Category Archives: Ken’s Blog

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 […]

“Neither one,” he replied. “I am the commander of the Lord’s army.  ”At this, Joshua fell with his face to the ground in reverence. “I am at your command,” Joshua said. “What do you want your servant to do?”  (Joshua 5:14 NIV) As Joshua faced the man in this story, most commentators believe none other […]

  The man replied, “It was the woman you gave me who gave me the fruit, and I ate it.”  (Genesis 3:12 NLT) Some narratives often predominate in a nation that contains part of the truth, but not the whole truth.  Racism has been a terrible sin in this nation, but it is not the […]

This is what the Lord says to Cyrus, his anointed one, whose right hand he will empower. Before him, mighty kings will be paralyzed with fear.  Their fortress gates will be opened, never to shut again. (Isaiah 45:1 NLT). In 2018 Israeli organizations minted a coin with a depiction of Donald Trump and King Cyrus on […]

I look up to the mountains— does my help come from there?My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth!(Psalms 121:1-2 NLT) Washington Praying at Valley forge As we celebrate the birth of our nation again, it might behoove us to dwell on the man most responsible for its formation, George Washington.  Tradition has […]

What joy for the nation whose God is the Lord, whose people he has chosen as his inheritance. (Psalms 33:12 NLT)   God bless America has become an American refrain.  Politicians voice it, vocalists sing it, ordinary people pray it, yet, a more appropriate arrangement of the words might be, America bless God. After the terrorist […]

“Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.” (Mark 10:27 NIV) In 2002 the movie “The Rookie” was made by Walt Disney Pictures. The film was based on the life of Jim Morris, a believer in Christ, and a thirty-five-year-old baseball pitcher […]

These events happened in the days of King Xerxes, who reigned over 127 provinces stretching from India to Ethiopia.  King Xerxes The celebration lasted 180 days—a tremendous display of the opulent wealth of his empire and the pomp and splendor of his majesty.(Esther 1:1,4 NLT). Xerxes was a proud and somewhat egotistical King, yet God used him […]

Fight the good fight for what we believe….( I Timothy 6:12 NLT). Patrick Henry The famous words of the title, spoken by Patrick Henry in 1775 were the fuse that ignited The Revolutionary War.  Today the church is in a struggle. This conflict is not being fought with bullets and cannons as in Henry’s day, but […]

so that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places. (Ephesians 3:10 NASB) The church is God’s theatre to heaven and earth.  Without embracing God’s full expression on this earth, the church with all its varied expressions, we will never understand God’s multifaceted wisdom. The […]