Author - Fr. Barnabas Powell

Journey To Fullness Video Project News!

Posted By Post Date: July 12, 2015

What a great day shooting the Demo video for the Journey to Fullness Video Project here at Faith Encouraged Ministries. The studio audience and the fantastic crew at Comprehensive Media were wonderful to work with and really understand the vision for this project! Will you help us? Our goal is...

The Treasure In The Field


He looked at me right in the face and said the words I will never forget: "When you're ready to 'sell all you have' to have this faith, then, and only then will you be ready!" Whoa, wait a minute, let's talk about this! Everything? Yep, everything. It was a turning...

What You Have Here is Weeds!


OK, let me confess something; I am not very talented when it comes to growing things. In fact, everytime I've tried to plant and tend a garden, it has ended up either overrun by weeds or eaten by critters or over watered or under watered! I just don't have...

Your Name Is Written in Heaven!


One of the greatest practical jokes ever played on me was when some friends actually hid my car from me while I was at work. As a teenage boy, my car was my ticket to freedom. It represented my passage from a child to a man! Besides, I looked...

Your Faith Has Made You Well (It Always Does!)


"Who touched Me?" What? Lord, the whole crowd is pressing in to touch You, and you ask "Who touched Me?" Lord, it doesn't make sense. Everybody is touching You. I imagine that is what most of the disciples were either thinking or saying when the Lord asked this question in...

Dull Hearts and Heavy Ears


You know the old saying "God works in mysterious ways." Well, that may be true, but that doesn't make my confusion over why things happen in my life any better! In fact, I have to confess to you that most of the short and cute little theological phrases ("Just...

Human Exceptionalism – The Latest Faith Encouraged LIVE

Posted By Post Date: July 4, 2015

The latest Faith Encouraged LIVE focused on Human Exceptionalism with my special guest Wesley J. Smith. Listen and learn about the dangers of reducing human life to nothing more than an intelligent ape and why modern society's emphasis on the evils of suffering may just see us extinguish the...

Good Ground


The old coder adage "Garbage in - Garbage out." It meant that if the computer programmer got his code wrong, then it just stands to reason that the program wouldn't work properly. What is true for computer programming is true for all of life. There is a current dust up...