Jeff's Musings

I really don’t like making this confession, but I will – I DON’T LIKE A LOT OF CHRISTIANS A stat from Ed Stetzer’s new book, Lost and Found: 44% of the unchurched agree (somewhat or strongly) that “Christians get on my nerves.” Why I Don’t Like A Lot of Christians: 1) ...

You have probably already read at the most of the news sites or feeds that Pastor Fred Winters of First Baptist Church in Maryville, IL. was shot and killed as he preached Sunday morning. As a pastor it worries me more and more that something like that could happen in our area and in our […]...

Being Great/Successful/ (whatever word you want to use) Requires Humility You want to be great? Serve. You want to be first? Be last. You want to make it to the front? You start in the back. You want to stand out in life? You step down. And you start now. And just start with the little things. W...

VisionalLife, the book I wrote last year is now one of 230,000 books available for the Amazon Kindle.  You can download it by going to VisionalLife: The Pursuit of God’s Passion The price is $6.39. Lot cheaper than the $11.95 for the print version....

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...

Christianity is more than just something you believe. It is a lifestyle. That lifestyle involves three things:   1. I evaluate everything. I don't just automatically buy into the world's system. I read an ad, I see a tv show I don't automatically say that must be true because...

I am not writing about the 1987 film Fatal Attraction in which Michael Douglas and Glen Close star. Sorry if you thought this was going to be some  Hollywood review of the movie (which I thought was pretty good for an 80’s flick). I want to spend some time on churches that place all of th...

Having been a male for the last forty-seven years, I kind of thought I had it figured out what it meant to be a man.  You know, go out and kill dinner and drag it home, have control of the house, etc…, etc…, etc… What I have been learning through the Men's Fraternity grou...

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I had lunch today with Dan Jenkins, a young man who is a follower of Christ, but also one of the most insightful and intelligent young men I know. He was interviewing my for a paper he has to write for a college English Class he is taking for his studies to become a radiologist. […]...