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JUSTICE #1 - Loving Marriage Counselors
by Amazing in"wise and loving marriage counselors - preserving the sanctity of god's marital arrangement.
[note: i made some editorial adjustments, grammatical improvements, and formatting changes from the original post, but it is essentially unchanged.].
we had a couple in our kingdom hall who were engaged to be married.
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JUSTICE #4c - Good Old Boys
by Amazing inlater it was announced at the kingdom hall that she was disfellowshipped.
y's wife was disfellowshipped.
y. i later learned that the congregation file and this issue with bro.
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JUSTICE #2 - Making Mole Hills into Mountains
by Amazing inmaking mole hills into mountains .
we had a wonderful and most exemplary family in our congregation.
they are hard workers, hospitable, caring, generous, suffer with you through hardship, kind, compassionate, and as loyal to the organization as any family could be.
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Blood, The Watchtower and Deceit
by Maximus inwhile much attention is given to doctrine in sites such as this, very little is noted about the watchtower societys intellectual dishonesty in its publications, especially when it comes to quotations.. oftentimes the societys writers will cite a scholar or author of some repute: "professor blank observes that blah, blah, blah.
" the reader assumes from the quotation that professor blank is in agreement with the organizations position, of course, and that the quotation chosen accurately depicts the authors thoughts.. heres the catch: the words between the quotation marks may be accurate, but the snippet may not at all faithfully represent someones actual thesis or position.
much like a newspaper ad for a movie that quotes a reviewer as saying "monumental!
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Baptismal Questions
by LovesDubs ini was baptized june 1, 1985. thats the day they started using the new baptismal questions in their baptismal talk on the baptismal day to all the baptismal candidates.
did any of you actually hear those questions they made you stand up to hear read?
would any of us at that moment in time actually have said anything but a resounding "yes!!!
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Necessary change; my distressing situation
by LostMyReligion ini just need to let everyone know that i need to change my screen name.
if you read my topic on "help!
my son wants to tell elders about me", then you know that i had an email from a board friend inadvertantly get into my family mail box, and was discovered by my jw son while visiting.
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Notes from 2001 District Conv.---Friday
by LostMyReligion inhere are a few notes i took at the friday session of the 2001 "teachers of god's word" district convention.
i thought i would share these upbuilding theocratic point with my new friends, along with my thoughts as i was listening to the program.
1st instruction of the day: sing loudly and listen to the prayer!
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Help! Help! My son wants to tell elders about me
by LostMyReligion ini am floundering!.
today my jw son told me that he had seen an email in our family account written to me from an exjw.
it contained very little, but enough to let him know that i was in contact with outsiders about my doubts and feelings.
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Sat. Dist. Conv.--Cracking the whip!
by LostMyReligion ini have put in my final day at this year's test of posterior endurance---saturday at the district convention, 2001. i took quite a few notes today, because some had specifically asked about saturday's program.
i hope all will be suitably edified by them.
do not just listen to bits and pieces of the program, but to the whole thing.
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2001 District Convention Program
by Osarsif inteachers of god's word.
district convention of jehovah's witnesses 2001-2002
fridayinspired scriptures beneficial for teaching -- 2 timothy 3:16morning9:30 music.