Penny Corbin

Jehovah God,  Whoever You Are,  Please Help Me.....
( Nice post and very encouraging )
Angelic direction in the preaching work is precisely what Jesus foretold,...
As evidence that this is taking place, some of those whom we approach in our ministry say that they had been praying for spiritual guidance,...
Consider one experience in which two Kingdom publishers were accompanied by a small child,...
At the end of the morning, the two Witnesses were about to stop their preaching work, but the child was unusually eager to go to the next home,...
In fact, he went by himself and knocked on the door,...
When a young lady opened the door, the two adult Witnesses approached to talk to her,...
To their surprise, the woman explained that she had just been praying for someone to call on her to help her understand the Bible.,...
A Bible study was arranged !
As a member of the Christian congregation, you have the privilege of working along with the angels as the modern day preaching work takes place on an unprecedented scale,...
Never take that privilege for granted,...
By persevering in your efforts, you will find great joy as you continue to declare “ the good news about Jesus ” Acts 8:35,
( by  Brother  Roger  B. )     THANK  YOU

Luxury sports car maker Lamborghini has presented Pope Francis with a brand-new, special edition Huracán that will be auctioned off, with the proceeds donated to charity.

Love is all
Yesterday, I knew the games to play
I though I knew the away
Life was meant to be
And now there's you
My foolish games are through
Now at last I have found
Just what makes this old world turn arround
Refrão
Love is all, I have to give
Love is all, as long as I shall live
(So) take it all and I'll always be there
When you call my name
I know now, the love is all
Every night, I long to hold you tight
Until the morning light
Shines into your eyes
Love me now
We'll get along somehow
Won't you please, take my hand
And together forever we'll stand

I had never heard of this singer until this year.... He has quite the voice. I wonder how he slipped through the cracks? Didn't pay the record companies to promote his music?

WOW,  goosebumps feeling? WHAT a beautiful song, wonderful voice !  I love such of songs...  Thank you so much for posting that   I will share it for me, to hear it on and off...  Obrigado, Brother Abel ???

WOW..... what  an  AUTUMN - FIRE !
I've  to  share  with  you  still  the  next  BEAUTIFUL  pictures     ENJOY




A  wonderful  golden  sunset  in  autumn.....  (my birthtown  Hamburg)

Oh  yes,  the  winter  is  coming  soon !  Tonight  we've  only  -2' degrees ~
But  Jehovah  gave  us  that  season  with  a  reason....  Snow  is  nice
See  us  later  here ~~~~~~~~

Step by step  some  beautiful,  atmospheric  pictures  with  JEHOVAH'S  unique  color's  
A  little  HIGHLIGHT  in  our  current, gloomy  season.....    ENJOY

It is one thing to speak frankly and honestly (rather than live in "pretend world") while also contributing to the spiritual welfare of our brothers and sisters. Some of our brothers and sisters in fact do experience some pretty bad stuff and they need validation and understanding. They won't be helped to cope by pretending it doesn't exist or a lack of transparency or even punishing them for exposing things that are clearly bad. On the other hand, it's another thing to have an agenda. An agenda to only tear down and direct people away from Jehovah's organization. That paints with too wide a brush and denies all the good that is done and can yet be done.
One conspicuous omission I see from all these cowardly nay-sayers, sniping from behind the safety of a computer screen, is: What are you offering that is better? What religion are you in that is so much better? Let's examine your beliefs publicly and see if it stands the same level of scrutiny you hold us to. While we are obedient to Christ's command to preach the good news world wide, what are you offering? Let me guess: Bingo, bake sales and bazaars...?

