Pastor John Collins, Redeeming the Gospel

PASTOR JOHN COLLINS: GODLY PARENTING-Parents need to be parents Our children are our biggest resource.   When we grow old, it is our children who will be making choices that will affect us.   Children today seem to be encouraged to grow up fast and childhood is lost through abuse, neglect, selfishness, and ignorance.   The phrase children should be seen and not heard was a phrase that was coined during the Middle Ages.   Some would like to say it comes from the Holy Bible , but that is wrong.   The Holy Bible is very clear about how to raise children, and Jesus spoke to the disciples who tried to keep children away from Him.   Children are precious to God , and when we become parents, we are being given a blessing and a responsibility to raise a child for God ~ Pastor John Collins , 2017 (paraphrased). Pastor John Collins , evangelist and head pastor of Love That Cross Ministries and John Collins Ministries, Inc ., teaches us that it is our children who need to be

PASTOR JOHN COLLINS: FEAR LIES Fear is a liar.   Those are lyrics in a song by Zach Williams, and those words ring true.   Fear is of Satan and it is fear that drives so much of the bad things that are happening in our world today.   Fear is what keeps us from being the good neighbor that Jesus Christ taught us to be, it keeps us from reaching across cultural barriers, gender barriers, racial barriers, and poverty barriers of the homeless and ostracized . “Fear not” is in the Bible 365 times.   God’s promises teach us to be strong and confident ; the saying is “God’s got this”, if we let Him.   God sent us His Peace , Jesus Christ , to help us get through the storms , the failures , the pain , the hurt of this world . It is that Peace that is the biggest promise of all, hope in the salvation given through the sacrifice of His Son, Jesus .   Our faith in Jesus and God is the salvation of our soul.   Where we spend eternity after this life depends on that f