What is your emotional range? So many of you reading this are shut down in some way. I say that with empathy as in, "you were made for much more." Y...
Before she left for Swaziland this past summer, I gave Kati Bailey a dollar and asked her to invest it somewhere while she was there and report back t...
When I received this prayer by email recently, it was attributed to Billy Graham. A Snopes.com search showed that to be false. It actually was first p...
The point of this blog is to define the Matrix for some of you involved in youth ministry in hopes that you'll go looking for a red pill. It is long b...
To be human is to suffer pain, it's to feel wounded and to struggle to get to a place of healing. No one is immune and some people have so much pain i...
We've arrived in beautiful Mijas, Spain for a board meeting. The Leadership Training School here in many ways represents the cutting edge of our minis...
Gabe Landes is finishing up another round of men's blog discipleship focused on learning listening prayer. It's been a great time of growth for ...
There it is in black and white: "God hates divorce." It's Malachi 2:16 and it doesn't leave much wiggle room. That's how God feels about divorce. But ...
Today Talia and I get on a plane and go to Spain to see a man's dream. For years, Andrew Shearman dreamed about a training center in Spain. When he f...
If you go back far enough in our Barnes family tree, you'll find a great-great grandmother who brutally squashed a budding romantic relationship. Re...
