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  1. That is different from my attempts. I used the download from JW.ORG, I used the URL I provided and I used the URL you provided and all of them took me to the exact same place in the Microsoft Store and the JW Library app. And every time it just had "download" or "View in Store" as choices. Never an "open" choice. I do have the app loaded on my computer.
  2. That is the link to get you there, but when you arrive the URL shown in your browser is https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9wzdncrfj3b4?hl=en-US&gl=US
  3. It showed up for me. https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9wzdncrfj3b4?hl=en-US&gl=US Br. Eric shows the Canadian link and I show the US link. Maybe it is Central European issue?
  4. Which month, 2019 had 12 study issues. EDIT: I see it is listed in the title. September.
  5. Br. Mike, does she need the whole year of 2019 or just one month? A bound volume or single issues?
  6. I usually use the feature of holding the new Ipad next to the old one and allowing Apple to copy one to the other.
  7. Thank you for your research Br. Ivar. And welcome to our forum.
  8. You can download the same thing from JW.ORG but I do not know why it is segmented as it is. Maybe we will study each section?
  9. Of the top 10 English definitions of the word “Church” all of them except the first one refer to people, the believers not a building. We define it reasonably correctly but we use it wrongly. CHURCH - noun a building for public Christian worship. public Christian worship of God; a Christian religious service. none the church or the Church, the whole body of Christian believers. Sometimes Church. any organized group of Christian believers professing the same creed and acknowledging the same ecclesiastical authority; a Christian denomination. that part of the whole Christian body, or of a particular denomination, belonging to the same city, country, nation, etc.. a body of Christians worshipping in a particular building or constituting one congregation. ecclesiastical organization, power, and affairs, as distinguished from the state. the clergy and religious officials of a Christian denomination. the Christian faith. none the church or the Church, the organized body of professing Christians before the Reformation. Dictionary.com
  10. Sorry I am late to reply. It is what Br. Shawn said. it is a Latin word and the Bible was written in Greek and Hebrew (mostly). Jerome did make one of the first better known translation into Latin in before 400 CE and he used the word 'crux' (and similar cruces and crucem). The first Latin translations appeared around 250 CE and so just 200 years after Jesus' death, the word 'crux' began to emerge into Biblical language. The 2-beam 'cross' came later.
  11. As we know, the original meaning of the Latin "crux" included the upright pole or stake as we show it. So if the Catholics hadn't commandeered the word to use for a '2-beamed' device, we could have correctly used the words cross or crucify. Like the the English word "rapture", we don't use it because of the misinformation Evangelicals have attached to it. So it is not the word that is wrong, it is the false religionists using it in a wrong way that has given them a bad flavor with us.
  12. Our elder's decided to let the credits be displayed and sort the amount out later. I have quite a few "credits" in my credit column. Using just the standard allowance, I calculated that I might lose 13 of my 164 credits. OK, no big deal. But wait, 30 of those credits are for SCE elders school and 30 more are for PSS pioneer school which are to be counted regardless of other hours. So I get them back. Anyway, when the year ends and you calculate the time and credits, if the pioneer was short 18 hours, you would not remove him or her for that, right? My pioneer daughter and her husband are on demand in LDC. Last year she had more than 500 credit hours but her service hours were more like 250. We treasure God's workers.
  13. I left home when I was 18 years old to serve as a pioneer where the need was greater. I am the oldest child and the first to leave home. My mother would call me on my birthday to say she was thinking about me and when I was born. She never sent presents, she never sang any songs, she never made me a cake (at least not on that day) and she never sent a Birthday card. She just called to say that I was on her mind and she was reflecting on the experience of my birth. She continued to do that until we gave her grandchildren.
  14. Our COBE is a remote Bethelite. He and his wife discussed with me the death of Br. Cauthon.

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About jwhess

  • Birthday 10/19/1947

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  • Gender
    Brother
  • First Name
    John
  • Relationship Status
    Married
  • Displayed Location
    NW Ohio
  • Publisher
    since 1957
  • Baptized
    1963

How I Found the Truth

  • How I found the Truth
    My parents began to study in 1952. My father was baptized 1954. My mother was baptized in 1956.

My Hobbies & Interests

  • My Interests
    I am retired from secular works (after 28 years as a college professor). I an a regular Pioneer and have only limited amount of time for interests outside of the Kingdom activities. I like Amateur Radio Communications and travel and fishing.
  • My favorite books
    Beyond the Bible and books related to Theocratic research, I enjoy non-fiction history and science. I also read Western fiction.
  • My favorite music
    I like 40s and 50s easy listening (swing & Big Band)
  • My favorite quotes
    Because my sight is failing, I like John Milton's poem "On His Blindness". The first and last lines say..."When I consider how my light is spent, They also serve who only stand and wait".

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