Author: Seth Barnes

How do I ever trust again?

Written by Seth Barnes on September 11, 2012. Posted in Dealing with junk in our lives. 15 Comments on How do I ever trust again?

I’m in Guatemala with our amazing L squad. Yesterday I sensed that God wanted to do something with the squad. At breakfast, I sat at a table with six women. I asked if we could...

I’m blown away by transparency like this

Written by Seth Barnes on September 10, 2012. Posted in Dealing with junk in our lives. 13 Comments on I’m blown away by transparency like this

We encourage our racers to blog about their lives on the World Race. We encourage them to be as vulnerable as possible. It gets them to a place of freedom and it shows readers who...

Ministering to parents

Written by Seth Barnes on September 7, 2012. Posted in Parenting. 15 Comments on Ministering to parents

Karen and I have been in Chicago this week launching 240 racers. And while it’s been an exciting week with the racers, for me one of the highlights was the time we got to spend...

What was he thinking?

Written by Seth Barnes on September 6, 2012. Posted in Identity issues. 2 Comments on What was he thinking?

John Frank Dieguez wrote this post from South Africa. Sitting in the pew behind Weolthu I think about the conversation I witnessed minutes ago between him and his pastor. I fold...

Fulfilling a missionary’s last wish

Written by Seth Barnes on September 5, 2012. Posted in World Race. 8 Comments on Fulfilling a missionary’s last wish

A few months ago, teams from the January 2012 C Squad got to help make a young missionary’s last wish come true. They partnered with Be Like Brit and Mission of Hope International...

Dreaming with God

Written by Seth Barnes on September 4, 2012. Posted in Dreaming. 4 Comments on Dreaming with God

The idea that God dreams is both absurd and poetic. Dreams happen to you while you’re sleeping. They are out of your control. Try as you might, dreams come to you without any...

Join my book launch team

Written by Seth Barnes on September 1, 2012. Posted in Journeys. 4 Comments on Join my book launch team

My book, Kingdom Journeys, officially releases later this month. This is an important work for me – one of the core messages of my life. I spent five years writing and rewriting...

Do You Dread Your Small Group Meeting?

Written by Seth Barnes on August 30, 2012. Posted in Community and Covenant. 7 Comments on Do You Dread Your Small Group Meeting?

Sometimes small groups go through natural dips of momentum and sometimes they just need to die. The question is, how do you know the difference? Small groups, like churches, go through...

Spring Gate: A training center for organic farming

Written by Seth Barnes on August 29, 2012. Posted in Community and Covenant. 6 Comments on Spring Gate: A training center for organic farming

Worried about the quality of our food supply? Want to find a way to live more healthily? I hear people talking about how our lifestyles are unsustainable. They say that our debt...

Letting go of loved ones

Written by Seth Barnes on August 28, 2012. Posted in Abandon. 8 Comments on Letting go of loved ones

One of my dear friends, Mark Almand, has written a beautiful and powerful book about fatherhood. It is called Claude’s Canvas. I highly recommend it – and you can download it free...

Meet the L squad

Written by Seth Barnes on August 27, 2012. Posted in World Race. 6 Comments on Meet the L squad

These are the men and women of L squad. Karen and I are their coaches. It’s funny how as a coach you start bonding with your racers. We already started to fall in love with...

The deep dive that leads to healing

Written by Seth Barnes on August 24, 2012. Posted in Dealing with junk in our lives. 7 Comments on The deep dive that leads to healing

Susan’s father had a temper. When, as a 5 year-old, she provoked him, he would explode, yelling and threatening. What was she to do? She would run to her room and hide in her...

Interruptibility

Written by Seth Barnes on August 23, 2012. Posted in Improving yourself. 8 Comments on Interruptibility

When a group of racers returns from their year abroad, we invite them to Georgia and put on a week of seminar talks, parties, and coaching sessions that we call Project Searchlight....

How we build ministries

Written by Seth Barnes on August 22, 2012. Posted in Kingdom Dreams. 8 Comments on How we build ministries

I like to start new things. My creative process is somewhat random, but here’s one I often follow at Adventures: 1. Ideas will come to me, often when my brain is in the neutral...

Document your healing

Written by Seth Barnes on August 21, 2012. Posted in Amazing God Stories. 2 Comments on Document your healing

Last month I shared a series of posts about divine healing. Many healings occurred during our training camps in the last several months and I documented these five, all of which...

What to do when God is silent

Written by Seth Barnes on August 20, 2012. Posted in Listening prayer. 9 Comments on What to do when God is silent

Get a Free eBook: Do you want to grow closer to God in your prayer times? I’ve written a free guide called The Three Day Listening Prayer Devotional and I’d love for...

You are not special

Written by Seth Barnes on August 17, 2012. Posted in Identity issues. 5 Comments on You are not special

Of course you’re special. You’re unique. God loves you and made you one-of-a-kind. I don’t mean to diminish you with the title of this post. But as David McCullough...

Estie chooses the race

Written by Seth Barnes on August 16, 2012. Posted in World Race. 6 Comments on Estie chooses the race

Our middle daughter, Estie, just made a momentous decision and writes about it here. I like my makeup, my clothes, my bed. So when people brought up the World Race I would answer...

An unsung hero in my life

Written by Seth Barnes on August 15, 2012. Posted in Prayer. 5 Comments on An unsung hero in my life

At 94, Jeanelle Booth has outlived most of her friends. “I don’t know why the Lord is keeping me around,” she says, “it must be to pray.” And pray she...

How to evaluate your mission trip

Written by Seth Barnes on August 14, 2012. Posted in Short-term missions. 3 Comments on How to evaluate your mission trip

I’ve been sending people to the mission field for 25 years. This year we (Adventures) sent our 100,000th short-term missionary. Along the way, I’ve made just about every...

On becoming a granddad

Written by Seth Barnes on August 13, 2012. Posted in My Life. 11 Comments on On becoming a granddad

It seems just like yesterday that Talia was a toddler who loved nothing more than to be pushed on the playground swings. Then one day I turned around and Joe was asking me if he...

Best discipleship curriculum ever

Written by Seth Barnes on August 10, 2012. Posted in Discipling. 5 Comments on Best discipleship curriculum ever

As Karen and I prepare to begin help disciple 62 world racers beginning in September, we’ve been thinking about how best to do it. The thought about curriculum inevitably comes...

Finding contentment

Written by Seth Barnes on August 9, 2012. Posted in Better Living. 3 Comments on Finding contentment

"I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation." (Phil. 4:12) What is that secret? I think it has to do with expectations and thankfulness. All...

Connecting generations

Written by Seth Barnes on August 7, 2012. Posted in Wounded healers. 3 Comments on Connecting generations

We just got back from our family reunion in Colorado. It was sweet – much better than some of our past reunions. I like that word reunion. Re-union. It supposes that there...