Barnabas Ministries UK

Rev. E. Anderson

EVANGELISM

“Saving knowledge is diffused over the earth, not like sunlight but torchlight, which is passed from hand to hand” – James Strachan

“I would rather fail in the cause that some day will triumph than triumph in a cause that some day will fail” – Woodrow Wilson

“There is a subtle false teaching that says we can be evangelical withoutbbeing evangelistic. It has us believewe ‘go’ to church rather that we ‘are’ church” -  Oswald Smith

“The gospel is good news only if arrives in time” – Carl F. H. Henry

Rev. L. Goodwin

POWERFUL QUOTES 

• Love is:
• Slow to suspect — quick to trust.
• Slow to condemn — quick to justify.
• Slow to offend — quick to defend.
• Slow to reprimand — quick to forbear.
• Slow to belittle — quick to appreciate.
• Slow to demand — quick to give.
• Slow to provoke — quick to conciliate.
• Slow to hinder — quick to help.
• Slow to resent — quick to forgive.  (The Baptist Challenge) 

“Love sees through a telescope not a microscope.” 

“The best proof of love is trust.” (Joyce Brothers) 

“Men love in haste, but detest at leisure.” (Lord Byron) 

“Love is the Christian’s ID card” (John 13:34,35) 

“Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.”  (John Donne) 

One day C. H Spurgeon was walking through the countryside with a friend & they came across a barn with a weather vane on its roof. On the vane were the words: `God is love’. Spurgeon passed the comment that he thought it an inappropriate place for such a message. He said “Weather vanes are changeable but God’s love is constant.” The friend said, “I don’t agree Charles because the sign indicates a different truth to me – regardless of which way the wind blows God is love.”

Rev. L. Goodwin

POWERFUL QUOTES

BIBLE 

“The Scriptures were not given for our information, but for our transformation”  – D.L.Moody

“Sin will keep you from this book. This book will keep you from sin.” – D.L.Moody wrote this on the flyleaf of a Bible he gave to a young friend

“Some people get very concerned about the parts of the Bible they can’t understand; I’m more concerned about those parts of the Bible I do understand”  – Mark Twain

“The Bible without the Holy Spirit is like a sundial by moonlight” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

When a church minister retired he received a cheque, clock & Bible. He wrote in the Bible “Cheque is gone, clock is going but the Word of God abideth forever.”

“A man who loves his wife will love her letters & her photographs because they speak to him of her. So if we love the Lord Jesus we shall love the Bible because it speaks to us of Him”  – John R.W.Stott

“A contagious enthusiasm among Christians for the Word of God & a return in faith & obedience for its precepts would do more to point the way out of present world distress & despair than all the plans & strivings of men” – Merrill F.Unger

Rev. L. Goodwin

POWERFUL QUOTES 

BEAUTY

In her book `God by moonlight’, Amy Carmichael describes an Atlas moth emerging from it’s cocoon in the mountain forests west of Dohnaiur, India. She writes, “It hangs from a twig, like a small brown bag…. & however often we see it we are never prepared for the miracle that emerges… it has wings of crimson & pink, & blended green of various stones, shading off into terracotta, brown old-gold. Each wing has a window made of clear substance like a delicate flake of talc, & on the edge of each is a pattern of wavy lines or dots, or some other dainty device. From wing tip to wing tip, nine, sometimes ten, inches of beauty, one of God’s lovely wonders – that is what comes out of the brown paper bag.” There is an even greater miracle for the Christian – 1John 3:2 & 1 Cor.15: 52.

“Beauty without virtue is a flower without perfume” - (French proverb)

BEGINNINGS

“Beginning is half done” -  Robert Harold Schuller 1926-

“I have learned one important thing in my life-how to begin again” – Sam Keen

“If well thou hast begun, go on foreright; It is the end that crowns us, not the fight” - Robert Herrick 1591-1676 

“The beginning is the most important part of the work” - Plato (C. 428-348 B.C. 

“The first step is the hardest” – Marie de Vichy-Chamrond 1697-1780 

“He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to” – Harry Emerson Fosdick 

“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending” – Bard Carl

BELIEF

“A belief is not true because it is useful”   - Henri Frederic Amiel

“What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts” – George Bernard Shaw 

“If the Church were to live one week as if they believed the Bible, sinners would melt down before them”  – Charles Finney

“We only really believe as much of the Bible as we practice”

BEST

“God has His best things for the few who dare to stand the test; God has His 2nd best for those who will not take His best. It is not always open ill that risks the promised rest, the better often is the foe that keeps us from the best” – Alan Redpath

Rev. John Maxwell

DISCIPLINE

Taken from the John Maxwell leadership Bible

TRAVEL ON THE INSIDE FIRST

Numbers 33:1-49

We must travel on the inside before we can travel on the outside, because the journey of growth and success is first an internal one. The first person you lead is you—and you can’t lead ef­fectively without self-discipline.

If only the Israelites had remembered this les­son! Numbers 33 provides a review of the entire exodus journey, from Egypt to Jordan. And, boy, was it ever a journey! Tons of manna. Far too much grumbling. And it lasted 40 years.

Why didn’t the Israelites get to the Promised Land more quickly? Not because it lay so far away; they could have made the trip in two weeks. The real reason boils ‘down to preparation. The people simply weren’t ready for God’s blessing until 40 years after they began their trip.

How about you? How is your self-discipline? Plato said, “The first and best victory is to conquer self.” If you want to be a leader with self-discipline, follow these action points:

1.  DEVELOP AND FOLLOW YOUR PRIORITIES

All leaders are pressed for time, but the successful ones have a plan. If you can deter­mine what’s really a priority and release yourself from everything else, it will be much eas­ier to follow through on what’s important. That’s the essence of self-discipline.

