Author: sethbarnes

#1 WR Story! Racer Saves a Life on Mt. Everest

Written by sethbarnes on April 24, 2024. Posted in Story telling. 2 Comments on #1 WR Story! Racer Saves a Life on Mt. Everest

18 years of the World Race, thousands of stories and here is #1! Racer Saves a Life on Mt. Everest, March 2018 Climbing Mt. Everest is not a part of the World Race. But we encourage...

Almost Dying in a Dark Tunnel (#2)

Written by sethbarnes on April 23, 2024. Posted in Story telling. 1 Comment on Almost Dying in a Dark Tunnel (#2)

Liz Ogletree tells the story of how she almost lost her life when she was in El Salvador and how God miraculously saved her (see her blog here). It’s the #2 story in our...

Sara Was Abandoned and Needed Someone to Care (#3)

Written by sethbarnes on April 22, 2024. Posted in Story telling. 4 Comments on Sara Was Abandoned and Needed Someone to Care (#3)

Sara needed help. She needed someone to care. That someone was Kristen Paulick, a racer ministering in the Philippines. Sara’s situation was so horrible, Kristen knew she...

Baby Moses’ Death Breaks Our Hearts

Written by sethbarnes on April 19, 2024. Posted in A broken world, Comfort and Pain. 5 Comments on Baby Moses’ Death Breaks Our Hearts

Reading about Baby Moses’ funeral on my son’s story about it broke my heart. My son’s blog and that of his teammate, Traci, take you graveside. I guess, given the world’s pain...

Raising the Dead on the World Race (#4)

Written by sethbarnes on April 18, 2024. Posted in Story telling. 1 Comment on Raising the Dead on the World Race (#4)

Jesus gave his disciples authority to raise the dead (Matt. 10). But those kinds of experiences are so rare in our modern day and age that you can’t help wondering, “Does it happen...

Dream of a Generation Fully Alive (#5)

Written by sethbarnes on April 17, 2024. Posted in Story telling. 5 Comments on Dream of a Generation Fully Alive (#5)

When we started the World Race, it burned as a dream in my heart before we even launched it. I felt God asking me to offer this dream to a generation. I wrote about it in this...

Kristen Sees God Heal Fea (#6)

Written by sethbarnes on April 16, 2024. Posted in Story telling. 2 Comments on Kristen Sees God Heal Fea (#6)

Have you ever been disappointed when God didn’t heal? I’ve waited 30+ years for God to heal my daughter. Why does God ask us to pray for healing and then not answer...

A Ukrainian Orphan Who Deserved a Name (#7)

Written by sethbarnes on April 9, 2024. Posted in Story telling. No Comments on A Ukrainian Orphan Who Deserved a Name (#7)

We continue with the countdown of the top 10 World Race stories of the last 18 years. In this story coming in at #7, Rachel Hartman shares about an orphan she met long before the...

The First World Race Ends With a Bang! (#8)

Written by sethbarnes on April 8, 2024. Posted in World Race. 1 Comment on The First World Race Ends With a Bang! (#8)

Counting down the top 10 WR blogs. #8 is a summary of the first race in 2006. The first World Racers finished their debrief in South Africa. What an incredible year it was! Chad...

Deafness Healed at Training Camp (#9)

Written by sethbarnes on April 4, 2024. Posted in Story telling. 4 Comments on Deafness Healed at Training Camp (#9)

We’re counting down the top 10 stories of the last 18 years of the World Race. Here is one that occurred during training camp May, 2012 when racer Jacob McLafferty was healed...

The Top 10 World Race Stories

Written by sethbarnes on April 2, 2024. Posted in Story telling. 2 Comments on The Top 10 World Race Stories

Since starting the World Race 18 years ago, we’ve seen God show up in dramatic ways. So many of us have loved following racers as they encountered impossible situations and...

