Penny Corbin

Karlie: Jehovah gives us the strength and courage to do impossible, I had a man that did not teach the children, I taught by example not to disrespect his headship. Today I am blessed with four children who love Jehovah, one at Wallkill Bethel, one a Elder, one a MS Servant, my daughter a Pioneer and her husband an Elder. We can't make them choose Jehovah, just do what you can, plant that seed, and ask Jehovah to help its growth! May Jehovah Bless you, Bible Speaks ???

Thank you so much for the list of year texts. We were baptised 31/12/83.  Jehovah is such a loving Father. I was a very vicious DNC till 2 little girls aged 12 and 10, with 3 scriptures answers my question I had asked the clergy for years. This shows how important it is to train our young ones to know their Bible. 

Penny: Is it not a joy to see the growth in Jehovah's Organization and grow with it! I was born in the Truth, but got baptized at 13. I have a long heritage in the Truth! We value everything we have and more! Thank you Jehovah!
Agape,
Bible Speaks 
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Oh my goodness, thank you! I have never seen this list; how awesome! Thank you so much for the share!   (my own baptism...1971)

Oh my goodness, thank you! I have never seen this list; how awesome! Thank you so much for the share!   (my own baptism...1971)

Oh my goodness, thank you! I have never seen this list; how awesome! Thank you so much for the share!   (my own baptism...1971)

