BRINGING BACK GOD, PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, BRISTOL AND MARIETTA: Jesus will carry you

Have  you ever been sad, sorrowful, frightened, fearful, lonely, so miserable you felt you just couldn’t get out of bed?  We all have at some point in our lives.  We are human, we have these emotions-the loss of a family member, the loss of a pet, the loss of a job, the loss of a home, friendships gone wrong; whatever the reason or source of the emotion, we all have had them.  The difference is, as a Christian, we have Jesus there to carry us through it.

According to PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, while preaching at BRINGING BACK GOD, in BRISTOL and MARIETTA, Jesus is there for us all the time.  All we have to do as Christians is ask, and we receive….It is written in red “Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.” (Matthew 7:7-8). PASTOR JOHN COLLINS preaches “Jesus Christ is your bread when you’re hungry. Jesus Christ is your comfort when you are lonely. Jesus Christ is your peace when you are feeling tense. Jesus Christ is your rest when you are feeling weary. Jesus Christ is your joy when you are sad. Jesus Christ is your strength when you are weak. Jesus Christ is your living water when you are thirsty. Jesus Christ is your wisdom. Jesus Christ will supply you with fullness when you feel empty.” All we have to do is ask, to allow Him to do what He came here for in the first place.  To be our Salvation.

God loves us. Even for as bad as society is today, for all the evil that is out there, He loves us.  He loved us enough to send Jesus to take care of all of us over 2000 years ago. Jesus suffered for us, took a flat out beating for us, according to PASTOR JOHN COLLINS. So that we could live, so that we can survive, so that we can be happy both here on Earth and an eternity in Heaven. We have become so calloused and so hardened because society has told us to fit in, to comply, to follow everyone else, that most of us have no idea who Jesus is and what He means.  And that is sad.  That Man took a beating, hung on a cross for nine hours and suffered for us, rose again, and is still there for us to save us from ourselves. From Satan. From eternity in Hell. We as a culture just don’t know that all we have to do is seek him, accept him as our Savior, repent our sins, seek forgiveness, and ask.  That’s all.  Give Him your soul, your heart, and ask for help when you need it. So if you are feeling so low you want to take your life, if you are so sad you feel like you could cry from the soles of your feet, you feel so alone that there is no one who could want you, there is Someone there for you.  Jesus. He will help you get up off the floor and give you the strength and courage to endure.  And that is a Gift that has never stopped.

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God bless you.

BRINGING BACK GOD, PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, BRISTOL AND MARIETTA: Loving like Jesus, Understandingly

How do we act when someone mistreats us? Do we lash out in anger, respond in frustration, pull back in fear, become depressed? What about looking at that person’s shortcomings and having compassion for their failings.  According to PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, while preaching in BRISTOL and MARIETTA, at BRINGING BACK GOD, Jesus knew and understood the limitations of his followers.  He was able to understand and have compassion for their failings. When someone treats us poorly, we don’t have to like them, but we need to look beyond those actions and be understanding.  Otherwise we are no better, we are hypocrites according to PASTOR JOHN COLLINS.

It is written in red in the KJV, “Ye have heard that it hath been said, thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thine enemy.  But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate 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.” Jesus knew the Pharisees were hypocrites and told them so, but he still loved them through understanding. God loves us all. John 3: 16-17 “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.  For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.”(KJV). God is love. He is the source of all true love, His love is unconditional and he consistently seeks the most good from us. If he is the source of all true love, then Jesus is the human representation of that love. He loved his followers unconditionally.  He overlooked their shortcomings and sins. Peter was so impulsive that he denied Jesus three times before He was crucified. Yet, after His resurrection, Jesus gave Peter the chance to declare his love for Jesus three times.  Jesus understands us and loves us for who we are.  We need to do the same as Christians striving to be Christ-like on our way to the salvation offered by Jesus. Trying to understand others actions doesn’t change their guilt before God, but it can help you to love more freely.  It means learning to see people for who they are and caring about them anyway.

Listen to more sermons by PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, go to www.blogtalkradio.com/pastorjohncollins. See what  BRINGING BACK GOD is doing, go to www.bringingbackgod.com.  You can follow BRINGING BACK GOD on facebook and like the page. If you want fellowship with PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, you can email him 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.

