BRINGING BACK GOD, PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, BRISTOL AND MARIETTA: Tears for God

Jesus wept. (John 11:35, KJV). It’s the shortest verse in the Holy Bible. It demonstrates that while Jesus is the living God, he is also a man of great emotions.  The verse is within the story of Lazarus’ death, and Jesus has arrived after traveling for four days, which is how long Lazarus had been dead. What emotions was He going through when He approached the tomb where they had laid Lazarus?  Why did He cry-was it grief and sorrow, was He crying for the fact that He knew He was about to raise him from the dead, probably becoming even more of  a focus of the Pharisees who sought to kill him, was it because He knew the what and why of His destiny and realized that so many people just didn’t get it? His great love for mankind was about to be demonstrated by raising His friend from the dead in a very public way.

God’s love for us is shown in so many ways, according to PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, from BRINGING BACK GOD, during sermons preached at BRISTOL and MARIETTA. All He wants from us in return is for us to love and show love for each other. Jesus’ tears showed His love for His friend, and likely His great love for mankind.  Humans have tears.  Animals do not.  Tears are produced with great emotional influence. Tears reflect the condition of your heart, and your heart is what God wants. As a Christian, your  love for others can be shown through your actions, and tears can be ones of joy and thanksgiving to God such as seeing a friend for the first time in months who is much loved by another and the reunion of them is one of pure and unselfish love.  Or the love of a parent when they know that their adult child has found the perfect love of a partner, the tears are of joy and thanksgiving to God for the blessing given to them, of prayers answered.Tears of extreme sorrow and remorse also demonstrate love for God, but relief of the pain from that sorrow can be found through the grace of Jesus. We may cry those tears in private-even sob uncontrollably, but they are there, but we also know that Jesus is there to help us through that valley of sorrow and pain. “And Peter remembered the word which Jesus had said unto him, “Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny Me three times.” And he went out, and wept bitterly.” (Matthew 26:75, KJV). Peter was impulsive, and his deep sorrow and pain at denying Jesus was evident in this verse.  But God’s love was demonstrated by Jesus after His resurrection:  Jesus appeared to the disciples beside the sea, and He asked Peter “lovest thou me” three times (John 21: 15-17).  Jesus demonstrated God’s unending love in forgiveness of Peter.

We need to love each other as Jesus does, as God does.  If you need more understanding of the power of God’s love, you can email PASTOR JOHN COLLINS at bringingbackgod@outlook.com.  View clips of his sermons on YouTube.  Or, listen to his sermons on www.blogtalkradio.com/pastorjohncollins.  If you want to see what is going on with the church, go to www.bringingbackgod.com.

God bless you.

 

BRINGING BACK GOD, PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, BRISTOL AND MARIETTA: Give me all your tomorrows.

This is a sermon preached by PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, from BRINGING BACK GOD.

The Lord appeared to Abraham one day and gave him an incredible command: “Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee” (Genesis 12:1).

What an amazing thing. Suddenly, God picked out a man and told him, “I want you to get up and go, leaving everything behind: your home, your relatives, even your country. I want to send you someplace, and I will direct you how to get there along the way.”

How did Abraham respond to this incredible word from the Lord? “By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went” (Hebrews 11:8).

What was God up to? Why would he search the nations for one man, and then call him to forsake everything and go on a journey with no map, no pre-conceived direction, no known destination? Think about what God was asking of Abraham. He never showed him how he would feed or support his family. He didn’t tell him how far to go or when he would arrive. He only told him two things in the beginning: “Go,” and, “I will show you the way.”

What an incredible thing God was commanding. He told Abraham, in essence, “From this day on, I want you to give me all your tomorrows. You’re to live the rest of your life putting your future into my hands, one day at a time. I’m asking you to commit your life to a promise that I am making to you, Abraham. If you will commit to do this, I will bless you, guide you, and lead you to a place you never imagined.”

The place where God wanted to lead Abraham is a place he wants to take every member of Christ’s body. Indeed, Abraham is what Bible scholars call a “pattern man,” someone who serves as an example of how to walk before the Lord. And Abraham’s example shows us what is required of all who would seek to please God.

