Fr. Barnabas Powell, Author at Faith Encouraged Ministries

The Whole Fullness of Deity Dwells

BlogJanuary 1, 2020616Views 0Likes 0Comments

Christ is born! And Happy New Year! There's no getting around this. The identity of Jesus Christ is the crux on which human history rests. He's either merely an itinerant Jewish rabbi that fell afoul of the Roman occupiers; a gifted religious teacher and philosopher and "ascended master"; a figment of the imagination of gullible people;…

Another New Year! Thank God

BlogDecember 31, 2019459Views 0Likes 0Comments

Help Us Jump into 2020 strong! Most of us will never travel the world to share the message of Jesus Christ to others in foreign lands. In fact, statistics tell us that most Americans will only travel to 8 states in their lifetime, and some Americans will live and die in the state where they were…

Endings And Beginnings

BlogDecember 31, 2019407Views 0Likes 2Comments

Christ is born! No matter how long any of us live, there's something about the changing of the calendar that invites us to look at ourselves. Benjamin Franklin once said "Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man." Great quote. And here we are…

Give to God What Belongs to God!

BlogDecember 30, 2019425Views 0Likes 0Comments

Christ is born! NASA released the largest picture ever taken. It's made up of 411 snapshots from the Hubble telescope of our nearest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy. The picture is 1.5 billion pixels and takes 4.3 gigs of disk space to load. It's big. But as large as the picture is, the scene it shows is…

St. Stephen and Stiff Necks

BlogDecember 27, 2019433Views 0Likes 1Comment

Christ is Born! "That boy is so hard headed he wouldn't even notice a rock hitting him between the eyes." My grandmother had a way with words, but I've known people like this; so set in their ways that not even plain evidence would move them to change their ways. They were frozen in their…

A Special Message from Fr. Barnabas

BlogDecember 27, 2019576Views 0Likes 0Comments

Christ is Born! I'm sitting in my home office on an early morning thinking about the new year right around the corner, and what God has in store for us for this precious gift of time. And my heart can't escape the one example I see in Christ and all the saints - serve others! But how?…

He Shall Be Called A Nazarene

BlogDecember 26, 2019404Views 0Likes 0Comments

Christ is born! What a busy time of year! As I was preparing for liturgy this morning, I was contemplating my schedule and caught myself becoming distracted from the time of prayer that the liturgy calls me to embrace. I had to exercise my will to banish this distraction so that I could singularly focus on…

Christ Is Born!

BlogDecember 25, 2019484Views 0Likes 0Comments

Christ is Born! Glorify Him. With this traditional greeting we Orthodox Christians mark the beginning of the Feast of the Nativity of the Theanthropos (The God-Man) Jesus Christ. God takes His flesh from one of us in the person of the Theotokos, the Virgin Mary, and comes among us as the One promised by the Prophets…

You Are My Son! Today, I Have Begotten You

BlogDecember 24, 2019463Views 0Likes 0Comments

As we approach Bethlehem to celebrate, it's time to insist on some heavy theology today. So, let's buckle our proverbial seat beats and do some soul stretching theological work out! Jesus Christ is 100% God and, at the very same time 100% Man. As St. Basil declares "What is not assumed is not healed." This powerful…

Marines Don’t Do That!

BlogDecember 23, 2019634Views 0Likes 0Comments

Recently, I read an article by Michael Wheeler of Harvard Business School on how to make necessary split second decisions. Interestingly enough, Mr. Wheeler concluded that these kinds of decisions we all face always flow from our life-long and deeply developed character. Dr. Wheeler's article "Marines Don't Do That: Mastering the Split-Second Decision" concludes that making…

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Fr. Barnabas Powell

The Whole Fullness of Deity Dwells

Another New Year! Thank God

Endings And Beginnings

Give to God What Belongs to God!

St. Stephen and Stiff Necks

A Special Message from Fr. Barnabas

He Shall Be Called A Nazarene

Christ Is Born!

You Are My Son! Today, I Have Begotten You

Marines Don’t Do That!

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