Pastor JD Johnson Blog

November 19, 2010

2010-11-19T07:20:00.000-08:00

We greet you in Divine love, our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!!
Wow it has been an awesome year, we are winding down 2010. God has been truly good to us!!! So I will get back to my blog!!! Love you guys and keep us covered in your prayers!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Sunday January 17, 2010

2010-01-19T13:29:00.000-08:00

Top of the Afternoon to you!!!!

We greet you in Divine Love, Our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!!!

Well I don't even know where to start!!! Let me first say Happy New Year to you all and can I please remind you that 2010 is the year of fulfill promises!! Whatever the Lord promise to you, it shall come to pass in this year 2010!!!!

The New Beginning Church is a bless church. The church that we were using for our baptismal service has given us, yes you heard me correctly, has given us their facility!!! WOW look at God!!! He is Jehovah Jireh-The Lord who will provide!!!!

We had our first service at church this past Sunday and we had 5 Sunday School classes. Did you hear what I said we had 5 Sunday School classes!!!!! The number of people at Sunday School was 39!!! God is doing a great thing in our Midst.

I preached from Deuteronomy 1:6-8 and my subject was it's time to move on!!!! New Beginning is now receiving what the Lord has promise!!! The word was powerful and awesome!!!

On Friday night January 15, 2010 Bishop E. Craig Wilson of the New Generation Fellowship and The Greater Macedonia Baptist Church was our guest for our consecration service and man he was awesome!!!!!

Please lets pray for our Brothers and Sisters over in Haiti!!!! Please keep us in your prayers as we endeavor to Save a Generation!!!!!
Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

December 27, 2009

2009-12-28T05:32:00.000-08:00

Top of the Morning to you,

We greet you in Divine love, our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven. Let me start this blog off with last Sunday's report, December 20, 2009, we started at 9:00am with New Member's Class and then our Sunday School started at 9:30am. Class #1 won the Banner Offering and Class #2 won the Banner Attendance. Our Worship started at 11:00am Pastor Brandon Mays and the Greater Miracle Christian Church was our very special guest.
Pastor Mays preached from John 5. The Lord used him in a mighty way!!!!! 2 more souls were added to the Body of Christ.

On Tuesday December 22, 2009 the Columbus/Phenix City Minister's Conference had service at The House of Mercy in Columbus, Georgia!!!! The House of Mercy is a homeless shelter, I had the opportunity to preach. My text came from John3:16 and my subject was "The Gift that keeps on Giving" we had an awesome time, let me say thank you to our President, Pastor David T. Holston for the opportunity. After we ministered we got a chance tour the facilities, man when I tell you that it was awesome. Now this is very important to me because when Katrina hit I was in the same boat. So it was very emotional for me!!!

On Friday December 25, 2009 we had our Christmas service, I preached from Isiah 9:6 and my subject was "Merry Christmas" we had an awesome time and service was just for 1 hour!!!
On this Sunday past December 27, 2009 we began our day at 9:00am with New Member's Class and our Sunday School started at 9:30am. This morning my class, class #4 won the Banner Offering and Banner Attendance class. Our special guest today was Pastor Bernard Rose and the Kingdom Word Church of Phenix City, Alabama. Pastor Rose preach from Luke and his subject was, "Divine Direction, Reposition Yourself" Man when I tell you that we had an awesome time!!! What a word from the Lord!!!

My New Orleans Saints lost 13-2 but we are still Superbowl bound baby!!!!! Who Dat!!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

December 13, 2009

2009-12-16T10:31:00.000-08:00

Top of the Afternoon to everyone,

We greet you in Divine Love, our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!!

We started this Sunday off with New Member's Class at 9:00am and Sunday School started at 9:30am. As usual our Sunday School was great!! Class #2 won the Banner attendance and Class #4 won the Banner offering. Way to go Sunday School Ministry for doing an consistently awesome job.

Service started promptly at 11:00am. This Sunday was the Sunday our Male Chorus ministered in song, and of course I sang with that group so I got a chance to lead a song(ROTFL).

This Sunday one of the Son's of the New Beginning Church was licensed into the Gospel Ministry. If you will help me congratulate and pray with and for Minister Marcus K. Scott as he starts this journey!!!! Does of us who have been called to this assignment knows the difficult road ahead, but we also know who promises never to leave nor forsake us!!! Minister Scott preached from John 3:14-18 "The Ultimate Gift" I must say I am so proud of him and his faithfulness to the Lord!!! He did an awesome job!!!! Pastor Scott has been with us for the past 4 years and the last 2 years he has been our Youth Pastor, our Youth Ministry has grown from 12 Children to over 50!!! We now have a full operational Youth Ministry!!!!

Service ended with me giving him his Minister's license!!! Well keep praying for us as we are in our Rest Month. We want see one another until Next Sunday!!!!!

P.S. Let me remind you that the New Orleans Saints beat the Atlanta Falcons and we are still undefeated!!!! 13-0!! Who Dat Baby!!!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Sunday December 6, 2009

2009-12-10T07:00:00.000-08:00

Top of the Morning to you,

We greet you in Divine Love, our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!!

We started this Sunday at 9:00am with New Member's Class and went right into our Sunday School period!! Our Sunday School lesson was The lineage of David coming from Ruth 4:13-17 and Matthew 1:1-6. Thank God for our Kinsman-Redeemer- Jesus Christ!!! Well class #4(My Class) won the Banner Offering and Class #2 won the Banner Attendance.

We went to the Linwood Baptist Church for our Baptismal Service, thank God that he is still sending souls to the New Beginning Church, Thank you Pastor Hester and the Linwood Church for your hospitality!!!

We got back to New Beginning for our last Lord Supper Service of the year 2009, New Beginning was present and we had an awesome time, I preached from Genesis 25:19-23 and the Message was, How to obtain the Promise!!! I shared with our Church Family that 2010 is the year of fulfilled promises, whatever the Lord promised you it shall come to pass in 2010!!! Man when I tell you the Lord moved in a might way, it was a tremendous blessing!!!!

Well please keep us lifted in prayers!!! We are in our REST MONTH so we want see one another until next Sunday!!!!

Oh yeah ya'll I Got to to tell you this, the New Orleans Saints are 12-0!!! (LOL) Who Dat Baby!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

November 30, 2009

2009-11-30T08:46:00.000-08:00

Top of the Morning to you!!!!

We greet you in Divine Love, our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!!!

I know it has been a long time since I have posted on my blog, but this has been a very busy month for me. If you don't know I am a die hard New Orleans Saints fan and we have been winning and I have been travelling back and forth home to watch theses games!!! so here we go let me catch you up!!!!

I've had to preach a revival in Indianapolis, Indiana at the Gabriel Missionary Baptist Church, Pastor Kevin Russell was the Host Pastor, and let me tell you the power of the Lord met us in that place. Back here in Georgia I travelled to Rome Georgia for the General Missionary Baptist Convention of Georgia State Convention I am thrilled to announce that we have paid off our 1.8 million debt and I am so proud of our President, President Clearance Moore!!!

I started a series at the New Beginning Missionary Baptist Church on "Relationships" because the divorce rate is high in the church!!! I believe it has been a tremendous blessing to our house!!!

Our Thanksgiving Service was a tremendous blessing, the family showed up and showed out!!! Well December is our "Rest Month" so there will be no Bible Classes or meetings going on!!! This is the time we spend with our families!!! So of course I will be in New Orleans, LA!!!!

I love ya'll very much keep praying for us!!!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Sunday November 1, 2009

2009-11-02T04:28:00.000-08:00

Top of the Morning to you,

We greet you in Divine Love, we pray that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!!!

Let's first start with Brother Samuel David Carter. Brother Carter was put up for appointment for a Deacon. On Friday he went through the examination process that morning at 10:00am. The examining council was Pastor Xavier Maddox of the 24th Street Baptist Church, Pastor Albert Suggs of the Parkwood Full Gospel Baptist Church, Pastor Vincent Wilson of the New Life Baptist Church, and Pastor Quinton Dorsey of the Concord Baptist Church. Thank you brethern for supporting the work that God has assigned to my hands.

Well they examine Brother Carter from 10:00am to about 11:45am. Brother Carter passed his examination with a 86.4 score.

The appointment service was at 7:00pm where Pastor Xavier Maddox and the 24th Street Baptist Church was our guest. The word came from Luke 14:28 and the subject was "The Cost" The Service was great as usual. I've got to say to Deacon Samuel David Carter that I am so very proud of what God is doing in your life!!!

Now let me deal with the title of this service, it was call an appointment service. I believe the present day church is so out of order!! We have been using the term ordination service for Deacons which puts them on the same level as the Pastor/Preacher and its not so. In Acts 6 it says that we may appoint over this business. Which simply means that the Deacons serve out of the office of the Pastor! Watch this, the Deacons serve the Pastor, not the church. The Pastor serves the church!!!! Preach JD!!!!!!!

On Saturday from 5:00pm to 10:00pm we Hallelujah Night! Hallelujah night was an alternative to Halloween. Now we as believers do not participate in Halloween but I was always taught that if you can take something away from the children you need to put something in place to replace it. Well to my surprise Pastor Scott(our Youth Pastor) and his team did an awesome job!!! They had bobbing for apples, pin the tail on the donkey, dart boards, PlayStation 2, the Wii, Etc... We even played spades and Sister Amanda Peoples and I ran the spades table!!!(You Go Boy) Now there was a Pie tossing event where members paid to toss pies at Pastor Scott and I. Can you believe a member paid $20.00 to toss pies at me. It was $1.00 a toss!!! We had so much fun!!!!!

We started this Sunday off at 9:00am with New Member's class, and Sunday School started at 9:30am. The Sunday School lesson was, The Beauty of Nonconformity coming from I Peter 1:13-25. We had an awesome time! Class #4 my class won the Banner Offering and Banner Attendance today!! We had a baptism this morning!!! The Lord is still doing an awesome work at the New Beginning Church!!!

Service started at 11:00am and I saw some new faces in the choir and they did an awesome job!! This month of November I am teaching a Series on Family and Relationships. We have a lot of engaged couples that are planning to get married in 2010. So we want to make sure that they are well prepared! 3 people came to the Lord this morning, look at God!!

Anyway wanted to do my blog earlier today, because I'm about to get on the road and head home to watch the New Orleans Saints beat up on the Atlanta Falcons!!! Who Dat Baby!!!! Please pray for my safe travel and return, plus I get to go and see my mommy and nem!!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Sunday October 25, 2009

2009-10-27T12:37:00.000-07:00

Top of the Afternoon to you!!!

We greet you in Divine Love, our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!!!

We started this Sunday off at 9:00am with new member's class. Sunday School started promptly at 9:30am. I am so excited that our Sunday School is growing. Please help me welcome a new teacher to our Sunday School staff, Sister Paulette Gabriel is teaching our babies,(class #1) 0-6 years of age. Of course Class #1 won our Banner attendance and Class #3(Teen Class) won our Banner Offering.

Of course this was our 4th Sunday Worship which means our youth were in charge of the service. Everybody did an awesome job. Our Youth Dance Ministry dance today and did an awesome job. I was so very proud to see little Brother Brondon Harris on the Dance Ministry, he did an awesome job.

Last week I concluded the series I had been preaching for the last two months, "Re-Laying the Foundations. So this morning I stood and gave the State of the Church Address. Of course I think it was beneficial to the family of the New Beginning Church, but we shall see if they acted on it.

That evening at 4:00pm we celebrated our 2nd year church anniversary. Pastor Farnsworth Coleman and the New Birth Outreach Ministries was our very Special Guest. Please let me thank God for Sister Jennifer Rudd and Sister Leona Brunson for doing an awesome job of leading our congregation in this special event. I am so Godly proud of both of these young ladies.

The New Birth Outreach praise team brought our church to another level with the Praise & Worship. Our Deacons, the Deacons of the New Beginning Church did an awesome job with the Devotional Period(You go Brother Harris).