Make no mistake, Abraham was not a young man when God called him to make this commitment. He was already an uncle to Lot, and probably had plans in place to secure his family’s future. So he had to be concerned over many considerations as he weighed God’s call. It would mean separating his family from their relatives and friends, and having to trust God completely to provide for them all. Yet Abraham “believed in the Lord; and (God) counted it to him for righteousness” (Genesis 15:6).

If God asked you, leave your country, leave your family, and go, could you? Could you follow Abraham’s example and please God? We can trust in God to provide for us, we can trust in Jesus-PASTOR JOHN COLLINS preached at BRISTOL and MARIETTA that Jesus is everything that we need.  If we are called to serve God, then we can trust in both God and Jesus to be there and trust them completely like Abraham did.

Listen to www.blogtalkradio.com/pastorjohncollins for more sermons by PASTOR JOHN COLLINS.  Follow what BRINGING BACK GOD is doing by going to www.bringingbackgod.com.  See clips of PASTOR JOHN COLLINS on YouTube. You can contact him by email at bringingbackgod@outlook.com.

God bless you.

BRINGING BACK GOD, PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, BRISTOL and MARIETTA: Did God forget about us??

Do you think God has forgotten about us?  With the wars in the Middle East, the kidnapping of children, the murder, rage, and hatred that is in the world, do you think God has given up on us?  According to  PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, BRINGING BACK GOD, while preaching in BRISTOL and MARIETTA, God has not forgotten about us.   We think that He has forgotten us, we think that He just may not care. There are so many who have so many different beliefs because we are always looking for a sign and for proof. Through out the Holy Bible, it is written that God reveals himself to us….According to PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, “God revealed Himself to Adam and Eve. God revealed Himself to Cain. They were brothers and Cain slew Abel. God revealed Himself to Noah. His family was saved and right there is where we can ALL trace back our family lines. We all come from one of those people who eventually produced the human race that is covering this globe we call earth. God revealed Himself to Abram and called him away from his homeland to promise his descendants a new land. God told Abraham that his descendants would be strangers in a strange land and would serve them, Egypt, 400 years. God revealed Himself to Isaac and to Jacob, whom He renamed Israel, and renewed His promise with both of them. God was with Joseph in Egypt and enabled him to save His chosen people from the famine. God revealed Himself to Moses and through signs and miracles led the Jewish people out of Egypt and into Canaan. God revealed Himself to the people at Mt. Sinai and they were terrified and asked Moses to intercede. God gave the law at Mt. Sinai. God led them through the desert for 40 years. God revealed Himself to Joshua and led them to conquer much of the Promised Land.” After all this, which is written in the Holy Bible, Israel still chose to rebel. God continuously gives Israel a chance to redeem itself and come back to God, it is the chosen people.  But also, because of the gift of Jesus and salvation to us through His death on the Cross, all of us have a chance to redeem ourselves.

We still don’t please God, though, even when he has given us all these chances to succeed. PASTOR JOHN COLLINS preaches that “Israel is a battlefield and it is not the only one. There is war in our hearts and in our souls and in all this time that we have been on this earth it seems as if we have learned nothing. Where is our compassion? Where is our love? Where is our respect, not only for ourselves, but for each other? We are forever repeating such bad choices and right now there are so many people hastening the return of Jesus Christ. It is not by our hand that we will hasten that. We will surely destroy ourselves in the effort though. Quit looking for signs people and start praying for peace. Quit looking for the rapture to come and get your knees dirty and pray for Israel. For they are the firstborn, yet we are next. They are our family and our beloved people. And if you think that is not true of you, you are wrong. My family came from that boat and so did yours. I don’t care what religion you claim, I don’t care what your beliefs are; the truth is we are related.
I am asking that you consider carefully the truth of your heart. I am asking that you consider carefully your thoughts and your prayers. I am asking that you consider your actions and speech to others. I am asking that you find compassion and bother with the time it takes to seek mercy from the Lord. Pray that Israel and all of us find mercy and compassion from God and Jesus Christ. Pray that healing and building hope can begin. Pray that the Holy Land begin to act Holy and pray for those that have been hurt and lost loved ones in this fight.”

And most of all, remember to be thankful for this one great merciful truth, “The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is long-suffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.” 2 Peter 3:9. God still wants all of us.  Find salvation in His Son Jesus, He died on the cross for us.  God wants all of us.

