Discover The Book MinistriesWFF-52 110508AM The greatest thing in all of life is: knowing, loving, and serving God. The most amazing thing in life is that God uses any of us with all of our weaknesses and struggles. With those two thoughts in mind, on this Mother’s Day, consider that Mary was offered one of the […]
Reasting Our Weary Minds
WFF-51 000917AM If God has your mind – He has your body, If God has your mind – He has your emotions, If God has your mind – He has your appetites, If God has your mind – He has your time, If God has your mind – He has your money . . . see the point. The one […]
Celebrating Biblical Holidays
WFF-50 000910PM First, SABBATH PURPOSES: what did Jesus say about the Sabbath? As Lord of Sabbath He said one thing, the Sabbath was made for man to worship God. It was not a prison, a straight jacket, a death squad to hunt Sabbath breakers, no; it was a delightful offer of spiritual communion with God. […]
How to Get Ready for Sunday
WFF-49 000910AM A matzah is a thin unleavened bread, pierced through with holes, marked with stripes, broken carefully from One piece into Three, the middle piece or 2nd of the unity is hidden or buried throughout the meal and then found or raised from the hiding place. What does that sound like? The sinless life […]
How to END Hurry in My Life
000903AM WFF-48 Sabbath Thieves-5 RESTING IN GOD SERIES: SABBATH THIEVES Mark 2:23 – 28 This message is one chapter of the book The Joy of a Word Filled Family available in audio and print form free online at www.dtbm.org as well as on Amazon. Waiting on God is a massive theme in God’s Word. A […]
Enjoying a Personal Sabbath Rest
WFF-47 000827AM Just to feed three million people would take 1300 rail road box cars of food each day, or a daily train 9 1/2 miles long! Can you imagine the deafening buzz of all those people talking, walking, bartering, gathering, cooking, cleaning and caring for their campsites? But on the Sabbath all the […]
Our Amazingly Jewish Heritage
WFF-46 000820PM Our Amazingly Jewish Heritage Tonight we are headed to a city made by God called the New JERUSALEM, It has Twelve Gates named after the 12 JEWISH Apostles, There are Twelve Foundations named after the 12 Tribes of ISRAEL, God sits on a hill called ZION, And we are heading to […]
How to Slow Life Down
WFF-45 000820AM Did you notice this morning the pace of your life as you came here to worship God? Perhaps[1] we all need to slow down and reflect on the following… The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints; we spend more, […]
Jesus Defines the Sabbath
WFF-44 000813AM Jesus is seen transparently in the Gospel by Mark. In the pages of this book we are treated to Jesus weary, Jesus grieved, Jesus sorrowing; in other words we are repeatedly brought face to face with the human emotions of Jesus. And we are witnesses to the astonishment of the multitudes. Jesus […]
When Should I Hunger for God?
WFF-43 000806PM When do we fast? God has not laid down lengths, days, manners, and details. Rather, He says to us that His grace teaches us. Where did the Lord say that? In Titus 2:11-13: “For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, 12. teaching us (This is […]
How Can I Hunger for God?
WFF-42 000806AM This produced not a detachment from earthly life or other people; rather it led to such a lacking of love for things that these early saints actually had abundant and overflowing time to love and seek and win their neighbors. Now for a moment, think of all the time we spend gathering, […]
What is Hungering for God?
WFF-41 000730AM We are continuing our study of a fascinating area of God’s Word – BIBLICAL FASTING. To best understand fasting in God’s Word we may need another way to describe biblical fasting, and that would be to ask: “How is your Hunger for God?” or “How are you doing in the total yielding of […]
Why Should I Hunger for God?
