by Susan Barnes | 4 Dec 2023 | Spiritual Lessons from Children
“They haven’t replied.” The mother sighed as she looked at her phone. We ache over a fractured relationship with our child, regardless if they’re a teenager or middle-aged. Resolving conflict is never easy especially if our children choose to reject our values and...
by Susan Barnes | 6 Feb 2023 | Short Devotion
“The Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful. Opponents must be gently instructed, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading them to a knowledge of the truth.” 2 Timothy 2:24-25 When Paul needed...
by Susan Barnes | 20 Mar 2022 | Short Devotion
“So even though I wrote to you, it was neither on account of the one who did the wrong nor on account of the injured party, but rather that before God you could see for yourselves how devoted to us you are. By all this we are encouraged.” 2 Corinthians 7:12-13 Paul...
by Susan Barnes | 10 Jan 2021 | Short Devotion
Read more of my short devotions on this blog or on Pinterest. “‘Your brother has come,’ he replied, ‘and your father has killed the fattened calf because he has him back safe and sound.’” Luke 15:27 Although the younger brother had squandered all his...
by Susan Barnes | 20 Oct 2020 | Sermonettes
This will be my last sermonette for the time being. My church is now meeting regularly again and I’m preaching longer sermons. It’s the last sermon in the series of focussing on “whatever is true” (Philippians 4:8) and focusses on what it means to be a...
by Susan Barnes | 26 Nov 2018 | How God Sees Us
I’m continuing the series on: How God Sees Us, which commenced here. “All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s...