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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: trust in Jesus

Jesus said: “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father but by me“(John 14:6, KJV).  According to PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, BRINGING BACK GOD, Jesus Christ is your bread when you are hungry.  Jesus Christ is your comfort when you are lonely.  Jesus Christ is your peace when you are feeling tense. Jesus Christ is your rest when you are feeling weary.  Jesus Christ is your joy when you are sad.  Jesus Christ is your strength when you are weak.  Jesus Christ is your living water when you are thirsty.  Jesus Christ is your wisdom.  Jesus Christ will supply you with fullness when you feel empty.  All you have to do is believe.  Trust in Him.  Know that He is there for you, that he will walk with you, even carry you if you need it.  Believe and ask.

Jesus died on the cross for our sins.  We all are sinners, and we all make mistakes every day.  He is there to forgive us as Christians.  We just need to accept that He is there in our hearts.  When we accept Him as our Saviour, we can seek forgiveness for our sins.  Trust in Him.

God bless you.

Bringing Back God: don’t laugh at me

A man stood outside a church in ragged jeans, a dirty shirt with many holes, and looked like he didn’t have a bath in days.  It was Sunday, and many people were filling that church that day because they were about to meet their new pastor.  No one took the time to offer help or speak to the man who was hanging around the entrance of the church.  The church service began, and a church elder spoke to the congregation, introducing the new pastor.  As he was introduced, he walked down the aisle, everyone turned to look at the new pastor, as only the church elder who introduced him knew what he looked like.  Walking down the aisle was the man in ragged jeans, torn shirt, looking like he needed a shower.  When he got to the front of the church, he looked at the congregation and told them what hypocrites they were: not one had taken the Christian action of saying hello, offering him to come in, offering a cup of coffee-no hospitality, no Christian kindness.  They had absolutely broken the commandment of love thy neighbor.  He then dismissed the church for the day after only five minutes. PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, BRINGING BACK GOD, told this during a sermon as example of how Christians, people who think they are truly Christians, judge other people.  Jesus says in Matthew 7:1-3 “Judge not, that ye be not judged.For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?” (KJV).

PASTOR JOHN COLLINS explained the story of the new pastor and compared it to Jesus’ teachings of not judging others by their appearance, their manner, their actions. A Christian does not condemn others for what or who they are.  BRINGING BACK GOD is a church that opens its doors to everyone, regardless of whether they are a bank president or a tattooed biker, a woman who has had a abortion, or someone who is an alcoholic.  PASTOR JOHN COLLINS  wants everyone to be welcome at BRINGING BACK GOD, to be part of the church family, to be accepted for what and who they are.  We all are sinners, and we all fall short of the cross. The mote in your brother’s eye is a speck of sawdust, the beam in your eye is a plank of wood…like a support beam of a building.  Don’t judge someone: you are a sinner just like they are.  You aren’t any better than anyone else. We all come together for the same reason, to find our way to salvation through the cross that Jesus died on.  He took our sins, the perfect Son, so that we could have eternal life.

So back to the church members who ignored the needs of the man standing outside that door……what if that was Jesus, looking to see how He would be received?  What if the pastor really was a ragged looking bum, and not dressed up as one? What difference did it make?  What truly matters is not what is said about someone as hearsay or gossip, not what someone looks like, with tattoos or ragged clothes, but what their heart is,  how they act, and who they are now not their past, according to PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, BRINGING BACK GOD. Don’t let what you are today determine what you are going to be tomorrow.

God bless you.

Bringing Back God: Forgive others

Forgiveness.  It is one of the steps to becoming a Christian.  PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, BRINGING BACK GOD,says it during every sermon.  To find your way to God, you need to go through Jesus and the cross. You need to take a U-turn in your life, repent your sins, seek forgiveness.  Obey God and listen to His Word.  Love thy neighbor, giving a hand up not a hand out. Be baptized with water. Tell others about the love of Jesus and his sacrifice so that mankind can be saved.