WFF-40 000723AM In the Old Testament we see biblical fasting is an urgent call to get serious about knowing God. In the New Testament we see biblical fasting is an ancient spiritual discipline to reschedule one’s life with God at the center instead of dining, relaxing, amusing, accumulating, advancing, securing, and a multitude of […]
Secrets of Life Long Consecration to Christ
WFF-39 021208AM Open with me this morning to one of the truly great prayers of a father for his son. This prayer is in 1st Chronicles 28.9. 1 Chronicles 28:9 “As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve Him with a loyal heart and with a willing mind; for the LORD searches […]
Learning Life Long Commitment
WFF-38 021201AM Our text is Luke 9.57-62 What I am about to say to you is common knowledge. In fact all of us who ever traveled on a highway have learned exactly what I am about to share. But to underline our text in your minds, I’ll remind you of an old truth most […]
Laying Hold on Eternal Life – By Consecration
WFF-37 021124AM Well let’s find out. Turn to Luke 9.23. What does Jesus say? He says that what we lose for Him we get to keep forever. What we find and keep for self we lose forever. So in reality Losers are Keepers and Keepers are the Weepers! One of the best illustrations of […]
Contented Living
WFF-36 021117AM Then the details listed and counted around that clock are overwhelming: I was watching the World Population Clock again this week. If you want to get a feel for the immensity of the world — just watch it and see that 3 new souls are arriving and surviving every seconds 24 hours […]
Beware of Affluenza
WFF-35 021110AM This week many major world newspapers began to examine what is being called the “Super-Flu”. Here is what they are saying: Overdue attack Some[1] experts have been looking at the genetic structure of the virus which caused the 1918 pandemic, as well as a serious outbreak in Hong Kong in 1997 for clues which […]
Is Marriage Your Priority
021014PM WFF-34 GDGW-34 Marriage- Our Primary Ministry IS YOUR MARRIAGE – YOUR PRIMARY MINISTRY? This morning a little five year old boy slid up on my lap while I was hunched over my laptop typing. He said, “Dad, have we had good morning prayer time yet?” he must have forgotten that he had slid in […]
No Greater Power than Praying Marriages
WFF-33 021013AM Parenting is life long. Praying keeps us on the front lines of our children’s lives – all through our lives. Successful parenting of a godly family only has two requirements: get started in prayer and never quit that praying. Before we are parents we are praying, while we are up to our ears […]
Women and Wives God will Bless
020922AM WFF-32 Prayer-14 GDGW-32 Growing Dads God’s Way-32 The Most Powerful Tools in Godly Parenting: Prayer – 14 “PRAYING THAT THEY WAIT TO MEET GOD’S PREPARED PARTNER FOR THEM ” God has inspired two pictures in Proverbs. One is the Proverbs 31 woman; the other is the Proverbs 14 woman. In contrast to the elegantly […]
How to be God’s Man and Husband
WFF-31 020915AM From this time onward may your thoughts be for each other father than for your individual selves; may your plans be mutual, your joys and sorrows shared. Wow, every time I say that it gives me shivers of joy to think that is what our marriages are all about. The Lord has […]
Marriage Divine Style
WFF-30 020908AM THE CHOICE IS YOURS! If you are married as you listen to me this morning, then what I am about to say is what you should BE. If you are young and at home as you listen to me, then what I am sharing from God’s Word is what you should BECOME. […]
Masculinity and Femininity
020901AM WFF-29 Prayer-10 GDGW-28 Growing Dads God’s Way-28 The Most Powerful Tools in Godly Parenting: Prayer – 10 PRAYING THAT THEY LOVE THE WAY GOD MADE THEM AS BOYS AND GIRLS Each of us were built to a perfect and intricate set of plans, engineered by God Himself. Within every cell of our body is […]
Learning to Always be Submissive to God
WFF-27 020825AM Romans 13:1 reminds us there is no authority except from God. Since He alone is the sovereign ruler of the universe (Ps. 62:11; 103:19; 1 Tim. 6:15), The Lord has placed no less than four different levels of authority on earth: 1) Political: the government over all citizens; 2) Spiritual: the church over […]
How to Really Love Someone
WFF-26 020818AM Young Gandhi with a Christian Family[1] While attending a university in London, Mahatma Gandhi the future leader who would sway the hearts of hundreds of millions of his own people in India, became almost convinced that the Christian religion was the one true, supernatural religion in the world. Upon graduation, and still seeking […]
