“I Pray the Spirit of Holiness on You”
I love hospitals! Perhaps that is a strange confession to make but I spent almost 30 years of my life working in four hospitals. The bulk of those years were spent in Flowers Hospital here in Dothan. There is another hospital here in Dothan which a few of the old-timers remember as General Hospital, which…
Follow Up on the Letter that Got Me in Trouble
Last week, I wrote about one of the early Barnabas Letters that got me in trouble. The earliest letters were all mailed out with envelopes and stamps before email was even a thing. Then as I finally figured out email, I started gathering email addresses from various places. If you are old enough to remember this activity, it was almost…
Rediscovering the Power of Handwritten Letters
I am reposting a Barnabas Letter that I wrote over thirty years ago. Recently when I was trying to track down some Bible study notes, I found a treasure. It was a three-ring binder that was full of letters that I had written to others and that had been written to me. A long time ago, we used to write…
Reflections on Nursing Education and Mentorship
Lately the seriousness of approaching my seventh decade of life has been profitable and sobering. I think that one of the specific marks of aging is that you can look back and see with greater clarity and insight as to why you are walking the present path you are on. I have had some excellent teachers who…
Inspiring Quotes to Enhance Your Prayer Life
I look forward to every New Year’s Day on January 1. Sometime when I was in my early 20’s my mother-in-law bought me a Day-Timer leather calendar with the annual insert. It was the A5 size and I used it almost religiously for years until the upgraded electronic gadgets and calendars took over. I can remember using both Day-Timer and…
Escape the Trap of Vanity Fair: A Guide to Virtuous Living
I am writing another continuation of the previous post about the lessons we can learn from Pilgrim’s Progress in 2026. Specifically, I want to go back to the treacherous trap called Vanity Fair. A dangerous city that all travelers must go through on their way to the Celestial City. Just as a brief reference point, the whole seed of…
Lessons from Pilgrim’s Progress–Vanity Fair & Its Challenge to Us in 2026
In and around the Barnabas Blog you will find a host of references to Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan. Part one was written in 1678 and part two was published in 1684. Over the years I have collected various copies of it. The nicest one is the one published by Easton Press and the oldest one is from the…
Book Recommendation–Stockholm Syndrome Christianity by John G. West
I grew up reading books. I am not sure if it was expected that I should read books but once I learned how to read, books became things that took my mind and spirit to places I had never been before. I read all the Hardy Boys series, many of the biographies that were prevalent in the…
The Kitchen Table
The Kitchen Table I have spent a bit of time reading back through some of the old Barnabas Blog posts to stir up my thoughts and memories. One of the series that created a “time warp” was those that I had written about the various characters of Pilgrim’s Progress. Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress was initially recommended to me by Brother Harrell, the…
My Poor Blog!
January 17, 2026 Twenty years ago, I started the Barnabas Blog on a whim. At the time, blogs or weblogs were sort of coming into existence from a variety of amateur writers and a few more serious ones on the religious scene. I can remember there were two blogs that I do not even remember…
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