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The 31 Out-of-this-World Winners of Astronomy Photographer of the Year By Jeremy Gray. 17 Sept 2026 Photographer of the Year Alobaidly’s winning photo, The Quiet Predator, is a beautiful look at the Shark Nebula. The Shark Nebula (LDN 1235) is nearly 650 light-years away in the constellation Cepheus. It is a dark nebula comprised of dense, starlight-blocking dust, which creates its striking shark-like shape. Article link: [Check out the winners of the 8 primary categories 🏆] https://petapixel.com/2026/09/17/the-31-out-of-this-world-winners-of-astronomy-photographer-of-the-year/

It appears for me and on 4.1.6

I always wondered why Eurovision isn’t mentioned by Paul in 2 Timothy 3:1-5.

I've created an internal message board with Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini to round-robin discussions and challenge the best ways to accomplish tasks (as well as a few offline local models). It has helped me with research and deepens my love of learning and constantly makes me awe at the Bible. I recently asked them to come together in consensus to evaluate how they "perceive" me in regards to being one of Jehovah's Witnesses. Here is that initial response:

I don't have the answer, but you might try changing the view in NWS so no one can see the inactive, send it, then change the view back to elders and send it again. I think that would be the NWP App Settings page in NWS and it's the Spiritual Information in the Elders column under the ME section. I've heard that toggling things can fix them. Are all the elders having the same problem or is it just your device? If it's just your device, then the NWP>About>Refresh Data may help. Let us know if any of that helps.

The inactive are still showing for us. You might try: NW Publisher App > App Administration dropdown - choose "Group" > Click "Refresh Selected App Data" Before you do that go to "Shared Persons" and make sure all of your brothers are on the same version. This is the very type of thing that can happen when everyone is not in synch with the same NWS version. Even just one brother on a different version can result in missing or incorrect data on NWP.

I'm the CoBoE and NWS/NWP Administrator ... they were showing for elders only in NWP but now are not. They are still listed in NWS under Groups, so not sure what the lack of display in NWS is about. There is no mention of inactives on the group list the is published in Documents for all publishers of course.

Thank you, my brother. I am very glad it works for you. But all praise to Jehovah!

Did you hear about the guy who replaced the bed with a trampoline? His wife went through the roof

Hi Tim, Your nice story made me think of this illustration. I hope this connects to what you have been thinking about concerning this dear older brother ENTROPY In physics, scientists came to learn there is a very profound but negative law about the universe they termed "Entropy". I say it is a "negative law" from the human perspective. Because every human dislikes that everything in the universe is fading, weakening, deteriorating, as time passes. YET all the sterling qualities that Jehovah has so unselfishly given to us -- like faithfulness, loyalty, love, etc -- are the only these things in the universe that improve with time! So is it possible that Jehovah designed the entire universe with entropy so that His human creation could observe the universe and gain great wisdom if they could come to the accurate conclusion that... "Since everything in the universe fades, weakens, deteriorates, with time, these material things must not be very important. So therefore the things that only improve with time --- MUST BE THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE --- faithfulness, loyalty, love!!"

"However, I'll get my crayons and some lined paper and try...." 🤣

OUTSTANDING!!! The hundreds or actually thousands of specific sentences/paragraphs/quotes I have copied from WOL over many years in my research --- now ALL have the citation at the top of the quote transformed into a direct link back to the article on WOL thanks to your update to the in(REF)ens plugin! If I had to go back and add a direct link to WOL for every sentence, article, quote I have in my notes, it might take years! But the moment you updated in(REF)ens, you saved me years of work. Great job Eryk!

Saturday, September 19 Kindly forgive and comfort him.—2 Cor. 2:7. Jehovah does not tolerate serious wrongdoing among his people. He does not take the view that wrongdoers who are unrepentant should be “mercifully” allowed to continue associating with his faithful worshippers. Jehovah is merciful, but he is not permissive; nor does he lower his standards. (Jude 4) Indeed, to do so would not be merciful at all because it would endanger all in the congregation. (Prov. 13:20; 1 Cor. 15:33) Still, we learn that Jehovah does not want anyone to be destroyed. He wants to save people whenever possible. He shows mercy to people who have a change of heart and want to repair their relationship with him. (Ezek. 33:11; 2 Pet. 3:9) Thus, when the man in Corinth repented and turned away from his sinful course, Jehovah used the apostle Paul to explain to the congregation that the man should be forgiven and welcomed back. w24.08 17 ¶7; 18-19 ¶14-15

Absolutely!! I had just never thought of Jehovah kind of looking over our shoulders so to speak as we looked at his photos, it kind of hit me that, to Jehovah, he still sees this dear brother for what he is, which is extremely faithful. I guess what I was getting at is that sometimes it's easy for a person to see what they used to do and feel bad that they can no longer handle all of that weight or responsibility. But to Jehovah, it's like he still sees that dear brother as being just as faithful now as he was then, even though his activity has lessened greatly. I know that's not a new thought, but it was just very encouraging for me because of what what I'm going through as well.

