Fr. Barnabas Powell, Author at Faith Encouraged Ministries

Allow The Faith To Confront Your Everyday Life!

BlogDecember 2, 2020224Views 0Likes 0Comments

Recently a famous Evangelical pastor came out and stated that he is discovering that the history of the Church was plain that the Eucharist was the center of the Church's life and not merely a sermon. I remember when I learned that the sermon wasn't the normal center of Christian worship, it opened the floodgates…

A Special Message from Fr. Barnabas

BlogDecember 1, 2020270Views 0Likes 1Comment

Inattentiveness Leads to Lost Holiness

BlogDecember 1, 2020224Views 0Likes 0Comments

"I can pray out in the woods so much better than in a church!" But do you do that? Seriously, I hear so many excuses as a priest from folks who can't seem to make regular church attendance a priority in their lives. And most of those lives are marked by a consistent inattentiveness to…

#GivingTuesday and Faith Encouraged Ministries

BlogNovember 30, 2020265Views 0Likes 0Comments

Every Year at this time we reach out to you to help us have a strong foundation for the new year's ministry work of Encouraging us all to be Orthodox on Purpose! And this year is no different, except it really IS a different year! We have faced, and continue to face, a profound challenge in…

The Path To Discover Your Purpose!

BlogNovember 30, 2020298Views 0Likes 1Comment

I've been saying "Orthodox on Purpose" for so long that sometimes I wonder if I've grown deaf to the wisdom behind the words. After all, the danger for any minister is to keep all the words of his purpose and forgetting the meaning behind them. Terrifying! But I've discovered that most of us struggle to…

Are We Doing Black Friday? Really?

BlogNovember 27, 2020229Views 0Likes 0Comments

The day after Thanksgiving in the US is often called "Black Friday." It use to be the day that merchants were "in the black" for the year and they saw the rest of the year up to Christmas as their time to make a profit for the year. But marketers learned many years ago that…

Giving Thanks!

BlogNovember 26, 2020210Views 0Likes 0Comments

It's Thanksgiving Day in The US. The tradition of Thanksgiving started early in our nation's history as a way for us to set aside one day to be grateful to God for the blessings we receive through the year. Of course, this is a common theme throughout human history when a society wakes up from…

Ready For the Bridegroom!

BlogNovember 25, 2020222Views 0Likes 0Comments

The notice I received had this heading: Attention as a Cultural Problem and the Possibilities of Education. It was a notice of a lecture being held at a major university and it certainly caught my attention. One of the most consisted messages in all the writings of the Fathers is the absolute need for attentiveness to…

Learning How to Die to Death!

BlogNovember 24, 2020223Views 0Likes 1Comment

One of the most fundamental marks of maturity is the clear and unmistakable realization that actions have consequences. Ideas have consequences because they become actions. And avoiding consequences is always a sign of immaturity. No wonder our modern world is struggling, as it has always struggled, with the consequences of ideologies and actions. And we see…

Our Eternal Kingdom IS A Person!

BlogNovember 23, 2020241Views 0Likes 1Comment

Through all of human history, humanity has conceived of the “perfect” society and each time we humans have endeavored to build it, it turned out to either fail or become a nightmare. In 1787, the Founding Fathers of the United States met in Independence Hall in Philadelphia to hammer out the Constitution of the United…

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Fr. Barnabas Powell

Allow The Faith To Confront Your Everyday Life!

A Special Message from Fr. Barnabas

Inattentiveness Leads to Lost Holiness

#GivingTuesday and Faith Encouraged Ministries

The Path To Discover Your Purpose!

Are We Doing Black Friday? Really?

Giving Thanks!

Ready For the Bridegroom!

Learning How to Die to Death!

Our Eternal Kingdom IS A Person!

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