See what the church is doing, go to www.bringingbackgod.com. For more sermons by PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, check out www.blogtalkradio.com/pastorjohncollins.  See clips of his sermons on YouTube.  You can contact him by email at bringingbackgod@outlook.com.

God bless you.

BRINGING BACK GOD, PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, BRISTOL AND MARIETTA: Love like Jesus-sacrificially

“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for friends.” John 15:13. (KJV).  This is written in red, which means Jesus said it. Merriam and Webster define it as the act of giving up something that you want to keep especially in order to get or do something else or to help someone. PASTOR JOHN COLLINS in BRISTOL and MARIETTA preached that God sent Jesus as a Sacrifice for us so that we can have eternal life.  Not sent as a compromise, sent as a sacrifice. He gave up his life for all humanity so that we can live. Jesus loved sacrifically.  His whole human life was spent preparing for that moment that he died upon the cross as a Sacrificial Lamb so that we could live.

In Mark 8:43, Jesus said, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.”  What does it mean to deny yourself?  It means to give up what may matter most to you.  Your job, your education, your savings, your home, your family.  The disciples were asked to leave their work and follow the Lord. Abraham was asked to sacrifice his son Isaac.  What kind of sacrifice would you make for your Lord?  If God’s Son walked the Earth today, what would you give up for Him?  Your wealth?  Your children?  Your grandchildren?  Your lifestyle? Your spouse?  Would you deny who you are to protect Him? Sacrifice means to give it all.  Could you give it all?  Jesus did.  He suffered for us even though he was without sin. He never lied, committed adultery, murdered, slandered, gossiped, never worshiped something other than God. He was Perfect.  And he was our Sacrifice according to PASTOR JOHN COLLINS. He was sacrificed to act as the bridge from our life here on Earth to our eternal life in Heaven.

“The highest form of love is to lay your life down for another. Genuine love almost always involves some level of sacrifice. That doesn’t mean we must give in to all the demands of others; instead, we should seek to give them what will ultimately be most beneficial.” PASTOR JOHN COLLINS.

Want to hear more sermons by PASTOR JOHN COLLINS?  Go to www.blogtalkradio.com/pastorjohncollins.  You can follow what BRINGING BACK GOD is doing by going to www.bringingbackgod.com.  If you want to talk to PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, you can contact him through email at bringingbackgod@outlook.com.

God bless you.

BRINGING BACK GOD, PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, BRISTOL AND MARIETTA: Love like Jesus-selflessly

Jesus loved us selflessly-he suffered and then hung on a cross and died for us so that we can have eternal life.  There is no greater selflessness than to give your life for others. PASTOR JOHN COLLINS when preaching at BRINGING BACK GOD in BRISTOL and MARIETTA, tells us that Jesus loved selflessly all the time. And, since Jesus was the living God, acting on behalf of our Father in heaven, what Jesus did, He did because it was of God.  The Old Testament tells us in Leviticus 19:18 (KJV) “Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love the neighbor as thyself.  I am the Lord.” In the New Testament in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus preached “But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. ” Matthew 5:44-45 (KJV). It’s easy for us to love those who love us.  That’s normal for us as humans.  Jesus loved everyone, he loved the unlovable.  That is what we are to do as Christians, to be Christ-like, according to PASTOR JOHN COLLINS.Loving the unlovable goes against what society teaches us.

One of PASTOR JOHN COLLINS‘ favorite preachers is David Wilkerson.  Wilkerson went from a mountain town in Pennsylvania and began a ministry among the heroin addicts of New York City.  In the 1960’s. His story sounds like it could be happening today.  Wilkerson loved the unloved.  He gave hope to young men and women who were addicts by giving them and showing them the love of Jesus.  So many of those addicts had no hope.  Loving selflessly like Jesus gave them hope and brought them out of the desert of wilderness.  It isn’t impossible to love the unlovable.  You can do anything through Christ.  Just ask, pray for it with heartfelt desire and you will know how according to PASTOR JOHN COLLINS. We Christians need to love the unlovable. It means not doing what will bless us, but doing what will bless them. It will save ourselves and the world.

