Building People like Barnabas

Acts 11:19-23 As the news spread among the believers, they were horrified. The stoning of Stephen caused them to clearly understand: there were those who hated the Gospel of Christ. Saul’s threats of slaughter only put the exclamation point on the reality of that...

Being Bold Like Barnabas

Good Hope through Grace Acts 9:26-31 Being bold like Barnabas And when Saul was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himself to the disciples: but they were all afraid of him, and believed not that he was a disciple. But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the...

Being Like Barnabas

Acts 4:36-37 “36 And Joses [Joseph], who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of Cyprus, 37 Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.” How...

What to Do in Dangerous Times

Proverbs 29:8 “Scornful men bring a city into a snare [set a city aflame]: but wise men turn away wrath.” What should we do in these dangerous times? As you and I read the news about our nation, we grow more and more concerned. What will the end of these things be?...

Will You Stay Behind?

2 Kings 2 On this Father’s Day, every father among us would echo the words of Proverbs 5:7, “Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.” It is this sentiment that serves as a backdrop for a startling question in the Scriptures. It...