by Susan Barnes | 2 Sep 2024 | Book Reviews>Recent Reads
In Max Lucado’s book, A Love Worth Giving, he takes statements from 1 Corinthians 13, the well-known chapter on love, and expounds on different aspects of love. He explains that this is how God loves us and how we are to show God’s love to others. Through this...
by Susan Barnes | 8 Jul 2024 | Life of Jesus Christ
Miracles is the fourth article in the series, The Life of Jesus Christ. To read the whole series click here. Yancey writes about the “miracle of restraint” in his book, The Jesus I Never Knew. Yancey believes Jesus showed a lot of restraint when he was on earth as he...
by Susan Barnes | 19 Feb 2024 | Spiritual Lessons from Children
“Why keep my body for one person?” “Why commit to spending my life with one person?” “Why spend time at church when I get so little from it?” My teenagers grow up in a world where love has been reduced to ten minutes in bed with someone you like. Marriage has...
by Susan Barnes | 29 Jan 2024 | Spiritual Lessons from Children
The unexpected downpour, followed by sunny days, caused my teenager to look at our garden and exclaim, “Look at all those weeds!” However, the revelation wasn’t enough to motivate him to take action! He wasn’t a true gardener. While we may enjoy a beautiful garden,...
by Susan Barnes | 16 Nov 2023 | Short Devotion
“Those whom I love I rebuke and discipline. So be earnest and repent.” Revelation 3:19 Like the church at Ephesus (2:4), the Laodicean church has lost its passion for God and his ways. He describes them as lukewarm (v.16). To compound their problems, the church thinks...
by Susan Barnes | 9 Nov 2023 | Short Devotion
“Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first.” Revelation 2:4 God acknowledges the Ephesians’ service, their hard work, their perseverance and endurance during hardships (v.2-3). Yet he criticises them, not for their lack of love, but for...
by Susan Barnes | 5 Oct 2023 | Short Devotion
“We love because he first loved us.” 1 John 4:19 We learn how to love, by the way God loves us. As we focus on God’s love for us, our love for him will grow. God’s gracious loving-kindness towards his wayward people is evident in the Old Testament but even more so in...
by Susan Barnes | 3 Jul 2023 | Short Devotion
“Jesus answered, ‘It is the one to whom I will give this piece of bread when I have dipped it in the dish.’ Then, dipping the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.” John 13:26 In dipping the piece of bread and giving it to Judas, Jesus is...