There was a part in the service where we remembered to persons who were apart of this ministry and have passed from this life, Sister Mary Bolling and Sister Shayla Owens. We lit candles for them and prayed with and for their families. We also had a part in the service where we recognize the generations in our church. Persons who were born before 1946 wore black, persons born from 1946 to 1965 wore brown, persons born from 1966-1982 wore grey and persons born from 1983- present wore red. We played a gospel song that was popular in that generation in let those generations represent their generation it was a blast!!!(thanks Sister Harris).

Pastor Coleman preached from I Chronicles 29:1-3,7,18-19 and his subject was: "A pattern for provision for the vision!! He told us that we have to use God's pattern as our blueprint!!! It was an on time word for the house.

After service we sat and ate in fellowship with one another!!!

Thank you Lord for another year!!! If you would like to get a CD or DVD of our 2nd Year Church Anniversary leave your mailing address on here and we will ship one out to you!!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Sunday October 18, 2009

2009-10-19T08:10:00.000-07:00

Top of the Morning to you,

We greet you in Divine love, our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!!

Let me first start off with our weekend, on Friday Night October 16, 2009, our church was on program to host revival at the Greater Miracle Christian Church, in Columbus, Georgia. Pastor Branddon Mays was the Host Pastor. Rev. Patrick Ivey of Stone Mountain, Georgia was the evangelist. Pastor Ivey preached from Ezra 8:21-23,31-32 and his subject was enough of talking the talk and not walking the walk!! Man when I tell you it was an on time word, you had to be there to understand!!! Our mass choir the Voices of New Beginning did an awesome job as usual!!!

On Saturday I got up early to get to our District Convention, The 4th District Convention of General Missionary Baptist Convention of Georgia, Inc. The convention was being held at the Gethsemane Baptist Church in Columbus, Georgia. Pastor Hawthorne Reed was the Host Pastor. Listen when I tell you that if you did not make it to this year convention, you missed a tremendous blessing. I was able to attend the Minister's Division, and I must commend Pastor Corey Neal of the Greater Peace Baptist Church and his staff for doing an awesome job this year in our Division. The Division was inspiring and uplifting!! Pastor Kennedy from Lanett, Alabama was off the chain.

Alright on Sunday morning we started at 9:00am with New Member's class and at 9:30am we went right into our Sunday School hour, let me say to Sister Nakita Bell the Superintendent of our Sunday School, that she is doing an awesome job. We now have 4 classes, our Sunday School is growing!!!!! The lesson this morning was: "Pleading for Mercy" the print text came from Mark 7:24-30 it was an awesome lesson!!!

Worship started this morning at 11:00am well the weather changed outside so it was a bit cold and our attendance this morning for worship was down, but those of us who did show up for worship had an awesome time!! Our choir blessed us in song and the Word went forward!!
I close out the series,"When the Foundations be Destroyed what can the righteous do?" I preached from Matthew 16:18 and Acts 2:47b. The subject was "Let the church be the Church"

Well its been a busy weekend for me so I am debating if I want to travel to Houston, Texas. Bishop I. V. Hilliard is having his pastoral conference this week, preachers have been telling me his conference is one of the most informative conferences. So pray for me as I contemplate this decision!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Sunday October 11, 2009

2009-10-12T12:24:00.000-07:00

Top of the afternoon to you,

We greet you in Divine love and our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven.

We began this Sunday with New Member's class at 9:00am and we started our Sunday School at 9:30am. The Sunday School lesson was Restored to Wholeness coming from Mark 5:1-13, 18-20. The lesson was a blessing. Our Banner attendance went to class #1 and our Banner offering went to the adult class!!

We had Baptism this morning with 2 souls going down in the liquid grave. We thank God for the Linwood Baptist Church and Pastor Marion Hester who allowed us to use their baptismal pool.
Service started promptly at 11:00am, now remember we just finished our Dunamis Conference "09" on Friday not and I must tell you that it was an awesome conference and Apostle Lionel Catchings of the Christ Temple of Atlanta Church was on time with the word from the Lord.
The reason I share with you about Dunamis is the fact when we started at the 11:00am hour church was full!!! Normally after revival folk are tired and stay home on Sunday but not at the New Beginning Church, we showed up and showed out.

Our Male Chorus was in charge of the song service. Thank you Brother Richard Harris for your dedication with the Male Chorus, we did an awesome job.(which means I sing with the Male Chorus)(Smiling)

The word for the house came from I Kings 8:10-11 and the subject as we continued the series of When the foundations be destroyed what can the righteous do?, was A Church that recognizes the Cause and Effect of the Glory!!! Listen when I tell you that the message was on time and awesome, if you were not there you missed a tremendous blessing!

The 1st point was there has to be structure(order). Its something about black folk that we don't let order. The 2nd point was there has to be prioritization, we have to learn to prioritize. The 3rd point was parallazation.

After service we took pictures for our Church Anniversary that will take place on Sunday October 25, 2009 at 4:00pm.

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Dunamis Conference 09 Thursday & Friday

2009-10-10T16:13:00.001-07:00

Top of the afternoon to you,

We greet you with Divine Love, our prayer is that you and your ministry are walking under an open heaven!!!

I do apologize I did not get back on here before today to do Thursday and Friday night! So here we go Thursday our classes started at 6:00pm, the Men was in their session with Deacon James Brown of the Greater Shady Grove Baptist Church, the Women were in their session with Pastor Zelbra Biggers and Pastor Quinton Dorsey of the Concord Baptist Church taught our Youth Ministry!!! Our theme was "Moving from Membership to Discipleship." The classes were so very awesome!

On Thursday Night Apostle Catchings preach from the topic "Structure." He stress the importance of having Order in the House of the Lord. The message was so powerful that it was so quiet in the house that I knew our family members were listening and receiving the instructions for our house.

On Friday Night Apostle preached about stages(Platforms). Pastor Leo Cyrus and the Wynton Hill Baptist Church was our guest. He talked about 4 points. The first was have a vision(dreams) of course this sermon dealt with the story of Joseph in the book of Genesis. The second was a pit, a place where the Lord will have you placed to develop you, mature, equipped you. The third point was Integrity, he stated that the church no longer has integrity(WOW). We don't do what we say we will do!!!!!! The last point was perseverance, be able to go through some difficult days in remain faithful!!!!

Listen our church was on a fast praying for a word from the Lord and thank God that we receive it!!!!

Can't wait until tomorrow to stand and declare the Word of the Lord!!!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Wednesday October 7 Dunamis Conference 09

2009-10-08T04:45:00.000-07:00

Top of the Morning to you,

We greet you in Divine love, our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!!!

OH MY GOD!!!! Wednesday night kicked off our Dunamis Conference 09. Classes began at 6:00pm with Men's class, Women's class, and a Youth class. Our theme this year is "Moving from Membership to Discipleship" I tell you the truth it was awesome!!!!

The service started at 7:00pm, our host church was Pastor Vincent L. Wilson and the New Life Missionary Baptist Church. Their Male Chorus did an awesome job ministering in song.
Our Revivalist for the week, Apostle Lionel Catchings of the Christ Temple Church of Atlanta, GA. was off the chain!!

He preached from Philippians 3:13 and his subject was "Stretch" I tell you the truth the Holy Ghost moved in a mighty way!!! Can't wait to see what happens on tonight!!! If you are here in Columbus, Ga you ought to press your way tonight to be in the house!!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Sunday October 4, 2009

2009-10-05T04:51:00.000-07:00

Top of the Morning to you!!

We greet you in Divine Love our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!!

We started this morning off at 9:00am with New Member's class, and this Sunday we started Sunday School at 9:30am because we had a baptism this morning. The Sunday School lesson was: "In Search of a Leader" coming from Mark 1:35-45. Of course Sunday School was awesome as usual. The Banner Attendance went to class #1 our Children's class and the Banner Offering class went to class #3 our Adult class(my class, smiling).

Due to the Baptismal Service we started service at 11:30am and everything was well, our choir did an awesome job ministering in song and the word went forward with power and demonstration.

Still preaching from the series: "When the Foundations be destroyed what can the righteous do" I came from I Peter 2:9 and my subject this morning was: "A church with a Purpose" The word was awesome and 4 more souls were added to the kingdom. God is so AWESOME!!!!!!

Listen this week is the week of our Dunamis Conference 09, we will have prayer service Monday and Tuesday at 7:00pm to 8:00pm. Wednesday the conference start at 6:00pm with classes for, Men, Women and Youth. At 7:00pm starts the preaching service and our guest for this year is Apostle Lionel Catchings of the Christ Temple Church of Atlanta, GA.

This Conference will be a tremendous blessing to you, so I encourage you to come out and receive what the Lord has in store for you!!!

We are fasting for our conference if you are interested in getting involve. Our fast is No meats and only water as our beverage. Our prayer times are 10:00am and 10:00pm. We are praying for the New Beginning Missionary Baptist Church, Dunamis Conference 09, that the Lord would send more men to our church, for the President of the United States of America, and for me the Senior Pastor/Teacher.

Let me say to a Friend and brother Pastor and Lady Bernard T. Rose congratulations. This morning at 8:00am I was able to go and shared with them at their very first worship service and I tell you Pastor Rose preached the word of God. The name of the new church is Kingdom-Word Church in Phenix City, Alabama. Lets keep him and his assignment lifted up in prayer!!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Sunday September 27,2009

2009-09-28T05:53:00.000-07:00

Top of the Morning to you,

We greet you in Divine Love our Prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven.

We started this morning with our New Member's Class at 9:00am, and our Sunday School started at 10:00am. The Lesson this morning was: "Overcoming Problems" Nehemiah 2:5, 11-20. Sunday School as usual was awesome. The banner attendance went to class #1 our children's class and the banner offering went to class #3 our adult class(my class)

Service started promptly at 11:00am. This was our Youth Sunday so the Youth Ministry was in charge of the service. Our Junior Deacons did an awesome job with the devotion, our Youth Choir did an awesome job with the song service, and our Youth Dance Ministry, did an awesome job as usual. I must say we have an awesome Youth Ministry!!! Keep up the great work Pastor Scott and your team!!!!!

I'm still preaching the Series, "When the Foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do" I came from I Samuel 30:1-8, 18-19 and the sermon title was A Church that Recovers All!! While David was absent with the army of Achish, the Amalekites invaded Ziklag, and burn it with fire, and carried away captive David's wives and the wives of his men. The men gets angry with David and wanted to stone him, but the bible says he encouraged himself in the Lord!!!!!
Have you ever been there, where you couldn't talk to anyone, the people you thought were on your side is now talking about you!!! Can I just tell you to encourage yourself!!!! God did not bring you this far to leave you, weeping may endure for a night but JOY is coming in the morning!!!! (SHUCKS NOW) Don't make me preach!!!!

The word went forth in a mighty way this morning!!! Three more souls were added to the kingdom!!!!!

Pastor Daniel Thomas the Pastor of the New Life Missionary Baptist Church of Marvin, AL was in the house. He is one of my sons in the ministry.

At 4:00pm Brother Richard Harris in our Men's Ministry had a Pew Rally! Pastor Albert Suggs and the Parkwood Full Gospel Baptist Church was our special guest. Pastor Suggs word came from I Kings 17:8-9 and His subject was: "Fear not, God is more than Enough" He bless the house tremendously!!!

After Service I was rushing home to see the New Orleans Saints beat the Buffalo Bills!!! Who Dat talking about beating them Saints!!!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Sunday September 20, 2009

2009-09-21T06:43:00.000-07:00

Top of the Morning to you,

We greet you in Divine Love, our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven.

This Sunday started with New Member's Class at 9:00am and Sunday School at 10:00am. Of course our Sunday School as doing awesome! Class #1 our children class won the banner attendance, and Class #3(my class) our adult class won the banner offering!

Service started promptly at the 11:00am hour, I am still preaching the series: "When the Foundations be destroyed what can the Righteous do?" This morning my text came from Isaiah 6:1-5 any my subject was: Dealing with the Man in the Mirror! The word went forth powerfully and 2 souls responded to the call!!!! Hallelujah

At 3pm one of the sons of the house, Brother Scott and I traveled to our Moderator's church, Pastor E. Merle Brown and The Locust Hill Missionary Baptist Church to hear Deacon Carlton Williams preach his initial sermon.

