Disciples in Tokyo Olympics...

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- Disciples Today • Jul 27, 2021

Congratulations to these four disciples from our family of churches competing in the 2021 Tokyo Olympic Games!

Daniel Rowden, 23, UK | Men's 800M

Sydney McLaughlin, 21, USA | Women's 400M Hurdles



Kristina Marie Knott, 25, Philippines | Women's 200M

  • Orlando Church of Christ, Orlando, FL
  • Holds the Philippine national record for women's 100M and 200M
  • Competing Round 1 – August 2 at 10:30am JST


Alia Atkinson, 32, Jamaica | Women's Swimming 100M Breaststroke 

  • Broward Church, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
  • Competed July 25


Let's pray for these athletes and cheer them on in this incredible time.

Inspiring...

If you want to be unified - pray with other believers - Malcolm Cox

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I have been contemplating the connection between praying together and unity for a couple of weeks.  It cannot be a coincidence that, right after instructing his disciples how they should resolve a dispute between church people, he tells them this: “Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.” (Matthew 18:19–20) Why is the most explicit passage on Jesus’ desire for unity part of his prayer in John 17? The disciples were there. I imagine they are praying with him, not just hanging out nearby. We do not have a record of what their prayer-response was, if any, but that incident coupled with the text in Matthew 18, as well as the many examples in Acts leads me to surmise that praying together is an essential part of maintaining true Christian unity. What are your thoughts? Two teaching classes and two devotionals are on the YouTube chann
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“THE MEANING OF THE CROSS OF CHRIST” - By Malcolm Cox

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A teaching class  https://youtu.be/5EczzDmmNjg   “A lion’s story should always end with a kill, but the narrative has warned us that it is the lion who will die.” My atonement series can be found here:  https :// youtube . com / playlist ? list = PLJOhHa _ 2t9jDzIj68ID3lX6BnCXRxdy6p The Greek verb paradidomi, to ‘hand over’ to someone else, is used by Jesus of himself in the second and third Passion predictions (9.31; 10.33), and for the fate of his disciples in the three apocalyptic warnings (13.9, 11, 12). Now it is used about Jesus no less than ten times (14.10, 11, 18, 21, 41, 42, 44; 15.1, 10, 15). To most people in the ancient world, the attempt to see meaning in the death of a crucified criminal would have been pointless. Crucifixion was completely forbidden for Roman citizens, and only used for slaves and aliens; to anyone educated in the Greek philosophical tradition of divine detachment from the world, it would have been utter foolishness to seek theological profit from this
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Nagercoil Church - 10th Year Anniversary Celebration

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Psalm 33:4 “For the word of the Lord is upright, and all his work is done in faithfulness.” Nagercoil Church cherished their Tremendous 10th year Anniversary service celebration on Dec 12th 2021 which brought so much faith and togetherness in the presence of God .  Nagercoil Mission was planted in January 2011 with 14 mission team members. Today God blessed the church to grow from 14 to 80 members in 10 years. This is a glorious & faith building manifestation of our God and His Holy Spirit. The celebration started with awe filled worship songs to honor God and followed by the welcome note from Bro.Dillibabu & Sis.Preethi  who leads the Church, later we could hear the inspirational personal experience sharing by the Mission Team members. Bro.Thyagu from Salem Church who was a mission team member preached the Word to the church and the new friends to remind us about the Love of God. Much appreciation to  the disciples in Nagercoil who were faithful all through these years amongs
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