When coming along side someone to engage in discipleship with them, after they come to salvation there may be an experience where one questions if they were truly saved. Reading C.S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters shows an insight into the probably...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Today will begin applicable devotions concerning believers discipling others. If Pastor John Samuel Barnett seems passionate about discipleship it is because Jesus Christ and the apostles and the early church and the Church Fathers were passionate...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Continuing the focus on what coming to Christ means. Pastor John Samuel Barnett focuses on Jesus' call to DAILY take up our cross and follow Him. And that sacrifice means wanting Jesus more than wanting our desires and our sins....[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Starting today, Ministry Moments moves to a new series by Pastor John Samuel Barnett called Face2Face. This series, which can be found in whole on CBC's Youtube page and CBC's website, focuses on disciplining others. The first step in discipleship...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Have you ever wondered why God didn't just give us a list of "do's" and "don'ts"? Wouldn't it just be easier if there was a clear check list for me? Why do I need to read about people wandering in the desert or a prophet marrying a...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
How bad is sin? Sin is so bad it took God killing His own Son to pay the price of wrath that sin deserved! That is an abstract thought until we see the price of sin in terms we can relate to.Our first portion of Scripture is just one of those...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
As we open to Colossians 3 we begin with four verses that declare the wonder of our salvation. Baptism is a look back at what Christ did to us, Communion is a look back at what Christ did for us on the Cross.
As we open to 2 Samuel 12, try to think of the searing pain that would come when secret, private sins get exposed for all the world to see. Just imagine what David felt as the truth of what he had done could no longer be hidden. That is the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
One student in Tunisia has set off a wave that is still engulfing Arab states across the Middle East in dangerous, deadly riots today. In a very similar but powerfully positive way, one young man's life swept the Land of Israel after Jesus healed...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
One of the oldest and meanest tricks in the book is to hit someone when they're down. Just sneak up on them when they are distracted by something else and hit them with a knockout blow. That is one of Satan's tactics. He used it on Joseph...[ abbreviated | read entire ]