2.  MAKE A DISCIPLINED LIFESTYLE YOUR GOAL

To be successful, self-discipline can’t be a one-time event. It has to become a lifestyle. One of the best ways to nurture such a lifestyle is to develop systems and routines, espe­cially in areas crucial to your long-term growth and success. Once you have them, put them to use every day for the rest of your life.

3.  CHALLENGE YOUR EXCUSES

Challenge and eliminate any tendency you may have to make excuses. If you can name several reasons why you can’t be self-disciplined, realize that they are really just barri­ers to your success—all of which need to be challenged if you want to go to the next level.

4.  REMOVE REWARDS UNTIL YOU FINISH THE JOB

If you lack self-discipline, you may be in the habit of enjoying dessert before eating your vegetables. Mike Delaney offered good counsel: He said that businesses need to differentiate between their shirkers and their workers, because if they reward both the same, they’ll soon find they have a lot more of the former than the latter!

5.  STAY FOCUSED ON RESULTS

Anytime you concentrate on the difficulty of the work instead of its results, you’re likely to become discouraged. The next time you’re facing a must-do task and you’re thinking of doing what’s convenient instead of paying the price, change your focus. Count die benefits of doing what’s right, and then dive in.

Rev. Leigh Goodwin

POWERFUL QUOTES

“Mediocrity is living below our true potential” - Myles Monroe

“Mediocrity is the spirit of the average, the anthem of the norm & the heartbeat of the ordinary”  - Myles Monroe

“It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us” - Isaac D’Israeli, 1834

“If you think that meekness is weakness then try being meek for a week.” 

“The person who is meek will not asset themselves in their importance or authority; they have every instinct & every passion, every notion of their minds, hearts, tongue and desire under perfect control” – William Barclay 

“Meekness is the strength to back down from a fight you know you could win.” 

In James 3: 13 it speaks about `the meekness of wisdom’. It is not calling for weakness or spinelessness. The Greek word used for meekness means `strength under control’. The term was used in secular literature to describe a wild horse that had been tamed.

Rev. L. Goodwin

POWERFUL QUOTES 

THE ART OF GIVING 

“We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the heart: love, kindness, joy, understanding, sympathy, tolerance, forgiveness. We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the mind: ideas, dreams, purposes, ideals, principles, plans, inventions, projects & poetry. We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the spirit: prayer, vision, beauty, aspirations, peace & faith. We give of ourselves when we give the gift of words: encouragement, inspiration & guidance. Emerson said it well; “Rings & Jewels are not gifts but apologies for gifts. The only true gift is a portion of thyself” - (Wilfred A.Peterson)

“May your joys be as bright as the morning, your years of happiness as numerous as the stars in heaven, & your sorrows but shadows that fade in the sunlight of love” - An old blessing 

“Success in marriage does not come merely through finding the right mate but being the right mate” – Barnett Brickner 

“The success of a marriage comes not in finding the right person, but in the ability of both partners to adjust to the real person they inevitably realise they married” – John Fisher

Rev. Leigh Goodwin

POWERFUL QUOTES

“Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible” - Norman Vincent Peale

“Just as friction between certain types of rocks produces sparks of light, so it is the friction of our individualities rubbing against each other that illuminates who we really are” - Rev. Rowland C. Croucher

“View every problem as an opportunity” – Joseph Sugarman

The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives” - Louise Hay

“Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don’t feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us” - Stephen Covey

“Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit” – Conrad Hilton

Rev Leigh Goodwin

POWERFUL QUOTES

“Many people marry for better or for worse, not for good!” 

“A good marriage requires determination to be married for good.” 

“Every marriage has three rings; engagement ring, wedding ring and suffering.” 

“I have bound myself for life; I have made my choice; from now on my aim will not be to choose a woman who will please me, but to please the woman I have chosen” – Theodore Bovet

“Did you hear of the bride who wanted to make sure she did the right thing on her wedding day? She kept saying to herself `aisle, altar, hymn’ ~ `I’ll alter him’.”

There is a custom in the Netherlands where newly wed couples enter their house through a special door. The door is never used again until one dies and the body is carried out through that same door. God designed marriage like that- it should be a loving commitment for life.

“You should never criticise your partner’s judgement, look who they decided to marry.”

“God send you enough joy to keep your heart singing, enough sorrow to make you understanding, enough hope to enrich your lives, enough trials to keep you strong, enough leisure to refresh your spirits, enough love to make the world seem beautiful.”          – Katherine Nelson Davis

Rev. L. Goodwin

POWERFUL QUOTES 

“The story is told of an only survivor of a shipwreck who is washed up on an uninhabited island. After a while he managed to build a crude hut out of the few items he salvaged from the ship. One day upon returning from a hunt from food, he was horrified to find his hut in flames. All that he had was gone. To the man’s limited vision it was the worst thing that could happen & he cursed God. Yet the very next day a ship arrived. `We saw your smoke signal’ the captain said.

“No adversity is beyond God’s Sovereignty.”

“Nothing but sunshine a desert makes.”

“It is not what happens to you that matters but your reaction to adversity.”

“In the development of the car tyre, the first ones were made to resist shock but they were cut to pieces. Then they made tyres to absorb the shock and they stood up to the strain. Isn’t that a parable of life on how we are to take the knocks of life?”

It is interesting to note that seagulls and other shore birds face into the wind when they are at rest on the beach. This way they keep their feathers unruffled. It is only when we learn to face adversity with God’s help that we will manage to keep unruffled and calm.

“Never attempt to bear more than one kind of trouble at once. Some people bear 3 kinds – all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have” – Edward Everett Hale – US Senate Chaplain – 1822-1909