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Dough requires wanting—as you have to “need it” to make something delicious and flavorful.

OK,super simple. JPL

What is concession time? 🤔

Really great ,Jared! Only 1 small suggestion. Just an option to put ministry time or Concession time. I really like that its simple, some of these apps have far too much information or too many options.

Bother John, I am hollering here! I needed that hearty lol 🤣😂😁

Oven baked jacket potatoes, the best thing since bridal cedes - whichever way you slice fermented dough

“Then Jehovah’s spirit empowered him, and he tore the lion apart with his bare hands.” — Judges 14:6 Just picture the scene for a moment. A young man is walking along a dusty road. The sun is high in the sky. Vineyards stretch out on both sides of the path. It seems like a completely ordinary day. No war. No battle. No danger appears to be anywhere in sight. That morning, Samson surely did not wake up thinking, Today I’m going to fight for my life. He simply wanted to continue on his way. But then something completely unexpected happens. Suddenly, a deafening roar shatters the silence. Not somewhere in the distance. Right nearby. A young lion bursts out of the vineyards. Hungry. Powerful. Fast. Its eyes are fixed on Samson. There is no fence. No tree to climb. No weapon in his hand. No one there to help him. In that moment, everything is decided. And that is exactly how life sometimes feels for us too. We wake up in the morning, perhaps read the daily text, pray to Jehovah, and expect it to be just another ordinary day. Then suddenly... ...the doctor's phone call comes. ...a job loss. ...a painful disappointment from someone we trusted. ...a diagnosis. ...news that completely knocks the ground out from under our feet. Or perhaps we suddenly realize that our own courage is fading. That doubts are growing louder. That worries have taken hold of our heart. No one goes looking for those lions. They simply appear. And very often we ask ourselves, “Jehovah... why now? Why me?” Maybe that isn't the best question. Perhaps a better question would be, “Jehovah, what do you want to teach me through this lion?” Because one thing stands out immediately in Samson’s account. Jehovah did not keep the lion away. He certainly could have. Jehovah could have caused the lion to run in another direction. He could have prevented Samson from ever meeting it. But he didn't. Why? Not because Jehovah is cruel. Not because Samson didn't matter to him. But because Jehovah knew: Beyond that lion, something even greater was waiting. Sometimes Jehovah protects us, not by removing every difficulty, but by giving us the strength to walk straight through it. How often we pray, "Jehovah, please take this problem away." Yet Jehovah may answer, "I will give you something even more precious. I will give you strength you don't even know you have yet." And that is exactly what happened to Samson. The Bible does not first say that Samson was strong. It says, “Then Jehovah’s spirit empowered him.” That is the key to the whole account. The hero of this story is not Samson. The hero is Jehovah. Samson did not possess superhuman strength on his own. His strength came from Jehovah. And that completely changes the way we look at the lions in our own life. Because we do not have to defeat them by our own strength. How often do we think, "I can't do this anymore." And you know what? Maybe that's actually true. On our own, there really are some things we simply cannot do. But Jehovah has never asked us to fight with our own strength. He doesn't say, "Be strong." He says, "I will make you strong." What a tremendous difference! Perhaps right now you are facing a lion that no one knows about except Jehovah. Maybe you smile at the Kingdom Hall. Maybe you share in the ministry. Maybe no one realizes how much your heart sometimes aches. No one sees the sleepless nights. No one hears the quiet prayers. No one knows about the tears you try so hard to hide. But Jehovah knows. He sees every single one of them. He hears every unspoken prayer. And that is exactly why he can give you the precise strength you need today. Not tomorrow. Today. There is something else that is interesting. The lion did not disappear simply because Samson had faith. He still had to face it. That is often true for us as well. Faith does not mean that our difficulties disappear. Faith means that Jehovah walks through them with us. And sometimes we experience God's nearness most deeply in the very places where we least expected to find it. Many servants of Jehovah could tell you that. They would probably say, "The hardest period of my life was also the time when I felt closest to Jehovah." Isn't that remarkable? Very often, our darkest valleys become the places where our faith grows the deepest. Later, Samson passed by that place again. The roaring lion was no longer there. Instead, he found honey. Sweetness. Nourishment. Something precious. What a beautiful picture. Where there had once been fear, he now found something sweet. Danger had become a blessing. Pain had become something valuable. How often we don't understand that until much later. While we are in the middle of the struggle, nothing seems to make sense. Only years later do we look back and say, "Now I understand why Jehovah allowed me to walk that path." Perhaps without that illness we would never have learned to pray so earnestly. Perhaps without that disappointment we would never have discovered how faithful Jehovah truly is. Perhaps without that loss we would never have experienced the love of our spiritual family so deeply. Perhaps without that lion we would never have discovered the strength that Jehovah could develop within us. The lion was meant to destroy Samson. Yet in the end, that very lion became part of his story. Not because of the lion. But because of Jehovah. Perhaps one day your greatest struggle will no longer be the chapter of your life that fills you with shame. Perhaps it will become the chapter that gives someone else courage. Perhaps one day someone will ask, "How did you make it through?" And you will be able to answer, "Not me. Jehovah carried me." Isn't that the most beautiful answer of all? So let us change where we focus our attention. Not constantly on the lion. But on the One who is stronger than every lion. The lion roars loudly. But Jehovah's voice is stronger. The lion brings fear. Jehovah gives peace. The lion wants us to give up. Jehovah wants to show us that, with his help, we can accomplish far more than we ever thought possible. Perhaps today you are standing right in front of such a lion. You don't know what tomorrow will bring. You feel small. Weak. Perhaps even alone. Then remember Samson. Not his muscles. Not his courage. But the one sentence that changed everything: “Then Jehovah’s spirit empowered him.” That same Jehovah is still alive today. He has not changed. He knows your name. He knows your story. He knows your tears. And he also knows the lion standing in front of you right now. So don't step into tomorrow filled with fear. Walk into it with Jehovah. Perhaps he will not remove the lion immediately. But he will never leave you to face it alone. And perhaps one day you will look back and realize: The lion was never proof that Jehovah had abandoned me. It was the very place where Jehovah showed me more clearly than ever before just how close he had always been.

