Anastasia’s Ashes
At 23, Anastasia Sloan had a dream – to travel around the world for a year sharing the love of God. She knew that God had given her great gifts and she wanted to use them...
Author: Seth Barnes
Video Contest: Listening Prayer
After releasing The Art of Listening Prayer over ten years ago, I have been blessed enough to hear countless stories of how Listening Prayer and the simple concept of hearing God’s...
Why Hearing God’s Voice is the Deepest Cry of Our Hearts
With the ten year anniversary edition of my devotional, The Art of Listening Prayer, newly released, I wanted to take some time to explain and show what the book is all about.
With...
Deciding to Fight
On the plane home I sat next to a woman with a lap-baby. I tuned her out and watched a movie. But I noticed her talking to the old couple seated in front of us.
It turns out, both...
The 10 Year Art Of Listening Prayer is HERE!
Ten years ago I released The Art of Listening Prayer: Hearing God’s Voice Amidst Life’s Noise, a 26-day devotional that introduced the basics of recognizing and listening...
Coming Full Circle in Life
We need purpose.
We need to see how things connect. Here’s my story of finding purpose and connection. It’s a story that spans three generations.
When I was nine, my...
Resolving Conflict: How to Apply Matthew 18
At present, I’m in a couple of intense conflict situations. In each case, someone has said hurtful things about my ministry to other people. They haven’t come to me,...
Be a Part of my Launch Team
I hope that you had a chance to download the new Three Day Listening Prayer Devotional. If you want a better prayer life, it can help. It’s an excerpt from my book Art...
The Best Discipler is a Dirty Diaper
For 30 years Karen and I discipled Talia. And then Talia had Marston. At times as she was growing up, Talia would be self-absorbed. Over the years we would give her feedback. Sometimes...
7 Secrets to Creating a Safe Team
See Eun Kim posted the following about how to create a safe team on the World Race. Principles that apply to most teams elsewhere too:
Safe teams are productive teams. They have...
Introducing The Three-Day Listening Prayer Devotional
Today I’m thrilled to launch The Three-Day Listening Prayer Devotional. Since launching The Art of Listening Prayer a decade ago, I wanted to offer a brief primer that can...
Jesus Came to Give You a Train Wreck
Jesus didn’t come to make your life easy, but complicated.
He doesn’t care about your comfort or fun as much as your growth and intimacy.
He sees you going down a nice,...
You Are Rich
Gret does a good job of showing us how rich we are relative to the rest of the world.
How to Grow in Intimacy with God (free eBook)
If you’re like me, you have your daily “Christian checklist.” You whip through your scheduled chapter of the Bible. You pray through your list of prayer requests....
Searching for God
I had a relative named Sue. She had an IQ over 160. She was beautiful and talented. And she contracted a terrible cancer that slowly destroyed her body.
She died angry –...
Go to Cuba
In 1995, sensing God wanted me to go to Cuba, I hopped a flight to Cancun and from there flew to Havana. It was one of the craziest weeks of my life.
I discovered an underground...
What is the Purpose of the Church?
God designed us human beings as communal creatures. We need one another – we need connection and encouragement just to make it through life. That’s why God told us not...
2014 Was a Great Year: A Report
My day job is to lead Adventures in Missions and 2014 was a great year.
Here’s a report on what happened last year.
Here are the winners of our recent blog, photo and video...
Too Cool For School
This week I’m at the Sundance Film Festival. The films are interesting, Park City is beautiful and a lot of beautiful people are here. You bump into actors you’ve seen...
The Church is Wine Not a Wineskin
“Your church, even if it’s one of the rare growing ones, is sitting on a ticking time bomb. The exodus of the Millennials do not look good for a church afraid to listen.”...
Brokenness and Trust
Have you ever felt as though you are more messed up inside than other people?
The truth is, we’re all messed up. All of us are broken in ways that we want to hide. Recently,...
Stay In the Current
I’m in Thailand, “land of smiles.” Sleep came easily after the long flight. But I’ve had dreams. I don’t often dream about words, but this time I did....
Going to a New Level with God
It’s a new year. Time marches on. The world changes. What about us will change? What new level will we go to?
Wherever we are at with God, it’s safe to assume that he...
Merry Christmas from the Barnes
Merry Christmas 2014 from the Barnes!
Every Christmas I depart from the usual blog-fare to share from my personal life. Here’s the latest installment.
Those of you who know...