Author archive for Pastor Bob Barnett

“Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.” Hebrews 10:23-25

While we are here please keep watch over those around you…

“And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.” John 1:14

It is amazing to think that God loved us so much that He would send His Son into our midst to walk among us for 33 years telling us the truth and giving us the knowledge of grace…

Scottish preacher James S. Stewart made the distinction between the foreground and the background of life. He used the metaphor of painting and said life has both a foreground and a background…

“Then Mordecai told them to reply to Esther, “Do not imagine that you in the king’s palace can escape any more than the Jews. For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place and you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not attained royalty for such a time as this?”

God has all of us here in this very difficult time because like Esther we stand on the threshold of that destiny for which we have been chosen and prepared…

“And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” 2 Cor. 12:9

This passage is a part of a heartfelt declaration of Paul’s feelings regarding an issue in his life that remained to torment him in spite of his many pleadings to God…