How a Drug Addict Became an ON-FIRE Christian

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  • Опубліковано 20 тра 2024
  • In this week's episode of Catholic ReCon, testimonies from reverts and converts, guest John Edwards of Just a Guy in the Pew Ministries shares his heartbreaking story. In the end, he shows that redemption is possible against all odds. Praise God!
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    "Like so many men, I vowed to be a better person, husband and father time and time again. It wasn’t until I felt the presence of Jesus as I walked out of a jail cell that I realized how much I wanted to change and how I could only do that with His help. Since that time, I’ve taken a journey to grow closer to Christ. I invite other Catholic men to accompany me as we follow the path God has set before us."
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 46

  • @gather.sip.flourish
    @gather.sip.flourish Місяць тому +11

    My fellow Memphian!! I love everytime I hear this testimony 🎉

    • @HAL9000-su1mz
      @HAL9000-su1mz Місяць тому +2

      I thought they were Memphysicists... got things pretty well figured out.

  • @halleylujah247
    @halleylujah247 Місяць тому +14

    John Edwards is awesome! His apostlate is wonderful.

  • @discoverybricks3694
    @discoverybricks3694 Місяць тому +8

    The communion of saints like this and say, "hit that like button!"

  • @pinkelephant4958
    @pinkelephant4958 Місяць тому +6

    God is so merciful! John’s conversion story is beautiful. Thank you both for this wonderful episode.

  • @janeteshenbaugh4634
    @janeteshenbaugh4634 Місяць тому +7

    Amen John!!! God bless you and your family.

  • @theresakendziora8992
    @theresakendziora8992 Місяць тому +10

    I got holy ghost chills a bunch of times during this testimony...thanks for sharing guys

  • @matthewalexander2436
    @matthewalexander2436 Місяць тому +8

    As a traditional cradle trad, I just love what protestants bring to the faith. They just have charisms we don't have, plain and simple.
    God bless you both.
    Riveting testimony!
    Just love it. ❤💪❤

  • @pdxnikki1
    @pdxnikki1 Місяць тому +6

    You always get the best testimonies! Thanks again, Eddie the Edifier

  • @marissabuyao2092
    @marissabuyao2092 Місяць тому +10

    great testimony ❤

  • @sanoroo
    @sanoroo Місяць тому +9

    I am humbled by the courage of John and the men who have responded to the call. God bless you all.

  • @carakerr4081
    @carakerr4081 Місяць тому +12

    Looking forward to listening! Thank you both for another wonderful testimony! May God bless you both always! 🙏

  • @darmat6288
    @darmat6288 Місяць тому +6

    The Lord is so merciful. Great is our God. Psalm 130:4

  • @sheilatejada7748
    @sheilatejada7748 Місяць тому +5

    🙏❤️ God is good all the time 🙏❤️

  • @unitedwingsofliberty7899
    @unitedwingsofliberty7899 Місяць тому +5

    Very heavy testimony John you have a purpose I needed to hear this

  • @georgerafa5041
    @georgerafa5041 Місяць тому +1

    I wish I had a friend like John in my parish back home. God bless you, brother.

  • @AvaCherry189
    @AvaCherry189 Місяць тому +1

    John your testimony is touching and deep. Thank you. Eddie, you are the best, you let your guests speak and you never interrupt. You are and have a gift. God bless you both.

  • @franciscoavelar615
    @franciscoavelar615 Місяць тому +4

    Welcome home brother.

  • @BensWorkshop
    @BensWorkshop Місяць тому +4

    Not the first time I have watched John's testimony. So I have just sat and watched it a second time for an hour and 21 minutes. Put aside for a moment that Eddie is an excellent presenter who knows when to speak and when to remain silent, John's testimony has power. The devil is cunning but God is Love. God is strong.

    • @BensWorkshop
      @BensWorkshop Місяць тому +1

      Also I have emailed it to one of my sons.

  • @jbottsie
    @jbottsie Місяць тому

    Holy cow!!! What a powerful testimony!!! Absolutely flabbergasted. Praying for John and his ministry and family. ❤

  • @sunnylife7934
    @sunnylife7934 Місяць тому

    I’m a grateful Catholic!!!!!

  • @antoniadasilva5328
    @antoniadasilva5328 Місяць тому

    Again, another deep testimony!!

  • @glennlanham6309
    @glennlanham6309 Місяць тому +1

    Keep coming back!!

  • @milagrosamistoso5650
    @milagrosamistoso5650 Місяць тому

    That's an amazing testimony and thank you for sharing,❤🇨🇦

  • @Psalm51.
    @Psalm51. Місяць тому

    Amazing testimony!

  • @FeroxMinisterium
    @FeroxMinisterium Місяць тому

    Wow what an amazing video! Thank you for the testimony John! The parts with "This is the Body of Christ" and "My Grace is Sufficient" hit me heard and got me watery!

