CowboyCountryGospel

The purpose of CowboyCountryGospel is to provide you with practical helps in some key areas of your calling. We want to address the needs of pastor, preacher and/or teacher as well as the Christian lay person. It is specifically designed to help meet your ministry needs in such areas as . . .

• Sermon Preparation
• Sermon and Teaching Material
• Small Group Bible Studies
• Outreach
• Personal Devotions

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The Real Deal

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I carry an 1878 Morgan silver dollar in my pocket. I do it for a couple of reasons. For one, a dear friend gave it to me a number of years ago and told me that every time I reached in my pocket and felt the coin, it would be a reminder that he was praying for me–a pretty good reason.

But there’s another reason. I carry it because it is authentic. It is the real deal. it is the most authentic thing I have that actually identifies me with the cowboy of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It is the exact currency cowboys carried in their pockets and used to buy, sell and  trade.

You know the old saying, “If only this coin could talk!” I often rub the silver dollar between my thumb and finger and wonder, where all has this coin been? How many pockets, how may hands have handled it? How many …

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To Walk With Jesus

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Pat Erickson “Long Time Partners”

Buck Brannaman is one of the original “horse whisperers.” For years he was a student of Ray Hunt and also of Tom and Bill Dorrance, all followers of a horse-training movement called. “natural horsemanship.” We know it by its more common name, ‘Horse Whisperer.’

A movie was made of Buck Brannaman, simply entitled “Buck”.  The movie follows Buck from one horse ranch to another where he holds horsemanship and cattle-roping clinics.

Buck said that he has been training horses since he was 12-years-old. He said that he has been bitten, kicked, buckled-off and run over. In the movie, Buck confessed, “I’ve tried every physical means to contain my horse in an effort to keep from getting myself killed. I started to realize that things …

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How do I Forgive Someone who has Hurt Me?

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The other day I felt like I had been terribly wronged by a friend. I felt betrayed, let down and hurt. I wish that I had left it at just feeling hurt, but I didn’t. After I had thought a while about his actions and his words, my feelings turned from hurt to anger. “Why did he do that?” Why did he say what he did?” “Why did he hurt me?” But most of all, why was I so angry?

That night I went to bed angry. Yeah, as a Christian I know we are not supposed to. Paul says Ephesians 4:26 “Do not let the sun go down on your anger.” But I did and I didn’t sleep a wink all night.

Next morning I knew that I needed to do something about this and the thing I needed to do was to forgive him. No matter how wronged by him I felt and no matter how hurt, the thing I needed to do for my own physical, mental …

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A Selfless Act of Courage that Saved Others

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John Wayne said, “Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”

Enough good cannot be said about Kendrick Ray Castillo, the High School senior at STEM School in Highlands Ranch, Colorado who tackled the shooter at the STEM School shooting, an act of bravery that probably saved the lives of many other students.

No one knows what went through the mind of this brave young man before charging out of his seat and tackling the gunman. But according to reports his action was instantaneous, without thought for his own life or well-being.

Truly it was an act of bravery and courage. Had it not been for him and the aid of the other two students who helped tackle the shooter, others possibly would have been either wounded or killed.

Young people going to the dogs? Not on your life! I bet my-boots any day on a generation of young men and women like Kendrick Ray Castillo.

May the name, Kendrick Ray Castillo be long remembered as the courageous young hero of Highlands Ranch, Colorado who gave up his life that others could live.

 

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