At 4pm was our choir, The Voices of New Beginning, anniversary! Let me tell you something blog world, God has tremendously bless the New Beginning Missionary Baptist Church with an awesome choir!! They marched in with all their white on(well Brother Harris just walked)(LOL) and may I tell you the looked MARVELLOUS!!!!

It was just a sang out for their anniversary but it was awesome, The Raspberry Singers from the 4th Street Missionary Baptist Church was present. The Carver Senior High School Gospel Chorus was present, and Pastor Vincent Ellison of the Shady Grove Baptist Church of Hurtsoboro, Alabama was present.

Can I tell you something Pastor Vincent Ellison blessed us in song that it was ridiculous!!! I mean totally insane, nobody should be able to sing like that!!! Man I tell you what he better be thankful that he is living in this generation because singing like that, he would have to be ducking form some purses, bibles, hymnals and hats, because granma nem would clear a couple of pews listening to that man sing. Keep up the good work Pastor Ellison!!!!

Sister Tina Harris who is the President of our Music Ministry, thank you for leading your ministry with excellence I am so very proud of you and the Voices!!!

Well got to run but will see you next week!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Sunday September 13, 2009

2009-09-15T04:53:00.000-07:00

Top of the Morning to you,

We greet you in Divine, our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!! This Sunday we started with New Member's Class at 9:00am. Sunday School got started at the 10:00am hour. Class #1, our children won the Banner Offering and Banner Attendance this morning.

Our Worship experience started promptly at 11:00am. Our new male chorus was in charge of the music this morning and I need to let the brothers know, that they did an awesome job on this morning. I continue to preach from the series, "When the Foundations are being destroyed what can the righteous do?" The text this morning came from Mark 2:1-5. My subject today was, "Teamwork" It was an on time word that blessed the house!!!

That afternoon we went to the Greater Miracle Christian Church, Pastored by, Pastor Branddon Mays. Where they had their building dedication. We had an awesome time there!!!!

We now have a website, please check it out at newbeginningbaptistchurch@cwwsites.com. Tell me what you think about it!!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Sunday September 6, 2009

2009-09-07T06:30:00.000-07:00

We greet you in Divine Love, our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!!!

We started this Sunday at 9:00am with New Member's class and Sunday School started at 10:00am. I am so proud of our Sunday School Ministries because it is growing tremendously. I have to say that today the Adult Class(the class that I teach) has won both the Banner Attendance and the Banner Offering!!! Way to go class!!!

Worship service started promptly at 11:00am. This was our Lord's Supper service. We had 5 candidates that went down in the Liquid grave, so we gave them their new Birth Certificates(Baptism Certificates) and Bibles. The choir did an awesome job as usual!!!

I am still preaching from the series, "When the Foundations Be destroyed, what can the Righteous do." I came from Revelation 2:8-11, I started the series with 1) We must become Transformers. 2) We must get back to our first love. and today my subject was, "Be faithful unto Death"!!! The word went forth powerfully.

We served the Lord's supper to the new candidates and to the rest of the family and called it a day!!! See you at the National Baptist Convention in Memphis, Tennessee next week.

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Sunday August 30, 2009

2009-08-31T05:29:00.000-07:00

Top of the morning to you,

We greet you in Divine Love, our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!!

We started this morning off with New Members class at 9:00am and then went right into our Sunday School hour. Let me say to our Sunday School Superintendent Sister Nakita Bell, Thank you for doing an awesome job with our Sunday School. We had Sunday School attendance month this month which made our attendance at Sunday School spike. Sunday School attendance month is when every member of our church make a special effort to commit themselves to Sunday School. Hopefully that commitment will continue even after the month is over. Our Sunday School lesson was The Promise of Life. We had an awesome time. The Banner attendance went to class #1 which is our children class and the Banner offering went to class #3 which is our adult class(the class I teach).

Worship service started promptly at 11:00am, our mass choir was in charge, The Voices of New Beginning, they did an awesome job in setting the atmosphere. I continued the series of: "When the Foundations are being destroyed what can the righteous do" I came from Revelation chapter 2 verses 1-4, the sermon was entitled getting back to our first love!!!

Man when I tell you the Lord showed up and showed out, it was a high time at service and a wonderful experience. 2 more souls were added to the church family.

Please continue to keep us lifted up in prayer as we continue to Win the Lost at any Cost!!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Sunday August 23, 2009

2009-08-24T05:53:00.000-07:00

Top of the morning to you,

We greet you in Divine Love, our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven. Let me first start off with last Wednesday night Bible class. We started off with prayer service at 6:00am and New Members Class. Bible Class started off at 7:00pm and again I am so proud of those members who constantly press their way to be in Bible Class. We are still studying the Vision of the House. We have 13 vision statements. We have covered the first two vision statements which are. 1) A Church that must fulfill the great commission. 2) A God-glorifying, Christ centered, Holy Spirit Empowered, people oriented church.
Bible Class was great as usual.

This Saturday we had our Youth Ministry meeting at 10:00am, they broke off at 10:30am to their different groups: Youth Choir, Youth Ushers, Junior Deacons and Youth Praise Dancers. I must tell you that I was very impressed to see our children being active in the Youth Ministry. That afternoon at about 4:00pm we took our Youth Ministry to Dave & Busters in Atlanta, Georgia. Man when I tell you we had a blast, it was off the chain!!!!! It was so fun, and can I tell you I brought my fun with me!!!(Smile)

Sunday started at 9:00am with New Members Class and then we with in to Sunday School at the 10:00am hour. Class #2 which is our teen class won the banner attendance and class #3 which is the adult class(the class I teach) won the banner offering. The lesson was awesome.
We started morning worship at the 11:00am hour, our Youth were in charge of service. The youth were really awesome!!!! I preached from Psalm 11:3 and Romans 12:2. I started this series last week, "When the Foundations are being destroyed, What can the righteous do?" Today I preached "Transformers". The word was awesome!!!!

At 6:00pm went to a friends fellowship service at New Life Missionary Baptist Church, Pastor Vincent L. Wilson. Pastor Branddon Mays of the Greater Miracle Christian Church was the speaker. We had an awesome time!!!! Please keep us lifted up in prayer!!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Sunday August 16,2009

2009-08-17T10:59:00.000-07:00

Top of the afternoon to you,

We greet you in Divine Love, our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven.

Let me first start with our Bible class that was held on Wednesday night. Again we are studying the series, "The Vision of the House" making sure that all disciples that worship at the New Beginning Church understand the assignment of our church. I'm excited that the family presses there way to be there.

On this past Friday we had our "Back to School Explosion" Pastor Quinton Dorsey was our speaker ministering to our children. Pastor Dorsey did an awesome job. We were able to give out free school supplies. Also on this Friday after service we had 5 souls to go down in the liquid grave. Hallelujah!!!!

On this Past Sunday Morning New Member's class went forth at 9:00am and then at 10:00am we started our Sunday School. Class #1(Children) won the banner attendance and Class #3(Adults) won the banner offering.

Service started promptly at 11:00am, as usual our choir did an awesome job. This Sunday I started a new series called, "Going back to the Basics" coming from Psalm 11:3 When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do? I think we all can agree that our world is Topsy Turvey, our world is in a mess, but if the church would take its rightful place we can save this generation!!!! Thank God for another soul being added to the kingdom.

At 3:00pm was our annual Men's day, Pastor Jeffrey Dancey of the Mount Moriah Baptist Church was our very special guest. He preached from Psalms 37:11 "The steps of a good man" The service was off the chain. We concluded our day with our associational music at the Mount Zion Baptist Church.

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Sunday August 9, 2009

2009-08-10T20:38:00.001-07:00

Top of the evening to you,

We greet you with Divine Love, our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven. We started this Sunday at 9:00am with New Member's class and our Sunday School started at 10:00am. Of course our Sunday School was a tremendous blessing, I am Proud to announce that we are in our Sunday School attendance month and can I tell you that class #1 won the banner attendance and banner offering!!! Oh Yeah Class #1 is our Children's Class.

Service started promptly at 11:00am and this Sunday was the introduction of our Male Chorus, listen our Male Chorus did an awesome job with our song service today(I sing in the Male Chorus).

The message came from Luke 24:36-40 and the title of the message was "Let me show you my Scars" the focus was on verse 40 and it says: When he had said this, He showed them His hands and His Feet.

We focused on that fact that all of has scars! This sermon was so powerful, that folk were being delivered from some past hurts and some secret things that had happen to them. 4 more souls were added to the kingdom of God!!! Praise he keeps on adding to the church.

At 3:00pm we had our Annual Youth Day, Our Youth Pastor, Brother Marcus Scott did an awesome job for our very 1st Youth Day. Let me thank Pastor Corey Neal and the Greater Peace Baptist Church and Pastor Vincent L. Wilson and the New Life Missionary Baptist Church for allowing their Youth Ministries to be apart of this special occasion.

We have a busy week this week on this Friday we will have our Back to School Youth Explosion on this Friday at 7:00pm where we will give out free school supplies, and then Sunday at 3:00pm is our Men's Day celebration!!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Sunday August 2, 2009

2009-08-03T10:37:00.000-07:00

Top of the Afternoon to you,

We greet you in Divine Love, my prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven.

We started this Sunday off at 9:00am with New Member's Class and our Sunday School started promptly at 10:00am. Our Sunday School was off the chain I am very proud to announce that we revamped our Sunday School. Now both the sons of the house are teaching a class along with me. Bro. Marcus Scott has the beginning class or class #1 which is the 0-12 age group, Minister Marvin Churchwell has the immediate class which is class #2 which is the 13-17 age group and I have the Adult Class which is class #3 which is 18up. Sunday School was a tremendous blessing. As we start this month of August this is our Sunday School attendance month where we encourage every member to come out to Sunday School, and every member make a special effort to be present and on time. The banner attendance went to class #1 and the banner offering went to class #3.

Our Morning worship started at the 11:00am hour and I just believe that everybody was ready to have an awesome experience in service today. The "Voices of New Beginning" song today and they were off the chain. The word came from Joshua 1:2 and the subject was "crossing over". Man God truly blessed the house, I mean folk went to shouting and running it was a blessing. Another soul was added to the kingdom.

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Sunday July 26, 2009

2009-07-31T06:15:00.000-07:00

Top of the Morning to you,

We greet you in Divine Love, our prayer is that you and your ministry are walking under an open heaven!!!! We started this Sunday off with New Member's class at 9:00am and Sunday School started at 10:00am. We had an awesome time at Sunday School, Class #1 which is our children's class ages 0-12 won the banner offering and banner attendance this Sunday!!! New Beginning is training up children!!!! Our Sunday Morning service started promptly at 11:00am. This was our youth Sunday so the youth were in charge of service. One of the Sons of the house preach this Sunday morning, Brother Marvin D. Churchwell, He preached Matthew 7 and dealt with being Judgemental, another soul was added to the Kingdom!!!!

At 3:00pm we had our very first "Homecoming" service, Pastor George Coefield and the Green Hill Missionary Baptist Church was our special guest. The service was off the chain. Green Hill Men's chorus blessed us in song. After service we had some Soul Food and good fellowship.

This Past Wednesday we started a new series in our Bible Class, We are Studying the Vision of the House. Which is the Vision for the New Beginning Church!!! One thing we tried to stress to all of the Disciples at New Beginning is that we are a purpose driven fellowship, where we are reaching people, building faith and equipping disciples!!!!

On this past Thursday our youth we are in charge at the Greater Peace Baptist Church, where my friend and brother Pastor Corey Neal is the Senior Pastor. Pastor Quinton Dorsey the Youth Pastor at the Concord Missionary Baptist Church was the guest speaker. Our Youth Ministry did an awesome job and Pastor Dorsey did an awesome job.

Please keep us in prayer as we are heading into the last part of this year and looking for GOD to do a greater work at the New Beginning Baptist Church!!!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Sunday July 19, 2009

2009-07-20T12:06:00.000-07:00

Top of the afternoon to you,

We greet you in Divine Love, We pray that you and your family are walking under an open heaven. We started this Sunday off at 9:00am with New Member's class in the fellowship hall. At 10:00am we went right into our Sunday School hour. Sunday school was a tremendous blessing!!! At 11:00am our morning worship kicked off. Our Adult choir was singing and they did a marvelous job as usual. For whatever reason I was so ready to preach the word today. My Text came from Deuteronomy 34:5 - Joshua 1:2a and the subject I preached was "Moses is Dead!!!!"

