Barnabas File

I have posted more than 1000 offerings on this blog over the past 10 years.  My first post was “ Hello! I'm Ircel. Trying a blog is something of an adventure for me, but I am willing to give it a shot.”  Yes. That was it! This blog was a continuation of a monthly column I wrote first for Reflections, the collegiate ministry newsletter of the Tennessee Baptist Convention.  I took the title with me as I began writing a column for the Tennessee Cooperative Baptist Fellowship newsletter.  Where did I get the title?  The “file” part predates the computer file and goes back to an old manila file into which I would drop notes with ideas about future projects or things I wanted to comment about.  “Barnabas” is one of my favorite characters in scripture; he was a person who looked for the best in others and was called “son of encouragement” by the early apostles.  The name honors those who have been encouragers to me and embodies what I hope to be to ot...