Par. 15 June 5-11, 2023.pdf Watchtower Par. 15 June 5-11, 2023.doc Watchtower June 12-18, 2023.pdf Watchtower June 12-18, 2023.doc Watchtower June 5-11, 2023.pdf

Once again, we thank you for your hard work.  We use it every week.  Thanks so much. 
 

Once again, we thank you for your hard work.  We use it every week.  Thanks so much. 
 

Thank you so much.  Very much appreciated
 

Thank you

Thank you always timely
 
 

Here is the meeting material for the meetings of May 8-14 and May 15-21, 2023. TB
Meeting Workbook and CBS week of May 8-14, 2023.doc Meeting Workbook and CBS week of May 15-21, 2023.pdf Meeting Workbook and CBS week of May 15-21, 2023.doc Additional Highlights -May 15-21, 2023.pdf Additional Highlights -May 15-21, 2023.doc Additional Highlights -May 8-14, 2023.pdf Additional Highlights -May 8-14, 2023.doc Watchtower May 15-21, 2023.pdf Watchtower May 15-21, 2023.doc Watchtower May 8-14, 2023.pdf Watchtower May 8-14, 2023.doc Meeting Workbook and CBS week of May 8-14, 2023.pdf

I was at a stoplight, when this scraggly non-Caucasian with some brochures and a can motioned for me to roll my window down 
He was asking for contributions to the BLFM, and I put two dollars in his can.
as he turned, a I asked “What is the BLFM?”.
He replied “Better Lunches For Me”.
 

Thank you tou are a gem

Thank you, Twyla.  Much appreciated.

Here is the material for the weeks of April 24-30 and May 1-7, 2023. TB
Meeting Workbook and CBS week of May 1-7, 2023.pdf Watchtower April 24-30, 2023.pdf Watchtower May 1-7, 2023.pdf Additional Highlights -April 24-30, 2023.doc Additional Highlights -May 1-7, 2023.doc Meeting Workbook and CBS week of April 24-30, 2023.doc Meeting Workbook and CBS week of May 1-7, 2023.doc Watchtower April 24-30, 2023.doc Watchtower May 1-7, 2023.doc Additional Highlights -April 24-30, 2023.pdf Additional Highlights -May 1-7, 2023.pdf Meeting Workbook and CBS week of April 24-30, 2023.pdf

My question is:
Who is your target audience for all the above?
There is only about six people reading this blog, and they all know this stuff.

Appreciate and thank you for the all the work you have done. 
 

2023  Exercise Patience Sample Convention Invitation Letters and Telephone Scripts
 
Worldwide 2023 Exercise Patience Sample Convention Invitation Letters and Telephone Scripts.pdf

Her is the reference material for April 10-16 and 17-23, 2023. TB
Meeting Workbook and CBS week of April 10-16, 2023.doc Meeting Workbook and CBS week of April 10-16, 2023.pdf Meeting Workbook and CBS week of April 17-23, 2023.doc Meeting Workbook and CBS week of April 17-23, 2023.pdf Watchtower April 10-16, 2023.doc Watchtower April 10-16, 2023.pdf Watchtower April 17-23, 2023.doc Watchtower April 17-23, 2023.pdf Additional Highlights -April 10-16, 2023.doc Additional Highlights -April 10-16, 2023.pdf Additional Highlights -April 17-23, 2023.doc Additional Highlights -April 17-23, 2023.pdf

Regarding his disciples, Jesus said to Jehovah in prayer: 
 
"I have given your word to them, but the world has hated them, because they are no part of the world, just as I am no part of the world. I do not request that you take them out of the world, but that you watch over them because of the wicked one.  They are no part of the world, just as I am no part of the world.  Sanctify them by means of the truth; your word is truth. Just as you sent me into the world, I also sent them into the world."
 
Later, Jesus was talking to Pilate. Pilate asked if Jesus was a king.
 
"Jesus answered: “My Kingdom is no part of this world. If my Kingdom were part of this world, my attendants would have fought that I should not be handed over to the Jews. But as it is, my Kingdom is not from this source."
 
The men who handed Jesus over were members of his own religion. Why did they hate Jesus so much? For one thing, those men had their own little "kingdom" or government setup within the religion. Jesus told the truth about the hypocrisy of the scribes and Pharisees and their little kingdom setup, fleecing the flock, adding their own laws and traditions to God's Law. 
 
Today, there are some who are like the scribes and Pharisees in God's organization. They add their own laws to God's Law. They don't like it when Jesus' friends expose the hypocrisy in the organization, even though Jesus is the one who is directing this exposure. 
 
Jesus said: "Let your light shine" and "preach it from the housetops" and "we must worship with spirit and truth" and "if the light in you is darkness, how great that darkness is" and "they strain out the gnat and gulp down the camel" and "beware the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy".
 
