The Barnabas Building

Here's a photo (I took today) of The Old Colonial Weaving Building where my office is located. Yes, I DID take it today.

Actually there's a large picture of the building hanging in the main lobby. I took my SONY in there and took a photo of the photo.

Mine is the corner office between the post and the door. I'm not sure when that original picture was taken. What a privilege to share the corner of the building with colleagues who are Christians! Our landlord loves the Lord and we often pray together in my office.

That corner office is where much of "the Barnabas Blog" originates (in a geographical sense at least). As God ministers to my spirit through His Word, I pass those little tidbits of truth and blessing on to the world in cyberspace.

May you be encouraged today knowing that we are praying for you here in Peterborough. The prayer of the apostle Paul in Colossians 1:9,10 (ESV) is echoed here. "And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to Him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God."

Much love in Christ, my dear friends! Rest in Him!

- David

The Incarnation

Happy New Year, dear friends!

On the evening of our Christmas banquet with the Peterborough Petes one of the players admitted that he didn't know what one of the words in a poem I read really meant. The word was "Incarnate"! With the enabling of the Spirit of God I gave an explanation that my friend seemed satisfied with. St. Augustine penned the following words that give us deep meaning to the "wonder of the incarnation":

The Wonder of the Incarnation

He so loved us that, for our sake,
He was made man in time,
although through Him all times were made.
He was made man, who made man.
He was created of a mother whom He created.
He was carried by hands that He formed.
He cried in the manger in wordless infancy,
He the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.

-Augustine, Sermon 188, 2

Can you grasp that profound truth? Oh the wonder... May we never forget these truths that are foundational to our Christian faith!

"And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." - John 1:14 (KJV)

No Commentary Required

Greetings, dear friends! It's two days after Christmas and I still have something to assemble for the boys. Don't you love it when you read "No Assembly Required!"

Well here's a few verses from Paul's letter to Titus with "No Commentary Required!" (All I did was make a few words BOLD) Be encouraged today by all the truths stated in this passage of inspired scripture:

"For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. It teaches us to say "No" to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, while we wait for the blessed hope—the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, eager to do what is good."

- Titus 2:11-14 (NIV)