br Walls said something on the broadcasting that made me think a bit; for an unknown period of time, Jehovah was the only one in existence, but how can that period end if it never even began..?🤔😵‍💫

reminds me of this https://www.catholic.com/magazine/print-edition/why-catholics-dont-evangelize

what would his goal be though? from googling him it seems his only evil plot would to make a connection between us and trump and even that is a stretch too wild evem for me (he has a book talling about how evangelicals gave birth to trump, and since were the only ones still doing door to door work like evangelicals used to according to his article) 🤷🏾‍♀️

Article is fishy. Two JW’s preaching in 95 degree weather in black suits and not saying nothing of from a simple question at the both.

yeah just smiling and not saying anything was probably more damaging in the long run. overall,the article is not wrong overall. My aunt is part of like the black (african american) mega chuch in my area. She praises the fact that they give away free food and has a free (at least im hoping free) (secular) Academy for their members, kinda snubbed me when she asked 'if my church had a school' for my son.I didnt want to get intothe whole SKE and pioneer school thing with her, she already doesnt believe no one gets paid to do whht they do in the organization (excluding i guess people that live and work at bethel and gets a stipend). She believes no one is going to do stuff without getting paid. Sad thing is their church does stuff either for their members OR to try to get more members, more members is more money. Going door todoor is something they dont want to do because they dont want to be confused for mormons or witnesses. tbh im noticing especially online (but people can be more aggressive behind a screen) that even saying youre a christian opens up a wave of aggression from people, espscially those that are politically charged. Saying yourea christian essentially means youre pro trump now 😩

i love how the fact we wont gossip or give weenies attention is considered covering stuff up.

As anticipated it's back up... It was $5.95 for me today for premium

Temperature change is a real thing; just check any food that was put cold into a turned on oven.

Little James is taller than 190cm (6'3)? bro Jesus would be huge

Happy Dunkiversary!!!

My dad sent me a video of the 1958 international convention today and I’m looking at all the people thinking “most of these people are dead”. Then studied the courage book and supporting articles have me considering the 120 years (just in theory of course)….2034 seems so far away still…. I just want to hear “in 40 days more…” 😵‍💫🤪😂

There are many reasons to expect that the end of this system is very near. An additional point is the fact that the year 2033 will mark 2,000 years since Jesus died for humanity—a historic milestone. When considered alongside various other factors, this raises the question of whether Jesus Christ will remain inactive as Judge at the start of yet another millennium. In a sense, it would be like a "third day," given that to Jehovah, a day is like a thousand years. In the case of his physical death, Jesus rose on the third day; regarding his return to judge the earth, however, we do not know if that will occur at the beginning of the third "day" or sometime during it—that is, a few years later. The truth is that the year 2033 remains an unknown—a period that may yet need to pass before the prophecies are fulfilled.

Chocolate is naturally liquid when it's warm because cocoa butter melts at body temperature.

Another couple of years and AI could have had a major role: ”Brothers, there are actually twelve ‘Jesuses’. One tall, one really short, one bald, one black, one that can’t speak a word of English, one former heavyweight Sumo wrestler, …”

Sinful covers many things but, contrary to popular belief, it does not include eating chocolate.

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! 😟