  • @shanahendricks9831
    @shanahendricks9831 Місяць тому

    Would love to hear your wife's side of this testimony ❤ bless you and your family

  • @believer8793
    @believer8793 3 дні тому

    I agree with you at my church as well. No one talks to you. I too came out of Protestantism and they were very friendly there. Why is the church like this? It causes me to question things. If these know, God.

  • @jeromepopiel388
    @jeromepopiel388 Місяць тому +2

    Incredible speaker today! Had me hanging on every word! Wow.
    My life was messed up too but in a different way, no drugs, but no Jesus. Until a friend told me how he came to Christ and was saved. Well I wanted that too but didn't know how (being a Catholic) but started listening to a bible radio station and through a study of Romans, I learned how Jesus has paid for all my sins and how to trust Him. Being born again changes everything.
    John kept asking Jesus for help and that's good but it's not salvation. I never heard him tell about Jesus giving him a fresh start and taking all his sins. He just went to sacramental confession and received absolution, but that's not being born again. Sorry that no one ever explained salvation for him.

    • @BensWorkshop
      @BensWorkshop Місяць тому +5

      You are born again by baptism. See John 3.

    • @jeromepopiel388
      @jeromepopiel388 Місяць тому

      @@BensWorkshop This passage in Jn 3 is often misunderstood but the Bible,not me, is able to interpret itself if we will let it. In scripture, "water" has a normal symbolic meaning. It represents the Holy Spirit as in Ps.1 ,or when Moses struck the Rock (Jesus) and water (Holy Spirit) flowed out. Or "former and latter rain". But especially so in John's gospel. Look at Ch.4, "The woman at the well" John 4:14
      [14]"But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. " Or ch.7....John 7:38
      [38]He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water. (Water=Holy Spirit not baptism) Now return to Jn
      3 in v 8John 3:8
      [8]"The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit." Jesus here described the character of the HS in the work of regeneration. No one is able to see or control the wind, but you feel the effect. So the Holy Spirit. You cannot schedule Him in the bulletin. He is not subject to any one. But the authority for salvation is given to the individual believer. Only the Spirit knows the heart. It can't be turned into a sacrament that men apply. John 1:12-13
      [12]But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:
      [13]Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
      One error always leads to another. If Baptism is the way God uses to deal with sin, then how could the OT saints be saved? Or I also need to ask, if you recognize that in the OT it was the blood of animals upon the altar that covered sins, then how could it be water that is the cure for sin now? Did God change his mind? Then I must also ask, if it is water that deals with sins, then for what reason did Jesus shed His blood? Do you see the problems that wrong doctrine causes?

    • @pathue1196
      @pathue1196 Місяць тому +1

      @jerome...
      "(being Catholic)"...well you really need to immerse yourself in the faith to really know it and to know what you are saying. YOU were SAVED at infant baptism - from original sin (for which no one can confess to a priest since we did not commit it.)
      At baptism you received the grace of God in the Holy Spirit but you still retain your free will. Your understanding of 'salvation' is a Protestant one (and check out the difference between Calvinist and Arminian Protestant salvation 😮). For Catholics, we were saved, we are being saved and we will be saved...IF we live in Christ the Way, the Truth and the Life...we were saved by grace in faith and through how we live our lives in good works...Matt25:31-46; James2:18-24
      I am 'being Catholic' and constantly discovering just how deep in TRUTH of CHRIST my Catholic faith is. Peace of Christ be with you 🙏✝️

    • @BensWorkshop
      @BensWorkshop Місяць тому +1

      @@jeromepopiel388 For the avoidance of doubt I was referring to John 3:1-15.
      Specifically John 3:5:
      Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
      So what you are saying is Jesus meant to say (but didn't)
      “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of The Spirit and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
      That does not make sense.
      You wrote:
      This passage in Jn 3 is often misunderstood but the Bible,not me, is able to interpret itself if we will let it.....

    • @BensWorkshop
      @BensWorkshop Місяць тому +1

      @@pathue1196 Indeed, he should read the Catechism of the Catholic Church for a start.

  • @johnchung6777
    @johnchung6777 Місяць тому

    I remember watching this video before and I have to say this that people don’t know what evils can do to us humans,for what this man John Edward’s went through is just a tiny bit of what evils can do to us humans for there’s a lot lot more that evils can do to us humans not only in human situations but even in learning and finding understanding of the teachings and understanding of the true things of God in his One Holy Apostolic Catholic Church of Traditional Teachings and Worship.And it seems so obvious that finally John Edward’s had a most powerful revelation from Jesus Christ to see with the eyes of his spirit to know the difference between God and Lucifer in this immense battle that we humans are caught up in everyday.And I do pray that John takes full advantage of Jesus Christ in the seven sacraments of the One Holy Apostolic Catholic Church of Traditional Teachings and Worship yeah alleluia Deo Gratis Amen 🙏 🐑🕊️✨🔥