Jesus said he would come and expose the hypocrisy of the lawless ones with the sword of his mouth. He also said he would give us the words to say when bearing witness. In this way, Jesus gets the glory, and his glory is glory for Jehovah.
 
"These things I command you, that you love one another.  If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you.  If you were part of the world, the world would be fond of what is its own. Now because you are no part of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you."
 
Being "neutral" as to the affairs of the world doesn't just mean being neutral to the political governments of the state and the local municipalities. It also means being neutral in the affairs of the governing authorities in the congregation who have also set up their own little kingdoms in opposition to God and Christ.
 
The current governing body has been permitted to operate. We must respect the fact that they have authority to buy and sell properties and make rules regarding the properties they own and the videos and music and publications they produce. They have the right to organize meetings the way they want to. They will be held accountable for what they do. As far as respect goes, we do not interfere with their manmade traditions, just like we don't interfere with people doing a flag salute. But we also don't take part in practices that God hates. We won't believe or teach others doctrines that aren't true. We must obey God as ruler rather than men when those men teach doctrines that are in opposition to God.
 
The Kingly Law of the Christ is to Love. The first century governing body said "Abstain from blood." Jesus said no one would be able to calculate the hour when the kingdom comes (it wasn't in 1914). Anyone who disobeys the clear words of the Bible on these and other matters and instead favors the decrees of the governing body is guilty of not being neutral, of being part of the kingdoms of this world, of choosing to curry favor with earthly "kings" ahead of loyalty to Jehovah.
 
The nations often say "in God we trust". The governing body says the same thing. But their actions disprove their words.
 
The governing body has shown hatred for Jehovah's Kingdom by disfellowshipping faithful anointed heirs of the Kingdom Government. Repeatedly. They have filled up the measure of their forefathers. They are aware of what they are doing. 
 
Please, brothers, take care not to hold their hand and work along with them in their wicked deeds, that you may not also be held accountable when Jesus comes and makes the hidden things manifest. Obey the governing body when they ask you to do things in harmony with what is written in the Bible, just as you obey the local governments and the national governments in paying back Caesar's things to Caesar. But do not listen to the governing body when they ask you to disobey Jehovah - that's what neutrality means: "We must obey God as ruler rather than man."
 
"Everyone remaining in union with him does not practice sin; no one who practices sin has either seen him or come to know him.  Little children, let no one mislead you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as that one is righteous.  The one who practices sin originates with the Devil, because the Devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was made manifest, to break up the works of the Devil. Everyone who has been born from God does not practice sin, for His seed remains in such one, and he cannot practice sin, for he has been born from God.  The children of God and the children of the Devil are evident by this fact: Whoever does not practice righteousness does not originate with God, nor does the one who does not love his brother.  For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another;  not like Cain, who originated with the wicked one and slaughtered his brother. And for what reason did he slaughter him? Because his own works were wicked, but those of his brother were righteous. Do not be surprised, brothers, that the world hates you.  We know that we have passed over from death to life, because we love the brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.  Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has everlasting life remaining in him."
 
When the governing body approves of the disfellowshipping of faithful anointed ones, then the governing body is acting like children of the Devil. When the governing body is teaching doctrines in opposition to what the helper, the holy spirit, teaches, then the governing body is acting like children of the Devil. Please, loyal ones, do not follow them in their wicked deeds. Stay clean from their worldly teachings. Keep yourself spiritually chaste by obeying what the Christ said, so that your sacrifice of praise at the Memorial celebration may be pleasing in God's eyes. Please, don't share in the bloodguilt of the governing body by approving of their actions when they condemn ambassadors of the Kingdom. Their wicked actions toward faithful anointed ones mirror what those men would have done to Jesus had they lived in the first century. They would be just like the scribes and Pharisees of old, clamoring to have Jesus executed. Maybe they will repent later, but right now, they are not behaving as faithful ones. Please do not follow them in their wicked deeds. They are not representing Jesus or Jehovah. 
 
"From that time forward, Jesus began explaining to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes and be killed, and on the third day be raised up.  At this Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying: “Be kind to yourself, Lord; you will not have this happen to you at all.”  
 
"But turning his back, he said to Peter: “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me, because you think, not God’s thoughts, but those of men.” 
 
"Then Jesus said to his disciples: “If anyone wants to come after me, let him disown himself and pick up his torture stake and keep following me.  For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.  Really, what good will it do a man if he gains the whole world but loses his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?  For the Son of man is to come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will repay each one according to his behavior.  Truly I say to you that there are some of those standing here who will not taste death at all until first they see the Son of man coming in his Kingdom.”"
 
We must worship with spirit and truth. The governing body have made themselves into idols. "Little children, keep yourselves from idols."