Barnabas – The prophetic gift of encouragement

Not everyone can be a Paul. But everyone can be a Barnabas. Notes from this sermon are available below or you can watch it right here:

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Conclusion of the Barnabas serialization

October 16, 2010

One aspect that we haven’t talked much about is this: Barnabas may well have single-handedly prevented a damaging split in the early church between Antioch and Jerusalem. If you go back and read it, you will see that he was the ‘go-between’ for Peter and Paul-between Antioch and Jerusalem. It wasn’t always easy in that [...]

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Barnabas Part Five – Mistakes turned round for good

October 15, 2010

Barnabas is an encouragement to us in another way: Like so many heroes of the Bible, he wasn’t perfect. Don’t you find that encouraging? God is in the business of using servants who are not perfect, people who blow it, people who make mistakes. Maybe you’re sitting here this morning and you’ve mentally disqualified yourself [...]

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Barnabas Part Four– Receiving prophetic encouragement that propels

October 14, 2010

The Gift of Encouragement from Jubilee Church on Vimeo. In Acts 13 Barnabas himself was encouraged by others. Remember the purpose of prophecy is encouragement. Remember when we say encouragement, we’re not just talking about a warm fuzzy feeling. We’re talking about sometimes being thrust out, our passage begins “and in the church of Antioch, [...]

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Barnabas Part Three – Encouraging a baby church and an emerging leader

October 13, 2010

Very soon, Barnabas’ encouragement finds another outlet, another opportunity. We see, in Acts 11, that Barnabas begins to encourage a baby church. A few people don’t wait for the apostles to send them or tell them what to do, they run because of persecution and when they arrive in Antioch they begin to share the [...]

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