by Susan Barnes | 5 Apr 2023 | Women in the Bible
“‘Mary!’ Jesus said.She turned to him and cried out, ‘Rabboni!’ (which is Hebrew for ‘Teacher’). ‘Don’t cling to me,’ Jesus said, ‘for I haven’t yet ascended to the Father. But go find my brothers and tell them, “I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God...
by Susan Barnes | 7 Jun 2022 | Women in the Bible
My husband and I have moved often. We were both living and working in Geelong when we married. Two years later, my husband received a promotion in his bank employment and we moved to Gippsland. We enjoyed living there but a drought caused a downturn in the town’s...
by Susan Barnes | 29 Mar 2022 | Women in the Bible
I became a Christian as a result of going to a church youth camp when I was fourteen. None of my family or friends practised Christian faith. The only Christians I knew were a few teenagers from the church youth group, which was especially difficult during school...
by Susan Barnes | 28 Nov 2021 | Short Devotion
Read more of my short devotions on this blog or on Pinterest. “Don’t we have the right to food and drink? Don’t we have the right to take a believing wife along with us, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?” 1 Corinthians 9:4-5...
by Susan Barnes | 23 Jan 2020 | Book Reviews
Marching With Joy by Sue Hungerford is the biographical account of Joy Crombie’s 45 years as a missionary with SIM in Ethiopia and Liberia. It’s an interesting story and begins with how Joy came to faith, her time training as a nurse and a midwife, her call to...
by Susan Barnes | 12 Mar 2019 | Women in the Bible
Paul first meets Priscilla and Aquila in Corinth. They were tent makers when Paul meets them but they travel with him to Ephesus where they stay when Paul moves on. Priscilla’s name is almost always listed before her husband’s which was quite unusual in that culture....
by Susan Barnes | 5 Jul 2007 | Book Reviews>Life Changing Books
A couple of months ago I wrote about my reluctance to read books about missionaries. The other day I came across Green Leaf in Drought by Isobel Kuhn which I read 25-30 years ago. I remembered this book had greatly impacted me at the time so I decided to read it again...
by Susan Barnes | 2 May 2007 | Book Reviews
Last October when I was attending the Christian Writer’s Conference, at Glorieta, New Mexico, US., one of the presenters spoke about the reluctance of publishers to produce books about missionaries. The presenter was quite sad about this but realized that...
