12.24.2020 – Dealing with junk in our lives – 8 Comments on A Christmas Story From This Morning A Christmas Story From This Morning I’ve never been any good at stuffing Christmas stockings. This morning, I went to the salvage store to buy … Read Post
12.23.2020 – My Life – 18 Comments on Barnes Christmas 2020 Update + Good News! Barnes Christmas 2020 Update + Good News! Hi. It’s the Christmas season. And what a weird season it is in 2020! All the holiday stuff that many of us do ha… Read Post
12.09.2020 – My Life – 26 Comments on Celebrating 40 Years of Life Together Celebrating 40 Years of Life Together 40 years ago, Karen and I got married on a blustery day in Chicago. She was 21 years-old and had never been out o… Read Post
12.05.2020 – Our Blog Community – 11 Comments on Prayers for the group: Week #11 Prayers for the group: Week #11 How are you doing? I don’t know if there is a single marital relationship I’m familiar with that isn’t experiencing p… Read Post
12.03.2020 – Better Living – 2 Comments on Time To Write Your Obituary Time To Write Your Obituary Too many of us are stuck in a rut. Yes, covid is real and life is hard, but the fact is, we could be a lot more proac… Read Post
12.01.2020 – Lordship – 8 Comments on Why study about Jesus? (Orthodoxy vs Orthopraxy) Why study about Jesus? (Orthodoxy vs Orthopraxy) Why study Jesus? Because we don’t just believe in him, but we as his “followers” have chosen to follow him. So we … Read Post
11.25.2020 – Redemption – 3 Comments on Take Time For a Thanksgiving Gut-check Take Time For a Thanksgiving Gut-check Before he ascended to his nation’s throne, David was in an inbetween time, as are we. He had not taken hold of his de… Read Post
11.16.2020 – Lordship – 5 Comments on How Does God’s Rhema Word Sustain Us? How Does God’s Rhema Word Sustain Us? Jesus was in a miserable place. The desert sun scorched his flesh. He had no food to eat. And then, who should he … Read Post
11.05.2020 – Redemption – 19 Comments on Don’t Grow Weary In Doing Good! Don’t Grow Weary In Doing Good! So many of you are not just tired, you are weary! 30 years ago I learned a lesson of what to do when you feel tha… Read Post
10.16.2020 – Comfort and Pain – 15 Comments on Where is God in Tragedy? Where is God in Tragedy? Wednesday night, Isaiah and Meghan Carter had been driving a long time across country to get home. The two lanes … Read Post
10.12.2020 – Refugees & Crisis – 1 Comment on Devastated by 2 Hurricanes – Where’s the Church? Devastated by 2 Hurricanes – Where’s the Church? Where is our response to the two hurricanes that have devastated southwest Louisiana? Despite winds that were… Read Post
09.25.2020 – Blog Community – 34 Comments on If You Want To Go Deeper, Here’s How If You Want To Go Deeper, Here’s How This past Monday I announced (in this blog post) to our blog community that I felt the Lord asking me to go deeper ra… Read Post
09.21.2020 – Blog Community – 67 Comments on Deeper, Not Wider Deeper, Not Wider Election season is about getting the masses behind you. It’s a time to gather coalitions and get out the vote. It’… Read Post
09.15.2020 – Fighting your enemy – 4 Comments on Doing Battle With a Spirit of Fear Doing Battle With a Spirit of Fear We think we’re afraid of Covid-19. We think, “Once we get a vaccine, it will be safe.” But will it? Apparently the va… Read Post
09.09.2020 – How to Disciple – 1 Comment on Three things Jesus does that we don’t do Three things Jesus does that we don’t do G.K. Chesterton said, “The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and lef… Read Post
09.04.2020 – Courage – 7 Comments on I’m Learning How to Act Courageously I’m Learning How to Act Courageously Our nation is in the grips of an epidemic. And I’m not talking about Covid; I’m talking about fear. Yes, Covid is rea… Read Post
09.01.2020 – Portraits of Disciplers – 14 Comments on Jack Larson RIP – A Life Connecting People to God on Mission Jack Larson RIP – A Life Connecting People to God on Mission I lost a close friend yesterday. Jack Larson connected more people to God’s heart for the poor than just about an… Read Post
08.29.2020 – Wounded healers – 7 Comments on Ivermectin as a Cure for Covid-19? Current Research is Encouraging Ivermectin as a Cure for Covid-19? Current Research is Encouraging A few days ago I told the story of how Ivermectin seemed to have made a huge difference in fighting Covid-19 in Iquit… Read Post
08.26.2020 – Wounded healers – 17 Comments on Iquitos Peru Defeats Covid with Ivermectin Iquitos Peru Defeats Covid with Ivermectin Carrying a Covid-19 patient in a village near Iquitos, Peru 21 years ago, I traveled to Iquitos, Peru. Ever since … Read Post
08.25.2020 – Better Living – 37 Comments on If You Knew of a Cure for Covid, Would You Share It? If You Knew of a Cure for Covid, Would You Share It? If somebody told you about a cure for Covid, what would you do with it? Assuming you’re like me, not a doctor – someo… Read Post
08.12.2020 – Parenting – 5 Comments on 5 Secrets to Leading Your Family Through Hard Times 5 Secrets to Leading Your Family Through Hard Times Will college football cancel its season? Some conferences already have. If it does, I guess that’s the last straw – w… Read Post
08.10.2020 – My Life – 7 Comments on Shirley Wratten Leads My Family to Christ Shirley Wratten Leads My Family to Christ In 1968, my family was in a hard place. My dad was an army doctor sent for a year to the Viet Nam war. I was nine…. Read Post
08.07.2020 – Justice issues – 4 Comments on Activate Your Faith Tomorrow (Aug. 8) Activate Your Faith Tomorrow (Aug. 8) What a hard season of sickness and division we are going through! The nation was going through a similar… Read Post
08.05.2020 – Blog Community – 9 Comments on Finding Justice, Grace, and a Civil Blog Community Finding Justice, Grace, and a Civil Blog Community I’ve been following the revival meetings that started in Huntington Beach last month. We who have tried to make Jesus… Read Post
