Brief History of John Ragsdale ?

[SDG]

Does anyone know if JR has Oneness roots??? ...

Yesterday and today he is ministering at a UPCI church in CA ....

I've visited his website and heard some of his music ... it's pretty good.

Someone said that he is awesome at ministering ....

[DividedThigh]

is this the older one, probably not or the younger john ragsdale from mississippi, dt

[SDG]

http://www.johnragsdale.com/

[ChicagoPastor]

I think he's out of Kenneth Phillip's church...

[DividedThigh]

that is the one, john was an older teen when i knew him at camps in mississippi, his dad was a upc pastor, looks like he def outgrew that, lol,dt

[tamor]

Does anyone know if JR has Oneness roots??? ...

Yesterday and today he is ministering at a UPCI church in CA ....

I've visited his website and heard some of his music ... it's pretty good.

Someone said that he is awesome at ministering ....

He comes to L & T Jackson pretty often. Sherri could probably tell you more about his beliefs.

[ManOfWord]

He is definitely from Promise Land. He was there and was a worship leader during the "toupee" revival as it was affectionately called. He has launched out on his own with music ministry. He is a really top notch guy from all I know.

[DividedThigh]

john may have been there and come out of bro phippips church but he grew up in mississippi and his dad was upc, sounds like he still is comfortable with the upc churches, definitely oneness dan, and a good kid, probably is about 40 now, i knew him as an older teen and a young man of course, before marriage, children and all this singin and writin stuff, lol,dt:bliss

[James Griffin]

True to everything above.

Believe he is headquartered in TN right now.

AMAZING praise and worship leader as well as gifted in personal prophetic gifts.

Was priviledged to spend some time with him last year at a conference in Austin.

[Jack Shephard]

You might want to ask CC1. He is very well versed on the Promiseland church and for a while it seemed that 'Rags' was based out of CC in Nashville. I heard him mention at one of PL services I watched over the net that they live in Nashville now and CC1 said once that they were suppose to base out of CC. Maybe that is it, but I do know he has 1-ness roots and still goes by them, it seems.

[DividedThigh]

well that makes sense since his website says he is based out of nashville now, good guy, dt:bliss

[lisafitzh2o]

Yes, he's from Mississippi...went to JCM in the early '90s....sang with the Lanny Wolfe Singers...

He's a great guy. Even as a teenager, he had an anointing and was always known as a worshipper.

[hometown guy]

Does anyone know if JR has Oneness roots??? ...

Yesterday and today he is ministering at a UPCI church in CA ....

I've visited his website and heard some of his music ... it's pretty good.

Someone said that he is awesome at ministering ....

what church in CA is he ministering at?

[SDG]

what church in CA is he ministering at?


At Epicenter ... pastored by Joe Hunt ...
http://www.epicenterchurch.com (http://www.epicenterchurch.com)

He's been there before ...

If you go to their video archive ... there's a clip.

[James Griffin]

Joe Hunt is a great man.

Met him a few months ago.

Believe he used to be Jonathan Suber's youth pastor in LA

[Ferd]

I know this much, i checked out his site, and that dude can sing.

[tamor]

I know this much, i checked out his site, and that dude can sing.

Yes he can!

[James Griffin]

Ferd,

Personally the greatest thing wasn't his singing, great as it was. He just has a special anointing as a praise and worship leader to bring a congregation into an intense awareness of God's presence.

Hard to describe, just one of those "just have to experience it" things.

[Scott Hutchinson]

As far as I know this brother was borned and raised oneness pentecostal.
I understand His dad was a Oneness Pentecostal pastor.

[Darcie]

He's going to be ministering here in Jackson on the 20th.

[Neck]

Does anyone know if JR has Oneness roots??? ...

Yesterday and today he is ministering at a UPCI church in CA ....

I've visited his website and heard some of his music ... it's pretty good.

Someone said that he is awesome at ministering ....

John Ragsdale does have Oneness Roots. His Dad pastored a church in Mississippi.

We visited them when I was a young child.

His dad was in the UPCI.

John Ragsdale was a worship pastor at Kenneth Phiilips church in Austin for a few years.

John is an awesome man of God.

My dad Prophecied over him as a young child.

So his mom tells the story.

That he would sing and minister to the nations.

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He then prophecied over me and my wife earlier this year.

When he later asked me my name.

He got really excited.

He shared with his mom this story.

I told him the Lord works in those ways...

[Neck]

http://www.johnragsdale.com/

That is him and he was raised UPCI.

[Neck]

True to everything above.

Believe he is headquartered in TN right now.

AMAZING praise and worship leader as well as gifted in personal prophetic gifts.

Was priviledged to spend some time with him last year at a conference in Austin.

Yes he now is out of Nashville.

