PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, JOHN COLLINS MINISTRIES: REVIVAL BLOG

  From John Collins Ministries:  “Then Jesus said to His disciples, ‘Assuredly, I say to you that it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.’” Matthew 19:23-24 (NKJV). We have all heard this saying and we all know that the rich often struggle with greed and materialism . But what about those that are not filthy rich and those that have even less ? What happens in the heart of a person that places great emotional value on possessions ? What about that quilt that grandma made, those pieces of jewelry from mom, that set of china from great-aunt Susan, or those baseball cards from grandpa, not to mention the furniture that has been passed down and the T.V. that you worked so hard to buy and add to the living room that brings you such pride and joy because you have better than when you were a kid? When we...

PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, EVANGELIST: OPPRESSIVE AMBITION Ambition has smothered humanity by the desire of people to become powerful.   Pastor John Collins of Love That Cross Ministries and Pastor John Collins Ministries shows us that ambition has kept mankind from the relationship that God intended for us when He sent Jesus as our Savior.   Ambition controlled the Dark Ages-Medieval times-and kept humanity ignorant and in poverty, ambition drove men to enslave other men and women and keep them oppressed in the bonds of slavery for millennia, today’s slavery is human trafficking that is a criminal industry affecting 20.9 million people around the world…an industry   of oppressing humans, historically Hitler oppressed the Jews in the Holocaust , the list is long and unfortunately continues even though we consider ourselves “modern”.   There is nothing new under the sun. Equal opportunity isn’t equal, preaches Pastor John Collins .   Ambit...