Personal profile for user screen name: stjohn

Hello everyone;

Thank you for taking an interest in my background.
Well, it is difficult for me to know where to start. For most of my life I was an unrepentant reprobate, (at least I thought I was) I broke every one of God's commandments. I cant really say much more then that, as that pretty much says it all.... But GOD, by His grace and in his great mercy, saw fit to put faith in my heart, and the spirit of God, made the love of God, real to my heart. And He also pointed out, in no uncertain terms, that I am a sinner, lost to perdition, and in desperate need of a saviour, by the way. And OH the JOY that floods my soul, to think that He loved me first when I was so steeped in sin, a wretch indeed. I know how that must sound so cliché, but I honestly don't know how else to put it. I believe now, that God doesn't necessarily see us in sin. In Christ, washed in the blood of The Perfect One, He sees our potential as children of God. What a wonderful, loving, gracious, Lord and Master we have in Jesus! I have been a Christian now sense just before the turn of the century. Sounds like a lot longer when I put it that way doesn't it? Anyway, I live in a little cabin that we built in the woods of Oregon, with my wife of 30 years, who has not yet come to know the Lord; please pray for her that God will open her eyes. We have a son 28, he is a Christian, as is his wife, praise God. They have a lovely daughter, who is our joy. I love to tell the story of my salvation, and tell people about the love of Jesus Christ, and how truly wonderful He is. I believe God is sovereign in all things, and that the Bible is the inerrant, infallible, word of God; and the bottom line, He is God, He is in charge, and we, ......Well, we are not.
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Born in the East and clothed in Oriental form and imagery, the Bible walks the ways of all the world with familiar feet, and enters land after land to find its own everywhere. It has learned to speak in hundreds of languages to the heart of man. It comes into the palace to tell the monarch that he is a servant of the Most High, and into the cottage to assure the peasant that he is a son of God. Children listen to its stories with wonder and delight, and wise men ponder them as parables of life. It has a word of peace for the time of peril, a word of comfort for the time of calamity, a word of light for the hour of darkness. Its oracles are repeated in the assembly of the people, and its counsels whispered in the ear of the lonely. The wicked and the proud tremble at its warnings, but to the wounded and the penitent it has a mother's voice. The wilderness and the solitary place have been made glad by it, and the fire on the hearth has lit the reading of its well-worn pages. It has woven itself into our dearest dreams; so that love, friendship, sympathy and devotion, memory and hope put on the beautiful garments of its treasured speech, breathing of frankincense and myrrh. —Henry van Dyke
The Bible is a corridor between two eternities down which walks the Christ of God; His invisible steps echo through the Old Testament, but we meet Him face to face in the throne room of the New; and it is through that Christ alone, crucified for me, that I have found forgiveness for sins and life eternal. The Old Testament is summed up in the word Christ; the New Testament is summed up in the word Jesus; and the summary of the whole Bible is that Jesus is the Christ. —Bishop Pollock
This Book contains the mind of God, the state of man, the way of salvation, the doom of sinners and the happiness of believers. Its doctrines are holy, its precepts are binding, its histories are true, and its decisions are immutable. Read it to be wise, believe it to be safe and practice it to be holy. It contains light to direct you, food to support you and comfort to cheer you. It is the traveler's map, the pilgrim's staff, the pilot's compass, the soldier's sword and the Christian's character. Here paradise is restored, heaven opened and the gates of hell disclosed. Christ is its grand object, our good is its design and the glory of God its end. It should fill the memory, rule the heart, and guide the feet. Read it slowly, frequently, and prayerfully. It is given you in life and will be opened in the judgment and will be remembered forever. It involves the highest responsibility, will reward the greatest labour, and will condemn all who trifle with its sacred contents. —Author Unknown

God bless, love, in Christ Jesus,
John

stjohn@cavenet.com
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