Author: Seth Barnes

Deliverance in the house of the dead

Written by Seth Barnes on January 26, 2008. Posted in Fighting your enemy. 2 Comments on Deliverance in the house of the dead

If you’re a regular blog reader, you’ll recall the story I shared a couple of weeks ago from the earthquake zone in Peru. Our team went into this lady’s home to...

Picketing Heath Ledger’s funeral

Written by Seth Barnes on January 25, 2008. Posted in Culture and Faith. 14 Comments on Picketing Heath Ledger’s funeral

From Foxnews.com on 1/23: A radical Baptist church in Kansas known for picketing the funerals of soldiers who perished in Iraq said it intends to protest Heath Ledger’s memorial...

Barbarians can become bureaucrats

Written by Seth Barnes on January 24, 2008. Posted in Radical Living. 6 Comments on Barbarians can become bureaucrats

A few months ago I was up on a roof in Hong Kong listening to Andrew Shearman preach his guts out to our January 07 Racers for one final time. It was an appropriate venue to talk...

A church service to remember

Written by Seth Barnes on January 23, 2008. Posted in Church. 5 Comments on A church service to remember

Port Huron, Michigan is no place to go in the winter, but my visit there this past Sunday gave me a wonderful reminder of just how great the local church can be. In many ways, Cross...

When stock markets crash

Written by Seth Barnes on January 22, 2008. Posted in Living Free. 3 Comments on When stock markets crash

If you’re lucky enough to own a stock or mutual fund, I hope you got out of it a month or two ago. Today is likely going to be a terrible day on Wall St. Don’t be surprised...

Why Christianity is better than other religions

Written by Seth Barnes on January 21, 2008. Posted in Culture and Faith. 7 Comments on Why Christianity is better than other religions

I’m on the plane home from Michigan to Georgia, reflecting on this Christian faith that we say transforms our lives. I mean, does it really? Sometimes, I look at the Church...

Are you a poet or an engineer?

Written by Seth Barnes on January 20, 2008. Posted in Leadership. 8 Comments on Are you a poet or an engineer?

When they welcomed us into business school, very quickly the professors categorized us as either poets or engineers. Obviously, people come in all different kinds of packages and...

Birth of a radical Jesus-follower

Written by Seth Barnes on January 19, 2008. Posted in Portraits of Disciplers. 4 Comments on Birth of a radical Jesus-follower

A month or so ago, blog reader Justin Rhodes showed up on my radar screen. Here’s how he described his journey: “God saved us from ourselves about 3 years ago and since...

Eldredge on our identity in Christ

Written by Seth Barnes on January 18, 2008. Posted in Identity issues. 4 Comments on Eldredge on our identity in Christ

Yesterday’s blog was about your identity in Christ. Most young people discover their identity in the context of some kind of journey. I’ve committed my life to help them...

Your identity vs. your role

Written by Seth Barnes on January 17, 2008. Posted in Identity issues. 15 Comments on Your identity vs. your role

I woke up to a light blanket of snow on the ground here in north Georgia as I prepare to fly to Flint, Michigan today. And with a fire in the hearth and Whimsy at my side, I spent...

To parents of would-be World Racers

Written by Seth Barnes on January 16, 2008. Posted in Parenting. 7 Comments on To parents of would-be World Racers

Craig Hanson reflects on his son Eric’s return from spending a year on the World Race. His initial response was skepticism: Disappointed, this was not going down easy for me....

Earthquake damage in Peru – a video tour

Written by Seth Barnes on January 15, 2008. Posted in World Race. No Comments on Earthquake damage in Peru – a video tour

I got back from launching a World Race team in Tambo de Mora, Peru this past weekend. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been given to help the people who lost their homes, but...

Oblivious to history underfoot

Written by Seth Barnes on January 14, 2008. Posted in Church. 1 Comment on Oblivious to history underfoot

I was doing earthquake relief in Tambo de Mora, Peru last week. We had an hour to kill before we saw the mayor, so my team took off to hike to the top of a large hill overlooking...

Life can be a Luke 10 adventure

Written by Seth Barnes on January 13, 2008. Posted in Short-term missions. 2 Comments on Life can be a Luke 10 adventure

What a life I lead. After going thru a horrific pre-boarding process in Lima (six separate serpentine lines lasting nearly two hours), I hopped the red-eye (1:20 a.m.) to Atlanta....

Picking through the rubble of your shattered life

Written by Seth Barnes on January 12, 2008. Posted in A broken world. 1 Comment on Picking through the rubble of your shattered life

Yesterday, with a team of Racers in tow, I talked to people in the town in Peru that had been decimated by the earthquake that hit five months ago. It has profoundly impacted our...

Peru will change you

Written by Seth Barnes on January 11, 2008. Posted in My Life. No Comments on Peru will change you

It’s been an interesting trip to Peru – we’ve seen such pain in the faces of the earthquake victims, yet we have a real shot at bringing hope to their situation...

Four Stories from the Peruvian earthquake

Written by Seth Barnes on January 10, 2008. Posted in Poverty. 1 Comment on Four Stories from the Peruvian earthquake

All you have to do is scratch beneath the surface a little and you turn up many heart-wrenching personal stories. Here are four that we’ve run across in the aftermath of the...

Witnessing death in a refugee camp

Written by Seth Barnes on January 9, 2008. Posted in Amazing God Stories. 2 Comments on Witnessing death in a refugee camp

Standing at the edge of the refugee camp outside Tambo de Mora, Peru at 3:53 yesterday afternoon, chaos broke out. One of our teams had stopped by Lourdes’ house. Lourdes looked...

Coping in the aftermath of an earthquake

Written by Seth Barnes on January 8, 2008. Posted in Poverty. No Comments on Coping in the aftermath of an earthquake

In yesterday’s blog I reported on the aftermath of last year’s earthquake here in Peru. We toured the area most devastated – where 80% of buildings collapsed and...

Peru earthquake – report from epicenter

Written by Seth Barnes on January 7, 2008. Posted in Poverty. 2 Comments on Peru earthquake – report from epicenter

We’re now in Chincha, Peru launching the 2008 World Race. Last year, on August 15th in the early evening, a magnitude 8.0 earthquake struck here. Three cities were particularly...

Peru – land of dreams past & future

Written by Seth Barnes on January 5, 2008. Posted in My Life. 4 Comments on Peru – land of dreams past & future

This morning I fly out to Peru with our next World Race team. Tomorrow we’ll drive to Chincha, a town where the suffering from the earthquake that leveled it four months ago...

Going for my dream this year

Written by Seth Barnes on January 4, 2008. Posted in Dreaming. 12 Comments on Going for my dream this year

At various times in the past, I’ve rolled out dreams for you to inspect. Dreams are wispy, precarious things. Most of them don’t ever take root. And that is often for...

The Daniel fast is more than a diet

Written by Seth Barnes on January 3, 2008. Posted in Better Living. 11 Comments on The Daniel fast is more than a diet

Earlier this year, Cricket posted a blog about fasting, which is something we encourage World Racers and other missionaries to do before going on a trip. It helps you focus and align...

Heroes on my support team

Written by Seth Barnes on January 2, 2008. Posted in My Life. No Comments on Heroes on my support team

Yesterday, I blogged about why I raise support for a living. Karen and I have about 40 people who regularly give to our support. Many give sacrificially. Only God knows what it has...