The Ben Cotten Podcast: Recent Episodes
Ben Cotten
Reconciliation is something most people want, but do not know how to get it. It’s about more than a cease-fire. It’s about a future relationship that continues in wholeness. This requires 3 basic elements to...
The current rhetoric of conservative Christian voices carries a concerning tone that we need to address. Matthew 23:23-24 helps us along the way.
I’m hoping to contribute to the national conversation happening right now regarding racism and collective guilt by pointing at two words we seem to have forgotten: culpability and responsibility. And, once again, Jesus leads us...
We are doing a sermon series on parenting right now at the Church. I found this great verse that I’m going to use regarding disciplining your kids. It’s both hilarious, and helpful all at the...
Intro Over the past couple months, we have had several guest speakers come to the church. All of them are fathers in the faith. 1 of them was my actual father, and the other was...
I preached the book of Jonah on Sunday. The big idea of Jonah’s story is that Jonah couldn’t manage to love his enemies. He wanted to receive the mercy of God, but he was not...
Today I’m thinking about the immigration issue that’s so hot on the news right now. Specifically this tragedy that has been happening now for a long time, with the kids in cages down near the...
There is a Christian “code of conduct”. There is a way that all followers of Christ should act, across all of time. This does not negate the gift of grace. This doesn’t compete with grace....
When in exile, kinship matters more. Or maybe we just take it for granted. DEFINE: kinship – 1. the state or fact of being of kin; family relationship 2. relationship by nature, qualities, etc.; affinity...