by Susan Barnes | 18 Sep 2023 | My happenings
It’s mid-semester break at the school where I work so I’m taking this week off from posting to enjoy some rest, reflection and recreation. Be back soon.
by Susan Barnes | 10 Nov 2022 | Devotions
A life of peace isn’t a life without problems. To experience God’s peace requires us to receive his peace and hold onto it in difficult times. We exercise faith and trust in God knowing he is in control of all our circumstances so there’s no need to worry. And if we...
by Susan Barnes | 27 Oct 2022 | Devotions
God gives us a peace that is inexplicable, comforting, restorative and endless. He wants us to rest in him so he can give us peace. He is not a workaholic, a slave driver, or a taskmaster. We can rest and enjoy his peace, not because we’ve earned it but because it’s a...
by Susan Barnes | 2 Jun 2022 | Book Reviews>Life Changing Books
Garden City : work, rest and the art of being human by John Mark Comer discusses work and rest from a biblical perspective. Comer writes in a slightly humourous manner where he includes little asides to the reader. So while much of the material in the early part of...
by Susan Barnes | 31 May 2022 | Communion Talks
One day the elders of Israel came to see Ezekiel to inquire of the Lord. Amongst other things, the Lord gave this message to his people. “I gave them my Sabbaths as a sign between us, so they would know that I the Lord, made them holy” (Ezekiel 20:12). In the Old...
by Susan Barnes | 12 Jan 2021 | Quoting Other Writers
“It is at wit’s end, driven by the Spirit into the place where the pressure is so great that we have no other recourse but to cry out to God for help, that at last we begin to learn. It breaks upon our dull, slow minds that this help is not something intended for...
by Susan Barnes | 7 Jun 2020 | Short Devotion
Read more of my short devotions on this blog or on Pinterest. “There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from his.” Hebrews 4:9-10 We rest from the work of...
by Susan Barnes | 8 Sep 2019 | Short Devotion
Read more of my short devotions on this blog or on Pinterest. “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your...
