Jeff's Musings

We live in a fast paced world that seems to be telling us if you we don’t keep pace with the society, culture, or peers, etc.. you will be left behind in every area of life. So, we push, push and push until finally something has to give and something breaks. Many times the thing […]...

I believe that I am capable of leaving a legacy. Sometimes the word ‘legacy” is packed with all kinds of expectation.  I’ve got to have fame or fortune, or I’ve got to do something powerful or special.  But I don’t want you to think about fame.  I want you to think about fruitfulness. ...

This past week I spent the day with leaders from over three hundred cities across North American and eight countries learning about movements in cities and what sparks and ignite such movements. Those movements could be movements of prayer, church planting or rapid discipleship reproduction. Movemen...

For years at Christmas we journeyed back to Tennessee and Alabama to visit our families and enjoy a respite from the lake effect snow machine that usually cranks up in November in northeast Ohio. A few weeks after we returned from our annual pilgrimage to the Promised Land in East Tennessee in 2006,...

Visionaries make normal people very uncomfortable. They make people uncomfortable because they are doing something with their life that others believe is a waste of time, energy and resources. Visionaries are not normal people, and do not want to be classified as normal. There is something different...

This past week I turned 52. Seems like a few years ago I was only 19 and Julie and I were getting married, but the truth is that was over three decades ago. I began to wonder, “What have I learned over the past Fifty-Two years of my life?” I did what you are probably […]...

Self-awareness seems to be a buzzword in ministry and the marketplace as people seek to understand their giftedness, passion, and abilities. Many tools for discovering who you are exist either online or through personal life coaches you can hire. I really never gave much thought of how this topic wa...

“What About Bob” is one of my all-time favorite movies. In this movie, Bill Murray plays the role of a guy who drives his psychiatrist insane. Bob was a pain. He was annoying… He was familiar. Most of us have a “Bob” in our life, and (s)he drives us crazy! Bob is an “extra gr...

There are many people in ministry, corporations, government, and small business that all of us can learn from in order to grow as an individual. We have been presented to and bombarded by leaders messages, both in the religious and secular in regards of how to grow as a person or leader. We have boo...

I am a couple of days late on this one, so I apologize for that, but this topic is more difficult than what you might think. I have had the responsibility to draft, edit, and approve many vision statements for companies I have worked for in the marketplace and probably double that in the ministry [&...