You can hear sermons by PASTOR JOHN COLLINS by logging onto the website www.blogtalkradio.com/pastorjohncollins. You are sure to hear a preacher like never before. You can hear and view clips of PASTOR JOHN COLLINS on YouTube. See what church  BRINGING BACK GOD is doing by visiting www.bringingbackgod.com.  You can write to PASTOR JOHN COLLINS at bringingbackgod@outlook.com.

God bless you.

BRINGING BACK GOD, PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, BRISTOL AND MARIETTA: Love like Jesus-forgivingly

According to PASTOR JOHN COLLINS in sermons at BRINGING BACK GOD, in BRISTOL and MARIETTA, Jesus loved forgivingly, sacrificially, selflessly, and understandingly. PASTOR JOHN COLLINS encourages us to be Christ-like as Christians. One way to be Christ-like is to love like Jesus did. For us, because we are human, it does not come naturally.  We sooner take the easy way and give in to the ways of the world…..we say “I’m having a bad day, I just can’t take this, they did this to me” and turn around and take our bad day out on someone else-in turn they respond in kind and choose to have a bad day as well. The Holy Bible says to “love thy neighbor as thyself”. Do we love ourselves so little that we want to make someone else’s life miserable because something happened? Jesus loves forgivingly. Daniel 9:9 says “To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him”.  Jesus was the living God, and all that He did, He did by God’s command.  He loved forgivingly. If Jesus loved forgivingly, then God loves forgivingly.  If God wants us to be Christ-like, Christian, then we need to learn to love others forgivingly.

We can easily take offense at what other people do or say. It’s our nature. But God wants us to forgive others, like we forgive ourselves-love thy neighbor as thyself. Someone at a business made an error the other week.  A pretty big one, one that affected people directly and indirectly-it spread like a web.  The individual who made the error was busy gossiping about the town-where to go, what to do, someone who misused a church.  While she was doing this, she made an error that had pretty far reaching effects. The individual who had to deal with the fall out from the error chose not to dwell on it or make a big deal out of it, they chose to forgive the person who made the error. The opportunity to fix the error by someone else came quickly-a blessing from God– so that no one suffered for the mistake.  The person who made the mistake was committing sin by gossiping. In that moment, Satan had a chance to create pain and misery. Giving forgiveness to that person stopped Satan in his tracks.  There was no route for him to follow.  None.  Genuinely loving your neighbor and giving forgiveness is Christ-like. Jesus was willing to die to cleanse us of our sins.  Being bitter and holding resentment would have been the normal response for most people…giving Satan free reign in our hearts. With Christ-like love and forgiveness, it stopped him in his tracks.  What an outcome.  How much better off we all would be if we could do that! Peter in Acts 3:19 said “Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.” PASTOR JOHN COLLINSpreaches the same thing-that we seek forgiveness from God through Jesus, so that we can have eternal life. Seek that relationship with God, be like Jesus.  Love everyone forgivingly.

You can hear more sermons like these by PASTOR JOHN COLLINS by going to www.blogtalkradio.com/pastorjohncollins. You can see what BRINGING BACK GOD is doing by visiting the church website at www.bringingbackgod.com.  Fellowship is an important part of being Christian; you can talk to PASTOR JOHN COLLINS by emailing him at bringingbackgod@outlook.com.  Have a blessed Sunday.

God bless you.

 

 

BRINGING BACK GOD, PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, BRISTOL AND MARIETTA: Tit for tat-it, isn’t child’s play

As a child, did you ever get back at another child because he or she did something to you and it hurt your feelings? Or made you angry so you got even? Or as a teen or even an adult, have you stayed in a relationship out of fear because you felt whoever your partner was would hurt you more physically than the emotional strain of staying in the relationship?  Or have you been in a relationship where getting even is part of the relationship?  You did this, so I’ll do that?  It’s called tit for tat. PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, BRISTOL and MARIETTA, preaches that God’s love is unconditional.  In our society, love is defined as a feeling we have for each other, a commitment to one person. With God, he loves us no matter who we have been, what we have done, so long as we seek him 100%. All he asks in return is to love Him.  There is a difference between loving God and fearing God, according to PASTOR JOHN COLLINS…..fearing God is giving Him glory and putting what God says above everything else. Loving Him giving Him glory and holding Him dearer to ourselves than anything else.

