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 – 8 Comments on 7 Questions To Improve Your Marriage 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…
02.20.2025 – Leadership How Do I Know When to Take Action? I’m weird – I spend a lot of time reflecting, but I also tend to make quick decisions. I find that God often spea…
What’s your worst journey? Journeys I’m at a Barnes family reunion in New Mexico. Last night at the supper table, someone brought up the topic of difficult journeys that we’ve taken. My sist…
Cyber-discipling: round 2 Discipling Five days ago I offered to start another cyber-discipling group. Since then, nine of you have signed up (though only one did so on line). So now I’m closing …
How NOT to come off a fast Spiritual Formation When you hit my age, the doctor sends you to a specialist who looks around in your intestinal tract for anything that might be pre-cancerous. It’s a rite of …
