Author: Seth Barnes

How do you respond to beggars?

Written by Seth Barnes on October 13, 2008. Posted in A broken world. 4 Comments on How do you respond to beggars?

How do you respond to panhandlers and beggars? Do they represent an interruption and an inconvenience in your day? I walked by one on my way to dinner in Sacramento a couple of...

Giving roses to prostitutes

Written by Seth Barnes on October 12, 2008. Posted in Sex Trade and Sex Trafficking. 5 Comments on Giving roses to prostitutes

Karen and I are turning in after a long day out here in California. What a crazy week! We returned from Cambodia on Monday and watched Wall St. tumble into chaos. We know a number...

Few Americans have gone on short-term missions

Written by Seth Barnes on October 11, 2008. Posted in Short-term missions. 5 Comments on Few Americans have gone on short-term missions

The following is an excerpt from a recent study done by the Barna Group, about why, despite their impact, only a minority of church-goers go on them: A century ago, missionaries...

Choose to be a life source

Written by Seth Barnes on October 10, 2008. Posted in Kingdom Reality. 5 Comments on Choose to be a life source

Karen and I just returned from a week-long ministry trip to the other side of the world. It was exhausting and we’re a little spent. It’s at times like these that I need...

You can change the world!

Written by Seth Barnes on October 9, 2008. Posted in My Life. 10 Comments on You can change the world!

Flying with Karen today to speak at the Youth Specialties Conference in Sacramento. If any of you blog readers are out there, let me know – I’d like to meet you. And...

Why are you unhappy?

Written by Seth Barnes on October 8, 2008. Posted in Living Free. 8 Comments on Why are you unhappy?

From Seth Godin: A journalist asked me, “Most people have a better standard of living today than Louis XIV did in his day. So why are so many people unhappy?” What you...

Debriefing our World Race team

Written by Seth Barnes on October 7, 2008. Posted in Short-term missions. 9 Comments on Debriefing our World Race team

We took off from the Phnom Penh airport and as I write this we’re on a Korean Air 747 somewhere over the north Pacific. We spent four intense days debriefing our 32 member...

Get your armor dirty

Written by Seth Barnes on October 6, 2008. Posted in Radical Living. 3 Comments on Get your armor dirty

A lot of us have read the Ephesians 6 passage about the armor of God, but we’ve never really put it on. We’ve never gotten it dirty or had to depend on it to save our...

Decide to be a part of a tribe

Written by Seth Barnes on October 5, 2008. Posted in 42nd Generation. 10 Comments on Decide to be a part of a tribe

Human beings are communal creatures. You need a context. You need people who get you and love you, warts and all. You need a tribe of people who share your DNA. You especially need...

Why we didn’t ask for money for Ike

Written by Seth Barnes on October 4, 2008. Posted in Short-term missions. 1 Comment on Why we didn’t ask for money for Ike

It was almost two weeks ago that I posted a call to action to help clean up the areas that Hurricane Ike had devastated. This past week, we distributed a press release with the headline:...

A campaign against human trafficking

Written by Seth Barnes on October 3, 2008. Posted in Sex Trade and Sex Trafficking. 3 Comments on A campaign against human trafficking

I don’t know much about this group in the video below, but I like the fact that they have decided to do something about an issue that we are largely ignorant of here in the...

Southeast Asia & the sex trade

Written by Seth Barnes on October 2, 2008. Posted in Sex Trade and Sex Trafficking. 3 Comments on Southeast Asia & the sex trade

We’re over here on the other side of the world now. We’ll be debriefing our team from its experience living above a brothel in Viet Nam. They’ve seen eyeful....

Cambodia & its killing fields resurrected

Written by Seth Barnes on October 1, 2008. Posted in Cambodia. 5 Comments on Cambodia & its killing fields resurrected

Karen and I are at an airport lounge in Seoul and headed to Cambodia today to debrief our World Race team. Feeling scuzzy after 24 hours en route so far. Catch this itinerary to...

A bear market, but a bull market on spirituality

Written by Seth Barnes on September 30, 2008. Posted in Better Living. 4 Comments on A bear market, but a bull market on spirituality

How are you investors doing after today’s killing on Wall St.? I was sitting on my porch this evening and felt compelled to write you a little note of encouragement: It may...

God in the garbage dump

Written by Seth Barnes on September 29, 2008. Posted in Poverty. 4 Comments on God in the garbage dump

I had brought my running shoes to Mexico. Behind our mission site director’s house is a giant trash heap – all the garbage of Matamoros piled into a huge mountain. It...

More Sunday prayers – last week of September

Written by Seth Barnes on September 28, 2008. Posted in Prayer. 3 Comments on More Sunday prayers – last week of September

Our heartfelt prayers for consolation go out to Cody’s wife and family He passed away early Monday morning. This link tells us more: http://tribespahr.blogspot.com/. Feel...

Are you asleep, but not dreaming?

Written by Seth Barnes on September 27, 2008. Posted in Mobilization. 4 Comments on Are you asleep, but not dreaming?

This blog by World Racer Kim Daniels sums up my dreams for a generation: Before I came on The World Race, I often found myself in my brown cushiony swirly chair, browsing around...

My Dad, Afghanistan & a sense of duty

Written by Seth Barnes on September 26, 2008. Posted in My Life. 9 Comments on My Dad, Afghanistan & a sense of duty

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