Author: sethbarnes

Good Partnerships: Here’s a Great Tool

Written by sethbarnes on April 29, 2025. Posted in Better Living. No Comments on Good Partnerships: Here’s a Great Tool

Here’s a tool that can save you a lot of pain. If you’ve struggled with communication, it will help you. Unless you’re a hermit living alone in the woods, you...

Overprotecting Kids Offline & Underprotecting Them Online

Written by sethbarnes on April 24, 2025. Posted in Parenting. No Comments on Overprotecting Kids Offline & Underprotecting Them Online

Source: Shutterstock Parents wanting to raise their kids to thrive outside the home need to pay attention what experts are increasingly saying: We overprotect our kids offline and underprotect...

AI and Faith – Cautions and Concerns

Written by sethbarnes on April 18, 2025. Posted in Culture and Faith. 12 Comments on AI and Faith – Cautions and Concerns

For better or worse, artificial intelligence is showing up in spiritual space these days. Should we be worried? How much should we engage with it? Will it diminish human agency?...

If You’re Deconstructing Your Faith, Here’s Help

Written by sethbarnes on April 17, 2025. Posted in Culture and Faith. 2 Comments on If You’re Deconstructing Your Faith, Here’s Help

Hannah’s story isn’t rare. Studies show that nearly 40% of young people raised in Christian homes are deconstructing their faith.* A sophomore in college, Hannah is typical of many...

Planning for Inheritance: Lessons I’ve Learned

Written by sethbarnes on April 10, 2025. Posted in Intergenerational connection, My Life. 7 Comments on Planning for Inheritance: Lessons I’ve Learned

My parents were excellent stewards. When my dad was 61, he decided that he would rather work as a medical missionary caring for the poor in Kenya and Viet Nam as opposed to piling...

The World’s 25 Greatest Problems & What You Can Do About Them

Written by sethbarnes on March 27, 2025. Posted in A broken world. 4 Comments on The World’s 25 Greatest Problems & What You Can Do About Them

The book The 4th Turning tells us Gen Z is the Hero Generation. They just need a cause. To help them find their cause, our team has compiled a new app called The World’s 25...

Take Your Kids on a Family Mission Trip

Written by sethbarnes on March 20, 2025. Posted in Parenting. 7 Comments on 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 parenting process, this was our last chance. We wanted our kids to really...

7 Questions To Improve Your Marriage

Written by sethbarnes on March 13, 2025. Posted in Better Living. 8 Comments on 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 need help. Often the issues of betrayal and trauma show up. One...

North Carolina Digs Out From Hurricane – You Can Help!

Written by sethbarnes on March 6, 2025. Posted in Refugees & Crisis, Short-term missions. 1 Comment on 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 by, tearing apart everything in its path. The video shows...

Am I a Cultural Christian?

Written by sethbarnes on February 27, 2025. Posted in Culture and Faith. 1 Comment on 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 “Christian nation” – what does that...

How Do I Know When to Take Action?

Written by sethbarnes on February 20, 2025. Posted in Leadership. 1 Comment on 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 speaks to me when I’ve created the space for him....

How Much Responsibility Can You Give an 9 year-old?

Written by sethbarnes on February 18, 2025. Posted in Fathering & Men's issues. 4 Comments on How Much Responsibility Can You Give an 9 year-old?

As a parent of young children, how often do you find yourself worrying about them? You might be surprised at how that standard has changed over the years. For example, in 1909 two...

“Youth Nursing Homes” – A New Travel Trend

Written by sethbarnes on February 12, 2025. Posted in Better Living. 5 Comments on “Youth Nursing Homes” – A New Travel Trend

The growing rift between China and America hurts us in ways we don’t see. Yes, we’ll feel inflation as a consequence of the tarrifs we impose, but also, we’ll...

Adventures Latest Video

Written by sethbarnes on February 8, 2025. Posted in Radical Living. 2 Comments on Adventures Latest Video

Here’s a great short video of what has made Adventures in Missions special over the years. World Race, Adventures Relief, Eswatini, Guatemala, Cambodia – the world is...

Could You Love a Serial Killer?

Written by sethbarnes on February 5, 2025. Posted in Dealing with junk in our lives. 2 Comments on Could You Love a Serial Killer?

Everyone feels revulsion toward serial killers like the notorious Son of Sam, David Berkowitz. Berkowitz shot and killed six people and wounded seven others from 1976 to 1977. He...

Serena Livingston’s Abundant Life

Written by sethbarnes on February 2, 2025. Posted in Leadership. 6 Comments on Serena Livingston’s Abundant Life

Thousands of people went on the World Race, but never knew how much they owed to Serena Livingston. Serena worked with me to launch the World Race in 2005, doing so much behind...

What Grief Feels Like

Written by sethbarnes on January 28, 2025. Posted in Comfort and Pain. 6 Comments on What Grief Feels Like

I lost my dad five years ago. I’ve been losing my mom to dementia for even longer. Earlier this month, I lost my dog. And a few months before that, I lost my close college...

Meeting Heidi Baker

Written by sethbarnes on January 21, 2025. Posted in Missions. 4 Comments on Meeting Heidi Baker

For some people, Heidi Baker is controversial. But to me and others, she’s a hero. Along with her husband, Rolland, she has reached out to the poor in Mozambique, bringing...

Too Busy to Care About Maria?

Written by sethbarnes on January 17, 2025. Posted in A broken world. 2 Comments on Too Busy to Care About Maria?

John Hearn shared this story about Maria a number of years ago. I share it with you in hopes that it will connect you with the heart of God. Why? Because God wants to break our...

Life Lessons Dogs Can Teach Us

Written by sethbarnes on January 14, 2025. Posted in My Life. 13 Comments on Life Lessons Dogs Can Teach Us

Asha died last week. She was my sidekick for 15 years. She was great with the grandbabies. She probably thought she was one. Daily, when I went to the office, she tagged along....

Here’s Why We Need to Be Recognized

Written by sethbarnes on January 7, 2025. Posted in Community and Covenant. 16 Comments on Here’s Why We Need to Be Recognized

After Asha’s death and Hunter’s funeral last night, I was thinking about why losing someone you love can be so painful over the long haul. One hard thing about the death of a...

God Will Give All of Us a Life Review

Written by sethbarnes on December 30, 2024. Posted in Better Living. 1 Comment on God Will Give All of Us a Life Review

In 1986, I met a man who died, met Jesus and got a chance to review his life – all during the half hour he was technically dead. His name was Dr. George Ritchie. He wrote...

How to Process Your Past Year: Here’s What Works for Me

Written by sethbarnes on December 27, 2024. Posted in Debriefing. 3 Comments on How to Process Your Past Year: Here’s What Works for Me

Let’s be honest – 2024 was a crazy year. I don’t want to repeat it, so I don’t want to miss anything it has to teach me. The problem is that so much happened....

An example of God helping process trauma

Written by sethbarnes on December 12, 2024. Posted in Wounded healers. 2 Comments on An example of God helping process trauma

Almost all of us have experienced trauma of one kind or another. And many of us may never get around to trying to find healing. If we do, thank God for the therapists who can help...