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…
Barnes Christmas 09 My Life An epic Christmas at the Barnes homestead. Some pics of the activity from my iphone. Merry Christmas, everyone! Seth jr. & Whimsy Sarah, T…
Adolescence is not necessary Parenting Teenagers these days look a lot different than when my generation was growing up. More of them are left to raise themselves. Many more of them are abused. Di…
Report on Haiti microfinance loans Haiti My son is in Haiti today and my thoughts drift there with him. When I was in Haiti last May, I saw that one long-term answer for Haitians to be able to provi…
