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"For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.” Romans 7:18 A regular conversation I have with my middle-aged friends who ...
I've found that American Jesus-followers are shockingly under-prepared to engage in the spiritual battle described in Ephesians 6. We don't understand...
Last year I engaged in a couple of two month cyber-discipling experiments. It worked pretty well in a limited way. Here is a prayer I prayed for t...
Blog reader Mark Lucas commented to me how much he enjoyed the rooster story I wrote about last week. It made me think, "Barnes, you're too serious, y...
Richard Rohr is so profound - probably the wisest man I've met. Men really need to read “Adam’s Return” to understand what it means to be initia...
Every now and then, the Lord gives me a dream that has the potential to impact a lot of people. Well, here's a new one. It's a new online magazine ...
I recently came across a letter by Rick Joyner (who heads Morningstar Ministries), a portion of which I excerpt here. "There are many soldiers, b...
So many people struggle with a father wound – they needed fathering and didn’t get it, and they spend their lives subconsciously trying to fill th...
One of my rituals is to read the World Race blogs every day. Yesterday, Alissa Gibson shared something about roosters that reminded me so much of a st...
Sometimes the stories of the young Swazis we encountered during our '04 outreach reduced us to tears. They wrestle with such hard, raw issues. You...