Forgiveness is one of the keys to salvation.  You pray for forgiveness for your sins, you pray for forgiveness from God.  Pretty straightforward.  Don’t forget to forgive others.  According to PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, during sermons at BRINGING BACK GOD, the Holy Bible is the blueprint for what to do when it comes to forgiveness.  In the book of Mark, 11:24-26, it says: “Therefore I say unto you, what things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have aught to against any: that your Father, also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses. But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive you your trespasses.” (KJV). Jesus teaches us faith, prayer, and forgiveness through these words.  We must have faith in God and Jesus, that when you pray for what you want, you will receive it.  If you ask for forgiveness, and mean it, you will receive it.  But, you must also forgive others, or God will not forgive you. Forgiving others humbles you, and opens your heart so that you can find your way to heaven through that narrow gate.  Peter asked how many times do you forgive others.  Jesus answer was 7 times 70-in other words, unlimited forgiveness is what He expects of us.

Don’t forget to forgive others as you pray daily.  As PASTOR JOHN COLLINS says, there are no 23 1/2 hour Christians in heaven.  God bless you.

Bringing Back God: Street Corner Preachers

Have you ever walked past street corner preachers?  Their passion is right there in front of you, shouting and dancing, drawing attention to themselves.  They are so passionate about their feelings toward Jesus and God.  Wow, right? How comfortable are you if you have to walk right by them?  Do you feel like “oh man, please don’t talk to me”? Or if you are driving by and see them coming toward you, do you push that gas pedal a little further down? PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, MARIETTA PA and at BRISTOL, TN BRINGING BACK GOD, preaches from the Holy Bible.  The Bible, he says, is very specific about how to preach the word of God.  According to him, the letters from Paul in the New Testament say to preach with passion. PASTOR JOHN COLLINS also points out from Matthew 6:5 that Jesus is very specific about making a spectacle of yourself: “when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men.  Verily I say unto you, they have their reward.”

There is a difference between passion and making a spectacle of yourself.  If you speak passionately, as PASTOR JOHN COLLINS does during his sermons at BRISTOL, TN BRINGING BACK GOD, people listen to you.  They follow your line of thought, they listen to what you say, and it stays with you for longer than just the day.  Those street preachers who run up and down the sidewalk, shouting and dancing, not making much interaction with the people who walk past, are merely a spectacle, a freak show.  A circus act.  And why would anyone want to turn toward Christianity if that is how you are supposed to act?  PASTOR JOHN COLLINS during his sermons in MARIETTA, PA and BRISTOL, TN BRINGING BACK GOD churches, preaches  to become a Christian, you need to repent your sins.  Truly repent them and seek forgiveness, not dance around on a street corner making a spectacle of yourself.  PASTOR JOHN COLLINS also shows that Jesus said,again in Matthew 6, to pray by not drawing attention to yourself.  “Enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door,  pray to thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly”. You can pretty much pray anywhere, without making a spectacle of yourself.  Do it without drawing attention to yourself, you don’t have to physically go into a closet, Jesus is using this as an example of how to not draw attention to yourself.  It isn’t about you, after all,  it’s about God and Jesus and how God sent Jesus to Earth as a sacrifice so that we can have salvation for our souls, according to PASTOR JOHN COLLINS.  If you want to tell someone about Jesus and how he has saved you, then do it.  We are supposed to do that if we are saved ourselves.  Don’t make a spectacle of yourself.  Do it by the commandment of love thy neighbor. Believe in Jesus and God with all your heart. Love Jesus and God with all your heart. Seek forgiveness for your sins.  Be baptized.  This is what Paul and PASTOR JOHN COLLINS preach.  It’s all about the cross, not the pastor.

God bless you.

Bringing Back God: Denial and Trust

Simon Peter is the disciple that Jesus Christ asked to be the foundation for Christianity as we know it today.  In a sermon by PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, MARIETTA PA and BRISTOL TN, BRINGING BACK GOD, PASTOR JOHN spoke of how Peter had problems trusting his faith in Jesus.  Peter was a fisherman by trade with his brother Andrew, and was called to follow Jesus as a fisher of men.  There are accounts of travel on the sea with the disciples and Jesus, and in one accounting, Jesus walked on water, Peter called out impulsively “Lord, if it be thou,bid me come unto thee on the water.” (Matthew 14:28, KJV). Jesus said come, and Peter began to walk toward Jesus.  When he looked down, he took his eyes-his faith and trust-off of Jesus and began to sink.  Jesus rescued him, but Peter had lost his faith in that moment.

