God sent forth his only-begotten Son into the world that we might gain life through him.-1 John 4:9.Jehovah does not force us to come to him. We must seek him, "grope for him and really find him, although, in fact, he is not far off from each one of us." (Acts 17:27) We must recognize Jehovah's right to call for our subjection. The disciple James ( Read more... )

Keep doing all things free from murmurings.-Phil. 2:14.The faithless Israelites freed from Egyptian bondage murmured against Moses and Aaron and thus even Jehovah God. Because of this, all the men 20 years old and upward, except faithful Joshua and Caleb and the Levites, did not enter the Promised Land but died during Israel's 40-year trek in the ( Read more... )

Weehee! I'm in! 'Bout time too! (just kidding, Tony!)

Anywho. I plan on adding everyone in this community on my friends list... Just because. None of my posts are friends-only, but this way I'll remember to read everyone's journal. If anyone doesn't like the idea of being read by a total stranger, please feel free to stop writing in a webjournal ( Read more... )

To anyone who has applied to the JW Community for the past, oh, say... year: I have slacked off terribly on requests to join up and I apologize profusely. However, I am now ready to start up the process again. If you still want to join, please go to the community's user info page and follow the direction there. If you have applied before and I' ( Read more... )

after tony's post, i was thinking, everyone should post what convention they are attending, that way we can see which conventions we have represented in this community, plus, we can see if any others are attending the same as us! however, if you post it under a locked post, realize, that you might miss out on makeing a new friend ( Read more... )

HEY!

Did you add the jw_community to your friends' list but aren't seeing anything? Go to the community info page and follow the instructions to join!

People bothering you because of your membership? Get added without being asked, or no longer want to be a member? Let me know and I'll remove you.

Tony, community maintainer

I thought this weeks Sunday meeting was particularly good. The special talk was good. But the Watchtower in particular was something I really enjoyed. Here are some of the points I really liked most ( Read more... )

This was in the daily text a couple of days ago ( Read more... )

I heard it once exrpessed that the information we get in the articles and from the platform is repetitive. I think that people who feel that way are some how missing the point. Allow me to elaborate ( Read more... )

i just watched a commercial for voting. and i realized i have No desire to do so. umlike some other bad things. i guess its not something satan uses to tempt us?

anyways, i was curious if anyone had ever heard of someone getting in trouble for voting.