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
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Friday, March 13, 2009
Revival Part 1
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
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
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Sunday March 8, 2009
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
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
Friday, March 6, 2009
Wednesday March 4, 2009
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
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
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Sunday March 1, 2009
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
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
Friday, February 27, 2009
What we Believe as a Baptist
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
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
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
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
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