Praying for Avoiding Bitterness
WFF-25 020804AM Will you be taken off guard when troubles hit home? When unexpectedly you loose your health, loose your wealth, loose a family member, loose your mobility, loose your independence…or any other of a million unexpected losses we all face each day. This morning God’s Word challenges each of us to get ready […]
How to be a Servant at Heart
WFF-24 020728AM The greatest goal we have spiritually as parents is to raise children that are useful to God. Usefulness in Christ’s kingdom is defined by one very precious quality – SERVANTHOOD. The words servants and servants and bondservants are used over 1000 times in the New Testament, that is about once every seven verses. […]
How to Pray for Purity
WFF-23 020721AM Jesus prayed for holy living in us who would live in the future. He knew how bad it would be. Jesus spoke of terrible days ahead for this world. He sent His beloved John on a journey ahead in time to see that Tribulation. The character of that world is stated in Revelation […]
Graduating with Honors
WFF-22 010521AM This past year 2.7 million young people graduated from High School and most of them were launched into their adult life of college and their following career. They graduated because they finished a set of scholastic requirements. But for those in Christian homes, did they pass the spiritual requirements for graduation from home? […]
Lord, Teach Me to Pray
WFF-21 020714AM Prayer is one to the few things we are asked to unceasingly be involved with. If prayer is something we are to do unceasingly, then we better know how to do it properly! When God’s Word teaches us how to pray, it is very profitable to notice what God doesn’t teach us […]
What Happens When Parents Pray?
020707AM WFF-20 Prayer-3 GDGW-20 Growing Dads God’s Way-20 The Most Powerful Tools in Godly Parenting: Prayer – 3 What happens when parents pray? One of my great heroes of the faith is a missionary who lived from 18241907. His name was John Paton, and he was born1 in a “farm cottage not far from Dumfries, […]
Powerful Parental Prayers
WFF-19 020630AM What kind of father prepared John G. Paton for that kind of perseverance[1][2] — another fifty years of rugged, faithful missionary labor? Paton’s father, James, was converted at seventeen and immediately convinced his mother and father that the family should have morning and evening prayer together. Paton writes about his father: “And so […]
How to Parent Through Prayer
WFF-18 020623PM By now we are all asking the same thing aren’t we? How could we ever do anything of this magnitude? How can we penetrate the lives of our children with these truths? How can we see God unleashed in their lives? How can we every day be actively using God’s Word and seeing […]
Character God Blesses in Moms and Dads
WFF-17 020623AM No actually it was one of the greatest times of ministry I have ever had especially because I felt so unable to communicate with them and so as the Lord promised when we are weak – they He can be strong through us. Thanks so much for praying. On the 2500-mile drive I […]
Mile Markers on the Road of Godly Parenting
WFF-16 020512PM As I sat for about 92 hours over these past few days behind the steering wheel, often moving at 102 feet per second, I started noticing how many details the Interstate Highway System has incorporated to keep the millions of us drivers on the right road. Now with all that in mind, if it takes […]
Mile Markers on the Road of Godly Families
WFF-15 020512AM May I remind you of just a few of the markers I saw along those thousands of miles I drove? Here are some of the more interesting and most frequent of all: There are painted white stripes between highway lanes that average 12 feet long with an unpainted space of about 20 feet […]
Mothers of the Promise
WFF-14 890514AM Scriptures are specific when we speak to the blessed theme of motherhood. In fact: God is interested in individuals – 2,930 individuals named. God is interested in women, 327 are women, nearly all mothers. We know more specifics and good things about women from God’s word than any other ancient document. Let’s go […]
Wanted – Godly Men
930523AM WFF-13 GROWING DADS GOD’S WAY LESSON-13 WANTED: GODLY MEN PSALM 15; I TIM 3 There has probably been few times in the history of this planet when it has been harder to be a man of god than today … The outlook is dismal when you examine the forces of the darkness of this […]
How to Be a Wonderful Dad
