Fr. Barnabas Powell, Author at Faith Encouraged Ministries

The (Very Common) Golden Rule – Sunday’s Homily

Sunday HomilyOctober 6, 202323Views 0Likes 0Comments

God instilled in humanity all across the world "the Seed of the Word." This is God's thumbprint that proves God wants you to know Him AND to know yourself! It is the Orthodox Christian Faith that uniquely teaches we humans how and why we observe the Golden Rule. And that changes everything.

Shall We Look For Another? Tempted to Give Up!

DevotionalOctober 5, 202325Views 0Likes 0Comments

Life can be discouraging at times. A wise man once told me this during a particularly discouraging time in my life: “Son, don’t quit when life is tough. You don’t throw your ticket away just because the train goes through a dark tunnel!” I still remember that today. And yet, there are dark times when…

Be Watchful, Be Sober – Irvine, California

UncategorizedOctober 4, 202332Views 0Likes 1Comment

Dear Faith Encouraged Faithful, I'm looking forward to being at St. Paul's Greek Orthodox Church on October 28 and 29 and they celebrate their parish Name Day! We are going to be exploring how St. Paul directed the early Christians to develop the spiritual disciplines of Attentiveness and Spiritual Sobriety so that the disciples of Jesus can…

Welcome to Our New Home (I HOPE!) :-)

UncategorizedOctober 4, 202337Views 0Likes 5Comments

OK, here we go! Here's praying you are seeing this this morning! We have worked hard to transfer all our devotionals from 2012 to now in this new home. I am so grateful for all the work of our Tech folks at Faith Encouraged to work through what became a great deal more complicated than…

Husbands, Love! Wives, Respect!

DevotionalOctober 4, 202325Views 0Likes 2Comments

To say that marriage is a hot topic today would be an understatement. But, you have to understand that the motivation for all this controversy about marriage today isn’t new. And it isn’t about equality or fairness or even compassion. It’s about attack. It’s about the real, yet unstated goal of some (after all, if…

Asleep To Gratitude – Sunday’s Homily

Sunday HomilyOctober 4, 202320Views 0Likes 0Comments

We live in an affluent age, to the point that this abundance has blinded us to the need to be grateful for God's goodness to us. How do you react when God is good to you? Are you even attentive to the Goodness of God? In a time when we have more than we need…

A Good Tree Bears Good Fruit

DevotionalOctober 3, 202334Views 0Likes 0Comments

The fact is if I went to a garden store and bought a tree they said would grow pears, and, after I planted it fertilized it, watered it, and did all the work to grow my pear tree to maturity so that I could eat my own pears, I would be quite upset if that…

Are You the “Chiefest of Sinners?”

DevotionalOctober 2, 202324Views 0Likes 0Comments

He was actually bragging about being the best at being the worst! I’m not kidding! I sat in front of him staring in absolute disbelief at what I was hearing. I was lamenting the shallow commitment of my own heart to the rigorous practice of the Faith when he said that “his people” were even…

No Self-Conceit

BlogSeptember 29, 202327Views 0Likes 0Comments

There ought to be a law! Isn't it fascinating that the first thing most people think about when there is some conflict or disagreement or some unwanted actions in our society is that there should be some governmental control issued to make people "behave" the way they "should?" Why is "passing a law" or getting…

Blessed Are You

BlogSeptember 28, 202323Views 0Likes 0Comments

One of the greatest consequences of our modern world is that we moderns have been convinced that egalitarianism and individualism have been elevated to the highest good. We insist on a definition of "freedom" that means "I want to do what I want to do!" But the problem is if I do what I want…

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Fr. Barnabas Powell

The (Very Common) Golden Rule – Sunday’s Homily

Shall We Look For Another? Tempted to Give Up!

Be Watchful, Be Sober – Irvine, California

Welcome to Our New Home (I HOPE!) :-)

Husbands, Love! Wives, Respect!

Asleep To Gratitude – Sunday’s Homily

A Good Tree Bears Good Fruit

Are You the “Chiefest of Sinners?”

No Self-Conceit

Blessed Are You

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