Fr. Barnabas Powell, Author at Faith Encouraged Ministries

The Power of Paradox

DevotionalOctober 17, 2023166Views 0Likes 0Comments

What would you say is the biggest barrier to people in finding a peaceful and happy life? Bad habits? Not enough money? external enemies that oppress them? Human philosophies and religions have been trying to answer that question for a long time, with limited success. But what if I told you there is an answer to…

Salvation Makes Me Tremble

UncategorizedOctober 16, 2023154Views 0Likes 0Comments

Have you ever experienced the sense of being overwhelmed by an idea or a thought? There is a science fiction movie starring Jodie Foster who plays a scientist looking for life out there in the universe. In the movie Contact, she and her team receive a message from Space that instructs them how to build…

6 Causes of Burnout and How to Avoid Them

EMPOWERMENTOctober 15, 2023248Views 0Likes 0Comments

Are you working in a job or role that has you exhausted? Are the demands so great that even Houdini couldn’t accomplish your to-do list or return all the emails? I’m not talking about just being tired because you haven’t slept through the night in the last two months. I’m talking about the kind of…

Transformed To Be a Cheerful Giver – Sunday’s Homily

Sunday HomilyOctober 14, 2023151Views 0Likes 1Comment

The Apostle Paul tells the Corinthians that God loves a cheerful giver. Why? Because when a human has been transformed to such a degree that they are genuinely happy and glad to give away what they have. When a human has been transformed inside to that point, that human is becoming closer and closer to…

The Delusion of “Scarcity”

DevotionalOctober 13, 2023182Views 0Likes 0Comments

It was actually, physically, painful to hear her say those words. I was at the point of both tears and disbelief. You see, we had the opportunity to help some homeless people in our community by participating, as a parish, in a wonderful ministry to homeless families in our county. We are blessed to live…

The Weight of Past Mistakes

DevotionalOctober 12, 2023158Views 0Likes 0Comments

Edgar Allen Poe writes the psychologically terrifying "Tell Tale Heart" and we watch as the guilt from a murder drives the murderer crazy thinking he hears the heartbeat of his victim. This guilt is destructive to the man in the story and we can readily understand the horror of such a story because we. too,…

Learning to Weather the Storm!

DevotionalOctober 11, 2023165Views 0Likes 0Comments

Jesus warned us that "you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. …

Providing For Him

DevotionalOctober 10, 2023145Views 0Likes 0Comments

It's time to reset what we think "normal" is. For too long we have reduced a Normal Orthodox Life to merely going through the motions. Our parish family has recently done a very thorough and difficult Strategic Planning Initiative where we worked hard over the past few months to take a serious and honest look…

Moved With Compassion

DevotionalOctober 9, 2023169Views 0Likes 2Comments

Is compassion enough to make real change or make good decisions about how to live your life? There are so many voices in our culture today that claim to justify choices about actually changing timeless moral virtues based on their insistence that they are compassionate towards persons who have been marginalized or mistreated. They say…

They Believed

DevotionalOctober 6, 2023179Views 0Likes 3Comments

There's a wonderful little video running around the internet making fun of those who claim the original apostles and followers of Christ were all lying to get ahead. They lied about the resurrection so they could be powerful. Well, if that were true, they were a bunch of idiots, because every one of them, except for…

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Fr. Barnabas Powell

The Power of Paradox

Salvation Makes Me Tremble

6 Causes of Burnout and How to Avoid Them

Transformed To Be a Cheerful Giver – Sunday’s Homily

The Delusion of “Scarcity”

The Weight of Past Mistakes

Learning to Weather the Storm!

Providing For Him

Moved With Compassion

They Believed

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