Another accounting of Peter’s impulsiveness and pride with his faith is when Jesus tells of how He will be leaving the disciples through His crucifixition “Whither I go thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards.  Peter said unto him, Lord why cannot I follow thee now?  I will lay down my life for thy sake. Jesus answered him, Wilt thou lay down they life for my sake?  Verily, verily, I say unto thee, The cock shall not crow till thous hast denied me thrice.” John 13:36-38(KJV).  And indeed, Peter did deny knowing Jesus, out of fear for his life, three times after Jesus was arrested.  He lost faith that nothing would happen to him, that the Pharisees were only interested in Jesus, no one else.  Peter’s pride and impulsiveness caused him to regret his actions against Jesus until after Jesus was resurrected, and He forgave Peter by asking him “do you love me” three times.

Impulsiveness will get you into trouble, as well as pride.  Pride is a sin, and impulsiveness is arrogance-it is speaking out and not bridling your tongue, acting before you think or feel with your heart.  PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, while preaching at MARIETTA PA BRINGING BACK GOD, told his congregation to let go of pride and arrogance.  To seek the path to the cross.  To find salvation in Jesus, through the cross.  Asking forgiveness and repenting impulsiveness and pride, and whatever other sins we have committed, for we all are sinners.  Jesus brought us hope through his crucifixion, all we have to do is seek forgiveness and repent, be baptized, help out our neighbors, and obey God.  PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, BRISTOL TN, also says hope is like sunshine, everyone needs a ray of it.  Bring some sunshine into your life.  Seek Jesus, find your way to the cross.

God bless you.

Bringing Back God: God’s Got This

“I’ve got this”-God.  It’s a slogan seen on a t-shirt from a nationwide Christian bookstore.  What a statement.  Think about it.  God’s got this.  He really does.  He knows what we need before we need it and he provides it to us when He knows that we need it.  How awesome is that? PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, MARIETTA PA and BRISTOL, TN, BRINGING BACK GOD, has preached in his sermons that all we need to do is believe in God, give Him our lives, pray for what we need, and He will provide.  It is the ultimate trust.

Taking the leap of faith: committing yourself to Jesus Christ and to God means trusting that they exist.  And they do. They are right there beside you.  Ever wonder how those small blessings come about everyday?  Things that seem strange or next to impossible that they happened?  That’s God.  It really is.  Ever notice when you are feeling your absolute worst and you think ‘man I could really use a hug‘ someone comes along and gives you a hug.  Out of the blue.  It’s enough to make you cry.  A simple hug gives you hope because it came from God knowing what you needed.  Wow.  Ultimate trust.

Matthew 6:8(KJV) says “Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.” Believing in God, that He is right there beside you in all you do, is an act of total confidence in the plan and purpose of God for you.  The next step is to obey his will for you.  100%.  It’s simple, but it’s hard, according to PASTOR JOHN COLLINS.Hearing God’s will, then doing it.  Our will gets in the way.  We say-really?  You want me to do that.  I’m not sure…..then next thing you know, you aren’t as blessed as you should be.  Because you didn’t listen to God’s will.  Nike has a slogan that applies in this instance.  When you hear and understand God’s will for you, JUST DO IT.  No questions.  Have faith that he knows what you need.  He does.  Don’t question it, and you will be rewarded. Why is that so hard for us to understand?  Because we’ve gotten so far away from God and Jesus, that we don’t even know how to listen for them any more.  But they are really right there for us.  All we have to do is ask for them to come into our lives by making a commitment to them.  Commit your life.  Ask for salvation, repent your sins, pray asking for forgiveness, be baptized with water.  Help your neighbor, give them a hand up, not a hand out, according to PASTOR JOHN COLLINS at BRINGING BACK GOD, MARIETTA PA and BRISTOL TN.  God will reward you.  Because He’s got this.

God bless you