You say you do love God; as Christians we all say we love God, but we don’t show it, we don’t act it. In Matthew 6:24, Jesus says “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other.  Ye cannot serve God and mammon” (KJV). Total loyalty, love for God, cannot be divided between Him and our possessions.  We say we love God, but we show our love to our things, our money, our possessions, our selves before we show our love for God. Then there are the trials and tribulations we all endure.  We blame God for the pain that we encounter: the loss of a job, a car accident, ill health-like God is reaching from the sky with His thumb to crush us like an ant.  According to PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, God does not want us to suffer….he never has, that is why he made the Garden of Eden in the first place.  It was our sin that tossed us from that Garden, just like it is our sin that gives us pain.  God isn’t giving us pain, he isn’t capable of it. He isn’t saying because you keep doing this, I’m going to do this to you….that’s childish immaturity and tit for tat. The fact is Satan is-pain is where he gets to claim souls: people give up on God because of the pain that they are suffering from the sin that has destroyed our lives.  God isn’t doing it, sin is.

PASTOR JOHN COLLINS preaches that God wants us to find salvation and relief from our sins. That is why he sent Jesus to be our sacrifice and take our sins.  What a burden that must have been for Jesus, and still is today.  Salvation is ours from our sins, all we have to do is ask for forgiveness and seek redemption through Jesus. God gave us Jesus because He loves us.

If you want to hear more sermons by PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, listen to him on blogtalkradio.com/pastorjohncollins. You can follow what is happening at BRINGING BACK GOD by going to www.bringingbackgod.com.  If you want to talk to PASTOR JOHN COLLINS,you can email him at bringingbackgod@outlook.com.

God bless you.

 

BRINGING BACK GOD, PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, BRISTOL AND MARIETTA: Really, 3 days in a week?

PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, while preaching in BRISTOL and MARIETTA, teaches us that we need to give ourselves 100% to God. That means that we give everything: our love, our trust, our fears, our sorrows, our attention, all of ourselves. God wants it all. He is a jealous God….nothing comes before him. What we are to do and what we actually do are two different things.  PASTOR JOHN COLLINS pointed out that so many diseases are associated with worry.  We are a society of worry and anxiety.  There are drugs to numb our anxiety and classes to reduce stress.  We worry about everything: what we look like, how to pay our bills, what our children are doing, what our elderly parents are doing, where our kids go to school, will they grow up and be successful, the list goes on and on.  We worry endlessly, and that worry takes our attention away from our Lord.  We need to learn to trust Him. PASTOR JOHN COLLINS says that worry is the ultimate act of rebellion against God in a believer’s life: when we worry as a believer, we are saying God is dead, he won’t do anything to help in our situation.

PASTOR JOHN COLLINS says that even though the calendar gives us seven days a week, there really are three.  Two of them we can’t do anything about, and we need to trust in God: we can’t do anything about yesterday, it is over.  We can’t do anything about tomorrow, we have absolutely no power over it. Today is the only day we have.  We need to be thankful for it, and with God’s help, we can face whatever comes. Philippians 4: 13 says “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me” (KJV). Trying to quit smoking?  Give it to Jesus.  Need to find a way to put food on the table?  Give it to Jesus.  Found out you have an incurable disease?  Give it to Jesus…He did heal people through their faith, it’s everywhere in the Gospels of the New Testament. When you give it to Jesus, who was the living God, you are saying you trust in God completely. In Matthew 6:25-34 (KJV) Jesus says “Therefore I say unto you, take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on.  Is not the life more than meat, and the body then raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them.  Are ye not much better than they?  Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?  And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.  Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cst into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith.  Therefore, take no though saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink, or Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these thing do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.  But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.  Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself.  Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.”  He said this during his Sermon on the Mount.  It is wise advice for the believer then and for the believer now.  You cannot change anything by worrying.  Each day has its own troubles and worries.  You can only deal with today, with the help of God.  Give him that chance.

Hear more sermons by PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, from BRINGING BACK GOD at www.blogtalkradio.com/pastorjohncollins.  Visit the BRINGING BACK GOD website at www.bringingbackgod.com.  You can follow PASTOR JOHN COLLINS on facebook at www.facebook.com/bbg40. Need fellowship?  Email PASTOR JOHN COLLINS at bringingbackgod@outlook.com.

God bless you.

 

 

BRINGING BACK GOD, PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, MARIETTA AND BRISTOL: We don’t help her kind…..

PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, BRINGING BACK GOD, BRISTOL & MARIETTA, preaches that our doors are open to everyone, no matter who they are, what they look like, what they do.  Non judgemental.  And that is how we are at BRINGING BACK GOD.  He says that in the Bible, Jesus would eat with the tax collectors and publicans.  The Pharisees looked down on this in self-righteousness according to PASTOR JOHN COLLINS,not understanding that the people who needed to be saved the most were and still are the ones that have no idea of salvation: the sinners.  “And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.  And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners? But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy and not sacrifice: For I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.” Matthew 9: 10-13. Who else would Jesus want in his church….who else would a pastor want in his church?  People who go to church to be seen in a church, or people who go to church who want to be saved by the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross?

A relative of one of the church members was critically injured and almost died in a vehicle accident in June.  It is a miracle of God that she is alive, and another miracle that she is recuperating as quickly as she is.  She was released from the hospital to heal enough so she can eventually go for rehab.  If you want to read her story, you can see it at Laura’s recovery fund webpage. Healthcare coverage being what it is in the United States, she needed a lot of money to pay for only half of one of her prescriptions….over $2000.  Still needs help. Friends of hers have done the Christian thing, stepped in to help without being asked.  One of these friends approached his church to see if they would sponsor a fundraiser.  He didn’t ask for money, he asked for resources of people who say they are Christian, to help.  The pastor who he spoke to said that they couldn’t help because she wasn’t a church member.  Wait a minute.  PASTOR JOHN COLLINS teaches us at BRINGING BACK GOD, both in BRISTOL and MARIETTA,that if someone comes to you for help, you don’t turn them away.  It doesn’t matter who they are. James 2: 15-17 says “If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food, and one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled, not withstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.” This church had the perfect opportunity handed to them to help a child of God in need.  What if she had been Jesus testing the waters to see where that church’s faith was?

Don’t judge people.  Love thy neighbor…that’s what Jesus wants us to do, according to PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, no matter who they are, whether they are a church member or not. Jesus wouldn’t have turned the request away. If you want to hear more sermons by PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, go to www.blogtalkradio.com/pastorjohncollins.  If you would like to see what the church is doing, you can see the website at www.bringingbackgod.com.

God bless you.

Bringing Back God, Pastor John Collins, Marietta & Bristol: Judge not

PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, BRINGING BACK GOD, MARIETTA & BRISTOL, does throw back sermons from his favorite preachers.  One of them is David Wilkerson.  David Wilkerson did his ministry among the heroin addicts and gangs of New York City in the 1960s.  He had a hard time getting started, but by faith in God and listening to God’s will, he was able to begin a ministry that continues today.  PASTOR JOHN COLLINS tells of the time when one of the gang members was given the offering basket.  The gang member took other members and they collected a large amount of money from the  crowd.  They all went back stage, and when they were called out, they didn’t come at first.  But, they did eventually.  The gang member told David Wilkerson that he never had anyone trust him like that before: he was judged to be not trustworthy because of his gang membership.

Jesus says “judge not lest ye be judged”. PASTOR JOHN COLLINS preaches that we are not different from one another: we are all sinners that need to find the path to the cross. Our sins make us the same, whether we are bankers, professionals, bikers, mothers, fathers, daughters, sons.  We fall short of the glory of salvation.  Are your clothes ragged?  Are they expensive Armani suits?  Do you have gauges in your ears?  Do you wear spiked high heels?  Do you have tattoos?  It doesn’t matter, because we all are the same in the eyes of the Lord.  Don’t judge someone because he has a tattoo of a tear at the corner of his eye.  Don’t gossip about them behind their back.  Judging is not for us, that is for God and Jesus. Gossip is a sin, just like murder and adultery, God does not see it any differently.  Sin is sin. Nothing is greater than the other according to PASTOR JOHN COLLINS.

Listen to some very good sermons about judgement by PASTOR JOHN COLLINS on blogtalkradio.com/pastorjohncollins.  It will be a refreshing experience to listen to him preach.  Find out what the church is doing by visiting the website at www.bringingbackgod.com.  If you need someone to pray with you or need to talk to someone, you can reach PASTOR JOHN COLLINS at bringingbackgod@outlook.com.

God bless  you.