The word went forward to day in such a powerful way!!! Moses represents the past, the former, the old!!. So whoever is reading this blog that's your confirmation, your past is dead!!! You can't move forward living in the past!!!!

After this powerful word went forward 7 people came forward and united with our church family!!! God is still adding to the church!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Sunday July 28, 2009

2009-07-01T08:50:00.000-07:00

Top of the afternoon to you all,
We greet you in Divine Love, our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven.
Let me start this off that I just got back into town on this past Saturday and I am so exhausted, but I am truly glad to be back home. Let me first say to Lil Sister Christian Harris, our prayer's go out to you and your family on the passing of your father! Christain always remember that God is in total control.
When I got back Saturday of course we had our monthly leadership meeting, I meet with my leaders to make sure everything is running well in their particular ministries, and then I had to rush to the funeral of one our members loved ones. So I was still running soon as I got back to Georgia.
Sunday was fourth Sunday which means our children were in charge. We began at 9:00am with New Members Class and Sunday School started at 10:00am. Our Sunday School was a tremendous blessing.
Our Morning Worship started at 11:00am, our youth choir did an awesome job, our youth praise dance minister in dance, I mean the whole service was off the chain. Now this Sunday service was packed out, I don't know if they missed me when I was gone our what, but to see all of church family members did something to me. Anyway I'm drying my tears. I was glad to be back at the New Beginning Missionary Baptist Church.
This Sunday I preached from John chapter 4, and my subject was, "Come see a Man". I tell you God truly blessed the house with the word and 3 souls were added to the Kingdom!!!! PRAISE GOD!!!
My Birthday was Monday June 22 and because I was out of time I invited the church to come to my surprise Birthday Pool Party at my house. We had an awesome fellowship at the house. Can't wait till Bible Class.

PS Happy Father's Day (Belated) to all Fathers

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson

Wednesday June 17, 2009

2009-06-19T11:21:00.000-07:00

Top of the afternoon to you,

We greet you in Divine Love, our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven.

We started this Wednesday at 6:00pm with Prayer Service in the main sanctuary and New Member's class in the Fellowship Hall.

Bible Class started promptly at 7:00pm and we concluded the lesson of, "Getting God's Church back in order." of course we finish with the qualifications for the Pastors and the Deacons.

Our Discussion centered around Deacons being filled with the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost leads you back to the truth(The Word of God). So if He leads you back to the Word of God, why do Deacons constantly tells us they don't care what the bible says, this is the way we do this here at this church!!! Would love to here what you think?

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Sunday June 14, 2009

2009-06-19T11:08:00.000-07:00

Top of the afternoon to you,

We greet you in Divine Love, our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven.

This Sunday we started at 9:00am with New Member's class, Sunday School started at 10:00am. Sunday School was a tremendous blessing. Worship service started at the 11:00am hour. This Sunday was a very special Sunday for me, it marked my 23rd year of preaching the word of God. Yes I started this journey of proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ at the age of 12. Everybody was on post, the choir was off the chain, and I preached the Sermon that I preach 23 years ago, the 23rd Psalm.

My Subject was after 23 years the Lord is..... When I tell you that the Lord met us at the New Beginning Church, all I have to tell you is that you missed it. Another soul was added to the Kingdom of God and now we have 75 more souls to go to reach our goal for the year.

On this past Friday, we travelled to the Hidden Treasures Church of God in Christ in Richland, Georgia. Pastor Juan Lane was our host. We had a wonderful time in Richland and Leslie you truly blessed us with that solo!!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Wednesday June 10, 2009

2009-06-19T10:47:00.000-07:00

Top of the Afternoon to you,

We greet you in Divine Love, our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven. Prayer service started at 6:00pm in the Sanctuary with New Member's Class going on in the fellowship hall.

Bible Class started promptly at 7:00pm and the right side of our church was full with the disciples willing to be taught the word of God. Of course we are still teaching the series "Getting God's church back in order." As we started studying that deacons were not given by God, Acts 6:1-7, The Apostles(Pastors), because there arose a problem in the church, the Apostles(Pastors) put Deacons in place. The Word of God does not say, "the Business," it says "this business," which means the Deacons did what the Apostles told them to do. How far have we drifted from the word the Deacons are now telling the Pastors what to do. Bible Class was a tremendous blessing.

Please pray for us our church will be travelling to Richland, Georgia on Friday to the Hidden Treasures Church of God in Christ, Pastor Juan Lane.

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Sunday June 7,2009

2009-06-08T11:43:00.000-07:00

Top of the afternoon to you,

We greet you in Divine Love,our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open!! This Sunday started off at 9:00am with our New Member's Class, again the Lord is blessing us with souls for the Kingdom and they are attending this class so that they can participate in the ministries of the church. We started Sunday School at the 9:30am hour, of course Sunday School was a blessing.

Morning Worship started this Sunday at the 11:30am hour and man I tell you Worship was off the chain. The Choir was awesome and they song my new favorite song, WAIT!!! After the choir minister this song I was so ready to preach!!

As I stood this morning to break the bread of life, my text came from Luke 5:1-11 and the subject was "What do you do when you have failed?" The Points was: 1) Tell Jesus, 2) Do Exactly what he says 3) Worship Him.

The message was a timely word, I believe the house was tremendously blessed!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Wednesday June 3, 2009

2009-06-05T15:14:00.000-07:00

Top of the afternoon to you,
We greet you in Divine Love our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven.

This Wednesday we started at 6:00pm with prayer service in the main sanctuary and New Member's class in the fellowship hall. Bible Class started at 7:00pm and we are still studying, "Getting God's church back in order." Ephesians chapter 4. We shared with our class that God did not give deacons, that it was the Apostles who put Deacons in place, because the church was growing, deacons were given to serve the Apostles. In other words, the Deacons answer to the Pastors, not Pastors answering to the Deacon Board.

How did we get so out of order to where the appointed(Deacons) are telling the anointed(Pastors) what to do. Somebody answer that for me please!! I've heard deacons say, "revvvv we serve these people!!!! Nooooooooooo, the deacons work out of the office of the Pastor, and answer to the Pastor!!!!

Somebody tell me what do you think!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Sunday May 31, 2009

2009-06-05T15:00:00.000-07:00

Top of the afternoon to you,
We greet you in Divine Love, our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven.

This Sunday we started at 9:00am with our New Member's class and Sunday School started at 10:00am. Our Sunday School was a tremendous blessing. Service started at the 11:00am hour. Thank You New Beginning for going after souls these summer months. Our theme for this summer is Each one Reach one, we are believing God for more souls this summer!! Our Combine choir song today, that's our youth and adult choir making the Voices of New Beginning, and man when I tell you they were off the chain, trust me yall, they brought the house down.

We had a bunch of visitors this Sunday sharing with us, so our evangelistic thrust is working!!! Again visitors thank you so much for visiting our church, we pray that there was something said or done that would make you want to come back and visit us again, and when you come back please bring someone with you.

The word came from Genesis 22:1-2 and the subject was "How to tell God Yes" When you have been waiting on a promise and you finally get what you've been waiting for, and as you are enjoying the blessing, God comes and say do away with it!!! WOW!!!! The word was powerful and another soul was added to the family of New Beginning!!!!

Have you ever had a hard time telling God yes, share that moment with us!

That evening at 4:00pm our church travel to the Locust Hill Baptist Church in Midland, Georgia Pastor by our Moderator, Pastor E. Merle Brown. The Mount Calvary Association had a youth fellowship. Our Youth Praise Dancers, Youth Choir, Youth Drama and Youth Debater's had to perform and, I tell you that God has bless New Beginning Missionary Baptist Church with some of the greatest youth this side of heaven!!!

Let me say to our Youth Pastor, Brother Marcus Scott, and his committee, (Sister Leslie Johnson, Sister Nakita Bell, Brother Marvin Churchwell, Brother Rueben Burks, Sister Angela Long) thank you for doing an awesome job with our young people. I am so Godly proud of all of you!! Keep up the good work.

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Wednesday May 27, 2009

2009-06-05T14:52:00.000-07:00

Top of the Evening to you,

We greet you in Divine Love, our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!!!

Wednesday started off at 6:00pm with Prayer Service in the main sanctuary and new member's class in the fellowship hall. Bible Class started promptly at 7:00pm, we are still studying "Getting God's church back in order." We are still in Ephesians 4, we are dealing with God giving gifts to men. Those Gifts are Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors and Teachers.

Our Discussion talked about if God considered them gifts that he gave, why do we not honor and respect and cherish them. Would love to hear what you have to say.

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Sunday May 24, 2009

2009-05-29T09:12:00.000-07:00

Top of the afternoon to you,
We greet you in Divine Love, our prayer is that you and your ministry are walking under an open heaven.

This Sunday we started at 9:00am with New Member's class and Sunday School started at 10:00am. Our morning worship started promptly at 11:00am, this Sunday was our youth Sunday. The Junior Deacons did an awesome job for devotion and our youth choir was fantastic. I preached today from Matthew 16:18 and my subject was "The Church" today at 2:00pm we are dedicating our new worship facility and I wanted to give some Pastoral impartation to our family before the actual service!!! God bless the word that went forth and I do believe it was received by the family of New Beginning.

At 2:00pm was our Building dedication as we gave the facility back to the Lord. Our Speaker for the evening was Pastor Vincent L. Wilson of the New Life Baptist Church here in Columbus, Georgia. He came from Psalm #90, man when I tell you that Pastor Wilson preach, believe you me, Pastor Wilson showed out!!!!

Pastor E. Merle Brown of the Locust Hill Missionary Baptist Church our Moderator of the Mount Calvary Missionary Baptist Association brought us greetings from the association and Pastor Corey Neal of the Greater Peace Baptist Church brought us greetings on behalf of the 4th District President of the General Missionary Baptist Convention of Georgia. Service was awesome and refreshments were served.

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Wednesday May 20, 2009

2009-05-29T08:55:00.000-07:00

Top of the Afternoon to you,

We greet you in Divine Love, our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven. Let me first say thank you for those of you who read and follow this blog. Thanks for your interest, to the family of New Beginning let me say to you that I greatly appreciate you following along with the blog, but this is no substitute for you not coming to worship or Bible Class because you know it will be posted on the blog!!!(smile)

Anyway this Wednesday started at 6:00pm with prayer service in the main sanctuary and New Member's class in the fellowship hall. Of course the deacons and the deaconess did an awesome job with prayer service.

Bible class started at the 7:00pm hour, of course we reviewed the series "Getting God's church back in order" Those scriptures up to this point is Matthew 16:18, Hosea 4:6, Jeremiah 3:15, Romans 10:17, Romans 10: 14. So tonight we started the lesson in Ephesians 4: verse 1, It reads, I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called.

I believe this scripture was our discussion scripture for the entire class because it makes all of us look at our own selves. We broke this scripture down to worthy-means faithful or committed, vocation-means job, and called-means chosen. The discussion went something like this if Paul is telling you to be committed to the job that God has chosen you for how can you miss a Sunday? If you miss that Sunday who will do your job? WOW!!!! Great Discussion huh? Tell me what you think!!!

If God has chosen you for a specific job in the church and you are suppose to be committed to it, how can you not come to worship or bible study or Sunday School?

