Pastor John Collins, Evangelist, Thought of the Day

Your two year old child plays with the key fob to your car and triggers the alarm system so that you can’t get the doors open.   When you do find someone to fiddle with the locks and get it open, you find that the engine won’t start because the alarm system is still enabled.   You are now late for work.   You go to use your cell phone call a tow truck and your employer to find that the cell towers are not working today where you live.   The next day, you discover that the water company has shut off the water main for an emergency pipe break and it is uncertain how long it will take.   Someone totals your husband’s car.   It seems like the bad just keeps going on and on.     You can choose to wallow in self-pity and tell your story to all your friends, post it on Facebook, or you can choose to give to Jesus in prayer, draw a line in the sand right then, and start fresh   in your heart.   Bad day “Through the Lord’s mercies ...

PASTOR JOHN COLLINS, EVANGELIST: ON AND OFF? “Now Jesus sat opposite the treasury and saw how the people put money into the treasury. And many who were rich put in much. Then one poor widow came and threw in two mites, which makes a quadrans. So He called His disciples to Himself and said to them, ‘Assuredly, I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all those who have given to the treasury; for they all put in out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all that she had, her whole livelihood.’” Mark 12: 41-44. (NKJV).  You cannot only be a Christian when things are going good in your life and you cannot only be a Christian towards those whom you like and approve of . The whole point of being a Christian is to be Christ-like and believe me, Jesus was kind to those whom He knew to be sinners and those whom He would not approve of, which is the reason that He was sent to earth , to save those who were lost . Jesus gave all that He had down...