Author: Warren (Barney) Barnhart

Last week, I was about 9 minutes into a teaching I was doing when we received a tornado warning.  This pretty much meant that for one’s safety, they should seek shelter to be protected.  I guess I could have just “ridden out the storm”, but I chose to seek shelter.  Everything turned out ok and … Continue reading Flex Your “Thankful” Muscles

Wherever you live I am pretty sure there are an abundance of grocery stores and restaurants that sell a wide variety of foods.  Food from the nearby fields or maybe from a foreign country, representing a certain type of ethnic food. Just within a mile of our house there are quite a lot of choices. … Continue reading Are You A Foodie?

Part 2 Have you noticed in the last few years especially, that your cell phone needs to be charged more and that it is using more power to work at maximum capacity for consistent peak performance?  You had better not forget your charger, huh?  Computers seem to be the same way if they are portable, … Continue reading Healing, Anxiety and A Merry Heart

Part 1 When we were growing up in a small town in Illinois, my parents received the Reader’s Digest in the mail every so often.  It was a treat to read the condensed articles of heroic rescues, adventure and, of course, the humor.  The ones I remember were called, “Laughter is the Best Medicine”, “Humor … Continue reading Healing, Anxiety and A Merry Heart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShVKTFS4CSs Mercy it has been said, is not receiving what we do deserve and grace is receiving that which we do not deserve. However you define it, God has been so gracious to us.

In our journeys through life, we have come to understand that certain people are identified by the badges they wear.  Just take a moment now to think, can you see a badge of authority on someone? Maybe it is even a name tag on the shirt of the person at the coffee shop, or something … Continue reading The Badge of Forgiveness

It is so much fun to win, right?  Lots of things we do, whether against others or just for our own satisfaction, we cherish success.  How our hearts identify with Olympic champions as we see them on the victory stand, realizing all their hard work and dedication has finally paid off. Ephesians 2:4-9 KJV 4 But … Continue reading Our Championship Attitude

(the conclusion of a four part series taken from an audio teaching on 10/20/2009) And those are times, those are questions, those are things where we have all been or asked.  Places we've all been, is like, "Where is the joy in all this?" Well, you know what? I'm spending too much time trying to … Continue reading Our Secret Place: Part IV

“In fact, Satan would like nothing better for us than to get involved in all kinds of religious activities rather than spend time with God. There's only one way I know to maintain the... she calls it the anointing of my life, and that is by spending time in the presence of God. Well, you … Continue reading Our Secret Place: Part III

You have just opened the door for God Almighty to work with you to such a point that he will show you things about your life that you will never forget. All God is doing is waiting for us to ask the right questions. He can't force it on you. What was it that "somebody" said? … Continue reading Our Secret Place: Part II