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My dad, Asa ("Ace") Barnes, died this past Monday, April 22, 2019. He was a husband to Jean and a father to me, Liz, Christy and Nate. Ace was born ...
One day Andrew Shearman said something to me that stopped me in my tracks, "We need to celebrate the loss of innocence." Celebrate the loss of i...
I'm concerned about inheritance. Inheritance is the giving of what is valuable from one generation to the next. My kids are grown and my parents are d...
We're sponsoring a competition to help you change a corner of the world and bring your dreams alive. The Global Passion Project is easy to enter. An...
My dad is paralyzed and is slowly dying in a nursing home. I'm his primary caregiver and see him almost every day. But our relationship has been hard ...
I spent the first hours of this morning reflecting. I looked back on my last year in order to make adjustments that will help me in 2019. Richa...
I thought about what I could give you that might be a gift this Christmas. Maybe a small piece of my often over-protected heart? Maybe the story o...
Anything I've learned to do in life, I began doing poorly. It's the way we learn. Think about the things you've mastered that you failed at initially:...
Why do we do short-term missions (STMs)? There are many answers, but the best is that, as disciples of Jesus, we should try to do what he modeled...
What a paradoxical world we live in. The fight between conservatives and liberals plays out on TVs every day. We see school shootings and synagogue sh...