Year Texts for Jehovah's Witnesses back to 1914
Our yeartext for 2017: “Trust in Jehovah and do what is good.”—Psalm 37:3.                              
2016, “Let your brotherly love continue” (Heb 13:1): w16.01 7-11; yb16 2-3.                          
2015, “Give thanks to Jehovah, for he is good” (Ps 106:1): w15 1/15 8-12; yb15 2-3
2014 "Let your Kingdom come." (Matthew 6:10)
2013 "Be courageous and strong....Jehovah your God is with you." (Joshua 1:9)
2012 "Your word is truth." (John 17:17)
2011 “Take refuge in the name of Jehovah” (Zep 3:12)
2010 ‘Love endures all things. Love never fails’ (1Co 13:7,
2009 “Bear thorough witness to the good news” (Ac 20:24)
2008 “Stand firm and see the salvation of Jehovah” (Ex 14:13)
2007 “The great day of Jehovah is near” (Zep 1:14)
2006 “We must obey God as ruler rather than men” (Ac 5:29)
2005 “My help is from Jehovah” (Ps 121:2)
2004 “Keep on the watch ... Prove yourselves ready” (Mt 24:42, 44)
2003 “Draw close to God, and he will draw close to you” (Jas 4:8)
2002 “Come to me, ... and I will refresh you” (Mt 11:28)
2001 “Stand complete and with firm conviction in all the will of God” (Col 4:12)
2000 “We are not the sort that shrink back ... but the sort that have faith” (Heb
10:39)
1999 “Look! Now is the day of salvation” (2Co 6:2)
1998 “Everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah will be saved” (Ro 10:13)
1997 “Teach me to do your will” (Ps 143:10)
1996 “Become doers of the word” (Jas 1:22)
1995 “Be harmoniously joined together in love” (Col 2:2)
1994 “Trust in Jehovah with all your heart” (Pr 3:5)
1993 “Instruct me, O Jehovah ... Unify my heart to fear your name” (Ps 86:11)
1992 “Rejoice in the hope. ... Persevere in prayer” (Ro 12:12)
1991 "Let anyone hearing say: 'Come!'" —Rev. 22:17
1990 “Be of good courage and say: ‘Jehovah is my helper.’” —Hebrews 13:6
1989 “Fear God and give him glory.”—Rev. 14:7.
1988 “Hope in Jehovah and keep his way” (Ps 37:34)
1987 “As for me and my household, we shall serve Jehovah.” —Joshua 24:15
1986 “Go . . . declare abroad the kingdom of God.”—Luke 9:60.
1985 “Fully accomplish your ministry.”—2 Tim. 4:5.
1984 “Speak the word of God fearlessly.”—Phil. 1:14.
1983 “Clothe yourselves with love . . . a perfect bond of union.”—Col. 3:14.
1982 “Become steadfast, unmovable, always having plenty to do in the work of the Lord.”—1 Cor. 15:58.
1981 “Your loyal ones will bless you. About the glory of your kingship they will talk.”—Ps. 145:10, 11.
1980 “And now, Jehovah, . . . grant your slaves to keep speaking your word with all boldness.”—Acts4:29.
1979 “My Father is glorified in this, that you keep bearing much fruit and prove yourselves my disciples.”—John 15:8.
1978 “They will not prevail against you, for ‘I [Jehovah] am with you . . . to deliver you.’”—Jer. 1:19.
1977 “You have need of endurance, in order that . . . you may receive the fulfillment of the promise.”—Heb. 10:36.
1976 “Awaiting these things, do your utmost to be found finally by him spotless and unblemished and in peace.”—2 Pet. 3:14.
1975 “I will say to Jehovah: ‘You are my refuge and my stronghold.’”—Ps. 91:2.
1974 “Although the fig tree itself may not blossom, . . . I will exult in Jehovah himself.”—Hab. 3:17, 18.
1973 “But we, for our part, shall walk in the name of Jehovah our God to time indefinite, even forever.”—Mic. 4:5.
1972 “Say among the nations: ‘Jehovah himself has become king.’”—Ps. 96:10.
1971 “You will be witnesses of me . . . to the most distant part of the earth.”—Acts 1:8.
1970 “Go therefore and make disciples . . .baptizing them.”—Matt. 28:19.
1969 “Lift your heads up, because your deliverance is getting near.” - Luke 21:28
1968 “Also, in all the nations the good news has to be preached first.” - Mark 13:10
1967 “Here I am! Send me.” - Isaiah 6:8
1966 “We shall not neglect the house of our God.” - Neh. 10:39
1965 “Do not become fearful of those who kill the body.” Matt 10:28
1964 “Filled with the holy spirit and ...speaking the word of God with boldness.” -Acts 4:31
1963 “Now we are not the sort that shrink back to destruction, but the sort that have faith to the preserving alive of the soul.”—Heb. 10:39
1962 “Be courageous and let your heart be strong. Yes, hope in Jehovah,” (Ps. 27:14)
1961 “In unity I shall set them, like a flock in the pen.”—Mic. 2:12.
1960 “Seek peace and pursue it. For Jehovah’s eyes are upon the righteous.” (1 Peter 3:11, 12)
1959 “Happy is the one that stays awake and keeps his outer garments.” (Rev 16:15)
1958 “As for me, in my integrity I shall walk.” (Psalm 26:11)
1957 “From day to day tell the good news of
salvation by him,” Ps. 96.2
1956 “Prove me now here with, said Jehovah of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing.” (Malachi 3:10 AS)
1955 “He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: His heart is fixed, trusting in Jehovah.” (Ps. 112:7 ASV)
1954 “Every day will I bless you, and I will praise your name forever and ever” (Ps. 145:2, CB)
1953 “Worship Jehovah in holy array” (Ps 29:2, AS)
1952 “Say to the prisoners, Go forth.”—Isa. 49:9.
1951 “Praise Jah, you people, because Jehovah our God, the Almighty, has begun to rule as king.” (Rev. 19:6, NW)
1950 “Preach the word” (2 Timothy 4:2)
1949 “I . . . will yet praise thee more and more. (Ps. 71:14)
1948 “I will sing praises unto the among the nations.” (Ps. 57:9, A.S.V.) 
1947 “Oh praise Jehovah, all the nations”. (Ps. 117:1, Am. Stan. Ver.)
1946 “Be Glad, Ye Nations, with His People.” Romans 15:10, Rotherham.
1945 “Go therefore, and make disciples of all the nations.” (Matthew 28:19, Am. Stan. Ver.)
1944 “Teach me to do your will, For you are my God” (Psalm 143:10)
1943 “More than conquerors through him that loved us”. (Romans 8: 37)
1942 “Blameless in the day of our Lord” (1Cor. 1 :
1941 “Salvation unto our God . . . and unto the Lamb” (Rev. 7:10, A.R.V.)
1940 “My heart shall rejoice in the salvation.”--Ps. 13:5.
1939 “But they shall not prevail against them.” Jer 1:19
1938 ‘Fear not; for the battle is God’s’ -2 Chron. 20: 15
1937 “Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle.” Obadiah 1
1936 “For Jehovah and for Gideon” -Judg. 7:18 (Again, same as 1935)
1935 “For Jehovah and for Gideon” -Judg. 7:18
1934 “In his name shall [the] nations hope.” -Matt. 12:21
1933 “The name of Jehovah is a strong tower; the righteous runs into it, and is safe.” Prov. 18: 10,
1932 “They shall know that I am Jehovah” Eze 6:10
1931 “The Lord preserve all them that love him ; but all the wicked will he destroy.” Ps. 145:20.
1930 “Sing unto the Lord a new song.” Isa 42:10
1929 “I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.” Psalm 104:33
1928 “Sing forth the honor of his name.” (Psalm 66: 2)
1927 “O Lord, how manifold are thy works !” Psalm 104:24
1926 “Blessed be the Lord out of Zion.”-- Psalm 135:21
1925 “Comfort all that mourn.” Isa 61:2
1924 “The kingdom of heaven is at hand” Matt 10:7
1923 “We all, with open face beholding as a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the spirit of the Lord. 2 Cor 3:18
1922 “Thanks be to God, who give us the victory through our lord Jesus Christ.” 1 Cor 15:57
1921 “I will triumph in the works of the hands.” Psalm 92:4
1920 “The Lord is my strength and song.” Psalm 118: 14
1919 “No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; Lord, and righteousness which is of me, saith the Lord.” Isa 54:17
1918 “The end of all things is at hand: Be therefore sober and watch unto prayer; and above all things have fervent love among yourselves. (1 Peter 4:7,8)
1917 “The Lord bless them, and keep them; the Lord make his face shine upon them, and be gracious unto them; the Lord lift up his countenance upon them, and give them peace.”-Numbers 6:24-26 (Chosen by
Brother Russell before his death)
1916 “Strong in faith.” Romans 4:20
1915 “Are you able to drink of My cup?” (Mt 20:22)
1914 "Let your Kingdom come." (Matthew 6:10)m
WHAT YEAR WHERE YOU BAPTIZED? I was 1968.

