The Origin of "Band of Brothers"

Posted on 30 Jun 2025
Category: leadership, discipleship
Author: Barney Barnes

The year is 1415 and young King Henry V has landed a well-equipped English army in Normandy. On their march inland they encounter stiff opposition as they lay siege to the strategic city of Harfleur. However, their greatest enemy is dysentery which kills or incapacitates about one third of the army or 3000 men. After Harfleur surrenders, Henry marches on covering 200 miles in just 16 days. The English army now exhausted, filthy, and starving reaches Agincourt only to find themselves facing a much larger French army of 15,000. Not only were they the visiting team but the home team had much more than home field advantage.

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In the Quest to Become a Knight One Must First Squire

Posted on 10 Jun 2025
Category: leadership, discipleship, biblical
Author: Barney Barnes

As you read the below paragraphs, about the investiture of a knight and the expectations of him, see if you can find any principles that would translate to your life as a Christian man, a Christ Follower, in 2025. Make a note of your recent observations of fear and/or anxiety associated with the post-pandemic. culture, global economic uncertainty, threats to faith/family/liberty and civil unrest.

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8 Windows Prayer War Room

Posted on 30 Jun 2025
Category: prayer, faith, biblical
Author: Steve L. Vail

In January of every new year Faith Church in Summerville does a 21 days of Prayer and fasting. During the second day of prayer and fasting the Lord gave me a vision of a prayer war room. It was octagon-shaped with large windows on each of its 8 sides. Through each of these 8 windows, He showed me 8 primary things I needed to pray for...

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Be Inspired! By the Word of God!

"For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is] a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart."
[Hebrews 4:12 KJV]