Pastor John

Gary’s song in Wednesday night’s meeting wonderful with all the ladies singing. And I loved the way you put the scriptures together about Acts.  Someone who does not know the Old Testament would be able to understand more of Acts the way you laid it out for us.  What a joy it is to understand what happened in Acts chapter 2: the beginning of a nation, a nation being born in one day!!   Us!!

Thank you, John

Stuart

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http://www.goingtojesus.com/text/books/fatherandson.pdf

Pastor John,

Last night’s meeting was so good! Made me so thankful to be one of His, to be born into that new nation!  We were reading about our ancestors:). Gary’s song “

​A​sk of ​Me” really touched me, too.  ​I love reading verse by verse with the lessons and scriptures about each verse.  I feel like I walk away knowing Jesus better.  But I also think reading the ​Father and ​the Son book has opened the door to better understanding and appreciating what I’m reading.

​Very good 🙂

Lee Ann​

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Pastor John,

​The Acts reading felt so good and refreshing.  It was an honor!

Thank you.

Billy M.

From Brother Haskell:

 

 

Hi John,

​We are so blessed with all the wonderful songs that Jesus has given us, and Joel’s voice has gotten so strong. ​ I loved hearing Aaron and Abby singing together​. It sounded so good!! ​ ​ I really like how you ​color-coded the ​Introduction to the Acts of the Apostles in red​,​ green ​,​ black​,​ and blue. ​It sure made a differen​ce​ in how we looked at what was going on ​ after Jesus was raised from the dead until Pentecost​. ​ ​It made it very simple as you were reading over it ​. T​hank you​,​ John. They were people just like us ​,​ chosen by God to hear and feel his spirit​,​ and know his ways!!!​

Stuart

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Pastor John,

I certainly don’t want this to sound like a “compliment” or “flattery”. . .

I just have to express how much I loved that lesson, and the fact that you have taken the time, energy and thought to make it such a detailed study for your lambs and sheep. The color scheme was wonderful, just wonderful… very enlightening! While you were walking us through the lesson, I felt your hand in mine (or Jesus’ hand, probably), truly, as if I were a child just eating up the truth of God with joy and confidence. It gave me such peace today.

Love,

Brad

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Pastor John,

Tonight was so good! I was expecting to jump right into Acts, but to get all that background was wonderful! It made it alive. How blessed we are to have God’s life!

Carrie

PS I loved that Acts 2:4 was both red and blue print! 🙂 )

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John,

Your message last night on the introduction to Acts was extremely good.  The manner in which you broke things down made it very clear as to the spiritual condition of the apostles prior to Pentecost.  Even though they were told by some that Jesus had risen and was alive they still could not believe.  And as you pointed out in the scriptures, they even saw Jesus before he ascended into heaven, yet still had doubts.

Today I was thinking about when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon back in 1969.  I was 18 years old at the time.  I remember sitting in front of the TV at a friend’s house watching this extraordinary event take place.  Our eyes were glued to this amazing scene as it was broadcast around the world.

As you probably remember, many doubted what they saw, and I assume they counted the whole thing as some sort of governmental propaganda or political scheme.  The truth is, even though I believed it happened I cannot be completely sure it actually did because the experience was based primarily on what we were seeing and hearing on the TV.

Your teaching on the introduction to Acts, however, is entirely convincing because we have had first-hand experiences similar to the apostles.  We know what it feels like to doubt what we at times have seen and felt.  I heard all my young life that God and Jesus were real and worthy to be worshiped.  I believed what I was told the best I could but there was always room for doubt.  But, when Jesus made himself real to me one night by pouring out the sweet holy Ghost there was no longer any room for doubt!  When one experiences the power of God it is not hard to believe what we read in the scriptures such as what you taught last night.

We are so blessed to know these things are true.  Thank you for taking the time to explain what the scriptures actually say and for the many other things you pass on to us from Jesus.

Tom

 

Good morning John,

I had a really neat experience this morning.

When I was about 12 years old, I had a motorcycle wreck, and I broke the tip of my ring finger on my left hand and two of my toes. Ever since then , my fingernail has grown a little crooked, but otherwise has been fine. In the last year or so, it has started acting up, aching and feeling tender at times, and whenever I would bump it on something, it would throb with pain for several minutes. Well, this morning I was getting ready for work and making the bed, and I hit that finger on the back of the bed, and it started throbbing with pain. I asked Jesus if he would touch my finger and take the pain away and the achiness that I’d been having in the finger. As I was talking to the Lord and looking at my finger, the pain instantly disappeared! It was like the pain just “popped” right out of it, and it has felt just fine since then.

So then, I came into work and was doing some work in the lab, and when I started unscrewing a cap from a bottle, I remembered that I had also been having some pain in the muscle/tendon between my left thumb and forefinger (on the same hand as the finger that Jesus had just touched a little earlier). I could feel the pain and the weakness in my thumb that sometimes makes it difficult to grasp things tightly with that hand. So, I started praying again, and I thought, “Lord, you just touched my finger . I know you can do the same thing with my thumb if you want to.” And he did! I started bending my thumb back & forth, and grabbing objects on my bench, and there was no pain or discomfort, and the normal strength in my hand was there.

Vince

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Very thankful for the way the Lord is encouraging us lately to believe in his power to heal.  He has done so much for us, and he keeps doing it!

jdc

 

Hey Pastor John!

The meetings this past weekend were so good ​!​ I love when you preach​,​ and ​I feel like ​I am being stirred up down deep in ​my soul. After the meetings​,​ I came home and began asking the Lord to check me. I started praying and I asked the Lord to help me, to clean me and make me pure ​, to help me ​occupy in my place and to help the body. I wasn’t sure what to pray and what to ask for I needed the Lord to help me. After that I started reading in Psalms 19. It was so good, I loved this.

​Psalm ​19:

7 The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.

8 The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.

9 The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.

10 More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

11 Moreover by them is thy servant warned: and in keeping of them there is great reward.

12 Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from secret faults.

13 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.

14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.”

I felt like the Lord was helping me pray. Showing me what to pray for, what to desire so that I may be acceptable in His sight. It felt good, clean and holy. I love the hope in Jesus. That He hears us and helps us.

Michelle

 

 

Pastor John,

Our translation ​of the Old and New Testament books has a link to it on this web site.  Look under ‘G’.

http://www.biblereadersmuseum.com/BibleLink6.html

djc

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Thanks for the notice, Damien.