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Sunday May 17, 2009

2009-05-18T11:19:00.000-07:00

Top of the Afternoon to you,
We greet you in Divine Love, our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven. On Friday Night our church went to the revival at the Wynton Hill Baptist Church in Columbus, Georgia. Man let me tell you, Pastor Jonathan Carter was off the chain. He preached Psalms 124 and he talked about the snares being broken. It was a timely word for me so of course I got my praise on.
On Sunday Morning we began at 9:00am with New Member's Class and Sunday School started promptly at 10:00am. Our Sunday School lesson was great as usual, and the banner attendance went to Class #2 my class, which is the teen class, and the banner offering class went to Class #1 the Children's class.
This Sunday I had one of my friends come and share with us, now checked this out, On Wednesday night pass, someone shared with me that my friend lost his church(The Deacons), so I called him to encourage him, because I've been where he is, and I asked him does he have a place to preach on Sunday, he said no, and I asked him to come and share with our church family. Let me say this to all preachers who may be reading my blog. There ought to be a brotherhood, a fraternity, a covenant that we make with one another, to be there for each other, I didn't want to know what happened at his church, didn't care who was right or wrong, I just knew that my brother was going through and I wanted to be there for him. I make the same declaration to all of my colleagues we are in this together, when you hurt I hurt, when you cry I cry, when you rejoice, I rejoice. This is a lonely journey and even though our Lord and Savior has said that he would never leave us or forsake us, there are times, we feel all alone!!!!(Let me get off my soap box)
My friend preached from John 14:1-4, and Job 14:14 and his subject was let not your heart be troubled. When I tell you this man blessed the house, he blessed the house. God Bless you man of God. The choir was awesome as usual and service was very high.
Now check this out please and your prayer time, lift me up in prayer I am going through a tremendous transition in my life, but I know God is in control!!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Wednesday May 13, 2009

2009-05-15T09:48:00.000-07:00

Top of the afternoon to you,
We greet you in Divine Love, our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven.

We started this Wednesday with prayer service in the main sanctuary and new member's class in the fellowship hall. Both ministries were very good. At 7:00pm we started our Bible class, the lesson we are studying is getting God's church back in order. Our Scripture reference is Matthew 16:18, Jesus says he will build HIS church. Which means it has nothing to do with our opinions and thoughts, its about what he(Jesus) says.

We started this lesson off with trying to understand what is it about African-Americans that we don't like order(Structure, Rules, Regulations). In our discussion we already know that other ethnicity's have issues but we just wanted to discuss the African American problems. We discuss it being a generational curse, we discuss we are just tired of everyone telling us what to do. So our discussion became very lively. Our Scriptures that we looked at was Hosea 4:2 Jeremiah 3:14, Romans 10:17, Romans 10:14. Bible class was awesome as usual and our attendance was great. Way to go New Beginning, God is pleased with you!!!

On Friday night our church will be travelling to the Wynton Hill Baptist Church for their Spring Revival Pastor Bruce O. Alford is the Senior Pastor/Teacher. The Revivalist for the week is Pastor Jonathan Carter of the Siloam Church in College Park, Georgia. Our Choir will be singing and our officers are in charge of service. Please pray for us as we continue to do the assignment that God has for us!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Sunday May 10, 2009

2009-05-13T09:42:00.000-07:00

Top of the Afternoon to you,
We greet you in Divine Love and our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!!! This Past Mother's Day we had an awesome service, let me first give God praise for the 3 greatest women in the world, My Mother Donna Johnson, My Grandmother, Ernestine Johnson and My Aunt, Carolyn Johnson. These 3 women played a major part in raising me, and I want them to know that they are loved and are appreciated, Happy Mom's Day Yall!!!

Sunday started at 9:00am with New Member's class, again the Lord is blessing us in that area. At 10:00am Sunday School started, the banner offering went to class #3 the Adult Class and the banner attendance went to class #1 the Children's Class.

Worship started promptly at 11:00am and I tell you service was jammed packed, thank you Lord for filling the house. We gave out roses to every mother that attended service today and for they youngest mother who was 22 years old we gave $25.00 cash and for the oldest mother we gave $50.00. Congratulations to Mrs. Liquitta Brown and Mrs. Elliott.

I concluded our Body Building series with Can you stand to see my dirt, coming from John 13:1-9, 12-15. The message was a tremendous blessing. It convicted and converted. What impressed me the most was that after service persons were reconciling their relationships. Let me say to the person I offended, and you know who you are, I truly thank God for you and I value our friendship and thank you for forgiving me for me wrong!!! Always know that I love you in spite of.

Service was great, and because my family(Mother, Grandmother, and Aunt) is in New Orleans, LA, one of my deacons and his wife invited me to come to their house to eat mother's day dinner. It was my first time eating Hog Mog(I hope I spelled it right) and eat was off the chain.

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Sunday May 3, 2009

2009-05-09T04:52:00.000-07:00

Top of the Morning to you, We greet you in Divine Love, our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven. We started the first Sunday of this month off at 9:00am with new member's class and then Sunday School started promptly at 9:30am. We had a great class about being in the family of God. Class #2 the teen class won the banner attendance and class #3 the adult class won the banner offering. We had to baptize this Sunday, So we were able to use the Linwood Baptist Church Pastor by Marion Hester. We had another soul go down in the liquid grave, it set the atmosphere for worship. Morning Worship started at 11:30am with the deacons doing devotion and the choir lead us in Praise & Worship. The Atmosphere was awesome I continue the series called Body-building, the title of this sermon was called "Can't we all just get along" Still dealing with right relationships in the Body of Christ. The Word was powerful and another soul was added to the family, which leaves us with 77 more souls to go this year to reach our goal of 100 souls.
Wednesday May 6, 2009 we had a Memorial Service at 5:00pm for Brother Edward Miller III, a brother who worked with our young men at the church. He passed from this life on Saturday May 2, 2009. Ed we love you man, thank you for the memories. New Member class started at 6:00pm in the fellowship hall while prayer service went on in the main sanctuary. The lesson we are teaching now is "getting God's church back in order" We dealt this week with what is a Pastor? and Who gives Pastor? I guess you can imagine the discussion was off the chain. We talked about if according to Jeremiah 3:15, the Lord gives Pastor, how can we get rid of them because, we don't like them anymore, or they don't do what we want them to do?
I would love to hear your input in this discussion!!! Leave me a message on my blog!!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R:8:28

Wednesday April 29, 2009

2009-05-01T08:30:00.000-07:00

Top of the Morning to you, we greet you in Divine Love, my prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven.
This Wednesday we started at 6:00pm with prayer service in the main sanctuary and new members class in the fellowship hall. Our Deacons and Deaconess are in charge of our prayer service and it sounded like they were having a grand ole time. I taught our New Members class and this week two more persons have completed their course and will receive their certificate this Sunday.
We began Bible class promptly at 7:00pm we have concluded the series What we believe as a Baptist. So I started off with a review just to make sure that our teaching is not in vain!!! The new series we started Wednesday Night was getting God's church back in order.
We all agreed that the Church of the Living God has gotten out of order so we decided to look at scripture so that we can make sure that New Beginning is operating the way the Lord wants it to. The first Scripture we studied was Matthew 16:18 and we got a clear understanding that the church belongs to God!!
Now look me ask you a question bloggers!!! If the church belongs to the Lord, why do we keep trying to put our opinions in it?
That's one of the question we shared in class. Would love to know what you think!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Sunday April 26, 2009

2009-04-27T11:28:00.000-07:00

Top of the afternoon to everyone!! We greet you in Divine Love, our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!!! I do apologize that this has been an extremely busy week for me so let me start with last Wednesday at Bible Class.
We started at 6:00pm with New Member's Class and in the main santuary the Deacons and the Deaconess led us into prayer service. Again i'm encouraged about the souls who are joining our ministry because they are going through thier new member classes.
Bible Study started promptly at the 7:00pm we are still studying What we believe as a baptist, the Articles we studied today were:
Article XVII The Righteous and the Wicked- We believe that there is a radical and essential difference between the righteous and the wicked; that such only as through faith are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and sanctified by the Spirit of our God, are truly righteous in his esteem; while all such as continue in impenitence and unbelief are in his sight wicked, and under the curse; and this distinction holds among men both in and after death.
Article XVIII The World to Come- We believe that the end of the world is apporaching; that at the last day Christ will descend from heaven, and raise the dead from the grave to final retribution; that a solemn separation will then take place; that the wicked will be adjudged to endless pinishment, and the righteous to to endless joy; and that this judgement will fix forever the final state of men in heaven or hell, on priincipls of righteousness.
We finally finished this series that we started in January and I believe the family members of the New Beginning Church can stand flat footed in share with anyone what they believe as a baptist.
On this past Sunday we started with New Member's Class at 9:00am and then Sunday School started promptly st the 10:00am hour Class #3 the adult class won the banner offering and of course class #2 the teen class which is my class won the banner attendance!!!! Way to go young people!!!!! Our Morning Worship started at the 11:00am hour, this Sunday was 4th Sunday which means our Youth Ministry was in charge!!! Our Youth Choir was off the chain today, RoRo and Destiney led a song and had the church hopping!!!! Our youth praise dancers, dance and I mean they did a magnaficent job.
This sunday I started a series call Body-Building!!! As our church is growing I believe God wants us to make sure that we set some rules in place right now!!! This message came from Matthew 18:15-20 and the subject of this 1st sermon was, "This is how we do it" and the message was dealing with conflit, and issues that arises in church. The points were you need to deal with them in the right order, right away, with the right attitude, for the right reason. This message was a tremendous blessing to our church family and God endorsed with 4 more souls being added to our church family!!!! Thank you Jesus for all you are doing with and to the New Beginning Missionary Baptist Church!!!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Sunday April 19, 2009

2009-04-20T05:56:00.000-07:00

Top of the morning to you, we greet you in Divine Love, and our prayer is that you and your church family are walking under an open heaven!!!!!!!! Let me say first I am excited about what the Lord is doing at the New Beginning Church!!! This Sunday we started at 9:00am with our New Member's class, we had to do a Sunday morning class to accommodate those persons joining our ministry that can not make it on Wednesday Nights at 6:00pm. the reason we put these classes an hour before our teaching ministries is because we want to get the new members accustom to coming out to our teaching ministries!! The motto of our church is a Purpose Driven fellowship where we are Reaching People, Building Faith, and EQUIPPING DISCIPLES. Our Sunday School started at 10:00am and the Teen Class won the banner attendance, and the adult class won the banner offering!!!!
We started service at 11:00am and family of New Beginning came out in full force this Sunday, our choir was awesome as usual and set the atmosphere for worship!!! This Sunday I preached from 4 different passages of scriptures, Luke 2:49, John 4:34, John 9:4, John 18:11 and the subject of the message was the Secret of Jesus Success. The message was on time and another soul was added to our church family!!!(Praise God)
Starting next Sunday I will start a series at our church call Bodybuilding, the Lord has release me to share with our family some key issues that will help us grow and be more effective for the Kingdom, and I am excited about it. So I'm looking forward to sharing with you those services!!!!!