Jehovah always see the potential person we can become : in paradise. Grounded in his absolute knowledge of who we have been until this very moment : clinging to Jehovah our loving father

I was gathering my things after the meeting last week when a brother, we'll call him Brother "Halvorsen", approached me. He moved slowly, the way he always does now, but his eyes were still bright and warm. After asking me if I had a moment to chat, he told me he wanted to show me something and pulled his phone out of his pocket and started squinting at the screen. Finally locating what he was after, he opened his photos and began scrolling through picture after picture of him and his wife from decades ago. Moving closer, I began to watch as his screen filled with black and white photos...pictures of him and his wife when they were young, vibrant, full of energy. In one photo they were standing beside a literature cart downtown, smiling like they had just discovered the truth. In another they were hiking a trail I recognized from our local area. In yet another they were sitting at a table with a group of young ones they used to study with. His wife had passed away years ago, but he spoke about her as if she had only stepped out of the room for a moment...as if she would come join him at any second, taking his arm and moving close against him. Minutes felt like seconds as he recounted story after story...telling me how MUCH he looked forward to seeing her again in the new system. But then, in the midst of his reminiscing, he said something that surprised me...although I don't really know why. He said he appreciated what Jehovah still allowed him to do NOW, even if it was nowhere near what he used to be able to do. He talked about how he tries to greet every single new person after the meeting, how he makes it a point to compliment the young brothers and sisters who give talks and other various parts, how he checks in on sisters who sit alone. He said all of this with not a single bit of pride in his voice...just a quiet gratitude that Jehovah still lets him contribute SOMETHING...that Jehovah still finds him useful. Suddenly I decided to ask him a question, a question that came out of nowhere...but a question that I suddenly found NEEDED an answer: I asked him HOW he keeps going? I didn’t mean it unkindly. But he is in the beginning stages of losing his eyesight. His hearing is fading. His joints hurt so badly that he sometimes winces when he stands. And yet he still moves through the hall with purpose, as if he has a mission. All of a sudden he got this mischievous little grin on his face and patted me on the shoulder. Then he told me that, since he knew I loved Jehovah and that I particularly love researching the deeper things of Jehovah, he was absolutely certain that I wouldn't take any offense at his next words. “Tim, go look up Genesis 48:17–19, and 1 Kings 1:1–40. Check them out, sit with them for a while and I PROMISE you that you'll find the answer to that question!" While I was in the midst of reeling from that answer along with hurriedly trying to type those two accounts into my phone's notebook application....this dear brother looked back down at his phone screen and his eyes locked onto a picture of him and his wife standing in service, both of them young and strong, vibrant and healthy...and suddenly he said very quietly, very heavily, “That used to be me.” I went home that night and opened both accounts. I read them once, then again, and then yet again. Genesis 48:17-19: "When Joseph saw that his father kept his right hand placed on Eʹphra·im’s head, it was displeasing to him, so he tried to take hold of his father’s hand to move it from Eʹphra·im’s head to Ma·nasʹseh’s head. 18 Joseph said to his father: “Not so, my father, because this is the firstborn. Put your right hand on his head.” 19 But his father kept refusing and said: “I know it, my son, I know it. He too will become a people, and he too will become great. Nevertheless, his younger brother will become greater than he will, and his offspring will become the full equivalent of nations I didn’t see it." (I'm not going to post the whole chapter of 1 Kings 1:1-40 here, but I can promise you that it is an incredible read!) I read the footnotes. I checked the Research Guide. I looked up every cross-reference. I read the Watchtower articles connected to both accounts...but I still didn’t see it. For days I kept going back to them, trying to understand what he was pointing me toward. (I mean I had POSSIBLE answers, but all of them felt too trite, too simplistic to be what he was getting at...so I kept digging.) I read about Jacob...old, blind, frail...leaning on his staff. I read about Joseph trying to correct him, assuming Jacob’s age had confused him. I read about Jacob crossing his hands intentionally, choosing the younger son over the older. I noticed the Hebrew word used for Jacob’s “insight,” the one that means to perceive deeply even when the eyes cannot see. And then I read about David...old, cold, unable to stay warm, lying in bed while the nation moved on without him. I read about Adonijah rising up, gathering support, acting like David was finished. I read about how Jehovah still used DAVID...not Nathan, not Zadok, not Bathsheba...to make one of the most sacred decisions in Israel’s history. But I still didn’t understand what tied these two accounts together. They were powerful, but I simply couldn't see the thread. Then one evening, while reading through several articles about how Jehovah views his servants...articles about loyalty, endurance, and the way Jehovah measures faithfulness...something finally clicked. I guess it wasn't a single sentence in one article that finally clicked. It was a theme that kept appearing in different ways, in different contexts, almost like Jehovah was whispering it directly into my ears through the pages. The thought crystallized so clearly that I had to stop reading and just sit with it for a moment. Jehovah has never chosen or kept someone because they were the most capable. He has always stayed close to those who are faithful. Suddenly both accounts opened up in a very unexpected way, and that is what caused me to write this post. Jacob wasn’t chosen because he was strong, sharp, or capable. He was chosen because he was FAITHFUL, and Jehovah gave him insight that Joseph's youth could not produce. Joseph saw an old man who couldn’t see. Jehovah saw a servant who possessed wisdom shaped by decades of faithful service that could see something clearly which youth could not. And David... David wasn't used because he was powerful, energetic, or capable. He was used because he was FAITHFUL, and Jehovah saved a sacred assignment for a moment when everyone else thought he was finished. The nation saw an old man who couldn’t stay warm. But Jehovah saw the only man he trusted to make a decision that would shape Israel’s future. And THEN I understood Brother "Halvorsen's" point. It may be true that he isn’t able to do what he used to do. He isn’t strong. He isn’t healthy. He isn’t capable in the way he once was. But he IS very very faithful. And Jehovah is STILL providing him with a deliberate purpose...a purpose that younger ones might overlook, but one that Jehovah specifically does not. And then something hit me so hard that it made me sit back in my chair and breathe for a moment, something I don't think even he realized...(and I know he didn't because after I was through with my study I called him up and told him...and he said he had never looked at it that way): This brother wasn't showing me pictures of who he used to be...he was actually showing me PROOF that Jehovah still sees who he is NOW.

