Why the process of abandoning is so important (part 3)
What if all the things that other people have been saying about you all your life have little to do with who you really are? What if the cultural aspe...
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What if all the things that other people have been saying about you all your life have little to do with who you really are? What if the cultural aspe...
Scott Molgard on the World Race is going through a process of rediscovering who he really is. It's fun to read his blogs - he can be painfully honest ...
We have a false self and a true self. The false self is a function of: our accomplishments what others say about us our externally-derived ...
When we filmed our Swazi AIDS awareness outreach in 2004, we partnered with the Chronicle Project to film it. The result was the award-winning documen...
In an earlier blog, I described one of the key roles of a father, that of giving his children the sacred no. This gets them through the first phase o...
"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...