This system of things has failed its young people in countless ways, with the predictable result that they are committing suicide in record numbers. Suicide rate of that age group has tripled since the 1950's. One Millennial site puts it: "Every generation uses the ceiling of the generation before them to become their floor to build off of. Instead, it feels like our generation is dodging the crumbling remains of the ceiling exploding above us." (allgroanup.com) Exactly.
That being the case, it is misguided to try to impede the one organization proclaiming the solution from the Bible. If they ceased doing it, there is no one else to take over.  So plain does this seem to me that I have sometimes crossed a line and asserted it is done for exactly that reason: to prevent the proclaiming of God's kingdom - remarks that have not gone down well in all quarters. But it seems either that or a cutting off of one's nose to spite one's face. it seems either that or the 'unreasoning animals' of Peter's description who act contrary to their own interests. 
I used to love giving the talk: 'Acquiring a Heart of Wisdom.' I led off with the by-now-trite illustration I've heard of how treasure-seekers dig through the dirt to find the tiniest bit of diamond, and how foolish it would be to reverse it - dig through the diamonds to find the tiniest bit of dirt. I then stated that, nonetheless, we would be doing exactly that for the next 45 minutes, since, with any time in the faith, you are going to come across some dirt,, and if you are not prepared, you will be floored, for it is the one place you do not expect to find any.
Then I reveled in tearing things apart for 45 minutes, both in the Hebrew and Greek scriptures. I hit my stride with Revelation 2 and 3, considering absolute basket cases of congregations, guilty of every horrible thing, and yet they were still congregations. The idea was to encourage the audience to have a realistic outlook on what they will always eventually encounter anywhere there are people.
Arguably, mature ones here who sometimes veer into discussing organizational flaws are not impeding anything, but by 'shining the bright light of journalistic truth' are encouraging everyone to shape up. Though that sometimes works, as often it is as when you shine a bright light upon cockroaches. They don't stop being cockroaches when you do that. They just go somewhere else.
Arguably, everyone is doing just fine here, and it may even benefit some opposers to hear frank admissions of faults by persons of good motive. However, it is another thing entirely to 'smuggle' confidential stuff, whatever that may be, so that Jay can put it on his website. He has pretty well demonstrated where his interests lie.
JTR, the strangest of all birds to me, regales us tirelessly with war scenarios about the boldness and courage and glory of men who SACRIFICED THEIR ALL in the greatest theater of existence. He would be shot in a heartbeat as a traitor if he carried on there as he does here. Does he think the military generals that sent thousands into battle were above the petty miscues that he lambastes others for here?
All this is not to be unkind to the young woman in question, who I did not know. She is caught up in the spirit of the age, most likely, that holds that revealing faults is somehow a sacred quest - that only good can come of it. Even Jay's breathless banner conveys his enthusiasm for tearing down: it is a SPECIAL REPORT! Just like the banning of the entire religion merited a SPECIAL REPORT on the broadcast site. It is not hard to see whose interests he serves.
It's regrettable, of course, but hardly a special report, as though  she was a freedom fighter lost in the most noble of causes. Otherwise, every downed soldier would also merit a special report, every millennial suicide would also merit a special report, and whoever they last engaged with would merit special attention as the villain of our age.
Can they get insular at Bethel? Can there be intrigues? Of course. It is the common bane of people. But I am loath to offer counsel because A.) I'm not qualified, B.) I don't have 5% of the information they do, C.) it's not my place, D.) Even when I identify a problem, that does not mean I have any idea how to fix it. The world's obsession with firing people for miscues results only in inexperienced clods running show - Jesus fired only Judas, E.) I don't think such matters are fixed though the democratic means of public journalism. It hasn't worked that way in the general world; drawbacks are as numerous as successes, and on balance, it is no better than hoping you get a nice king and not a mean one. F.) I tend to think these matters are self-correcting. If it truly is something from God, as I conclude it is based upon the proclamation of truth that they alone spearhead, then entities other than me will take care of troubles. 
 

Look what we found online.....
Every video for the English 2017 "Don't Give Up!" Regional Convention downloadable.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B0tM-QjYBgTqOVBsalNNTV85YVU
Agape!


More info here:
 

ACTUALLY IT IS IRONIC THAT THE RUSSIANS AND OPPOSERS TRY TO SAY THE WITNESSES HAVE TOTAL CONTROL WHEN IT IS THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT TRYING TO IMPOSE "TOTAL CONTROL" OVER YOUR RELIGIOUS VIEWS. JUST LIKE HITLER WANTED TOTAL CONTROL OVER THE WITNESSES. IF SOMEONE DOSEN'T LIKE BEING A WITNESS THEY CAN LEAVE WHEREAS HITLER PUT THEM IN CONCENTRATION CAMPS AND STALIN PUT THEM IN SIBERIA!
ACTS 2:42 SAYS: 42 " And they continued devoting themselves to the teaching of the apostles"
DEVOTED THEMSELVES TO IMPERFECT MEN? INTERESTING - YET THAT IS JEHOVAH'S WAY. AND HIS WAY IS ALWAYS TO OUR BENEFIT EVEN IF YOU DO NOT REALIZE IT AT FIRST. I WOULD RATHER HAVE JEHOVAH AND HIS PEOPLE HAVING ANY KIND OF CONTROL OVER ME THAN SATAN AND HIS MINIONS. WE ARE "SHEEP" AND SHEEP ARE CONTROLLED OR LED BY SHEPHERDS. THAT IS JEHOVAH'S WAY.