Most Witnesses obviously want to live peaceful Christian lives and conduct ourselves in a way that pleases Jehovah God and Jesus Christ. None of us really want the job of being responsible to take a specific position on all doctrinal matters and setting priorities for organizational direction in our overall global ministry. But we can be thankful that among Christians, there will always be a few that will take the lead in those heavy responsibilities.
The very desire to take the lead in such matters seems like an assignment that only someone who is very brave or very foolhardy would take. It seems that, from a worldly perspective, only the most haughty among us would reach out for such an important job. Yet, we know some of these brothers very well from either personal acquaintance, or perhaps they were Circuit and District Overseers in our congregations. Perhaps we worked alongside some of them in a Branch Office. We get to know their personalities from presentations, speeches, and broadcasts. We see them interact with each other at some events.
All in all, the majority of them seem to be good, God-fearing, humble men who want to do what is right, the same as the rest of us. We don't get the idea that any of them "schemed" to get to this position. We know that the guidelines for elders apply to them just as they apply to congregation elders. And it's my opinion, but I see a certain stability and faithfulness to worthy goals among all of them. 
Now it's easy to say good things about these men, and that's my point. When these men were mostly chosen only from a certain similar mold, there was not a large "pool" for these "gifts in men" to be chosen from. In the past, most had been chosen from a limited bureaucratic background. At the point when there were 17 GB members alive at the same time, most (but not all) had the ability to give a good talk, but at least half of them were seriously lacking in Biblical expertise, and at least half of them had very little experience even in the door-to-door field ministry for the last 40 years of their lives. We should not have been surprised that certain kinds of flaws showed up among these men so that several were dismissed, and a lot of politics and scheming was known to go on among those who remained.
But the current group, especially after the death of Theodore Jaracz, have been chosen from a much wider pool of candidates. These men have made more progress in the last 20 years than in the previous 100 years. They are managing a much bigger, and smoother operation, with millions and millions more persons in their care. Doctrinal changes over the last 20 years have been steady and clearly beneficial overall. The quality of the publications and the website has improved greatly. It's reach is enormous. 
I've already stated my opinion that the GB are not the equivalent of the "faithful slave" from a Biblical standpoint. But that's not the point of discussion here. These men, the GB, who have taken the lead for doctrinal and prioritized the organizational and ministerial direction have taken on an important and necessary assignment. They admit that they aren't perfect. Of course, that statement is meaningless, because such a statement almost always is used with the intention of meaning "perfect, for all practical purposes." But they don't leave it at that. They admit that they have made serious errors in doctrine and leadership. they admit that the spiritual food they produce and distribute is not always perfect.
So, with that said, I think one way of looking at the overall picture is to see these men in the position of keeping order. They take the lead at the "highest" level, not because they think that you must think that all these doctrines are perfect. They do it because it keeps order and harmony. They do it by taking a stand on certain doctrinal matters and setting organizational priorities. Sure, they may do some of this by majority vote, but ultimately they make choices. This is part of remaining organized in any organization and not falling into chaos. Going off in many directions is inefficient. Even trying a certain direction that proves untenable has a certain value if it's caught early enough, and there is humility to change.
Taking a stand means that we will sometimes discover we took the wrong stand, but it also has an advantage in making our beliefs transparent. If a doctrinal stand is taken, our thinking is clearer on it, and contradictions show up more easily. It would be easy to be 100% accurate by taking a less dogmatic stand on many things. But this makes it harder to test whether we are thinking correctly and reasonably on some of our beliefs.
I think that it could be like those logic puzzles, like they do for LSAT tests, where you get 5 to 10 clues, and have to figure out, for example, where everyone lives and what they do, what they drink, and the color of their house:
Bill is a plumber who drinks whiskey and lives in the green house that is next to a corner house. John is not a carpenter, and he drinks soda and lives in either a red or blue house that is two houses from Sally's house. etc. etc. etc. Sometimes you get to a point where you just need to take a stand and say that John must be in a blue house, for example, even if you don't know for sure, so that you can properly test if it works. (Actually, Sudoku was probably a better example, come to think of it.)
So, we can have doctrinal claims that are still in the middle of such testing. We took a stand, and it clarifies our position so that it can be more clearly tested. It can work for both trivial and important matters like: whether Moses wrote all of the first five books of the Bible himself, or whether Galatians was written prior to 1 Corinthians, or whether the "other sheep" are Gentiles or "spiritual Gentiles."
If we (as an organization) take a stand, it should be faster to get to a point where we can take a consistent stand on all important matters of doctrine and teaching. This assumes that haughtiness and love of tradition don't get in the way of change. And that gets back to having the right kinds of personalities taking the lead.

