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That phrase in Proverbs 4:23 has stayed with me — “for out of it are the sources of life.” I keep thinking about that word “sources.” It simply reminds me that what’s inside us feeds everything else. And that’s part of why guarding the heart matters so much. If what’s alive there is cared for, life keeps moving. Your illustration already captured that in a beautiful way. It just made me reflect a little more on how much can still flow from something that’s carefully guarded.

Not really, many innocent people will die during the war and after too. Diseases and famines will follow afterward.

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We had that as well (only some publishers had this problem). Usually an Admin has to open NWS Desktop, go to “App-Persons”, select the Person which can’t connect and press the “refresh person” button. if this fails he could try “reset PIN”. The personal pin changes but you could connect with the new PIN afterwards.

Rainy and chilly here in Georgia right now. Been raining since about 4 am. Temp is about 49 degrees F.

For our congregation at least, by selecting "Disconnect" and starting over has solved this for a few of our publishers.

Yes thanks, Vonny, we're fairly high up here. Not so much flooding bet we get plenty of wind blowing here. Good walking around here on common land, so my wife and I take a bit of literature with us and see who we can find. As we are in our 80's the walk is fairly gentle but plenty of dog walkers to talk to. Glad you are keeping well.

“Once I realized Jehovah was really listening, I didn’t want to stop talking to him.” Thank you, Tim. This sentence is beautiful and reminds me of a brother's testimony (found in a video, but I can't remember which one) who explains that, for him, prayer is like an addiction, that he doesn't want to take a step, so to speak, without first talking to Jehovah about it. He is right, Jesus must have done that too. This portrait of Willie, with its comic touches, is infinitely tender. It makes you want to have a Willie around, at least the Willie who takes care of his one tooth, almost useless in the eyes of others, even unsightly, but a true marker of vitality for him. I don't know if he's still alive. If not, I hope we'll meet him one day, all focused on his healing and his originality.

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Hi brother Mike, I live in the Oxford area near the river River Thames which is high at the moment but hasn't burst the banks yet onto the road although fields are flooded. Last year Tesco did a lot of work on a minor river nearby, their carpark always got flooded so had to close the store. So far so good. Personally live in a second floor flat so thankfully not affected by flooding and hope you're ok as well

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I will start a new thread dedicated specifically to the development of the Agape-Apps projects. To keep things properly separated, I’ve created a new account with a different email address for this purpose. I am currently waiting for the administrator to approve that account, and once it is approved, I will open the new thread there. My intention with this new thread is to build Baruch together with input from the community. I have been following this forum for quite some time and I regularly take note of the suggestions and requests that are shared here — including those from brothers such as Jonathan (East Anglia). These insights are very valuable to me. Since I live in the Netherlands, I am mostly familiar with arrangements and practices in the local congregations here. However, I have noticed that there are worldwide arrangements and regional differences that I am not always aware of. I would very much like to incorporate those as well, and that is one of the main reasons I need your input. The foundation of the application is in English, so cultural settings (such as regional formats and conventions) play an important role. For example, I have recently resolved the date and time configuration challenges, and in the new thread I will explain in detail how this was handled. I have also found a solution for the major version-management challenges related to NWS, and I will explain that thoroughly as well. For the development of the publisher app, I am using a “build-in-public” approach. This means I will share weekly YouTube videos — both on social media and here on the forum — where I transparently explain the progress, design decisions, and functional- and technical implementation of the app. This approach allows me to continuously process and implement the feedback I receive during development. Because I am building in public and sharing regular updates, suggestions can be incorporated step by step instead of waiting until everything is finished. That way, the application can grow in the right direction from the very beginning — shaped by real-world use, practical needs, and the collective experience of the community. It is certainly an exciting time. At the moment, I am still a one-man army, but I sincerely hope to collaborate with brothers and sisters who would like to support and contribute to the project. I look forward to starting the new thread and to working together.

A few weeks ago, a bible student in our congregation reached a milestone. After studying for some time, he was announced at our midweek meeting as an unbaptized publisher. It was one of those moments where all of our hearts were bursting with joy...because you know how much effort it took this precious man to get there. After the meeting, my wife and I went up to congratulate him. We told him how proud we were of him, how encouraging it was to see his progress. He thanked me, and then I asked him something I always ask new ones. “May I ask, was there anything in particular that helped you the most in your study so far?” He thought for a second, smiled, and said something that sounded almost too simple...and yet...after I thought about it on the way home...it was absolutely profound. “Once I realized Jehovah was really listening, I didn’t want to stop talking to him.” That was it. No long explanation. No dramatic story. Just that. And the more I thought about it, the more it stayed with me. Then...the other day...I was speaking to a brother on the phone who is still incarcerated...and as we were recalling our days in there together...he started chuckling and asked me if I remembered Willie. Immediately I started laughing as my mind conjured up a picture of the elderly gentleman he was speaking of...and yet, it wasn't until later that day that I started REALLY thinking of Willie...and suddenly a connection formed in my mind between Willie and our newest publisher. You see, Willie hadn’t taken care of himself for most of his life, and by the time he ended up in prison, the dentist had some hard news for him. Years of neglect meant tooth after tooth had to be pulled. Eventually, there was only one left...a single front tooth that jutted out at an awkward angle from his top gums. It looked crazy when he smiled...because it was large and square, looking like a white piece of Chiclet gum protruding from his gums. When the dentist said it should come out too, Willie shook his head defiantly. “No,” he said. “Not that one.” They offered him a full set of dentures. It would’ve looked better. Everyone knew it. But Willie refused. He agreed to partials that fit around that one tooth, even though it looked a little odd. And from that day on, Willie took care of that tooth like his life depended on it. He carefully flossed it, brushed carefully, avoided hard food, and smiled with his whole mouth open...proud to show it off. (And yes, he even saved up his money and would buy a whitening kit for it once in a while😅) Whenever someone joked about it, (and they did, often) Willie just grinned and said, “I never took care of much of anything in my life...so I figured I'd start trying now.” You see...for Willie, it wasn’t about how it looked. It was about not losing everything. And then it hit me...Drew and Willie were really doing the same thing. They weren’t fixing everything, and they weren’t acting like they had it all figured out. They were just guarding the one thing that still felt real and alive to them. The Bible puts it this way at Proverbs 4:23: “Above all the things that you guard, safeguard your heart.” The Hebrew word for “guard” there means to watch over something fragile...something that won’t survive without care. For Willie, it was one tooth. For Drew, it was prayer. For many of us, it might be something just as small...just as fragile...and yet, it's something we will simply NEVER let go of. And Jehovah sees that. He doesn’t ask for perfection. He just asks us not to let go of what’s alive. And sometimes, that’s enough to begin again.

