Jeff's Musings

How do I connect with individuals and the “community” I seek to reach with my writing? As we approach this key question, it is imperative that we keep this question nestled securely in the context of the role of a missionary writer. It may be tempting to rely on conventional ways of attracting p...

Without sounding like a broken record, it is important to have a vision for your life, your family, your church, your business, or any organization you lead or are a part of. But how do you contextualize whats in your heart and mind to paper to bring the vision to fruition. Great vision without a [&...

Work is a noble thing for all people to do regardless of age, race, sex, tall or short and thick or thin. We all should love to work as it brings personal fulfillment, rewards to our family in the way of survival, and a general accomplishment of a job well done. Except, when you hate […]...

The American dream and God’s dream are two very different things radically worlds apart. The American dream used to be a very easy thing to get 30, 40 years ago. It meant you buy a home in the suburbs, Dad goes to work, Mom stays home and bakes cookies. Ward and June Cleaver. Ozzie and [&helli...

Mickey Mantle, an almost mythical baseball star who feared he had failed to fulfill career expectations because of alcohol abuse and whose latter years were haunted by self-recrimination, died of cancer in 1995. He was 63. The former New York Yankees center fielder and a member of baseball’s Hall ...

If you hadn’t noticed, parts of my website had been broken that I thought were fixed, but weren’t. If you had been to my site and wanted to read a post and clicked the continue reading link you would be taken back to the home page. That has been fixed as I was having a […]...

If you are a writer who is unpublished you might be puzzled as to how do you get your book in front of agents and publishers. After trying to get a book in the hands of traditional publishing experts several years ago, I learned the hard way of what didn’t work. Fast forward to 2015 […]...

If Einstein were still alive he would be continuing to discover new aspects of the physics of the universe – and confirm what the Bible has been clear on from the beginning – that it all goes on forever… Thus, those who can’t think in terms of vision, are doomed to be highly ineffective, lef...

Every time you start building for God, you’re asking for a battle. If you start trying to build your marriage, you’re asking for a battle. If you start trying to build up your own personal spiritual life you’re asking for a battle. If you start trying to build a church, that’...

History over the past two thousand years has painted many pictures of what Jesus looked liked and who he was. Many theologians and skeptics throughout the centuries have each had their idea of Jesus and the truth of the matter is, not a single one of them has done Jesus justice.  As I look back [&h...