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Thinking about what I'll miss about my mom, I wrote this poem about her music. I leave you with the question - what role did your mom play in th...
My mom, Jean Barnes, died on June 30, 2025, at 91 years old, after a long, scrappy fight with dementia. She was a live wire, living a great story from...
God has a heart for the world. The Bible says, "He is not willing that any should perish." And so, he has drafted those of us who have chosen...
20 years ago, the ministry I serve with, Adventures.org, pioneered a new way of communicating God's stories from around the globe. We built a blog sit...
Does God still heal? A lot of people have never experienced healing. And they certainly have never see the dead being raised, so they say, “It d...
September 27, 2024. The World Race had sent a team to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. They woke up early, groggy-eyed in a wooden cabin n...
A deeper story of calling, formation, and the future of missions It usually starts with a plane ticket, a packed duffel bag, and a nervous sens...
Cambodia’s Killing Fields was the greatest social justice cause of my generation. When the call went out to help the hundreds of thousands of Khme...
For years, the narrative about young people is that they are leaving the church in droves. Headlines warn of secularization, of a “nones” moveme...
What if God looked you in the eyes today and said: “You are free to choose.You have all the time, money, and education you need.You cannot fa...
