Jeff's Musings

My friend Ed Stetzer invited me to an International Mission Board forum of 40 emerging leaders in the SBC to engage in conversation around social justice, missions and empowering the next generation of global leaders. It was good to see Ed and another one of my long distance friends at this forum, R...

Darrin Patrick Here are my notes from a break out session I was in with Darrin Patrick, pastor of Journey Church in St Louis. He spoke on Raising Up Good Leaders. Timothy the church planter and Paul as his coach. I Timothy 6:20 Self Leadership What is going on within you? You have to cultivate [&hel...

In the Main Session at Exponential 2008, Andy Stanley spoke on Apostolic Vision. Andy is by far one of the best communicators in the world by keeping his talks clear and focused. Here are my notes from Andy’s talk which by the way was excellent. Apostolic vision is a mental picture of what co...

Mark Batterson Lead Pastor National Community Church Washington D.C. 5 Greatest Challenges Every Leader Faces Emotional Managing all the emotions:         Fear, Discouragement and Jealousy         Your emotional health w...

Good evening. Today was the start of the Pre-Conference Intensive for the Exponential Conference in Orlando. The track I took was The Reproducing Church Experience taught by Jon Ferguson of Community Christian Church and Brian Zehr of NewThing Network. Jon shared with us in this Intensive how to rec...

Myself and seven other church planters/leaders from Cleveland are in Florida for the Exponential Conference. Our plane was supposed to leave Cleveland at 3:30 on Sunday, buy due to mechanical problems, we did not take off until 7:00. It is a beautiful morning and we begin the conference today at 1:0...

Beginning Sunday evening I will be blogging from Sunny Orlando Florida where I will be attending the Exponential 08 Conference. I will be attending with several of my friends and fellow church planters/leaders from Cleveland. I am looking forward to seeing old friends who will be speaking and leadin...

I think two of the most dangerous influences any church faces are: (1) Spiritual leaders who have lost their first love and (2) the onslaught of church hoppers. Having wavered before in my faith and flirted with losing my first love with God, I know firsthand how dangerous the first one can be. But ...

Solomon asked it in Ecclesiastes 4:1 ” Again I looked and saw all the oppression that was taking place under the sun.” The question of injustice can be asked many, many different ways. Why do bad things happen to good people? Why do bad people seem to prosper? Where is God when I hurt? W...

It has been awhile since I have given an update on Bridge Church. Bridge Church was launched on January 21, 2007 in Perry, OH. A group of ordinary (trust me, I use this term loosely) people took a step of faith to start a church from scratch in our living room. Since then we have […]...