Cliff Young I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith; (2 Timothy 4:7 NKJV) We all want to finish the race well, yet some will and some will not. The Apostle Paul lived well, and therefore, he finished well. Cliff Young, a sixty-one-year-old farmer from Australia, entered the […]
Author Archives: kenbarnes
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You have died with Christ, and he has set you free from the spiritual powers of this world. So why do you keep on following the rules of the world, such as, “Don’t handle! Don’t taste! Don’t touch!”? Such rules are mere human teachings about things that deteriorate as we use them. (Colossians 2:20-22 NLT). […]
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Who among you fears the Lord and obeys the word of his servant? Let the one who walks in the dark, who has no light, trust in the name of the Lord and rely on their God. (Isaiah 50:10 NIV) Many reading this piece write Christian literature, yet at times you feel as if no […]
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I met Cletus Hull through Pure Joy Journal, a digital magazine for which we both write. Cletus has been in pastoral ministry for the last thirty-five years with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in western Pennsylvania. He served as a campus minister at the California University of PA (now PennWest California) from 1989-1996. Enjoy […]
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Guest Blog by Cletus Hull
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Rejoice always, pray continually, (1 5:16-17 Thessalonians NIV) Peter Lord, a retired Floridian Pastor, said on many occasions, “the main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. The primary way that God does things on this earth is through prayer. I worked with Youth With A Mission for seventeen years. One day in […]
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By Ken Barnes So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him, rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness. (Colossians 2:6-7 NIV) I grew up in Brownsville, Pennsylvania, and attended the First Christian Church in this […]
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…and as the women were terrified and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living One among the dead? (Luke 24:5 NASB) The women came to prepare the body of Jesus for burial. Not finding the body of Jesus, two men in dazzling clothes said to […]
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Sonogram of a 20-week-old fetus Let’s look at the abortion debate from a non-religious point of view. I have my religious beliefs, and you may or may not. Let’s set those aside for the sake of argument and look at this debate based on ethical principles. Let’s say that you have two legitimate rights—the women’s […]
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For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. (2 Corinthians 2:2 NASB) In Christianity, the Cross is the beginning and end of all things Poetic Justice Until recently, Gordon Conwell College and Seminary sat on the outskirts of Boston, Massachusetts. On the top of one of their buildings […]