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mcottrell655
Mar 12, 20222 min read
TWO CRIMINALS AND ONE BAD ASSUMPTION!
We find an interesting exchange in the Gospel of Luke in the 23rd chapter. The setting is the crucifixion of Jesus along with two...
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mcottrell655
Mar 5, 20224 min read
"WOKE" TO WHAT?
I exist in a racially diverse world. I come in contact with people of many different nationalities weekly. What is interesting about my...
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mcottrell655
Feb 21, 20222 min read
MADE FOR PEACE!
In Luke 19:38-41 the writer describes for us the scene as Jesus enters for the last time into Jerusalem before his crucifixion. The...
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mcottrell655
Feb 20, 20223 min read
BEING IS BETTER THAN DOING!
I often write about how different our western Christian thinking is from the Hebrew way of thinking in which the Bible was written. One...
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mcottrell655
Feb 5, 20222 min read
YOU ARE A WINNER!
“We are more than conquerors through Him (God) who loved us.” Romans 8:37 Notice the writer here doesn’t say God will make us more than...
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mcottrell655
Jan 27, 20222 min read
A DIVERSE NATION UNDER GOD WAS THEIR IDEA
While diversity has always been a struggle in the United States, it has, and is our strength. People from different walks of life, from...
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mcottrell655
Jan 25, 20223 min read
THE GOSPEL SHOULD NOT BE FOR SALE!
The automobile was first built to provide horseless-drawn carriages as a means for transportation. The goal was to make long-distance...
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mcottrell655
Jan 23, 20222 min read
UNCOMMON MOVEMENT
Several months ago I had emergency oral surgery were I had an abscessed tooth removed. When the dentist spoke to me he didn’t lecture me...
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mcottrell655
Jan 20, 20223 min read
HOW DID THE BIBLE COME TO BE?
In the protestant bible there are 66 different books which make up the Old and New Testaments. In the Catholic bible and Eastern...
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mcottrell655
Jan 16, 20225 min read
CONTEXT TELLS THE REAL STORY - Understanding Revelation
The book of Revelation is a book of mystery and impossible to understand apart from understanding the context within the book and the...
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mcottrell655
Jan 15, 20221 min read
A NEW YOU
“But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because...
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mcottrell655
Jan 11, 20223 min read
CONDEMN THE RUST NOT THE MASTERPIECE
I was sitting in the small cafeteria of Gulf Coast Bible College in Houston, Texas when I read for the first time Johnathan Edwards...
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mcottrell655
Jan 9, 20223 min read
MAKE A CHANGE
Modern technologies have eliminated our excuse we didn’t know. We live in a time when the whole world is in our living room. There was...
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mcottrell655
Jan 7, 20222 min read
FREEDOM
Paul writes to the church in Corinth these words, “‘I have the right to do anything’, you say - but not everything is beneficial. ‘I...
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mcottrell655
Jan 6, 20223 min read
A GOD OF SURPRISE!
“The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.” John 10:10. Jesus...
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mcottrell655
Jan 5, 20223 min read
SODOM & GOMORRAH - NOT WHAT YOU'VE BEEN TOLD
I’m constantly reminding people in my writings the importance of context; but in this article I want to deal with the danger of...
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mcottrell655
Jan 3, 20222 min read
PARTY MESSIAH
I grew up attending a very legalistic church where we were not permitted to go to the movies, play cards, or dance. In other words, as a...
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mcottrell655
Jan 2, 20223 min read
HAVING SIGHT BUT NOT SEEING!
In the gospel of John the ninth chapter Jesus gives sight to a man born blind on the Sabbath. As one would expect with such a miracle...
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mcottrell655
Jan 1, 20222 min read
YOU MATTER! MAKE IT COUNT!
Jesus proclaimed in Luke 4:18-19 his mission for His/ the Church’s ministry: “The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me...
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mcottrell655
Dec 31, 20213 min read
GOD DESERVES GRACE?
We have all received grace from God. Grace can be defined as “giving honor to another”, “expressing or giving favor”, “showing...
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