Coach Barnabas

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.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we discuss the importance of moving forward in life and not defining ourselves by past glories or defeats. Our best days can be ahead of us if we choose to follow God's leading.

Send us Fan Mail The time to prepare for the storms and unexpected challenges in life is now. Are you only faithful to God when things are good. The only way you will be able to stand through the storms is by maintaining your integrity. We discuss this in today's episode.

Send us Fan Mail No matter where you are, no matter where you've been. Whether on the mountain top or the valley, God is with you and cherishes the gift of you and your praise.

Send us Fan Mail What can we learn from the painstaking process of creating a masterpiece from an enormous block of marble? Listen in to see how this impacted me.

Send us Fan Mail Air conditioning is amazing when you're in a hot climate and you need relief from the elements. How much greater is God's presence in our lives that refreshes our spirits and lives?