BDCMINISTRIES

BDCMinistries--The Website of Bruce and Geneva Collins

Greetings dear friends,

I’m Bruce Collins. I am an evangelist and teacher of the Bible. I became a child of God by faith in the person and work of the Lord Jesus Christ on November 24, 1963 and have tried to serve the Lord in various capacities since then. I am presently a self-employed minister of the Gospel. I do not work for an organization but I try to serve the Lord in the best way that I can wherever He leads. That means that my wife and I have our financial needs met by the Lord as we do not have a salary from any church or organization.  We believe that the Gospel is free so we have never made a charge for our services.

I am available for Bible studies, conferences, Gospel meetings, children’s meetings and camp work. I have traveled throughout much of the United States and Canada in my service for the Lord. My wife helps me, and we attend the Bethany Bible Chapel in Cedar Falls, Iowa. They have encouraged us by commending us for this work.

My wife, Geneva and I live in Waterloo, Iowa. We have four children. One of them is married and has provided us with two grandchildren.

This web site has a weekly meditation that I hope will encourage you. It has links to literature and organizations that I think are helpful. You can also listen to my weekly radio program here.

Yours because of Calvary,

Bruce Collins 

4008 University Ave., Ste 1 

Waterloo, IA 50701-5651


319.230.9140

collinsbd@hotmail.com

My Two Cents Worth

 

 

INDEX:

If you would like to read a classic Gospel Tract called GOD’S WAY OF SALVATION go here

For another classic Gospel Tract called God is Satisfied! Are You go here

For Important Personal Scriptures go here

For an open letter to my friends and neighbors go here

For the story of how I was saved go here

For the story of how my wife was saved go here

For the story of Merlyn VandeKrol–You Have About a Year to live! (a friend who died from cancer) go here

For the Rest of the Story–Merlyn’s Wife Karen go here

For answers to questions that I have been asked go here

For a women’s perspective on head coverings go here

For a manual on how to preach the Gospel that has been used with camp counselors go here

For an OVERVIEW OF THE BIBLE AND SOME PRINCIPLES OF BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION go here

For a PROPHETIC CHART go here

For a published article on FAITh, What is it? go here

For the story of the George Street Evangelist go to George Street

For links to other helpful websites go here

For the On-Line Blue Letter Bible go here

For the On-Line Bible Studies Tool go here

Bruce and Geneva

One Sacrifice for Sins Forever

 

But this Man, after He had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down at the right hand of God, (Hebrews 10:12 NKJV)

 

Old Testament Sacrifices

I have been reading through Leviticus and have noted the detailed instructions given for the sacrifices that the nation of Israel was asked to offer to God.  There was a burnt offering, a meal offering, a peace or thanksgiving offering, the trespass offering and the sin offering.  Each one was to be offered at special times in special ways.  We know that it took all of those offerings to give us some sense of the value of the one sacrifice for sins forever that we read about in the book of Hebrews.  The sacrifices in the Old Testament had to be repeated over and over again.  Our sacrifice in the new testament was offered only once and will never be repeated.  The only thing that is repeated is the remembrance of this one sacrifice for sins forever in the Lord's supper.  I am convinced that the Old Testament sacrifices did not "save" but were the way those who were "saved by faith" worshipped their Savior (Jehovah).  In like manner, the Lord's supper does not save but is the way the saved show their faith.  But demonstrating faith in the Old Testament was a much more complicated matter than showing our faith in the New Testament era.

 

New Testament Simplicity

The Lord has made things fairly simple in the New Testament.  We are to trust or believe in the Lord and then get baptized to show that trust.  We then remember Him "often" in the ceremonial Lord's supper.  Of course, living a life pleasing to the Lord subsequent to salvation is one evidence of salvation or the "new birth."   

 

In the Old Testament if the rituals were not carried out exactly, death or at least separation from the congregation would be the result.  In the New Testament, we are given some instructions on how to "remember" or "memorialize" the Lord, but when the instructions are not followed, the Lord does not immediately judge that disobedience with death. 

 

What About Those who "Believe not?"

 

In the Old Testament, there were a lot of people that "believed not (KJV)." Jude reminds us, "But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe (Jude 1:5 NKJV)."  I suspect that there are a lot of people in the New Testament who carry out ceremonies in the way that they want to carry them out who also "believe not."  Some baptize infants.  Some claim that taking the Lord's supper forgives sins.  I could go on and on.  They complicate what is really fairly easy to understand.   But for those who truly want to please God, it seems to me that things are a lot simpler in the New Testament.  We have "one sacrifice for sins" that we who are "saved"  believe in and remember. But we do not have to be legal experts to please the Lord by the multitude of sacrifices that were repeated over and over again in the Old Testament. 

 

I am glad that I am a New Testament believer in that one sacrifice for sins forever.  I am not sure that I would have survived the requirements of the worship of Old Testament believers.

 

Bruce Collins

 

Meditation for the weeks of February 1, 8, and 15, 2026



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PROGRAMS

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For Archived Meditations go here

 

THREE MUSTS:

Do not marvel that I said to you, 'You must be born again.' (John 3:7 NKJV)

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:14-15 NKJV)

Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved." 
(Acts 4:12 NKJV)