Yesterday (4/26/26), I preached another man’s sermon! Last week, my good friend, Pastor Jason Calhoun told me about a sermon that Pastor Nathan Holmes of the First Pentecostal Church of North Little Rock had preached. He preached it on their mid-week service about the fear of the Lord from Proverbs 9:10. I didn’t catch it … Continue reading I Preached Another Man’s Sermon
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Lessons from Old Holiness Writers on Preaching
Last week, I had written about an old preacher who had prayed for me when I was working a medical intensive care unit before he passed on. My mind has been drawn to that event several times since I wrote about it. Around that same time, our church hosted a preaching workshop that was an effort to help bivocational … Continue reading Lessons from Old Holiness Writers on Preaching
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 … Continue reading Lessons from Pilgrim’s Progress–Vanity Fair & Its Challenge to Us in 2026
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 … Continue reading Book Recommendation–Stockholm Syndrome Christianity by John G. West
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