I'm using NWP 4.1.6 and the Inactive ones are still appearing with each group. Are you an elder or MS? As Carlos says, that information may be restricted to just elders.

I'm only guessing here. The instructions are that inactive ones must be assigned to a group so that they are taken care of, but they should not appear in the group listing at the announcement board. So could it be that elders still see the inactive ones but publishers do not? Although I don't think publishers see the Publishers' section at all.

Not true here - inactives still show at bottom of list. NWP 4.1.6

@Beggar for the Spirit I have released v2, which should handle those kinds of links. It needs testing - especially across languages. Please report any issues you find. Thank you!

A lot is being said re the territory issues but for us, each map is labelled, and each block is numbered, plus all addresses are entered. We have no issue with using for NaH calls within the app.

We can report after several weeks of trialling NWS Mobile on MacBooks & an iPhone ... that it is brilliant. A massive effort it would seem as it has a totally different look to NWS Windows. Big congratulations to the team behind this. We use NWS for everything with exception of the KHOC Maintenance since our sister congregation who shares the same hall, uses a different app (maybe not for much longer 😁)

"Happy is the man who is always on guard" How similar are those words to Jesus' command to... “Keep on the watch and pray continually, so that you may not enter into temptation.” MT 26:41 The FDS gave a couple of great suggestions: "Even during periods when you feel strong, continue to avoid situations that can lead to temptation" "...we guard ourselves from sin by keeping far away from the circumstances that lead to it. This might include avoiding certain situations or activities that are not off-limits for Christians in general but that are known to lead us into temptation." Matt. 5:29, 30. Here are some examples I was thinking of when we might "feel strong" spiritually:

Our September broadcast reminded us that we live in a world of fake news. Whilst we are not naive to the existence of possible wrongs levelled against us , neither do we believe every word. 1 Peter says that the Devil is like a roaring lion seeking to devour us . A wise Christian keeps up his guard !