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Thoughts can so easily transfer into actions so one needs to be careful just what they think about especially because our thoughts can be sinful.

It just occurred to me earlier today that this is an auspicious day for me. It's a milestone moment in my life. It's the 60th anniversary of my baptism. Time flies when you're having fun .... I guess. Amen! Come, lord Jesus! 😟

Thursday, August 6 This commandment that I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you, nor is it beyond your reach.—Deut. 30:11. When Jehovah organized the Israelites into a nation, he made a covenant, a formal agreement, with them. If they kept his laws, he would protect and bless them. But if they rebelled against him—for example, by choosing to worship other gods—he would withdraw his blessing, and they would suffer. Yet, even then, they could still regain God’s favor. They could “return to Jehovah [their] God and listen to his voice.” (Deut. 30:1-3, 17-20) In other words, they could repent. If they did so, Jehovah would draw close to them and bless them once more. Jehovah’s chosen people repeatedly rebelled against him. As a result, they suffered. But Jehovah did not give up on his wayward people. He sent prophets again and again to urge his people to repent and return to him.—2 Ki. 17:13, 14. w24.08 9 ¶4-5

I was suppose to go to a Ski resort for service work today, had to cancel due to the very bad air quality from the wildfires, there was a Code Orange warning in place.

The rapid increase in a single day is crazy, now at +2.63C

This is what the West Coast looks like today.

We have a brother and sister in our congregation that worked on the first 4 to 6 video's and they said he wears a "topper" basically and it's not because he has thinning hair, it's so that his hair looks consistent from scene to scene. This brother also told us that the brother portraying Jesus has always been single (his choosing) but now that these video's have been released, it's been a lot harder for him (I imagine sisters are coming out of the woodwork). So this brother could actually use our prayers to help him stick to his choice to remain single.

Are you shorter than 'little James'?

The text says, " it is important that we train ourselves to see the difference between truth and falsehood and to be obedient to the truth." How do we train ourselves to see the difference? I see many, even my brothers and sisters who are fooled by various conspiracy theories and policies. There must be a way to do "train ourselves" if it is important. Note what Romans 6:17 states (it is shown right after that statement in the text for today): :17 But thanks to God that although you were once the slaves of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that pattern of teaching to which you were handed over. So, there is a "pattern of teaching". This is what we have to look for. What is the "pattern" of truth. Does what we are reading fit into the pattern of teaching from the slave? Are we meditating on the principles and methods of logical reasoning the slave is using? It is important!

A brother in my congregation is visiting Calgary, Alberta, Canada at the moment. He was at the International Convention there, and said Stephen Lett told them about the brother playing Jesus. He had been serving where the need is greater in Türkiye, and the brothers brought him back to Australia while they're filming the series. So he's only temporarily in an Australian congregation. Brother Lett said the brother really is a carpenter, just like the real Jesus.

Looks brilliant. I was looking for something that simple but unfortunately I’m on iOS.

Of course. When we knock on people's doors, they can see that we're doing the work that they're supposed to be doing! And they wonder why!

Thinking is what I do when I write sentences, that together can be a jumble of thoughts.

Dross is the reasonings of this world or anything outside of Jehovah's thinking.

Logical is ideally best when, with human reasoning, we sort correct and truthful knowledge from the dross.

ECMWF just released the latest forecast plumes, it seems to be peaking closer to +4.0C or greater above average temperature, which is higher than July’s forecast. All of the extreme weather that is happening right now is not due to El Niño yet but its about to begin soon.

Greetings Brothers & Sisters I've just launched a new, 100% free, field service tracking app for Android called Super Simple JW Field Service (<---Click here to download). I wanted something simpler than the other apps. Just a month's calendar view, you click the date add your time, and you're done. It tallies up for the year, tracks your service year & monthly goal, and can send your time to group overseer using any messaging app. It makes it easy to visualize the days you actually preached so it's easy to see if you forgot to put in time on a normal preaching day. Maybe later, if there's demand I might make an iOS version too. Because it is so simple, I was able to automate AI translation into 92 initial languages, but am open to adding more if requested. If you see any translation mistakes, please let me know so I can fix the translation files. I've only had a half dozen manually checked so far, the others are just Gemini translations. Supported languages so far: Afrikaans; Albanian (shqip); Amharic (አማርኛ); Arabic (العربية); Armenian (հայերեն); Azerbaijani (azərbaycan); Bangla (বাংলা); Bemba (Ichibemba); Bulgarian (български); Burmese (မြန်မာ); Cantonese Chinese (粵語, 繁體); Catalan; Cebuano; Croatian (hrvatski); Czech (čeština); Danish (dansk); Dutch (Nederlands); English; Estonian (eesti); Ewe (eʋegbe); Fijian; Finnish (suomi); Fon; French (français); Galician (galego); Ganda (Luganda); Georgian (ქართული); German (Deutsch); Greek (Ελληνικά); Hausa; Hebrew (עברית); Hiligaynon; Hindi (हिन्दी); Hungarian (magyar); Igbo; Iloko; Indonesian; Italian (italiano); Japanese (日本語); Javanese (Jawa); Kamba (Kikamba); Kazakh (қазақ тілі); Khmer (ខ្មែរ); Kikuyu (Gikuyu); Kinyarwanda (Ikinyarwanda); Korean (한국어); Kyrgyz (кыргызча); Latvian (latviešu); Lingala (lingála); Lithuanian (lietuvių); Lozi; Luo (Dholuo); Macedonian (македонски); Malagasy; Malay (Melayu); Marathi (मराठी); Mossi; Nepali (नेपाली); Northern Sotho (Sesotho sa Leboa); Norwegian (norsk); Nyanja; Nyankole (Runyankore); Oromo (Oromoo); Polish (polski); Portuguese (português); Punjabi (ਪੰਜਾਬੀ); Quechua (Runasimi); Romanian (română); Russian (русский); Serbian (srpski, latinica); Shona (chiShona); Sinhala (සිංහල); Slovak (slovenčina); Slovenian (slovenščina); Southern Sotho (Sesotho); Spanish (español); Swahili (Kiswahili); Swedish (svenska); Tamil (தமிழ்); Telugu (తెలుగు); Thai (ไทย); Tigrinya (ትግርኛ); Tok Pisin; Tonga—Zambia; Tsonga; Tswana (Setswana); Turkish (Türkçe); Ukrainian (українська); Urdu (اردو); Xhosa (IsiXhosa); Yoruba (Èdè Yorùbá); Zulu (isiZulu). Please give it a shot let me know your thoughts, even if you don't plan to use it. Especially if you can help critique the translation. Screenshots: In case any mods are reading this, I already got permission from Carlos to post about it here. Thanks Brothers & Sisters!!!

article about evangelical preaching or lack of...mentions that JW called on his doors thttps://baptistnews.com/article/where-did-the-evangelism-of-evangelicals-go/ evangecil

Yeah, AI is still far from perfect

A sister of my congregation is going to Australia in vacation, she may visit his cong, but she would not want to be with him, it's too much of a partner

It's said that some single sisters from Sydney have moved into His Cong, thinking they could have a chance of marrying Aussie Jesus one day.

I feel like the AI hallucinated too much in here 😉

Our heart reaches out to these ones. Will surely remember the brothers at Vermont in my prayer this morning. But, one thing I have knownis surpassing about our organization: Jehovah has always been good to us and knows how to provide comfort and provisions in times like this. Seems fire intends surpasing water as a major natural disaster these days. One can only wonder.