Coach Barnabas

Send us Fan Mail I recently had a health emergency that I want to share with you, as well as some perspective the experience continues to provide. 

Send us Fan Mail Recently, my 7 year old niece asked an age-old question asked by many much older than she. The answer couldn't be simpler, or more impossible to fully comprehend. 

Send us Fan Mail Reconciliation is a wonderful and powerful thing. It is a deeply spiritual necessity. But is it a condition of forgiveness in human relationships? This is our topic today. 

Send us Fan Mail Life is already messy and complicated at times, but we frequently make decisions and chase material things and relationships that only make it more stressful. There are things we can do to simplify life. 

Send us Fan Mail God sees in each one of us incredible potential to glorify Him and to bless others. He uses literally everything that makes us who we are. Every skill and ability we're born with and develop, and every experience in our lives can be used to His plan that may not come until many years later. 

Send us Fan Mail Piggybacking off episode 57, we discuss practical and biblical ways to put your struggles into perspective by training our focus on God. 

Send us Fan Mail We live in a crazy time with emotions and opinions spanning the entire spectrum. Every opinion you have from politics to your favorite breakfast food has a group of people lined up around the block who will insult you for it. It's easy to get worn down by all the noise if we let it. A focus change may be in order!

Send us Fan Mail I don't know about you, but I've rolled my eyes so many times when reading and hearing the account of Peter's denial of Jesus. Three times! But when I'm really honest with myself, I have made him look like a total rookie. In this episode, I share some Holy Week thoughts. 

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I share an impactful memory that opened my eyes and gave me perspective that I've never shaken. We can do so much with so little that can literally change lives. 

Send us Fan Mail Inspired by our recent missionary guests at church who will be serving in Austria beginning this summer, I wanted to share some thoughts with you. I also want to encourage you to support our new friends in prayer for sure, but maybe even financially, too. Below is the link to their information page I invite you to visit and learn about them and to offer your support. I'm also...

Send us Fan Mail Not a golfer? That's OK. Neither am I! But I learned some valuable life lessons on the golf course about the value of choosing wise friends and learning from them. 

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes we go into something with a plan that will define success when it's all over, only to realize God's definition can often be different. In His loving, gentle, and faithful way, He reminds us of what is truly most important. 

Send us Fan Mail I learned a valuable lesson from the "kids in the back". The kids who were left on the outside. The kids who weren't like the others. Little did I know at the time that they impacted my life more than I impacted theirs. 

Send us Fan Mail What do you do when you think your story just isn't very exciting? Do you feel the need to embellish it? Do you avoid telling it? That's the topic of today's episode!

Send us Fan Mail What will others say of you at your funeral? What we do in life, how we make people feel, how we influence people will be our legacy. It's not too late to make changes so that what we leave behind is a positive, even eternal impact on the lives of others.

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes we have to determine who we aren't to discover who we are. To identify what we don't want in order to discover what we do want. This is something that will happen over and over in your life.

Send us Fan Mail Just like each snowflake is unique from every other one, we are all created uniquely, specifically, and intentionally. God has included within you the essential ingredients that make up your purpose in this world, to please Him and making a difference in the lives of others.

Send us Fan Mail Growing up and living with insecurity and a powerful inferiority complex was sometimes crippling. But as I grew in my relationship with God, I transformed from being a people-pleaser to being a God-pleaser. And the byproduct has been not a confidence in self, but in God that He defies logic and sometimes uses the most unexpected people and personalities to do things they never tho...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I share my personal story of making my decision to ask Jesus into my heart. In that process, I had to ask myself, and even a friend, some important questions. And God used a little razzle-dazzle to buy me some time to ask!

Send us Fan Mail For the holidays, the word and concept of family can harbor uncomfortable and even very heavy emotions. We don't get a chance to choose our family. Or do we? As we grow in life, we absolutely do make choices relating to who we spend our time with, and those choices can and do have a serious impact on the quality of our lives. We discuss that in this episode. 

Send us Fan Mail Sometimes we need to get rid of things that suck the joy from our lives. In this episode, we discuss that - in less than 5 minutes!

Send us Fan Mail It's the season of thankfulness and gratitude. What are you thankful for? What brings you joy?

Send us Fan Mail We live in an age when mental health "experts" are telling us that being positive can be unhealthy. I find that to be entirely unbiblical. We talk about it in this episode.

Send us Fan Mail Being part of the crowd isn't always what it looks like from the outside. The path to a close relationship with Jesus sometimes means going against the crowd.

Send us Fan Mail An honest and frank discussion in trying to understand catastrophic and challenging storms, whether they're literal or metaphorical.