03.27.2025 – A broken world – 4 Comments on The World’s 25 Greatest Problems & What You Can Do About Them The World’s 25 Greatest Problems & What You Can Do About Them The book The 4th Turning tells us Gen Z is the Hero Generation. They just need a cause. To help them find thei…
03.20.2025 – Parenting – 7 Comments on Take Your Kids on a Family Mission Trip Take Your Kids on a Family Mission Trip In 2002, our oldest child, Talia, was graduating high school. Whatever final touches we wanted to put on the pare…
03.13.2025 – Better Living 7 Questions To Improve Your Marriage My wife Karen is a therapist who sees a lot of couples whose relationship is in trouble. They are struggling and …
03.06.2025 – Refugees & Crisis, Short-term missions North Carolina Digs Out From Hurricane – You Can Help! Justin Rhodes took a video as Hurricane Helene threatened to wash away his family’s home and farm. A river raged …
02.27.2025 – Culture and Faith Am I a Cultural Christian? One of the questions I’ve wrestled with for much of my life is “What is a Christian?” America is known as a “Chri…
Thomas Jefferson warns us about losing freedom Living Free Our freedoms here in America are being undermined in ever more obvious ways. Government continues to encroach, doing for us what we used to do for ourselves….
Barnes Christmas 2011 My Life We had a house-full here in Gainesville. Our neighbors from Florida, the Shiraz family. Karen’s parents. And then for dinner, Trevor, Ryan & the Bokelman…
Adopting and fighting for a son Orphans My friend Brent Gudgel at Deidox.com just sent me this short film called “Deidox: The Ivey Family.” It’s about adoption (and Haiti), and ultimately how we ar…