Winning the Lost at Any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Wednesday April 15, 2009

2009-04-17T07:18:00.000-07:00

Top of the morning to you, we greet you in Divine Love, and our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!!!
We started this Wednesday at 6:00pm with prayer service in the sanctuary, and we had new members class in the fellowship hall. Again we thank God for a church that still believes in the power of prayer!!! Of course I am grateful for the Lord adding to the church, and the folk that he is sending is attending the new members class.
Our Bible study started promptly at 7:00pm, we picked up with Article XV and XVI, let me give them to you: Article XV The Christian Sabbath- We believe that the first day of the week is the Lord's Day, or Christian Sabbath; and is to be kept sacred to religious purposes, by abstaining from all secular labor and sinful recreation; by the devout observance of all the means of grace, both private and public; and by preparation for that rest that remaineth for the people of God.
Article XVI Civil Government- We believe that civil government is of divine appointment, for the interests and good order of human society; and that magistrates are to be prayed for, conscientiously honored and obeyed; except only in things opposed to the will of our Lord Jesus Christ, who is the only Lord of the conscience, and the prince of the kings of the earth!!!
Of course we had a wonderful discussion in class and we closed out our bible class with our bible drill and we had so much fun!!! See you next time!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Resurrection Sunday

2009-04-14T06:56:00.000-07:00

Top of the morning to you, we greet you in Divine Love, my prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!!! Well let me first start with last Wednesday bible class, we had an awesome time, we just reviewed the articles that we have already went over. Towards the end of our bible class we had a Bible drill, that we use to have an BTU(Baptist Training Union) and when I tell you it was funnnnnnnn!!!! Wow we had a ball. It's a game that help you find the books of the bible fast. It was awesome!! So i decided to put it in our Bible Class toward the end, about the last 15 minutes!!!!
Before I go any further let me give my condolences to the family of Pastor Joseph Andrews of the Metropolitan Baptist Church and the President of the IMA. He passed last Monday!!!!
This past Sunday on Resurrection Sunday we begin with Sunday School at 10:00am, the banner offering went to the adult class and the banner attendance stayed with my class, the teen class!!! Of course our attendance was awesome, we were packed because of this Sunday, I was excited about our church family members inviting their families to worship!!! I preached from Philippians 3:10, and Luke 18:33 "I will rise again" . The service was awesome the choir was off the chain, and another soul was added to the kingdom. We have 83 souls left to reach our goal for the year 2009.
Again this was an awesome resurrection Sunday, I'll talk to yall later!!!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Sunday April 5, 2009

2009-04-08T11:00:00.000-07:00

Top of the afternoon to you!!!! We greet you in Divine Love; our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!!
Well Sunday started at 9:30am with Sunday School, remember on 1st Sunday we move our times around, so that we can accommodate baptism. Sunday School was good as usual, class #3 won the banner offering, the adult class and class #2 won the banner attendance, way to go teens!!! We had baptismal service at 10:30am, again we graciously appreciates Pastor Marcus Gibson and the Shady Grove Baptist Church for allowing us to baptize with them. We had 2 souls to go down in the liquid grave(Praise God).
We got back to New Beginning and worship service started at 11:30am, it was raining outside so our crowd was small, but the presence of God was great!!! The choir was off the chain as usual and this Sunday we had a visiting praise dancer, who blessed in the ministry of dance(she was truly awesome)
I was excited about preaching, and I shared with the family, "who wouldn't serve a God like this?" I tell you the word went forth and God blessed us tremendously!!!! Looking forward to prayer service and Bible class!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Wednesday April 1, 2009

2009-04-02T15:57:00.000-07:00

Top of the evening to everyone, we greet you in Divine Love, our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!!!
We started this Wednesday night at 6:00pm with New member's class and prayer service!! Before our Spring Revival this year in March, we had two days of prayer and it set the atmosphere for our Spring Revival!!! So we implemented a prayer service on Wednesday nights from 6:00pm to 7:00pm. Our Deacons and Deaconess are in charge of this service!!! I was teaching our new members class in our fellowship hall and was able to hear the saints singing and praying I was so encouraged. Thank you New Beginning for being a church that doesn't mind praying!!!
Well at 7:00pm we started our Bible Class and of course we are still studying, "What we believe as a Baptist!!" We did two more articles. article #12 and #13. They are as follows: XII- The Harmony of the Law and the Gospel- We believe that the law of God is the eternal and unchangeable rule of his moral government; that it is holy, just, and good; and that the inability which the Scriptures ascribe to fallen men to fulfill its precepts arises entirely from their love of sin; to deliver them from which, and to restore them through a Mediator to unfeigned obedience to the holy Law, is one great end of the gospel, and of the means of grace connected with the establishment of the visible church. Article XIII- A Gospel Church- We believe that a visible church of Christ is a congregation of baptized believers, associated by covenant in the faith and fellowship of the gospel; observing the ordinances of Christ; governed by his laws; and exercising the gifts, rights, and privileges invested in them by his word; that its only Scriptural officers are bishops, or pastors and deacons, whose qualifications, claims, and duties are defined in the epistles to Timothy and Titus.
You can imagine that we had an awesome time and discussion. One of the discussions we had was if we as a Baptist believe in these articles of faith and we say that we are governed by his laws(which is the Bible) why do we as Baptist run to the By-laws like they are the Bible I would love to hear your comments!!! Leave me a post!!!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Sunday March 29, 2009

2009-03-30T09:20:00.000-07:00

Top of the morning to you, we greet you in Divine Love, our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!!!
Our Sunday Service started at 10:00am with our Sunday School, can I please tell you that our Sunday School is growing tremendously!!! I get real excited when i send the family of New Beginning come out to the teaching ministries of our church!!!! The banner offering went to class #1, which is our children class!! The Banner attendance went to class #2, which is our teen class!!! Way yo go to the Youth Ministry of the New Beginning Church!! Adults yall better step up are these children are going to leave yall in the dust!!!(LOL)
Our worship experience started at the 11:00am hour and man I tell you, the power of the Holy Ghost dropped in New Beginning and service was awesome!!! The choir rolled as usual, the deacons did a fiery devotion, even the alter prayer was off the chain!!! Thank you Lord for your visitation!!!
The word this Sunday came from the book of Acts 27:39-44 and the subject was: Making it on Broken Pieces!!! The word was awesome and 5 persons united with our church family!!! Thank you Lord for doing what you do!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Wednesday March 25, 2009

2009-03-27T14:18:00.000-07:00

Top of the Evening to everyone, we greet you in Divine love, our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!!!
On this past Wednesday we came together at 6:00pm for our prayer service, as we are trying to but the emphasis back on be a praying church!!! We started our bible class promptly at 7:00pm, we are still studying "What we Believe as a Baptist"! We picked up tonight with article number X. Sanctification: We believe that sanctification is the process by which, according to the will of God, we are made partakers of his holiness; that it is a progressive work; that it is begun in regeneration; and that it is carried on in the hearts of believers by the presence and power of the Holy Spirit, the Sealer and Comforter, in the continual use of the appointed means, especially the word of God, self-examination, self-denial, watchfulness, and prayer.
The Second article we studied was article number XI. The Perseverance of Saints: We believe that such only are real believers as endure unto the end; that their persevering attachment to Christ is the grand mark which distinguishes them from superficial professors; that a special Providence watches over their welfare; and that they are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation!
I am so very proud of the family of New Beginning because they are coming out to be taught the word of God!!! Way to go family!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Sunday March 22, 2009

2009-03-24T12:28:00.000-07:00

Top of the afternoon to everyone, we greet you in Divine Love, we pray that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!!!
Well this weekend was a very busy weekend, let me start off by saying the New Beginning church family traveled to Richland, Georgia on Friday Night we had a fellowship with the Hidden Treasures Church of God in Christ, Pastor Juan Lane was our host!!! We took a van load and some cars and I tell you it was a blessing!!! Everybody took their post and did an awesome job, our choir was awesome as usual!! I share the word from Mark 5: 25-34 and the subject was, How to handle your issues!! The Points were be persistent, have faith and take it to Jesus!!! We had an awesome time!!!!! We stop at Applebee's and had a wonderful fellowship eating out!!!!
On Sunday morning we started at 10:00am for our Sunday School and it was good, of course class #2 won the Banner Offering and Class #1 won the Banner Attendance!!! Worship service started at 11:00am and the youth ministry had their parade of states, I Preached from Exodus 32:25-28 and the subject was, Who's on the Lord's Side!!! We had a great time!!! We left to go to the Nazareth Baptist Church at 2:30pm where my friend and brother Pastor Vincent L. Wilson was celebrating his 1st Pastoral Anniversary!!!! My text came from 2 Corinthians 10:1-7 and my subject was, If it wasn't for God!!! We had an awesome time sharing with the family of Nazareth.
Well keep praying for us at the New Beginning Baptist Church because the Lord is still blessing us!!!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Wednesday March 18, 2009

2009-03-20T12:38:00.000-07:00

Top of the afternoon to everyone, we greet you in Divine Love, our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!!!
This Wednesday we started at 6:00pm with our prayer service, the deacons and the deaconess were in charge of our prayer service, I got a chance to get the end of it because I was teaching our New Member's class!! We started this prayer service because we want our church family to understand, if we are going to save our generation, its going to be by prayer!!!
We went right into our Bible Class, we are still studying, "What we believe as a Baptist," because we had revival on last week we just did a review to bring everyone up to par!!! We want over the 9 Articles of Faith we already shared! Here they are
I. The Scriptures
II. The True God
III. The Fall of Man
IV. The Way of Salvation
V. Justification
VI. The Freeness of Salvation
VII. Grace in Regeneration.
VIII. Repentance and Faith
IX. God's Purpose of Grace
The Review was excellent and I believe all of us are on the same page!!!!
I have to preach tonight in Richland, Georgia, so please pray for me and our church family as we travel on the road!! I will let you know how it went, when I post my Sunday post!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Sunday March 15, 2009

2009-03-17T09:53:00.000-07:00

Top of the afternoon to everyone, we greet you in Divine Love, my prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!!!
This past Sunday was a tremendous blessing, of course we started with our Sunday School at 10:00am. The lesson for this Sunday was "Restoring Human Lives" print text was Ezekiel 36:22-32, of course the lesson was real good. Class #2 which is the teen class won the Banner Attendance and Class #3 which is the adult class won the Banner Offering.
Well our morning worship service started promptly at the 11:00am hour, it was raining outside but the family of New Beginning Church pressed their way through(shucks now). The atmosphere was great because Dr. Keith Witherspoon left some fire after our revival, as I was sitting in the pulpit mediating one of the sons of the house, asked me if I was ok, because coming after Dr. Witherspoon has got to be a hard task, I told him yes sir it is, and I should have made him(the son) preach this morning!!!!(LOL)
Anyhow the choir was off the chain as usual, and I close our series on this past Sunday!! I preached from I Peter 5:10 and the subject was, "Watch us after this" the Lord showed out in a mighty way and another soul was added to the family!!!
On Monday March 16, 2009 my pastor, Pastor Elliott Williams of the Pleasant Hill Baptist Church of Atlanta, Georgia is in revival at the Concord Baptist Church in Salem, Alabama. I went over to support him, he preached from Psalms 43, his subject was the Power of Prayer!!!. My pastor did an awesome job sharing the word with the people of the Concord church!!!
Well revival last week, and Sunday has wore me out so let me get some rest and I will talk to you guys on Thursday!!!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Spring Revival 2009 Part 2

2009-03-14T12:43:00.000-07:00

Top of the afternoon to everyone, we greet you in Divine Love; our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!!

Man listen all I can tell you as that you needed to be here at the New Beginning Church, Dr. Keith D. Witherspoon, who I am so glad to call my friend, blessed us tremendously!!! We picked Pastor Witherspoon up from Atlanta airport, he and I got a chance to catch up on things that has been happening, when we got to Columbus we got him something to eat, and then checked him into his hotel so that he could rest for that night service, now this was unusual because last year Pastor Witherspoon did revival for the whole week!!! I was at another church which had a North and South Location so he did 2 nights at the North Church and 3 nights at the South Church, and in a years time call has place me as the undershepherd of the New Beginning Church!! I knew how awesome Pastor Witherspoon was last year and wanted to bring him back to our great city!!!
Well needless to say Pastor Witherspoon shared with us this week and I'm telling you man these 3 nights were off the chain!! Spoon text Wednesday night came from Daniel 3:15-17 and the topic was a Furnace Faith!!!! Man Spoon preached so hard that it was totally ridiculous!!! He said that furnace faith Accepts the Challenge, announces the Creator and astounds the critics!! I mean it was awesome!! He stated that a faith that can't be tested is a faith that can't be trusted!!! WOW!!!
On Thursday night his text came from Job 1:8-12 and the topic was, What to do when the hedge is removed? He said when the hedge is removed we should worship, we should witness about God and we should wait on the Lord!!! I mean spoon sho nuff preached on Thursday he shared with us that the devil is a chained adversary, he's God's lap dog!!! WOW!!!!
On Friday night his text came from II Corinthians 4:17 and his topic was, The pleasure of persecution!!! He said the reason for the pleasure of persecution is because your suffering is not serious, your suffering want stay, and your suffering causes success!!! Man listen our tape ministry is not up and running yet but if it was, this would have been a revival that you would have wanted to place in your personal library!!!
On Friday night, the Women of New Beginning cooked a mean meal for our guest, we fellowshiped and had an awesome time together!!!
This morning we brought Dr. Witherspoon back to the Atlanta airport and we are waiting with great anticipation for 2010 when Dr. Witherspoon will be back with us for our Spring Revival!!!!
I can't wait to stand up tomorrow in the pulpit of New Beginning Church because I will be able to say I preached in the same pulpit with an awesome man!!!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Revival Part 1