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More and More Brothers, have the Same issue with NW Publisher. Any ideas?

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Businesses today talk about 'alignment'. 'Shared vision'. But in a field outside Bethsaida, Jesus taught something far stronger. He looked at a problem too large for one pair of hands and told His disciples to feed the crowd. The resources were almost embarrassing — five barley loaves and two small fish. The math didn’t work. The scale didn’t make sense. Yet no one stepped back. They stayed under His direction. They organized the people. They carried the baskets. They moved. He performed the miracle, but they handled the distribution. They didn’t generate the supply; they participated in what He was doing. They kept walking row after row with food that shouldn’t have been enough, trusting the instruction more than the numbers in front of them. So what actually keeps a group moving when the inventory is thin and the need is overwhelming? Training? . . . Leadership structure? Or the confidence in the One giving the direction? That field wasn’t just about bread. It uncovered what really holds people together when the outcome isn’t visible yet.

There’s something sobering about the account in Luke 13. That woman’s suffering could not be excused. Eighteen years bent double. No hiding it. The oppression had visible shape. In many cultures today, that kind of direct, obvious manifestation is not what people see. That does not mean demonic influence has diminished. It means it often expresses itself differently. Instead of a body bent, it may be a mind bent. Instead of public humiliation, it may be private torment, something normalized in entertainment, in thinking, in moral reasoning. Did you see the contrast? In the first century, people could point and say, ‘This woman is afflicted.’ Today, a culture may point at anxiety, confusion, obsession with power, or fascination with violence—and call it progress or freedom. What do we learn from that? We mus avoid naivety. Ephesians 6:12 reminds us: “because we have a struggle, not against blood and flesh, but against the governments, against the authorities, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the wicked spirit forces in the heavenly places.” The struggle has not ended; its tactics have shifted. The absence of spectacle does not equal the absence of influence. Deliverance always directed attention upward, not toward spectacle; the result was that she “began to glorify God.” So while oppression may not always appear dramatic in our culture, it still leaves its mark. We discern its fingerprints in systems, attitudes, and pressures that bend people away from Jehovah’s standards. Our task is not to dramatize it, nor to ignore it, but to remain spiritually alert—steady in perception, grounded in truth, and determined that our response, like hers, results in giving glory to Jehovah.

As you can imagine, it's a bit of both. The ones that stay throughout, would be the 12, (and ones like these) that often are named. From what I see, there are also 'groups' of characters that are 'regulars'. So if the disciples go to 'Cana", this group will have some familiar faces from the last visit to 'Cana'. And some new faces as well. We have some new ones from our congregation going up for the first time in the next few weeks. The 'audition' tapes were sent in some years ago. So it is a slowish process. And we are only half way through the 7 years. So there are no doubt many more that will be selected in the coming years.

Never have I ever read "Wuthering Heights" but I might read a summary, now. (Long expo, skip or forget).This was assigned to me as a senior in HS. My fiance had just been killed in the Vietnam War and my neighbor, whose husband was also a soldier, insisted I go out with a group. Told her about this reading assignment and she hounded up a Cliff note version. We were sitting at a table playing a card game I didn't know, and me trying to read up on the abbreviated Bronte novel. I didn't get it. Next day teacher gets to me in class(She obviously knew the cheat versions) and quickly figured I hadn't read the entire novel. She hammered me. She also dropped my grade for my going to my fiance's funeral. (unexcused absence) I might skip the synopsis, now that I think of it. bringing up too many grief memories, of which I have some fresh losses to survive. Not without hope.

Sunday, February 15 Praise Jehovah your God.—1 Chron. 29:20. When Jesus was on earth, he glorified his Father by acknowledging Him as the Source of his miracles. (Mark 5:18-20) Jesus also brought glory to Jehovah by the way he spoke about his Father and the way he treated others. On one occasion, Jesus was teaching in a synagogue. Among those listening was a woman who had been possessed by a demon for 18 years. The demon had caused her body to be bent double so that she was unable to straighten up. How distressing! Moved by compassion, Jesus approached the woman and addressed her tenderly, saying: “Woman, you are released from your weakness.” He then laid his hands on her, and instantly she stood up straight and “began to glorify God,” her health and dignity fully restored! (Luke 13:10-13) That woman had good reason to give Jehovah glory, and so do we. w25.01 2-3 ¶3-4

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Does anyone know ... Are they using the same people throughout or are they changing brothers and sisters out?