010617AM WFF-12 Fathers GDGW-12 HOW TO BE A WONDERFUL DAD AND FATHER On my first Father’s Day as I was serving on staff as a new pastor in California, someone passed out to all of us a Father’s Day tract. I read it, thought about it, and finally taped it into the front cover of […]
A Godward Home
WFF-11 000911PM Loving God supremely, that was perhaps the greatest mandate God’s Word has ever given to us as believers. In Matthew 22:37-39 Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’38 “This is the first and great commandment. […]
Will Your Teen Graduate in Godliness
WFF-11 000911PM The Oxford American Dictionary defines the word graduate as “the successful completion of a recognized course”. And graduation as the “ceremony for a successful completion of a recognized course or a mark of measurement”. Of course we graduate because there is a set of requirements that have been laid down by others for […]
No Regret Families
WFF-09 011112PM DO YOU KNOW THAT A NO REGRET MARRIAGE AND FAMILY IS A WONDERFUL BLESSING FROM THE LORD? 2 Timothy 4:6-7 For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand. 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I […]
Godly Women and Mothers
930516AM WFF-08 GDGW-8 Growing Dads God’s Way-08 FAMILY SERIES: WOMEN MARK 14:3-10 Godly Women and Moms OPEN YOUR BIBLES TO MARK 14:3-10 Its just a day before the end of Christ’s earthly ministry. On this night before that long last supper/betrayal night, one of the most touching scenes from the ministry of Christ occurs. A […]
How to Encourage an Excellent Mother
WFF-07 010513AM So this morning we join our nation as together we honor our mothers. Mothers are quite a precious commodity, aren’t they? Each of us owes our very existence to our Mom! And in the flurry of phone calls, cards, dinners, flowers, and gifts we express our love. Why? Because it is Biblical. Turn […]
How to Be a Father of the Word
WFF-06 991208PM He said, “My family’s all grown, and the kids are all gone. But, if I had to do it all over again, this is what I’d do: I would love my wife more in front of my children. I would laugh with my children more–at our mistakes and our joys. I would listen […]
Joseph – A Model Dad
WFF-05 991201WE John Paton was a Scottish missionary to the New Hebrides, islands that are today called Vanuatu, located one thousand miles north of New Zealand and four hundred miles west of Fiji. Paton arrived November 4, 1858, on the island of Tanna at the age of thirty-four, with his wife, Mary Ann. A son […]
How to Raise Beautiful Daughters
WFF-04 991110WE The Most Beautiful Women in God’s Word This morning may I introduce again the beautiful woman of God’s Word? Mary, the mother of James and Jesus! – Who is presented as the most honored woman in the Bible? Mary – Who was chosen out of all the women in the whole world to raise […]
How to Disciple Your Wife
WFF-03 991013WE Key Number One: Lead the Family Devotions A GODLY DAD WILL EMPHASIZE BIBLICAL COMMUNICATION Deuteronomy 6:7-9 And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. […]
How to Raise Pure Kids
WFF-02 990922WE In the 1960s, kids lost their authority. It was the decade of protest-church, state, and parents were all called into question and found wanting. Their authority was rejected, yet nothing ever replaced it. In the 1970s, kids lost their love. It was the decade of me-ism, dominated by hyphenated words beginning with self. […]
How to Lead a Family Altar
WFF-01 990915WE Have you looked at your Bible that way this week? It is the exact and perfect and errorless guide to maintenance (how to stay victorious), Fuel needs (how to grow by eating spiritually), Warranty questions (assurance of salvation) and so on. There is nothing more vital nor practical than to consult the Owner’s […]
Loving The Way God Made You
020901AM Prayer-10 GDGW-28 Growing Dads God’s Way-28 The Most Powerful Tools in Godly Parenting: Prayer – 10 PRAYING THAT THEY LOVE THE WAY GOD MADE THEM AS BOYS AND GIRLS DWM-21 WFF-28 WFP-23 Each of us were built to a perfect and intricate set of plans, engineered by God Himself. Within every cell of our […]
The Joy of a Word Filled Family: Arabic Translation (PDF)
This is the Arabic translation of John Barnett’s book The Joy of a Word Filled Family.
The Joy of a Word-Filled Family: Portuguese Translation (PDF)
This is an Portuguese translation of Dr. John Barnett’s book on the Christian Marriage and Home called The Joy of a Word Filled Family.
The Joy of a Word Filled Family: Russian Translation (PDF)
This is a Russian translation of John Barnett’s book The Joy of a Word Filled Family.