Seth Barnes

The Conversation Gen Z Is Hoping to Have

The Conversation Gen Z Is Hoping to Have And why it might be the one that changes everything. There is a moment that happens in almost every family, and most of us have lived both sides of it. A parent notices something in their young adult kid. A pa...

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The Conversation Gen Z Is Hoping to Have The Conversation Gen Z Is Hoping to Have

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I have spent over thirty years watching young people wrestle with this question. Not the polished Sunday school version of it. The real one. The one that shows up at 2am when the room is quiet and the highlight reel of everyone else's life has finall...

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When Your Graduate Doesn't Know What's NextYour son or daughter just graduated. The cap has been thrown. The photos have been taken. The relatives have gone home. And now you're facing a common dilemma: helping your graduate launch into adulthood whe...

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I watched something happen in Guatemala a few weeks ago that I have not been able to shake. We had two groups of young people serving side by side at one of our ministry sites. One group had been on the field for months, living in community, sleeping...

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