12.10.2007 – My Life – 13 Comments on Celebrating Leah’s life Celebrating Leah’s life Let me tell you about my daughter, Leah. She’s our youngest child. She turns 18 this week and we’re celebrating her l… Read Post
12.09.2007 – Portraits of Disciplers – 2 Comments on What does a disciple look like? Jeff Goins What does a disciple look like? Jeff Goins I have several married men and about five young men whom I disciple – Jeff Goins is one. (Incidentally – I count on t… Read Post
12.08.2007 – Spiritual Formation – No Comments on Brokenness: One woman’s journey Brokenness: One woman’s journey This is the third blog about the vicarious pain that my son, Seth, and his team are going thru in the Philippines. We… Read Post
12.07.2007 – Radical Living – 8 Comments on “All supposed miracles are faked” “All supposed miracles are faked” A year and a half ago, I posted a blog about God raising people from the dead. It was one of those blogs that got an … Read Post
12.06.2007 – A broken world – 2 Comments on $50: The price of life $50: The price of life Max Depree in his wonderful little book, Leadership is an Art, asks this provocative question: What makes you weep? T… Read Post
12.05.2007 – Culture and Faith – 4 Comments on Sean Taylor’s revenge will have to wait Sean Taylor’s revenge will have to wait If you want to know how I felt about Sean Taylor’s murder at the hands of four Florida punks, read my earlier blog. T… Read Post
12.04.2007 – Abandon – 10 Comments on Do I have to go overseas to be a radical? Do I have to go overseas to be a radical? Blog reader Brent Howard wrote this comment on my blog a while ago: “As a soon-to-be 40 year old father of two, a… Read Post
12.03.2007 – Radical Living – 88 Comments on He’s an 11th hour God He’s an 11th hour God God loves surprise endings. He delights in unexpected plot twists that leave you saying, “I didn’t see that one comin… Read Post
12.02.2007 – Orphans – 2 Comments on 130,000 Swazi children orphaned and vulnerable 130,000 Swazi children orphaned and vulnerable The article below just appeared last week in Yahoo. I went to Swaziland in 2004 and was appalled to see that 70,000 c… Read Post
12.01.2007 – World Race – 2 Comments on The World Race as a movement The World Race as a movement Yesterday I outlined a few principles of organic open-source movements. A few of us feel that this next generation is… Read Post
11.30.2007 – Abandon – 4 Comments on How do you start a movement? How do you start a movement? Christianity, when it looks as God intended, looks like a movement. At its outset, it resembled a starfish – cut off … Read Post
11.29.2007 – Orphans – 1 Comment on Long distance love for orphans Long distance love for orphans One sweltering summer afternoon in the Reynosa Salvation Army orphanage I sat in a swing for about half an hour w… Read Post
11.28.2007 – A broken world – 1 Comment on Broken hearts in the Philippines – sorrow & hope Broken hearts in the Philippines – sorrow & hope My son Seth’s team visited a tuberculosis clinic on an island in the Philippines. Traci’s Not Your Typical Alfredo bl… Read Post
11.27.2007 – Dreaming – 7 Comments on Sean Taylor’s death & my dreams Sean Taylor’s death & my dreams Sean Taylor, all-pro safety for the Washington Redskins, died a few minutes ago. A man broke into his home yesterday … Read Post
11.26.2007 – Intergenerational connection – 5 Comments on It’s time for Americans to discover the gap year It’s time for Americans to discover the gap year Clint Bokelman emailed me from Africa this month. He kept running into young Europeans enjoying their gap year in Mar… Read Post
11.25.2007 – Church – 1 Comment on America is becoming a mission field for Africans America is becoming a mission field for Africans Just saw this on Yahoo: Nearly every week, new visitors arrive. They want to see the megachurch that was built in… Read Post
11.24.2007 – Fighting your enemy – 5 Comments on Learning to cast out demons Learning to cast out demons My son Seth, having graduated from college, is in the Philippines on the World Race. We raised him to believe the Bib… Read Post
11.23.2007 – A broken world – 14 Comments on The dying room The dying room We were sitting with Dave S. in downtown Hong Kong last week when Dave said something so unsettling I had to stop him… Read Post
11.22.2007 – Culture and Faith – 3 Comments on Talking Jesus doll – product of a consumeristic society? Talking Jesus doll – product of a consumeristic society? Today is Thanksgiving, and here in the Barnes house, we are grateful for so much. Having Talia and Estie home is reas… Read Post
11.21.2007 – Living Free – 17 Comments on Celebrating the return of my child Celebrating the return of my child After a year repeating Magellan’s feat – circumnavigating the globe – our first-born daughter, Talia, has returne… Read Post
11.20.2007 – Kingdom Reality – 3 Comments on Becoming a kingdom activist Becoming a kingdom activist I just got back from Asia, where I spent a week and a half with a bunch of passionate world-changers. To say the lea… Read Post
11.19.2007 – Identity issues – 7 Comments on My crazy life My crazy life Something is broken in me, and it looks equal parts American, Barnes family DNA, and my first-born status. It is deci… Read Post
11.18.2007 – Leadership – 4 Comments on Leaders choosing competence over loyalty Leaders choosing competence over loyalty “Last of all, he sent his son to them. They will respect my son.” -Jesus, telling a parable about loyalty, competence… Read Post
11.17.2007 – Abandon – 2 Comments on Being with God before doing things for him Being with God before doing things for him I spent the first part of my career in ministry feeling burnt-out, aggravated, and bitter. I realized that in all of … Read Post
