Fr. Barnabas Powell, Author at Faith Encouraged Ministries

Bind on Earth; Bound in Heaven!

BlogNovember 8, 2019619Views 0Likes 0Comments

I’ve heard this so many times: Why can’t I find love? What’s wrong with me? The expectations of some fairy tale notions wound us and wound our children. And that, dearest, is precisely the evil one’s intentions. Because the end result of these fantasies is the depressing lie that there is no such thing as…

Taste Suffering SO THAT You Can Taste Glory

BlogNovember 7, 2019487Views 0Likes 0Comments

Sometimes, the scriptures say things that really unsettle me. But I’ve learned when that happens, that’s a clue that I am approaching a place in my own heart that needs attention. And it’s beginning to dawn on me that most of the time I am unsettled by the wisdom of the Faith it’s because this…

Freedom from Anxiety

BlogNovember 6, 2019418Views 0Likes 0Comments

Well, the truth is I was worried (OK, actually worried and scared). I had never faced anything like this before and all I had ever heard was this situation was serious. And it was. But as I stood there waiting to face the music I so dreaded, I noticed something. My anxiety and fear were…

Your Hunger Reveals Your Heart

BlogNovember 5, 2019408Views 0Likes 0Comments

“You are what you eat.” So goes the saying that has at times served as a means to get people to have better diets, and a way for philosophers to reduce the human person to merely a thinking animal, and even to theologians trying to have folks consider the profound teaches of the Eucharist. For the…

The Temptation of Misplaced Trust

BlogNovember 4, 2019418Views 0Likes 1Comment

Say what you will about the old TV shows: They were naive. They weren’t completely honest. They were sentimental. All of that may be true, but at least they attempted to foster the best of our hopes and dreams rather than pandering to our lowest desires. One such show was “Father Knows Best.” Robert Young played…

The Dead End of Comparison

BlogNovember 1, 2019450Views 0Likes 1Comment

“Excellence” is a term we hear a lot in sports and in business. And that ties the word to an idea of achievement or progress. But there is also an application of “excellence” when it comes to your relationship with God, and that has little to do with achievement or progress and everything to do with…

Woe, Nellie!

BlogOctober 31, 2019568Views 0Likes 0Comments

One of the greatest attractions to me towards the Orthodox Church was the continuity of practice and, more importantly, a real connection to the People of God. There’s an old story about a British journalist visiting the library of one of the ancient monasteries on Mt. Athos in Greece. He was walking among the stacks with the…

God Had Mercy!

BlogOctober 30, 2019425Views 0Likes 0Comments

“The best-laid plans of mice and men…” Most of us at least try to achieve a “planned life.” We plan for college. We plan our careers. We plan our relationships. We are forever warned against haphazard living, and rightly so because a haphazard life tends toward chaos and misery. Even our faith has all the earmarks…

I’m Glad! You Be Glad Too!

BlogOctober 29, 2019528Views 0Likes 0Comments

“Here’s a little song I wrote. You might want to sing it note for note. Don’t worry! Be happy!” Yep, I loved that song, for about a day, and then it was being played so often I got sick of it rather quickly! But still, Bobby McFerrin captured in his “little song” a notion we Christians…

A Tent Was Prepared

BlogOctober 28, 2019518Views 0Likes 0Comments

I’m not a big, outdoorsy, guy. So, camping out was never something I really enjoyed, except for this one time. Me and my best friend, Mark, had a great “fort” in the woods near our apartment complex in Orlando when I was about 11 or 12. Being central Florida, the pine trees in these woods…

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Fr. Barnabas Powell

Bind on Earth; Bound in Heaven!

Taste Suffering SO THAT You Can Taste Glory

Freedom from Anxiety

Your Hunger Reveals Your Heart

The Temptation of Misplaced Trust

The Dead End of Comparison

Woe, Nellie!

God Had Mercy!

I’m Glad! You Be Glad Too!

A Tent Was Prepared

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