'08 Year-end giving
It's been a wild year financially for many of you. Some of you have taken huge losses in the market or in your real estate holdings. As we approac...
My Life
Barnes Christmas '08
Things are always fun at the Barnes house. It was a good Christmas. Our children are all grown up now. Here we are on the porch.
Amazing God Stories
Looking for Jesus in Disguise (part 3)
Here's a twist, a Christmas story playing out in real time in Eldoret, Kenya. Marisa Banas updates us on what happened when she felt God asking he...
Radical living in a comfortable world
It's a new year, time to take a fresh look at the focus of this blog. I'd like to solicit your input on two fronts: a) Is this blog working fo...
Sex Trade and Sex Trafficking
My daughter, the streetwalker
In the past I've written about my suite mate from college, Jim Larson. I love his incarnational ministry. He doesn't just minister to prostitutes in B...
42nd Generation
Shearman: What is our dream?
Andrew and I have these conversations all the time. We love to dream. He's got the words and I build things - together we make a pretty good team. ...
Justice issues
Allan's story: The video
Very cool story we've been following of a World Racer, Marisa Banas and an 11 year-old Kenyan boy named Allan. It began to develop over Christmas and ...
World Race
10 Reasons to go on the World Race
Loved this blog by Matt Snyder. Too many uninitiated young people working off a poorly formed sense of identity have never lived in a real communi...
Praying for the dead to be raised
Andru Ball died four days ago and lies in a mortuary in Virginia Beach. You can read Andru's obituary here. He was a wonderful young man who went on...
Leadership
When you fail as a leader
In my last blog I talked about the importance of self-leadership and I compared it to riding a bicycle. To lead others you have to lead yourself. I h...