I have no time to reinvent the wheel at the moment so I will refer you to the appropriate Watchtower Article on this matter:
http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2013533

"And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.” (Rev.21:4)
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Jesus looking at the night sky, surely in contemplation of the wonders He and His Father created.
(Colossians 1:16) "because by means of him all [other] things were created in the heavens and upon the earth, the things visible and the things invisible, no matter whether they are thrones or lordships or governments or authorities. All [other] things have been created through him and for him."
( Painting: "Worlds Without End"  by Greg Olsen.)
 

Death! What a Sting!
26 "And the last enemy, death,      is to be brought to nothing."
(1 Cor.15:26) NWT 
11."He has made everything beautiful in its time.
He has even put eternity in their heart; yet mankind will never find out the work that the true God    has made from start to finish."        ( Ecc.3:11) NWT  jw.org

Thank you David, we are searching for all that have a good heart. Jesus said he would be with us all the days until the conclusion of the systems of things. Look at the preaching being done.We are blessed, let's not forget to shout out loud! Agape ?????
Eoin: We are so grateful of Matthew 28:19,20. Not only would Jesus be with us in this preaching work, he would also send the Holy Spirit and the Angels also are part of the searching work. As Jehovah can read hearts, we are grateful to be messengers and be a light with the "light of God's Word", blinded by Satan and his ministers of this blinding they have only God's Words can search and open true hearts. Agape ???
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