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…
Great Curriculum Won’t Make Disciples Discipling We come out of a culture that prizes efficiency and systems. We apply that mindset to spiritual formation and assume that all we have to do to grow is …
Is the simple life possible in America? Simplicity Liberates You A blog reader named Forest just posted a comment to this blog. I’d like to know if anyone has an answer for him. He said, “I have read your article, and al…
Barnes Christmas ’08 My Life Things are always fun at the Barnes house. It was a good Christmas. Our children are all grown up now. Here we are on the porch.
