What are your spiritual roots? Who helped the person who was most helpful to you in your spiritual journey?My Mom led me to Christ when I was nine yea...
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...
Earlier I shared a couple of movies that have encouraged me to better understand God's heart for the world. This week, here are a couple more: Chariot...
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...
To be broken by God is to be made useful. It’s to have your independence and need to control stripped away until all you have left to offer is a wil...
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...
In 1989 my heart was broken by a trust betrayed. I had thought that good intentions were enough. The ministry I had helped start with a friend and ...
So I didn't close the door on ministry. I started AIM begrudgingly almost, while keeping my options open with a variety of other business propositions...
Several years later, Jocelyn Woosely, a young lady who helped at the Gateway, was killed in a car accident in Mexico. The staff retreat that year was ...
