Latest Posts By Kurt Barnes
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It Is Time to Cross Over
There is something powerful about a place that holds your memories. The room where you first heard something that changed you. The floor where you made a vow. The seat where grief broke you open and grace put you back… Continue reading
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The God Who Moves In: Why Deliverance Was Never the Final Destination
Most people assume the climax of the Exodus story is the parting of the Red Sea. Hollywood certainly does. We picture Moses raising his staff, walls of water rising on either side, and a nation of freed slaves walking through… Continue reading
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The Overflowing Heart: Giving from Grace, Not Guilt
There is a moment in the book of Exodus so strange, so utterly foreign to modern experience, that it almost stops you cold when you read it. Moses, standing before an entire nation of people who had just escaped slavery,… Continue reading
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The Unveiled Life: How God Transforms You From the Inside Out
There is a scene buried in Exodus 34 that most people read past without stopping. Moses descends from Mount Sinai after forty days in the presence of God, and his face is literally radiating light. Shafts of glory are beaming… Continue reading
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Presents or Presence: The Question That Changes Everything
There is a question buried in the pages of Exodus that cuts through every layer of religious comfort we have carefully constructed around ourselves. It is not a question about doctrine or denomination. It is not a question about church… Continue reading
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When God Feels Late: The Idol You Did Not Know You Had
There is a particular kind of panic that sets in when the person you depend on disappears from sight. If you grew up in the 1980s, you might remember being left in a car in a grocery store parking lot… Continue reading
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Rest for the Restless Soul
There is a particular kind of dread that comes with picking up your phone in the morning and seeing that red battery icon staring back at you. You thought it was charging. You thought it was being restored. But instead,… Continue reading
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The Table Is Set, the Light Is On, and the Door Is Open
There is a moment, stepping from the noise and chaos of ordinary life into a quiet place of worship, when something shifts. The clamor fades. The air changes. And something deep in the human soul recognizes that it has arrived… Continue reading
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Walking Toward the Presence of God: A Tour Through the Ancient Tabernacle
There is a single heartbeat that pulses through every page of Scripture, from the opening verses of Genesis to the thunderous finale of Revelation. It is not a heartbeat of distant authority or cold cosmic management. It is something far… Continue reading
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The God Who Refuses to Keep His Distance
There is a moment in the book of Exodus that should stop every reader cold. Seventy-five ordinary, flawed, sinful human beings climb a mountain and sit down to eat a meal with God. The text notes it almost casually, and… Continue reading