Really? Pressured to leave work. Seriously? I can give you countless of JW articles that encourages finding a job and keeping it and it's benefits (e.g. Awake July 8 2005 pp. 1-11). I admit, even some elders in some congregation may impose their personal opinions on you, but that is what it is - their personal opinion. That have nothing to do with being a Witness. Like Derek mentioned, there's no compulsion in serving God.
Who are they? Elders? Administrative center? or JWs as a whole? Well, I see JWs getting married all the time; From the governing body to the last of a publisher.
Required? by who? As much as I can hardly see this to be true, I'd give you the benefit of the doubt. There is no such instruction to disfellowship any brother on such basis. The worst is the brother not being able to handle certain responsibilities in the congregation.
Please, next time, get your facts right. For all you know, that wasn't the basis for his disfellowshipment

Baloney. 
 

No one is pressured into doing anything they don`t want to, Jehovah wants willingness not forced

Storms  over  the  ocean....

Sunset in the Tatra mountains....

Beautiful  sunset.....

















Your  own  thoughts  are  the  BEST  by  these  wonderful  pictures.....   the  next  page  is  soon  coming !   I  hope,  you  enjoy  my  pictures  -  Thank  you  so  much !  

They  are  in  our  nice  "SLEEPING - TRAIN"......  driving  directly  into  the  New World / paradise ;-))

Hope too many people would not copy the sample letter shown above, as it would not look sincere. Read the instructions again. They wish us to write from our hearts. It said we did not need to show it to elders or others. But on here we are showing letters to the world.

Letters should be one page in length and should be typewritten or neatly handwritten.
 Give attention to proper spelling, grammar, and punctuation.—be pp. 71-73.

Thank you very much ! Normal it should be in handwriting... but I hope, they accept also comp. letters 

For all my brothers and sisters who still don't know what to write - so in the way....   the time is pressing!
Dear Mr Putin,
My name is ......  and  I have been a Jehovah's Witness for .....   years.
Getting to know the Bible was the greatest gift ever made to me.
I am deeply concerned about my brothers and sisters !
We, as Jehovah's Witnesses, are not extremist in any way, our actions are based solely on the basis of love and biblical knowledge, and we follow the example of Jesus as Christians.
Jesus Christ went to the people with a wonderful good message and also challenged his successors as well.   Matthew 24:14.
We are a very, very peace-loving people who pursue their religion in peace and quiet.
Our faith requires us to submit to the sovereign power of the state, and to keep the laws faithfully.
Jehovah's Witnesses strive to be exemplary citizens. We are known worldwide for our peaceful activity and would under no circumstances undertake activities that could rightly be regarded as "extremist".
Our publications promote love for God and neighbor, love within the family and respect for the government.
Our biblical publications contain absolutely nothing "extremist" or criminal, and in no way is the Russian state to be harmed thereby!
We simply love our God Jehovah and I appeal to her heart: Please have a look and do not advocate that our religion is forbidden. PLEASE !
In humility and with the utmost respect, Mr Putin,  I ask for your intervention in favor of my beloved brothers and sisters in Russia.
 

Dear Bible Speaks, Thank you for this list. My hubby and I were baptized together at the same time in 1978. What a wondrous special journey it has been. Magazines were 15¢ back then. 2 color magazines became 4 color. No smartphones or tablets or home computers. No CDs or DVDs. So much has changed, and Jehovah's celestial chariot moves faster, ahead of all. Glorious!

Gracias por esa relación. Me bautice en 1967, hace 50 años. Se dice fácil pero no lo es. Jehova siempre ha estado presente en mi vida.