2009-03-13T10:21:00.000-07:00

Top of the afternoon to everyone, we greet you in Divine Love; our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!!
I only have a few minutes to share with you and the reason I entitled this part 1 is because Saturday I will sit down and really share with you what is happening at the New Beginning Church this week in revival!!!!
Let me just give you in idea, OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TO BE CONTINUED!!!!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Sunday March 8, 2009

2009-03-10T10:09:00.001-07:00

We greet you in Divine Love, our prayer is that you and your ministry are walking under an open heaven!!!
This Sunday we started at 10:00am with our Sunday School and again Sunday School was a blessing, the lesson dealt with leadership and of course all teachers did an awesome job in their classes!!! I got good news for you today, Class #3 our adult class finally won the banner offering this Sunday!!!!!(WOW) Remember our children have been winning since the year started!! Class #2 which is our teen class, My class won the banner attendance!!!
Our worship experience started promptly at 11:00am, would you believe the weather outside was gorgeous and the family did come to worship!!! The reason I shared that with you is because the previous Sunday it snowed and only a few folk came to worship!!! The choir was off the chain as usual and I continued the series that I started on last week dealing with being, "The House of Grace", I came from Ephesians 4:17-24 and my topic was "Stop Tripping" when Paul was dealing with the saints and telling them they are acting out of order and essence what he was saying was ya'll need to stop tripping cause in verse 20 he says you did not so learn Christ, it was a timely word as God as continuing to add to the Body of Christ and we need to get it together!!!
We are excited about this week because this is the week of our Spring Revival starting Wednesday March 11, 2009 - Friday March 13, 2009 at 7:00pm, Fellow blooger(kdwitherspoon.blogspot.com) and my Brother Pastor Keith D. Witherspoon of the Bethlehem Baptist Church of South Bend, IN will be our special guest. We are praying on Monday and Tuesday at 7:00pm and the preachment starts that Wednesday!!! I tell people if you have not heard Pastor Witherspoon, don't die and go to heaven before you do!!! Matter of fact you can check him out on youtube.com just search Pastor Keith D. Witherspoon, and I promise you will be bless!!!
Can't wait until Wednesday night to hear from the Lord, and I will let you know what he was talking about!!!
Please pray for us this week, that the Lord will do something unusual at the New Beginning Church!!!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Wednesday March 4, 2009

2009-03-06T05:34:00.000-08:00

Top of the Morning to you!!! We greet you in Divine Love; our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!! We started Wednesday with our New Members's Class and I am glad to say that we have 2 more members who have completed their New Member Orientation and will recieve thier certificate of completion on Sunday Morning as we introduce them to the church family, and release them to work in ministry!!
Our Bible class was again great as we continue to study what it is we believe as a Baptist! We studied article # 9 God's purpose of Grace: We believe that election is the eternal purpose of God, according to which he graciously regenerates, sanctifies, and save sinners; that being perfectly consistent with the free agency of man, it comprehends all the means in connection with the end; that it is a most glorious display of God's soverign goodness, being infinitely free, wise, holy, and unchangeable; that it utterly excludes boasting, and promotes humility, love, prayer, praise, trust in God, and active imitation of his free mercy; that it encourages the use of means in the highest degree; that it may be ascertained by its effects in all who truly believe the gospel; that it is the foundation of Christian assurance; and that to ascertain it with regard to ourselves demands and deserves the utmost diligence!!!!
We had an awesome discussion about this article, I think what I love about our Bible Class is the fact that our family members are very interested in knowing what it is that we believe.
Well also this week the association that our church is apart of, the Mount Calvary Missionary Baptist Association under the leadership of Moderator, E. Merle Brown held our annual Valley Wide Revival at the Liberty Hill Baptist Church, Pastor James G. Davis is the host. I have the privilege to attend this week and here are the speakers and sermon topics: Monday Night Pastor Ralph Huling of St. James Missionary Baptist Church, he came from Mark 12:29-31 and the topic was A hard look at love!! On Tuesday Night Pastor Marcus Gibson of Greater Shady Grove Missionary Baptist Church, he came from Acts 8:4 and the topic was the everywhere work of the church!!! Of course Wednesday night I was not present because we had Bible Class at our Church and on Thursday night Pastor Vincent Wilson of the Nazareth Missionary Baptist Church, he came from Mark 5:5, his topic was no stone in Jesus hand!!! This revival has been a tremendous blessing, I'm looking forward for tonight, the Preacher is Pastor Lacoya Day of the Friendship Missionary Baptist Church!!!
Well next week we will have our Spring Revival starting Wednesday March 11- Friday March 13, 2009. Our Revivalist for the week will be Pastor Keith D. Witherspoon of the Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church of South Bend, IN. We are expecting God to move in a mighty way at this revival!!! If you would love to come our church is located at 1326 10th Avenue in Columbus, Georgia!! Let us see your face in the place!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

Sunday March 1, 2009

2009-03-03T06:58:00.000-08:00

Top of the Morning to you!!!! We greet you in Divine Love; our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!!
We started this Sunday Morning at 9:30am for Sunday School, we had to move our time because we had baptism this morning. Sunday School started at 9:30am. Again I'm excited that our Sunday School is growing and that people are making a special effort to get back to it! Class #1 won the banner offering and my class class #2 won the banner attendance. We finish Sunday School at 10:15am and we headed to Greater Shady Grove Baptist Church on 2nd Avenue where my friend Pastor Marcus J. Gibson serves as the Senior Pastor/Teacher!!! Now listen as we are preparing to go to Greater Shady Grove, to my amazement when we walk outside it was snowing. Did you hear what I just said? It was snowing in Georgia!! When we got to Greater Shady Grove, our candidates got dress and man I tell you the truth, we had an awesome baptismal service, I mean Pastor Gibson brought us back to the banks of the river, the way we use to have baptismal!!! It was spirit filled and an awesome experience. We had 3 candidates to go down in the liquid grave. Well when we got back to our church of course the crowd was scarce because of the weather, isn't it funny, that folks will go to work in inclement weather, they will go to the club, game or movies in inclement weather, but when it comes to church they will not show up!!! WOW!!
Anyway our choir did an awesome job in bringing us in the very presence of God!!! I started a series as we prepare for our spring revival on next week. The sermon I preached came from John 8:1-11, the subject was called Don't get caught throwing rocks!!! The focus was on the church that God is calling us to build, "The House of Grace" if indeed we are going to reach people we have to learn to accept them just as they are.
At the end of the service when we gave the invitation we also gave an invitation for New Beginning family members to recommit themselves to the Lord!!! They responded to the call and we are ready to hear from the Lord in our revival!!!
Again thank you for your prayers for our ministry as we continue to try to win the lost for the Kingdom of God!!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

What we Believe as a Baptist

2009-02-27T04:50:00.000-08:00

Top of the Morning to you!!!
We greet you in Divine Love, our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!!
We do apologize for not being able to post on last week, because we were moving into our new facility, but Bible class was back in place this past Wednesday!! Of course we started this Wednesday with New Members Class at 6:00pm and I'm still excited that folks who are uniting with our ministry is very serious about, because they are attending the New Members Class!!! This New Member Class I had to teach 2 lessons because of the week we missed, so we did. The 2 lessons were the Baptist Church and Stewardship. Now there may be some of you out there in blog land who are questioning why are we emphasizing "The Baptist Church" The reason is because we are in an area that have a lot of Methodist Churches and some people were raised in the AME church. So we want to make sure they understand the baptist church!!(AMEN)
In the Baptist Church we talk about the 2 Ordinances 1) Baptism and 2) The Lord's Supper, we also talked about the officers in the church, The Pastor and the Deacons. The last lesson was Stewardship, of Course we shared with our new members the importance of tithing and giving a liberal offering, and getting involve in the Ministry.
For our Bible Class lesson we reviewed the 6 Articles we already gave out so that everybody can be on the same page. Tonight we gave out Article 7 and 8. Here they go Article 7 Of Grace in Regeneration: We believe that, in order to be saved, sinners must be regenerated or born again; that regeneration consists in giving a holy disposition to the mind; that it is effected, in a manner above our comprehension, by the power of the Holy Spirit in connection with divine truth, so as to secure our voluntary obedience to the gospel; and that its proper evidence appears in the holy fruits of repentance and faith and newness of life.
Article 8 Of Repentance and Faith: We believe that repentance and faith are sacred duties, and also inseparable graces, wrought in our souls by the regenerating Spirit of God; whereby, being deeply convinced of our guilt, danger and helplessness, and of the way of salvation by Christ, we turn to God with unfeigned contrition, confession and supplication for mercy; at the same time heartily receiving the Lord Jesus Christ as our Prophet, Priest and King, and relying on him alone as the only and all-sufficient Saviour.
Of course bible class was a blessing and members are showing up to learn!!! Thank you New Beginning for being a informed church!!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

Joseph D. Johnson
R8:28

This Past Sunday

2009-02-27T04:20:00.000-08:00

Top of the morning to you all,
We greet you in Divine Love; our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!
This past Sunday we started with our Sunday School at 10:00am. Sunday School was a blessing, my class, class #2 won the banner offering and banner attendance. Class #2 is our teen class, their ages are 13-17. Way to go class!!!!!
Our Sunday worship was very exciting because we are in our new facility. When I tell you that our 11:00am Service was packed, it was!!!(Shucks Now) Our Youth Ministry were in charge of service and they did an awesome job. I preached from Jonah 2:7-10 and my subject was: How to get out of Trouble!! The message was a blessing!! Two more people united with our church family on this Sunday. God is sending men to the New Beginning Church. We have taken in a total of 10 people this month of February.
At 3:00pm our Youth Ministry held their Black History Program, Pastor Vincent Ellison and the Shady Grove Baptist Church was our Special Guest!! Let me say to our Youth Pastor, Brother Marcus Scott and our Youth Director, Sister Nakita Bell and all the advisors and workers that I am so proud of our Youth Ministry!!! The Black History Program was off the chain, the Youth did an awesome job!!! Pastor Ellison text came from John 5:1-6 and his subject was Season's Change.
Keep praying for our Ministry that we may be able to reach more souls for the Kingdom!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

Joseph D Johnson
R8:28

This Past Sunday

2009-02-18T13:46:00.000-08:00

Top of the afternoon to everyone. We greet you in Divine Love, our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!
Well this Sunday began with Sunday School at the 10:00am hour, and again we had an awesome lesson and turn out for Sunday School. Class #1 won the Banner Offering and Banner Attendance, did I mention to you guys that class #1 is 0-12 years of age!!! (WOW)
Service was awesome this Sunday, our hymn of the month of February is Lift every voice and sang, and we finally did a great job with it this Sunday. (Thanks Sister Harris for getting that together)
The message I shared with our church family, came from Genesis 29: 31-32 and the subject was: Do you Love me now that I can Dance? Because Valentine's Day was that Saturday I tried to share with our family about love. God truly blessed through His word and another soul was added to our church family which leaves us with 92 Souls left to go to reach our goal of 100 souls for the year 2009!!!
This week we canceled our Bible Study and New Members Class as we moved into our new facility. I tell you what, God is continuing to bless the New Beginning Church Family!!!
Please keep us in your prayers as we continue to try to reach more souls for the Kingdom!!

Winning the Lost at Any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

What we Believe as a Baptist

2009-02-13T07:43:00.000-08:00

Top of the morning to you all, we greet you in Divine Love, we pray that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!!
Wednesday we had new members class at 6:00pm, I thank God for the new members who are excited about becoming apart of the family of New Beginning Church. The Lesson we studied in new members class was "Growing as a Christian" we dealt with five principles, let me give them to you, Principle 1. You must read the bible. Principle 2. You must Pray. Principle 3. You must have a church fellowship. Principle 4. You must witness for Christ. Principle 5. You must obey God. When we dealt with Principle 2, you must pray, we focused on 4 important areas of prayer: 1)Adoration, 2)Confession, 3) Thanksgiving, 4)Supplication. The class was an awesome class.
We started our mid week bible class at 7:00pm, we are still studying the Articles of Faith, Wednesday nights Article was, Article 6, The Freeness of Salvation- We believe that the blessings of salvation are made free to all by the gospel; that it is the immediate duty of all to accept them by a cordial, penitent, and obedient faith; and that nothing prevents the salvation of the greatest sinner on earth but his own inherent depravity and voluntary rejection of the gospel; which rejection involves him in an aggravated condemnation.
We were sharing with the family that not matter how bad we think a person is, they still can be saved by the grace of God!!
Let me ask you this question and I am watching for your responses, what is it in us that makes us think that child molester's and drug dealers can't be saved!!!!

