by Susan Barnes | 29 Jun 2021 | Articles
Recently I wrote this article for Christian Today. Sometimes we might wonder if our story is worth telling. We may have lived an uneventful life that doesn’t seem to have impacted anyone. We may have grown up in a Christian home, attended church every Sunday and...
by Susan Barnes | 30 May 2021 | Short Devotion
Read more of my short devotions on this blog or on Pinterest. “When he (Barnabas) arrived and saw what the grace of God had done, he was glad and encouraged them all to remain true to the Lord with all their hearts.” Acts 11:23 Barnabas had...
by Susan Barnes | 1 Apr 2021 | Book Reviews
God Space : where spiritual conversations happen naturally, is a practical book, with lots of ideas and thoughts about how to have spiritual conversations with people who aren’t Christians. Doug Pollock emphasises the importance of noticing, serving, listening and...
by Susan Barnes | 2 Aug 2020 | Short Devotion
Read more of my short devotions on this blog or on Pinterest. “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with...
by Susan Barnes | 5 Apr 2020 | Short Devotion
Read more of my short devotions on this blog or on Pinterest. “… in the hope that I may somehow arouse my own people to envy and save some of them.” Romans 11:14 Paul hoped to arouse the Jews to jealousy by making them realise they were missing out on...
by Susan Barnes | 21 Jul 2019 | Short Devotion
Read more of my short devotions on this blog or on Pinterest. “And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that?” Matthew 5:47 Our lives are expected to look different from non-believers. If we only show as much...
by Susan Barnes | 3 Feb 2019 | Short Devotion
Read more of my short devotions on this blog or on Pinterest. “So the man went away and began to tell in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him. And all the people were amazed.” Mark 5:20 The man who was healed of demon-possession, begged Jesus to let him come...
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...