His brother and sister write songs for many of the popular country music singers of our time.

[Neck]

He's going to be ministering here in Jackson on the 20th.

He is going to be in Racine, WI at our church True Life Ministries, Pastor Jeff Butler on May 18th for 2 services.

[Sherri]

John's mom was my first dorm dean at PBI/JCM in the seventies. He preaches for us often, and is actually coming twice in the next month. He's awesome, singing and preaching and prophesying. Our church loves him and his sweet family!

He definitely has UPC roots, but ministers in more places than just oneness Pentecostal churches.

[Sister Alvear]

Just finished listening to him sing...what an awesome voice.

[Neck]

John's mom was my first dorm dean at PBI/JCM in the seventies. He preaches for us often, and is actually coming twice in the next month. He's awesome, singing and preaching and prophesying. Our church loves him and his sweet family!

He definitely has UPC roots, but ministers in more places than just oneness Pentecostal churches.

I found John to be one of the most genuine ministers that I have heard in a long time...

[SDG]

John ministering right now ... LIVE

http://www.tagmediastreaming.com/vplayer_v1/?cid=2&vid=7

[CC1]

The bits and pieces about John Ragsdale on this thread are mostly correct.

-He was raised UPC and is the son of a former UPC minister.
-He went to Jcm.
-He "went charismatic" in the sense that many UPC people think of it.
-He spent about 7 years as an aissistant or associate pastor to Kenneth Phillipis at Promiseland Church in Austin. From about 1998 or 1999 until around three years ago when he moved to Nashville where he evangelizes from.

He often visits back to minister at KP's Promiseland church and KP has been trying to get him to come back full time.

John is married to a beautiful wife, Kristen, and has a couple of young boys.

John is one of the most talented individuals I have ever met. He sings great, preaches great, and married great!!!

It was John Ragsdale who "co-starred" with Randy Phillips on the praise and worship telecast "The Awakening" for several years that aired on TBN and INSP Christian television networks.

John ministers in many different churches, both Oneness and not.

[Raven]

The bits and pieces about John Ragsdale on this thread are mostly correct.

-He was raised UPC and is the son of a former UPC minister.
-He went to Jcm.
-He "went charismatic" in the sense that many UPC people think of it.
-He spent about 7 years as an aissistant or associate pastor to Kenneth Phillipis at Promiseland Church in Austin. From about 1998 or 1999 until around three years ago when he moved to Nashville where he evangelizes from.

He often visits back to minister at KP's Promiseland church and KP has been trying to get him to come back full time.

John is married to a beautiful wife, Kristen, and has a couple of young boys.

John is one of the most talented individuals I have ever met. He sings great, preaches great, and married great!!!

It was John Ragsdale who "co-starred" with Randy Phillips on the praise and worship telecast "The Awakening" for several years that aired on TBN and INSP Christian television networks.

John ministers in many different churches, both Oneness and not.

I have always been impressed when I've heard John Ragsdale sing and minister. Isn't there a connection with him and Harold Ray Ragsdale aka Ray Stevens?
Raven

[Neck]

The bits and pieces about John Ragsdale on this thread are mostly correct.

-He was raised UPC and is the son of a former UPC minister.
-He went to Jcm.
-He "went charismatic" in the sense that many UPC people think of it.
-He spent about 7 years as an aissistant or associate pastor to Kenneth Phillipis at Promiseland Church in Austin. From about 1998 or 1999 until around three years ago when he moved to Nashville where he evangelizes from.

He often visits back to minister at KP's Promiseland church and KP has been trying to get him to come back full time.

John is married to a beautiful wife, Kristen, and has a couple of young boys.

John is one of the most talented individuals I have ever met. He sings great, preaches great, and married great!!!

It was John Ragsdale who "co-starred" with Randy Phillips on the praise and worship telecast "The Awakening" for several years that aired on TBN and INSP Christian television networks.

John ministers in many different churches, both Oneness and not.

That is the John Ragsdale I know...

[Enlightened]

His web site says he believes that Jesus is sitting at the right hand of God waiting to come back. So much for the oneness.

He ministered today at Champion Life Centre in Spring, TX. He is definitely an awesome evangelist.

[James Griffin]

His web site says he believes that Jesus is sitting at the right hand of God waiting to come back. So much for the oneness.

He ministered today at Champion Life Centre in Spring, TX. He is definitely an awesome evangelist.

John is very much Oneness. And a great evangelist/psalmist/prophet.

I wish I could have seen him this morning, but it was just the 10AM service and I have obligations at ROL.

[mizpeh]

His web site says he believes that Jesus is sitting at the right hand of God waiting to come back. So much for the oneness.

He ministered today at Champion Life Centre in Spring, TX. He is definitely an awesome evangelist.

