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Dave Wroughton

08.09.2023 – My Life – 8 Comments

The Life of Dave Wroughton – My College Buddy

My best friend from college, David Wroughton, died yesterday. I loved Dave and wanted to share his story as I kne…

families

06.27.2023 – Journeys, Fathering & Men’s issues, Intergenerational connection – 2 Comments

Families Having the Best Year of Their Lives

When Bill and Katie Swan left on the World Race in 2010, it changed their lives. They had been married three years,…

vulnerable leader

05.24.2023 – Leadership, Vulnerable Leadership – 6 Comments

Learning to be a Vulnerable Leader

I’ve spent a lot of my life mentoring young leaders. Gen Z is different. While they desire mentoring, they want their…

George Verwer

05.10.2023 – Missions – No Comments

RIP George Verwer – A Missionary Statesman

George Verwer, founder of Operation Mobilization (OM) and one of the greatest advocates for missions of our day died …

mexico

04.25.2023 – Uncategorized, Missions – 1 Comment

Update on the AIM Mexico Base

Over 30 years ago, God laid it on my heart to establish a training center and mission base in Mexico. Every n…

faith

04.14.2023 – Culture and Faith – 4 Comments

To Grow in Faith, We Need Freedom to Fail

Photo: AJ Yorio Growing up in a digital world makes our commitments continually reversible. Don’t like something p…

giving up your need for certainty

04.06.2023 – Culture and Faith – 5 Comments

Giving Up Your Need For Certainty

This morning I find myself in Brooklyn, NY. I’m going to spend the day with the founders of StoryTime Chess, a bu…

apply Jesus's model

03.29.2023 – Discipling – 2 Comments

Is It Possible to Apply Jesus’s Model of Spiritual Growth?

You’d think it would have gotten easier to make a disciple. For one thing, in Jesus’s time, life was more difficu…

Courtney & Cal Herrmann

03.22.2023 – Youth Ministry – 2 Comments

Churches Raising Up World Changers

Cal and Courtney Herrmann are the kind of sharp young couple who could get six figure jobs in a company near home…

wineskin

03.20.2023 – Church – 7 Comments

Don’t Get Stuck Using an Old Wineskin

Photo by Geda Žyvatkauskaitė The Bible is full of illustrations and lessons that involve wine. It’s the blood of …

need to repent

02.16.2023 – Revival – 7 Comments

When Do We Need to Repent? The Asbury Revival Shows Us

Photo by Ben White on Unsplash How rare is public repentance these days? Politicians who used to reach across the …

vulnerable

12.20.2022 – Vulnerable Leadership – 3 Comments

Why We Need Leaders Who Can Be Vulnerable

This generation of young people is hungering for authenticity and vulnerability. They’ve been lied to and have so man…

A stack of books by Seth Barnes

12.06.2022 – Writing Blogs and Books – 13 Comments

Books I’ve Written, Including Some You’ve Never Seen

I began writing when I was young. Since high school, I’ve kept a journal. And as a 23 year-old working overseas, I wr…

spiritual feedback

11.21.2022 – Debriefing – No Comments

What is Spiritual Feedback?

I grew up in a family that did not have great feedback loops. We were all about high-performance, but often you didn’…

learning from the door closing behind you

11.21.2022 – Finding your call – 2 Comments

Learning from the door closing behind you

If you’ve been fired, why did it happen? As a young man, I was fired twice. The story I told myself about it I…

hurricane ian

10.06.2022 – Refugees & Crisis – 1 Comment

How You Can Respond to Hurricane Ian

Hurricane Ian – over 100 dead and $100B in private insurance claims. One of the worst natural disasters of our li…

Hiking the Camino

09.27.2022 – Journeys – 7 Comments

5 Lessons From a Decade Hiking the Camino

I remember the first day I hiked the Camino de Santiago nearly 10 years ago. It was early in May – the air was cr…

protect their children

09.07.2022 – Parenting – 1 Comment

How Can Parents Protect Their Children From Pain?

Talia was just two years old when she pulled a pot of hot grits off the stove and burned her hand. She screamed in …

world race

08.30.2022 – World Race – 2 Comments

A World Race Squad 10 Years Later

September 2012, we launched a World Race squad of 60 – the “L squad.” They came from all over America to the Atla…

catholics

08.26.2022 – Church – 10 Comments

What I Learned By Working With Catholics

I love Alpha, the ministry that introduces people to Jesus without all the trappings of organized religion. They …

Colin Sullivan

08.16.2022 – Radical Living – 11 Comments

What We’ll Miss About Colin Sullivan

Two months after returning from his World Race, Colin Sullivan and his squad came back to Georgia for a reunion. …

happy life

07.28.2022 – Improving yourself – 18 Comments

The Key To a Happy Life as You Get Older

I’m 64 and have an actuarial lifespan of another 19 years. I’ve been studying how to make the best of them. When …

men's retreat

07.21.2022 – Fathering & Men’s issues – 10 Comments

What Does a Good Men’s Retreat Look Like?

In ten days I’m flying to Italy to lead a men’s retreat for some priests. My question: What should it look like i…

schuylar's passing

07.11.2022 – Comfort and Pain – 2 Comments

Making Sense of Schuylar’s Passing

For those who loved Schuylar Barnes, watching her fight cancer was excruciating. She wasn’t just fighting for lif…

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