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…
Getting started in Matamoros Radical Living During the summer of 1993 some of our staff joined me in investigating the new field of Matamoros, Mexico. Such pioneering trips are often opportunities to s…
My criteria for discipling others Discipling At the Barnes house last night, we had a wonderful dinner with some of our World Race coaches, talking about raising up a generation of radical disciples. Th…
Iquitos Peru Defeats Covid with Ivermectin Wounded healers Carrying a Covid-19 patient in a village near Iquitos, Peru 21 years ago, I traveled to Iquitos, Peru. Ever since I’ve had an interest in the people there…
