Category Archives: Weekly Updates

In 2024, Holy Barre plans to explore and pursue His joy on our journey of burning brighter together! Will you join us? A popular statement in the Bible about joy comes from the story of Nehemiah, after he and his team have worked hard to rebuild the wall of Jerusalem. This entire book of the Bible isContinue reading “The Joy of the Lord Is Our . . .”

As we transition from Christmas 2023 into a new year of 2024, we get to pause and reflect. Hopefully we get to breath and rest as well. Yet ultimately, may our response be worship!  We worship that our Lord reigns today just as He does on Christmas Day or Easter or any other big celebration. We worship HisContinue reading “Now We Worship . . .”

Below are words of encouragement from our friend, Abbi Wright . . . This was on my heart this morning. I don’t know if anyone else relates to this, but holidays can sure pull us out of our routines. This is a beautiful thing to jolt us out of our normal, but it can alsoContinue reading “Merry Christmas Eve”

Join us as we pray, read & meditate, listen, move, and remember this holiday season. And may your joy be complete in Him. Thank you, Ashley & Abbi, for this prayer! Thank you, Shauna, for this visual reminder of a beautiful phone screen! PRAY Let every heart prepare Him room…Lord, we open our hearts toContinue reading “Advent Prayer: Love – Week 4”

Join us as we pray, read & meditate, listen, move, and remember this holiday season. And may your joy be complete in Him. Thank you, Ashley & Abbi, for this prayer! Thank you, Shauna, for this visual reminder of a beautiful phone screen! PRAY Lord, we focus in on Your presence today. All through YourContinue reading “Advent Prayer: Joy – Week 3”

Last night at the Trans-Siberian Orchestra concert in my hometown, the lyrics ‘the weary world rejoices’ brought me to tears.  Why?  Because I’m weary.  As I know so many of you are as well.  Yet this Christmas, we rejoice.  Truly rejoice . . . in the weariness.  Why?  Because Jesus changes everything, and we canContinue reading “The Weary World Rejoices”

Join us as we pray, read & meditate, listen, move, and remember this holiday season. Thank you, Ashley & Abbi, for this prayer! Thank you, Shauna, for this visual reminder of a beautiful phone screen! PRAY Father God, We look to You right now. We believe that peace, true peace is found only in Your Presence, God.Continue reading “Advent Prayer: Peace – Week 2”

(Praying you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. For this Christmas season, we are going to provide weekly Advent prayers written by Ashley and Abbi of Deeper Wells. Please set aside time throughout this week to pray and, if you’d like, read, meditate, listen, move and ultimately connect with our Reason for the Season. AtContinue reading “Advent Prayer: Hope – Week 1”

My husband has started a weekly tradition of using temporary tattoo markers to put the first letter of each word of a Bible verse on our forearms to assist with scripture memory. Sorry that was a long sentence! Here are some pics from ours last week (Acts 1:8) and this week to help (1 ThesContinue reading “Gratitude & Freedom”

So this morning at Holy Barre I asked the question, ‘Why are we here?’ Like why did we show up to class today. Now I realize for many you initially come to Holy Barre for a free faith-based full-body workout, but we pray that you soon realize this gathering is much more than physical fitness.Continue reading “Endurance”