Winning the Lost at Any Cost,

Joseph D Johnson
R8:28

This Past Sunday

2009-02-10T07:05:00.001-08:00

We greet you in Divine Love, our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!!
Again we had an awesome time at service this past Sunday, of course we started at 10:00am with our Sunday School, we had another great Lesson, the Youth lesson was a scandal exposed, of course class #1 our children class, ages 0-12 won the banner offering and class #1 and class #2 won the banner attendance. Our Sunday School is growing. This Sunday was a special Sunday because it was my Pastoral Installation, so one of my sons in the ministry preached at the 11:00am service, Minister Cortez Miller, he came from Philippians 3:13-14, and 2 Timothy 4:6-8 and his topic was Keep Pressing On!!!! 2 Souls united to our church family and now we have 3 waiting candidates for Baptism. We baptism on 1st Sundays, so we are excited about our candidates.
That evening at 3:00pm we had the official Installation service, Pastor Charlie Bryant and The Greater St. John Baptist Church of Crawford, Alabama was our special Guest and we had an awesome time!!! Let me say thank you to our 4th District President of the General Missionary Baptist Convention of Georgia, Pastor H. Randy Stephen and our Moderator of the Mount Calvary Baptist Association, Pastor E. Merle Brown, and all the Pastors, Ministers and Friends who came out to make this celebration an awesome one. Pastor Bryant message came from Exodus chapter 4 and Hosea chapter 4 and his subject was A Pastor's role to the people and the People Role's to God and the Pastor. He did an awesome job.
To the family of New Beginning Missionary Baptist Church let me say thank you for all that you do!!! There as an awesome and great assignment that the Lord has put to our hands, so we must get busy!!! Can I remind you family that the best is yet to come!!!!!
See you Wednesday night at bible class for 7:00pm!!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

What we believe as a Baptist

2009-02-06T07:15:00.000-08:00

Top of the morning to you,
We greet you in Divine Love, my prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!
This past Wednesday we started our New Member's Class at 6:00pm and it was pretty good, we had 2 persons show up for the class out of the 5 who joined this past Sunday!! Any Pastor who is reading this blog know that, that is an awesome turn out. Of course I am teaching this class so that the New Members can get a chance to talk to their pastor one on one. The reason why I put the New Member's class on Wednesday nights right before Bible Class is because I want the New Members to become acclimated to coming to church on Wednesdays so they can come to Bible Class!!
This past Bible Class we are still studying what we believe as a baptist, and we got a chance to get to two more Articles of Faith, let me share them with you:
Article V- Justification- We believe that the great gospel blessing which Christ secures to such as believe in him is justification; that justification includes the pardon of sin, and the promise of eternal life on principles of righteousness; that it is bestowed, not in consideration of any works of righteousness which we have done, but solely through faith in the Redeemer's blood; by virtue of which faith his perfect righteousness is freely imputed to us of God; that it brings us into a state of most blessed peace and favor with God, and secures every other blessing needful for time and eternity.
Article VI- The Freeness of Salvation- We believe that the blessings of salvation are made free to all by the gospel; that it is the immediate duty of all to accept them by a cordial, penitent, and obedient faith; and that nothing prevents the salvation of the greatest sinner on earth but his own inherent depravity and voluntary rejection of the gospel; which rejection involves him in an aggravated condemnation.
Again the point of this series that we are teaching in our Bible Class is to make the Disciples of New Beginning Missionary Baptist Church, Biblically astute, and that they will be able to defend it to non-believers.
Can I close with this? Do you know what it is that you believe? leave me a comment!!!

Winning the Lost at any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

This Past Sunday

2009-02-02T09:27:00.000-08:00

Well top of the afternoon to all of you,

We greet you in Divine Love and our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!! I know its been a minute since the last time I blogged so please forgive me and let me bring you up to speed.

I went home for my grandfather's funeral and it was awesome, I got a chance to see some of my family members and we had a ball!!! I was sharing with my mother that for whatever reason i thought we were from Pontiac, Michigan because I remember being up there as a child attending my grandfather's church, True Light Baptist Church. She said no that we are, the family is from Lakeland, Louisiana. So we buried my grandfather by his mom and dad!!

Anyway our bible class is still awesome!! We are still studying what it is that we believe as a Baptist. I was able to get to Article 2-4, let me share them with you!!

Article II The True God- We believe that there is one, and only one, living and true God, an infinite, intelligent Spirit, whose name is Jehovah, the Maker and Supreme Ruler of heaven and earth; inexpressibly glorious in holiness, and worthy of all possible honor, confidence, and love; that in the unity of the godhead there are three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; equal in every divine perfection, and executing distinct but harmonious offices in the great work of redemption.

Article III The Fall of Man- We believe that man was created in holiness, under the law of his Maker; but by voluntary transgression fell from that holy and happy state; in consequence of which all mankind are now sinners; not by constraint; but choice; being by nature utterly void of that holiness required by the law of God, positively inclined to evil; and therefore under just condemnation to eternal ruin, without defense or excuse.

Article IV The Way of Salvation- We believe that the salvation of sinners is wholly of grace; through the mediatorial offices of the Son of God; who by the appointment of the Father, freely took upon him our nature, yet without sin; honored the divine law by his personal obedience, and by his death made a full atonement for our sins; that having risen from the dead he is now enthroned in heaven; and uniting in his wonderful person the tenderest sympathies with divine perfections, he is every way qualified to be a suitable, a compassionate, and all-sufficient Saviour.

So those of you who are following our bible class that's were we stopped on this past Wednesday, January 28, 2009. on Sunday January 25, 2009 we had a full schedule, we had our 11:00am service and our youth were in charge, it was a wonderful blessing to see and hear our Junior Deacons, Marquise, Deondre, Desmond and Dominic lead us in our devotion and our youth choir sound like a 200 voice choir. New Beginning youth Department is off the chain!! Our Youth Pastor, Bro. Marcus Scott shared the word on that Sunday, who by the way did an awesome job!! We had a 3:00pm service for our Installation of Officers Pastor Connie Joiner and the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church of Phenix City, Alabama came and made this event successful. To our leaders, let me say I'm proud of each and every one of you and I encourage you to do what you do as unto the Lord, be faithful to your assignment and watch God bless New Beginnings in a very real and special way. After our 3:00pm service we travel to Lagrange, Georgia for our 4th District Missionary Baptist Convention of Georgia Ministers Division Quarterly Fellowship. It was held at the New Beginning Baptist Church where the Rev. William Harris serves as the Senior Pastor. Pastor Vincent Wilson of the Nazareth Baptist Church brought the word, He came from Mark 4:37-39 and his title was A Great Storm!!! I told Pastor Wilson that it should be against the law for somebody to preach like that!! He was awesome!!! We had at least 20 people from the Minister's Division who was there. The whole Sunday was great, the family members who attend our Ministry truly was blessed the whole day, and was not tired from running all day, matter of fact the question was asked to me Pastor when we gone do that again!!!(smiling)

Alright this past Sunday February 1, 2009 Superbowl Sunday was awesome!! We started the morning at Sunday School, and our Sunday School is growing tremendously, our teachers are great and there is a friendly competition between the classes to get the banner offering and banner attendance. Check this out Class #1 which consist of our children ages 0-12 keeps winning the banner offering, I mean this past Sunday they raise $50.00!!! Did I tell you that the ages for that class is 0-12!! (LOL) but class #2 which is our teen class ages 13-17 keeps winning the banner attendance!!! I told yall that New Beginning Youth Department is an awesome Youth Department. Because it was Superbowl Sunday I Preached the Superbowl that was held at Calvary coming from I Corinthians 15:55. We praise God for 5 souls that came to the Lord!! That evening one of my sons in the ministry celebrated his 1st year Pastoral Anniversary, Pastor Daniel Thomas of the New Life Missionary Baptist Church in Marvin, Alabama. So I got a chance to go and be with him on that evening. My day closed watching the game!!

Winning the Lost at Any Cost,

JD Johnson

This Past Sunday

2009-01-21T07:10:00.000-08:00

Again we greet you in Divine Love and our prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven!!! Well what can I say about this Past Sunday experience, it was truly a tremendous blessing. We started with our Sunday School at 10:00am and I am privileged to teach our teen class. The Lesson was "follow the leader" taken from the book of Joshua. I tell you I'm always encouraged when I see our teens pressed their way to come to Sunday School, but not only be present but they participate in class. Let me give this shout out to class #2 at New Beginning Missionary Baptist Church, I am so very proud of each and every one!!

Worship services started at the 11:00am and I tell you the truth, our choir is off the chain!!! No for real they are an awesome choir. I got another opportunity to stand behind that sacred desk one more time. I shared with our church family from the subject, "If it wasn't for God" taken from 2 Corinthians 1-7. Trying to let us realize that God has been good to us down through the years!! The crisis that our country face is OK, because our trust is in Jehovah God, that God who brought us from slavery up to this point, and if he brought us before he definitely can bring us again!!! We had an awesome time!!!

I left our service and went to the 2nd anniversary of Pastor Fredrick Small of Christ Temple Missionary Baptist Church. Pastor C. Medley Hayes of Greater Beulah Baptist Church brought the message. He came from Psalm 127. The message was a blessing to all who was in attendance.

As I wrap this blog up for today, I had the opportunity of watching the 44th President, President Barack Obama get inaugurated as the President of the United States of America. I tell you it was mixed emotions for me, I was excited to see this history being made yet I was sorry because My Grandfather who was 81 years old past on last Thursday and was not able to watch it. Please pray for me I will be travelling to Baton Rouge, LA this weekend to bury my Grandfather, Pastor Steve Johnson.

Can you please tell me your emotions when you saw the inauguration. Again I will stop back later on tonight to tell you about how bible class went!!

Winning the Lost at Any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28

What we Believe as a Baptist

2009-01-15T09:04:00.000-08:00

Top of the Morning to everyone,
Well let me first say last night we had an awesome time at bible class!! I am impressed with the attendance of our bible class, and family if you are following this blog let me tell you that I am very proud of each and every one of you!! How you commit yourself to your spiritual growth. Keep up the good work!!
We are dealing with Article 2 of the Articles of Faith (of the True God)
We believe that there is one, and only one, living and true God, an infinite, intelligent Spirit, whose name is Jehovah, the Maker and Supreme Ruler of heaven and earth; inexpressibly glorious in holiness, and worthy of all possible honor, confidence, and love; that in the unity of the godhead there are three persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; equal in every divine perfection, and executing distinct but harmonious offices in the great work of redemption.
The thing that we are trying to convey to our family members is being aware of the things that we believe in as a Baptist!!
Can you explain to me those of you who are out there in Blog land, why is it that when persons of other religions come to our homes and try to witness to us about their religion or denominations, we don't take the time to converse with them to make our beliefs plain to them. Yet we settle for the excuse that I don't want to argue about the Word.
What I was sharing with our church family is that when God saved us, he then made us witnesses for him. That means when ever the opportunity arises for us to be a witness we should take advantage of it, what better advantage than someone coming to your house!!!
Now in order for you to share what you believe you have to know what you believe. Time is out for us being ignorant!!!
Hey if you are following this blog lets have this discussion!! What do you think?

Wednesday

2009-01-14T10:07:00.001-08:00

Top of the Morning to you,
I greet you with Divine Love, my prayer is that you and your family are walking under an open heaven.
Well I just wanted to drop a line to all of you in Blog land to let you know that I have stated blogging(can you believe that)!!! Anyway I am preparing for our Worship in the Word on tonight at 7:00pm.
I thank God for the church that He has allowed me to lead!!! They are excited about learning and they show up for Bible Class. So I'll let you know how service went tonight once I get back.

So have an awesome day and enjoy LIFE!!!!

Winning the Lost at Any Cost,

JD Johnson
R8:28