One of the hardest things for American Christians to do is true religion. We think it's Sunday morning church services when God says it's widows and o...
I woke up, got coffee, prayed a bit, then flipped on the computer and found my boy SKYPEing me from Swaziland. Got some more info on the situation fro...
At the Barnes house last night, we had a wonderful dinner with some of our World Race coaches, talking about raising up a generation of radical discip...
Yesterday I wrote a blog describing how a year and a half ago, God spoke to me about his heart for the orphans and my responsibility to help care for ...
Continued from The case for short-term missions Let's dissect each of our flawed models in order to gain a better understanding of how to better de...
Yesterday was Baby Moses' funeral. Reading my son's blog about it broke my heart, and I guess, given the world's pain and how God feels about it, that...
On a maudlin note, did I ever tell you guys how much I love you? I can do that in my living room behind a computer - it's not too embarrassing. Read t...
If you tuned into the blog yesterday, you saw my disappointment and to-the-bone weariness. I had actually sent out an email to my family about baby Mo...
My heart is breaking this morning. I'm wrestling with two things that just happened: First, one of my coworkers made a terrible mistake and overnight ...
I am a progeny of the short-term missions movement. My life was shaped by trips I took as a teenager to Guatemala and Peru. And here's the ripple effe...
