Jeff's Musings

A pressing issue in leadership is understanding how to work with difficult people to bring about positive changes. A difficult person will disrupt fellowship, disable unity within a church, business, or organization and ruin relationships with specific individuals. These are grievous consequences of...

Green Eggs and Ham is one of the most popular children’s books ever written by Theodor Seuss Geisel. In an interview, Dr. Seuss (his pen name), said he wrote Green Eggs and Ham to hopefully get rid of the montonous reading books of Dick, Jane and Spot that many of us over the age of […]...

Writers can’t shake the need to write. It is unexplainable. It is in them and must be released from the heart and mind to the pen and paper, or in our generation to the keyboard and laser printer. The same is true with a missionary. They have this sense of calling to go when it […]...

I am releasing an eBook, Missionary Writing as a precursor to my print book, Uncluttered: When Spiritual Clutter Hinders God’s Vision For Your Life (unclutteredbook.com) that will be released in August. Missionary Writing focuses on the pursuit of passion to write much like the passion a missi...

Vision – a word that is used over and over and over again in the business and church world. It seems is a magical concept that if you do not grasp, your business or church plant will falter, will not achieve the level of success that you want, or will possibly fail. Do we contrive […]...

I want to look at several steps in having vision for you. These are not “magical” ingredients that when you do them your vision automatically appears. When you put these habits into practice along with what we have discussed in the previous chapters, you will be ready for God to work in and thro...

Any organization that neglects to sponsor and nurture exceptional leaders with loads of potential and move them through the organization are in danger of losing them through the back door.This could be very, very dangerous to organizations. As they lose their best leaders to other organizations that...

It is no secret that I am a Apple enthusiast. I thought about labeling myself as an Apple evangelist, but I don’t go out and preach Mac to the masses. Apple has always been a company that focuses on creativity, which is not one of my stronger points, although I do see myself as a […]...

Without shocking the weasel out of you, I believe that for many “Christians” and churches, God is not enough. While we openly admit and verbalize that God is enough, we live like He really isn’t. God has a special place in his heart for the Israelite nation and it very evident in scriptures, i...

If you want to know whether you’re a leader or not, simple — Look over your shoulder. Jesus said in John 10:27 “My sheep listen to my voice and I know them and they follow me.” I Cor. 11:1 Paul said, “Follow my example as I follow the example of Christ.” We all ne...