Daily Faith with Philip Cameron: Special Guest Pastor Barry Carpenter
Pastor Barry Carpenter of Resurrection Church in Daphne, Alabama joins Philip Cameron for a wide-ranging conversation about the deep roots of Christian faith, the power of church history, and what it means to carry the fire of the Holy Spirit into the modern church. Barry traces his spiritual journey from a Quaker congregation in Hampton, Virginia — where a neighbor named Mr. Thompson knocked on his family's door around 1955 and changed everything — through Methodist roots, Anglican influence, and a life-marking encounter at the Asbury Revival. "When desire was birthed in me for God, for his will, for his ways, and to know him — and then eventually to make him known," Barry reflects, capturing the thread that runs through every tradition that has shaped him.
The conversation turns to the urgent need for the church to recover its theological heritage, particularly through hymnology. Barry and Philip argue that the great hymns of the faith — written centuries ago by giants like the Wesley brothers and St. Anthony of Padua — carried doctrine to ordinary people in a way modern worship screens cannot replicate. "Good theology plus good hymnology equals good doxology," Philip declares, and Barry wholeheartedly agrees.
This episode is a compelling call for believers to stand on the shoulders of those who came before, to rediscover the weight of church history, and to let the Holy Spirit ignite fresh fire in their hearts today.
