PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, JOHN COLLINS MINISTRIES: REVIVAL BLOG

Pastor John Collins, Revival: Today's thought-God did that Do you take the time each day to look around and marvel at the world around us?   Mountains, trees, animals, lakes, skies filled with billowing clouds , birds of every color, the tiny whisker of a mouse, flowers that smell wonderful and are of every color, shape, and size, the freshness of children at play, fish swimming ….these are too numerous to list.   God did that .   God gave life, at the beginning of creation, and again each and every time there is birth. God did that .   To witness the birth of a child, you need to marvel at the conception , the growth of those two small cells to develop into a human being with a soul.   God did that .   It may seem like these are everyday things , they are not, and in fact, we’ve become removed from the origination of all these marvelous things just as we have become removed from God and His Son , Jesus Christ , who was sent as a sacrifice to ...

PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, EVANGELIST: THE HOPE OF CHRIST As we read the headlines and listen to the newscasts and media speculate and sensationalize the hate, discord, unhappiness, and lies that are so prevalent in the world today: from ISIS, to school shootings, North Korea, nuclear weapons, natural disasters and the like, we as a whole tend to feel that there is no hope.   It seems that God is not there or He has forgotten us, His promises, and that Jesus may very well just be a good story about a guy who was pretty charismatic and stirred up the hearts of people, only to upset the politicians of the day and get Himself “killed”.   This is not so.   God truly is at work among us.   King Solomon recognized the hopelessness of mankind when he became the Preacher in Ecclesiastes and wrote about the pointlessness (vanity) of man’s struggle without the wisdom of faith in God .   We are much the same in our world right now.   King David , Solomon’s f...

PASTOR JOHN COLLINS: LUKEWARM FAITH Faith is believing without seeing , acting on belief without being able to put your eyes or hands on something viable .   Faith in God and belief in the words of the Bible and the stories within it are difficult because the world that we live in screams at us that it can’t possibly be truth , that there is no evidence .   There is evidence available to us every day, in the survival of trauma victims , in the healing of wounds, in the birth of a child , in receiving something that was needed but not know how it could possibly happen.   We don’t recognize the evidence now, any more than those people who have lived before us thousands of years ago. Pastor John Collins , evangelist and head pastor of Love That Cross Ministries , has brought revival through his sermons and preaching around the country for many years.   His style of preaching is much like that of the late Reverend Billy Graham , making the Word of God ...