PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, JOHN COLLINS MINISTRIES: REVIVAL BLOG

PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, EVANGELIST:  THE HOLLOW HEART google images How many times do you ask someone “how’re you doing?” and get the response of ‘I’m okay?,” knowing that the person really isn’t?   Filling in an answer to each other often has become a knee jerk reaction, what is expected response to a truly heart-felt question of concern. Pastor John Collins of Love That Cross Ministries and Pastor John Collins Ministries tells us that our knee jerk ‘amen’ and ‘yes, Lord’ responses to spoken prayer and during sermons are more of a reflex and empty words than coming from a feeling deep in our hearts .   Even prayer that is a recited liturgy is empty of the faith that is needed to remain close to God and Jesus. Imagine you find your child in your home, lying unconscious on the floor.   You discover the child has written a suicide note and has attempted suicide.   The child is committed to a hospital, and you have no idea what is going ...

PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, EVANGELIST:  ITS REALLY THAT EASY photo from godtv.com Repent. What does the word “repent” truly mean? John the Baptist made it his clarion call as he prepared the way for Jesus Christ to make it on the scene over 2000 years ago.   The Old Testament has many passages about repentance before Jesus Christ came.   God wants us to truly feel sorry for our sinful natures and ask for forgiveness because God truly wants His children to come home to Him.   Guilt is a useful tool that helps us recognize that we are in the wrong before God , writes Pastor John Collins of Love That Cross Ministries .   Until we feel genuine remorse for the actions that we have done that offend God, we cannot find salvation nor can we expect to make our way to heaven.   Heaven is not a guarantee just because we say we are Christian , just saying we are sorry and saying we are Christian isn’t going to get us anywhere if we don’t change how our hear...

PASTOR JOHN COLLINS: BECOMING A GOOD CHRISTIAN photo courtesy of Google images What does it mean when we choose to accept the salvation of Jesus Christ , seek sincere forgiveness , and become Christian ?   What do we need to do become good Christians ?   Simply saying that we believe in God , that we believe in Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior is not enough.   There is work to be done, preaches Pastor John Collins of Love That Cross Ministries .   Asking Jesus to come into your life is the first step.   From that point onward, our journey is lifelong for most of us.   Paul turned his life around in an instant, and yes, that is possible:   for Paul and  for most of us it is a struggle and a journey that we must work on every day.   What we were taught, what we believe, our habits, our thoughts will poison our heart and keep us from becoming righteous.   It is a process of choosing to do things differently.   Where do...

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, Evangelist, Love That Cross: There is a bigger story. Pastor John Collins , evangelist and head pastor of Love That Cross Ministries continues to promote renewal of faith and revival of hope .   His daily thoughts of the day give us a snapshot of what he often preaches during his sermons , broadcasts , and interviews .   God is not done with us, and He certainly sees what is going on in this world and hears prayers.   Long ago, Peter wrote that God does not want any soul to perish, He dearly wants all of us back with Him .   The evil that exists in this world takes souls away from God and has since the beginning of mankind and Adam and Eve were disobedient to His instructions.   Satan is alive and well in this world and wages war against God and His plan for this world . Pastor John Collins is committed to bring the word of God back to all of us, beginning in the United States , which he has called the land of milk a...