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Pastor's Musings
Pastor Brian Barlow shares his life's ponderings, thoughts on life in the end times, and worship of our Creator, in a format that is engaging, convicting, and encouraging.
What’s for Lunch?
What do a weekend Bible conference, an angry street corner protest, and lunch have in common? Answer: Hunger. I was one of the...
Brian Barlow
Apr 73 min read
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A Point In Time
“Stand up! Pick up your mat and walk.” ~ John 5:8 1) Move. Change your status, your mindset, your mental & physical position. DO what...
Brian Barlow
Mar 171 min read
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Arresting Unrest
This morning, at least, I’m thinking that Deuteronomy 11:26-28 and Exodus 20:8-11 are two of the more amazing Scripture snippets that New...
Brian Barlow
Mar 22 min read
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Who Cares?!
Who cares?! Has that question ever conceived itself in your mind. Maybe it only lives there on a tape-loop, or a scratched record [a...
Brian Barlow
Feb 162 min read
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“Be Safe” or Be Spent?
Writing on what should be the Christian’s sense of urgency concerning how or she is doing life, pastor & author, Alistair Begg, in his...
Brian Barlow
Feb 112 min read
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Nothing
“Ain’t that somethin’ ?” — an exclamation in reaction to a thing observed, overheard, or experienced; (occasionally) a snide verbal...
Brian Barlow
Feb 52 min read
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A Chosen Moment
In a short while, season 5 of the TV series, The Chosen will be released to theaters, then to various app platforms. Some among “the...
Brian Barlow
Feb 32 min read
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Panning for Gold
For those born and raised in the gold rush state of California, our elementary school state history instruction included a unit on the...
Brian Barlow
Jan 272 min read
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More Wants...
Installment #2: Being a musician (I apply the term reverently, if not entirely supportably), I have this bad, almost involuntary...
Brian Barlow
Jan 232 min read
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What I Want
This morning’s devotion started somewhat unusually, with pen in hand right from the start. Yesterday’s quiet time didn’t really happen,...
Brian Barlow
Jan 211 min read
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Fruitiness
I am a California transplant to Wisconsin (oh, there went any Wisconsin readership☺️), now 32+ years in. I mention this because I’m...
Brian Barlow
Jan 202 min read
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Word Association
Thoughts -> Ideas -> Words -> Actions (yes? no?) -> Outcomes (“fruit or consequences”) Today I was reading the introduction of a book of...
Brian Barlow
Jan 132 min read
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Oasis Fest!
I’m leaving a quick note here to let you know that, yes — planning for Oasis Fest ‘25 is now in full swing! The tentative dates and times...
Brian Barlow
Jan 71 min read
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I Had an Epiphany!
In some church traditions, today, January 6th, is known as “Epiphany” (def: “revelation”, “manifestation”), also known as “Three Kings...
Brian Barlow
Jan 62 min read
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What’s the Word?
This past Sunday, the last one of the year, willing participants at our church pulled a word written on an index card out of a basket....
Brian Barlow
Dec 29, 20241 min read
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If I Were a Wise Man…
In the bleak midwinter frosty wind made moan; Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone… This Christmas hymn, perhaps musically one...
Brian Barlow
Dec 22, 20242 min read
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Christmas Rush, Crush, or Hush?
On those sleepless nights, as was last night for me, and let’s specify at around 3:15 am, sitting in my favorite living room chair, I...
Brian Barlow
Dec 20, 20242 min read
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Christmas “Reflections”
🎄Christmas “Reflections”? 🕯️ “From the beginning, man created…God…and said, “I will make God in my own image and likeness…and so he...
Brian Barlow
Dec 10, 20242 min read
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Advent Admonition (Christmas Challenge)
Then an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Get up and go south…So he got up and went. There he met an Ethiopian…court official…sitting in...
Brian Barlow
Dec 8, 20241 min read
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What If?
What if?.. What if Gabriel, the angel sent to Joseph, the shepherds’ announcing angel & company, had refused to speak? And what if the...
Brian Barlow
Dec 7, 20241 min read
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