Author: Seth Barnes

Sex for Sale, Pt. 2

Written by Seth Barnes on September 4, 2007. Posted in Sex Trade and Sex Trafficking. 1 Comment on Sex for Sale, Pt. 2

World Racer Stacy‘s heart is breaking for the prostitutes in Thailand. Here is the continuation of her story. Continued from Sex for Sale: These girls are just babies. I sat...

Sex for Sale

Written by Seth Barnes on September 3, 2007. Posted in Sex Trade and Sex Trafficking. 1 Comment on Sex for Sale

I just returned from debriefing our world racers in Thailand. They saw some incredibly difficult things this past month. The following blog written by a Racer is an example. 80 girls,...

Not many fathers

Written by Seth Barnes on September 2, 2007. Posted in Fathering & Men's issues. 3 Comments on Not many fathers

Coming home from Thailand today – where we’ve been debriefing and discipling World Racers. “There are a lot of people around who can’t wait to tell you what...

Missing my national debut

Written by Seth Barnes on September 1, 2007. Posted in Fathering & Men's issues. 3 Comments on Missing my national debut

A few months ago Focus on the Family called me up and did an interview for their weekend edition show. It went about 20 minutes and they chopped it into four pieces to air in each...

Led where you don’t want to go

Written by Seth Barnes on August 31, 2007. Posted in Spiritual Formation. 4 Comments on Led where you don’t want to go

“When you were young you dressed yourself and went wherever you wanted; but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will dress you and lead you...

Would you let your four-year-old run the house?

Written by Seth Barnes on August 30, 2007. Posted in Eswatini / Swaziland. No Comments on Would you let your four-year-old run the house?

If you’ve been following the World Race, you may be starting to get confused. We have two teams out in the field, on two different continents, and we’re about to throw...

Storytelling is the Gospel

Written by Seth Barnes on August 29, 2007. Posted in Missions. 4 Comments on Storytelling is the Gospel

Storytelling is becoming a great way to share the gospel with foreign, indigenous cultures. Many of these unreached people groups have no written language, so instead of using the...

Rohr on pilgrimage

Written by Seth Barnes on August 28, 2007. Posted in Simplicity Liberates You. 1 Comment on Rohr on pilgrimage

Jesus was pretty adamant about our coming to him as children. He would teach this in practice by actually calling the children around him to come to him. Matthew 18:1-4 says:...

Bangkok is crying, and so are we

Written by Seth Barnes on August 27, 2007. Posted in Sex Trade and Sex Trafficking. 1 Comment on Bangkok is crying, and so are we

I’m in Thailand, hearing the World Racers’ stories from the past month. They’ve seen awful things; as a discipler, my job is to help them process through these...

How do you debrief someone who has witnessed atrocities?

Written by Seth Barnes on August 25, 2007. Posted in Discipling. 3 Comments on How do you debrief someone who has witnessed atrocities?

Today, Karen and I are leaving for Thailand. We leave the country tonight, so please pray that we would get plenty of rest on the plane and hit the ground running. We’re going...

Looking for your dream

Written by Seth Barnes on August 24, 2007. Posted in Dreaming. 2 Comments on Looking for your dream

From one of my favorite World Racers, Scott Molgard: When I was told by Trompie that I don’t have a dream, it was a direct affront to my self concept. Since that day, I have...

A World Racer adjusts to life back home

Written by Seth Barnes on August 23, 2007. Posted in World Race. 3 Comments on A World Racer adjusts to life back home

We started our first World Race team last year. It’s an intensive initiation experience where participants go around the world for a year with a backpack. How do they adjust...

Adventures in Bible deism, Pt. 2

Written by Seth Barnes on August 22, 2007. Posted in Kingdom Reality. 4 Comments on Adventures in Bible deism, Pt. 2

Continued from Adventures in Bible deism, Pt. 1 The Bible is the account of a God who speaks directly and relationally, not obliquely. When we see examples of him speaking using...

Adventures in Bible deism, Pt. 1

Written by Seth Barnes on August 21, 2007. Posted in Kingdom Reality. 1 Comment on Adventures in Bible deism, Pt. 1

In a prior blog, I took on the heresy that some in the evangelical church espouse which states that God doesn’t speak to us outside of the Bible. Peter Wagner calls those who...

How do we live radically in a comfortable world?

Written by Seth Barnes on August 20, 2007. Posted in Culture and Faith. 12 Comments on How do we live radically in a comfortable world?

Jeff Goins had a blog wherein he asked a question that sums up the the theme of this blog. I’m wondering what kind of response you, the reader of this blog, may...

Where is God in the midst of pain?

Written by Seth Barnes on August 19, 2007. Posted in Spiritual Formation. 1 Comment on Where is God in the midst of pain?

Mallorie wrote this while in Swaziland with the World Race. God is opening her eyes to what incarnating the compassionate heart of Christ really looks like. We could all stand to...

Confronting the father who abandoned you

Written by Seth Barnes on August 18, 2007. Posted in Fathering & Men's issues. 2 Comments on Confronting the father who abandoned you

A young man I’ll call Dave was a member of the mission team I led to Swaziland in 2004. One day he stood in front of his classroom in Swaziland. Before speaking, he said, “I’m...

Rocky and Jesus

Written by Seth Barnes on August 17, 2007. Posted in Discipling. 2 Comments on Rocky and Jesus

One of the best ways you as a youth worker can ensure that the students you disciple live lives of radical abandon is to send them on the kind of “gap year”...

Everybody loves Morgan

Written by Seth Barnes on August 16, 2007. Posted in World Race. 6 Comments on Everybody loves Morgan

World Racer Morgan McKeown loves being surrounded by people. She loves listening to people and finds joy in the fact that both friends and strangers often open up and share their...

Some Q & A about knuckleheads

Written by Seth Barnes on August 15, 2007. Posted in Discipling. 4 Comments on Some Q & A about knuckleheads

What is a knucklehead? Let me offer you a definition from the Barnes unabridged dictionary: A knucklehead is a person who does things when he should have known better. The implication...

Jesus loves knuckleheads

Written by Seth Barnes on August 14, 2007. Posted in Vulnerability and me. 5 Comments on Jesus loves knuckleheads

knuck·le·head / ˈnʌk əlˌhɛd / Pronunciation Key – Show Spelled Pronunciation [ nuhk-uh l-hed ] -noun Informal. a stupid, bumbling, inept person. (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/knucklehead) When...

Confronting the reality of evil

Written by Seth Barnes on August 13, 2007. Posted in Fighting your enemy. 1 Comment on Confronting the reality of evil

One of our past World Racers, Tauna Robley described an experience in a remote town in southern Mexico in January 2006: “Last night as I lay in bed listening to the gentle...

Crafting a remnant strategy

Written by Seth Barnes on August 12, 2007. Posted in Mobilization. 2 Comments on Crafting a remnant strategy

I saw the future of America in Europe the summer of 2003. Out of 750 people in eight churches we worked with in the town of Widnes, in the UK, just 16 were teenagers! That’s...

We live by faith, not by sight

Written by Seth Barnes on August 11, 2007. Posted in Listening prayer. 10 Comments on We live by faith, not by sight

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...