01.01.2015 – Discipling – 10 Comments on Going to a New Level with God Going to a New Level with God It’s a new year. Time marches on. The world changes. What about us will change? What new level will we go to? Wherev… Read Post
12.24.2014 – My Life – 8 Comments on Merry Christmas from the Barnes Merry Christmas from the Barnes Merry Christmas 2014 from the Barnes! Every Christmas I depart from the usual blog-fare to share from my personal … Read Post
12.18.2014 – Vulnerability and me – 6 Comments on Missing Hearts Missing Hearts It’s a season of connecting with those you love and those you missed. As for me, I fell in love with three new peop… Read Post
12.13.2014 – Sex Trade and Sex Trafficking – 1 Comment on Portrait of a Bar Girl Leaving Her Bar Portrait of a Bar Girl Leaving Her Bar For a bar girl in Southeast Asia to leave her bar can be dangerous. She leaves her source of income. Most don’t have … Read Post
12.10.2014 – Prayer – 4 Comments on A World Racer’s Prayer A World Racer’s Prayer Lord, I want to learn to live as Jesus lived. Teach me to leave the things behind that he left. Help me to learn to… Read Post
12.02.2014 – Comfort and Pain – 6 Comments on What Does It Mean to Be Born Again? What Does It Mean to Be Born Again? Jesus was talking to a religious guy about truth and made this statement, “No one can see the kingdom of God unless h… Read Post
11.26.2014 – Community and Covenant – 26 Comments on Searching for a Place of Grace Searching for a Place of Grace Somebody asked me, “How are you?” recently. It was the first time in a while I felt someone was really interested – m… Read Post
11.23.2014 – 42nd Generation – 1 Comment on Millennials & Identity Crisis Millennials & Identity Crisis Millennials are searching for identity. They look in all the usual places: Their friends Their jobs Their … Read Post
11.18.2014 – World Race – 16 Comments on Making Sense of Life after the World Race Making Sense of Life after the World Race That’s my L squad guys from two years ago in the picture – the ones I coached for a year. I stay in touch with a … Read Post
11.14.2014 – Discipling – 7 Comments on Making Disciples Who Make Disciples Making Disciples Who Make Disciples Gret Glyer lives in Malawi. He met a man there named Prince. Prince goes into a prison regularly to meet with murdere… Read Post
11.11.2014 – Comfort and Pain – 27 Comments on What I Don’t Understand About Christianity What I Don’t Understand About Christianity I don’t understand how Jesus, who is the ultimate radical reformer, has been homogenized and made safe for the … Read Post
11.04.2014 – Wrecked – 25 Comments on Growing Weary in Doing Good Growing Weary in Doing Good Karen and I had four small children and she was pregnant with Leah. Coming out of business school I had followed a … Read Post
11.02.2014 – Journeys – 7 Comments on Why You May Need to Leave Suburbia Why You May Need to Leave Suburbia I recently was introduced to Gret Glyer. Gret grew up like so many Americans – comfortable. But as he shares in this … Read Post
10.28.2014 – Better Living – 20 Comments on Wearing Fear Wearing Fear A friend called me from the airport and sent the above picture of a guy wearing a surgeon’s mask and gloves… Read Post
10.21.2014 – Story telling – 19 Comments on A Storytelling God A Storytelling God God loves stories. He hardwired us to respond to them at a spiritual level – from our gut. “Tell me a story,” ch… Read Post
10.14.2014 – Community and Covenant – 10 Comments on The Fruit of Commitment The Fruit of Commitment Commitment costs in the short-term but pays in the long-term. Kelli Miller and Matt Patch lived and worked for thr… Read Post
10.08.2014 – My Life – 10 Comments on My Story: How I got here My Story: How I got here What motivates you? I mean at a core level really motivates you? Is it to hang out with your famil… Read Post
10.01.2014 – My Life – 39 Comments on My Story: The Formative Years My Story: The Formative Years Welcome to my blog! I have been writing it since 2005. For the first ten years, I wrote almost every day. I ha… Read Post
09.29.2014 – Reaching Your Destiny – 17 Comments on To Live an Epic Life, Embrace Epic Failure To Live an Epic Life, Embrace Epic Failure “I fear failure like a deer fears a lion because, while I don’t mind the chase now, I know I’ll ultimatel… Read Post
09.25.2014 – Leadership – 3 Comments on Your Problems and Their Solutions Your Problems and Their Solutions We are all busy. We’ve all got problems that we see. We talk a lot about values and what keeps all of us from living … Read Post
09.16.2014 – A broken world – 17 Comments on 3 Truths About Brokenness 3 Truths About Brokenness I was talking with a life coach last week. He probed broken areas of my life that I had dealt with a long time ago. I… Read Post
09.11.2014 – Amazing God Stories – 8 Comments on Will God Give You a Sign? Will God Give You a Sign? Rinaldo and Esther are Christian friends from Switzerland. They had moved together from their native Switzerl… Read Post
09.01.2014 – Short-term missions – 8 Comments on When Mission Trips Change Lives When Mission Trips Change Lives I heard the testimony of a big and gruff, man about his mission trip. “It was to Reynosa, Mexico. We didn&rs… Read Post
08.28.2014 – Reaching Your Destiny – 20 Comments on Overcoming Obstacles to Living an Epic Life Overcoming Obstacles to Living an Epic Life Seven years ago, I had a dream – to shoot a reality TV show of the World Race. I believe that a generation o… Read Post