Ministering to Girls Caught in Sex Trade

Written by sethbarnes on March 27, 2024. Posted in Amazing God Stories, Courage. 10 Comments on Ministering to Girls Caught in Sex Trade

It was 1995, I took a team of about 40 young people from Omaha to Tampico, Mexico on a mission project. We arrived well past midnight. It was a hot night and the church was still...

Free Book: How to Identify Your Super Power

Written by sethbarnes on March 18, 2024. Posted in Improving yourself. 20 Comments on Free Book: How to Identify Your Super Power

What if God created everyone with a latent superpower that just needed to be developed? What if there are seeds of greatness hidden inside all of us? My grandkids all seem to know...

Why GenZ Doesn’t Read Books Anymore

Written by sethbarnes on March 12, 2024. Posted in Culture and Faith. 2 Comments on Why GenZ Doesn’t Read Books Anymore

Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash Jean Twenge is a professor of psychology at San Diego State University. She recently wrote an article exploring why young people no longer...

Children Need Risky Play to Thrive

Written by sethbarnes on March 3, 2024. Posted in Parenting. 6 Comments on Children Need Risky Play to Thrive

Photo by Mariana Brussoni Are you a parent trying to help your child navigate the complexity of a world that seems designed to undermine their faith and character? If so, I recommend...

We never arrive

Written by sethbarnes on February 27, 2024. Posted in Better Living. No Comments on We never arrive

That’s a picture of me at 21 on my journey from Virginia to Honduras – my first assignment in my first real job. It took me seven days to arrive. But at 65, I’m...

Hurt People Hurt People

Written by sethbarnes on February 21, 2024. Posted in Fighting your enemy. 7 Comments on Hurt People Hurt People

Brad Dourif is an actor who, as a young man, played Billy Bibbit, a mental hospital patient in the 1975 film, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Bibbit was an innocent, stuttering...

Jerome Walks Across America with Nothing & Miracles Happen

Written by sethbarnes on February 8, 2024. Posted in Faith & risk. 3 Comments on Jerome Walks Across America with Nothing & Miracles Happen

Jerome Beers has an amazing testimony of God providing for him as he has lived a Matthew 10 lifestyle for eight years. God wants us to trust him in radical ways so that we can see...

Gen Z Needs To Be Trusted More

Written by sethbarnes on January 25, 2024. Posted in Comfort and Pain. 4 Comments on Gen Z Needs To Be Trusted More

To grow, you need pain. Muscles need resistance (pain) to grow larger. Learning new skills requires the painful process of practice and failure. Sadly, my generation (baby boomers)...

What Does ‘The Way, the Truth, and the Life’ Mean?

Written by sethbarnes on January 22, 2024. Posted in Better Living. 6 Comments on What Does ‘The Way, the Truth, and the Life’ Mean?

Most of us are familiar with the Bible verse where Jesus says, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6 That is...

Do Not Fear

Written by sethbarnes on January 14, 2024. Posted in My Life. No Comments on Do Not Fear

Maybe the most afraid I’ve been was when I was 11 years-old. I was backpacking through the Wind River Mountains with my father and some friends. We had heard that you can...

Looking For a Chance to Try to Do What Jesus Did

Written by sethbarnes on January 11, 2024. Posted in Journeys. 3 Comments on Looking For a Chance to Try to Do What Jesus Did

What do you think, in such a complicated world, is it possible to give young people the chance to do what Jesus did? Maybe not in your experience, but I’ve found that yes,...

Wisdom From Charlie Munger

Written by sethbarnes on January 9, 2024. Posted in Better Living. 3 Comments on Wisdom From Charlie Munger

So many of my mistakes as a younger man came because I didn’t have the patience or humility to look for someone who had already done the thing that I was about to do and ask...

The Main Thing is to Make the Main Thing the Main Thing

Written by sethbarnes on January 4, 2024. Posted in Leadership. 8 Comments on The Main Thing is to Make the Main Thing the Main Thing

It’s 2024 – I hope you’ve finished your debriefing of 2023. Just coping with the work of living day-to-day often distracts us, keeping us in the weeds. So we move...