Barbara Smith

Meaningful Communication

There was a quote from the 1942 Disney Animated Production movie, “Bambi”, that was repeated often in our home, while raising four daughters. The quote was brought to us by ‘Thumper’ the fictional, animated rabbit, who said, “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say nothing at all.” It is hard to imagine that this […]

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Counting Chickens

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 21:31 — 49.3MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | Pandora | iHeartRadio | Blubrry | Gaana | TuneIn | RSS | MoreWe should be careful to be mindful of our place in the Kingdom of God. We will at no point be able

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Incongruency

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 22:05 — 50.5MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | Pandora | iHeartRadio | Blubrry | Gaana | TuneIn | RSS | MoreWhen we have disagreements, which is a part of life, we should stop and take a moment before reacting in a negative

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What Bugs God? Part I

I came across a lesson series on the concept of ‘What Bugs God?’ that I wrote and presented in our Children’s Church in Northwest Indiana where we Pastored for nineteen years. I believe that sometimes we as adults overthink and overcomplicate things. If we could learn the principles of the Word of God in simple

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Nearsightedness

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 25:22 — 58.1MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | Pandora | iHeartRadio | Blubrry | Gaana | TuneIn | RSS | MoreThe scripture tells us that if we continue to add to our faith, virtue, steadfastness, self-control, godliness, and brotherly love, they will

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A Baker’s Dozen

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 22:20 — 51.1MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | Pandora | iHeartRadio | Blubrry | Gaana | TuneIn | RSS | MoreGod deals in fair weights and with equity, and He always blesses us above and beyond what we actually ask for.

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Happenstance

There is a story in the Old Testament about the Ark of the Covenant. It had been taken from the Israelites, by the Philistines, who had had it for seven miserable months. I say miserable because God did not take this act lightly. He brought plagues upon them and their land, and because of this

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Hidden in the House of God

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 24:33 — 56.2MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Android | Pandora | iHeartRadio | Blubrry | Gaana | TuneIn | RSS | MoreWe are the New Testament church. We have what the world needs to be saved. We must not keep it hidden but

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Promulgating

You may have heard of ‘Newsies’ or seen them in movies depicting the 19th and 20th century eras. They were a group of children, most typically boys, who would sell newspapers on the street corners to earn a few pennies. The internet gives us this history, In the 19th and 20th centuries, major metropolitan newspapers

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