You must be joking about someone not being Oneness if they believe Jesus is sitting on the right hand of God, right?

Mr 16:19 So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.


Lu 22:69 Hereafter shall the Son of man sit on the right hand of the power of God.


Ac 7:55 But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,


Ac 7:56 And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.


Ro 8:34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.


Col 3:1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.


Heb 10:12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;


Heb 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.


1Pe 3:22 Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.

[Steve Epley]

I never heard of him?

[CC1]

You must be joking about someone not being Oneness if they believe Jesus is sitting on the right hand of God, right?

Mr 16:19 So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.


Lu 22:69 Hereafter shall the Son of man sit on the right hand of the power of God.


Ac 7:55 But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,


Ac 7:56 And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.


Ro 8:34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.


Col 3:1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.


Heb 10:12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;


Heb 12:2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.


1Pe 3:22 Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.


That post you reference astonished me also. If Rags is a trinitarian for saying that then the Bible is triitarian because it says the same thing.

Of course that is one of those scriptures that many Oneness folks are uncomfortable with so in all fairness perhaps the poster was not familiar with it.

[mizpeh]

That post you reference astonished me also. If Rags is a trinitarian for saying that then the Bible is triitarian because it says the same thing.

Of course that is one of those scriptures that many Oneness folks are uncomfortable with so in all fairness perhaps the poster was not familiar with it.

Does God have a literal right hand?

[Enlightened]

No I am familiar with the scripture, however based on what I read from his belief statement on his web site "He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty, from where he will come again" that he believes Jesus is literally sitting at the right hand of God. This is not what a typical oneness believer would state in his belief statement.

Now, I don't know him as many on here do so I can't say for sure, so I defer to those that do know him. It was simply an observation that may have been hasty on my part, but still..it seemed odd.

[rgcraig]

No I am familiar with the scripture, however based on what I read from his belief statement on his web site "He ascended into heaven and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty, from where he will come again" that he believes Jesus is literally sitting at the right hand of God. This is not what a typical oneness believer would state in his belief statement.

Now, I don't know him as many on here do so I can't say for sure, so I defer to those that do know him. It was simply an observation that may have been hasty on my part, but still..it seemed odd.

How do you rationalize the many scriptures Miz listed above?

[rgcraig]

Does God have a literal right hand?

He does through Jesus.

[Scott Hutchinson]

The Right hand of God is symbolic for God's authority.

[chosenbyone]

He does through Jesus.

Renda,

I love your new avatar! I never knew you had such beautiful blue eyes!

CB1

[rgcraig]

Renda,

I love your new avatar! I never knew you had such beautiful blue eyes!

CB1

Thanks!

I finally took off my sunglasses! :happydance

My blue eyes are about all I passed down to my daughter. This photo is untouched so you can see just how blue her eyes are when the light catches them.

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f108/rgcraig/TarahDevin-engagement009.jpg

To bring this back to John Ragsdale - when he ministered at my daughter's church he told her that her spirit reminded him a lot of his wife's. It made an impression with her.

[timlan2057]

Thanks!

I finally took off my sunglasses! :happydance

My blue eyes is about all I passed down to my daughter. This photo is untouched so you can see just how blue her eyes are when the light catches them.

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Now you shouldn't say that is "all" you passed down to her.

She's beautiful and she looks so much like you around 1977.

I mean, not that you're not good lookin' now but we were ALL younger then.

I thought leading up to the reunion after seeing other JCM classmates' pictures of their kids that if you could get the kids together for a group photo, you'd swear it was us back on "The Farm."

[rgcraig]

Now you shouldn't say that is "all" you passed down to her.

She's beautiful and she looks so much like you around 1977.

I mean, not that you're not good lookin' now but we were ALL younger then.

I thought leading up to the reunion after seeing other JCM classmates' pictures of their kids that if you could get the kids together for a group photo, you'd swear it was us back on "The Farm."

LOL! Now, that would be so neat! Can you imagine our kids actually agreeing to "live" on the farm?

[mizpeh]

He does through Jesus.

True, but it would be impossible for Jesus to sit at his own right hand!

God is a Spirit. Spirit's don't have right hands or left hands. The right hand of God is an anthropomorphism that signifies a position of strength and power. If you look up right hand in the OT as it is applies to God, you can see that more clearly.

Ex 15:6 Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.

Ps 16:11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.

Ps 89:13 Thou hast a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, and high is thy right hand.

Mt 26:6 Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto you, Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.

http://www.geocities.com/robert_upci/right_hand_of_god_bernard.htm

[Theresa]

y'all didnt mention that John has a sister that is by far one of the worlds most beautiful women....

and I think JR gave toof his nickname

[GraceAmazing]

Doesn't his sister write music like he does? I've heard she's a great writer!