Jeff's Musings

Good morning Bridge Church, As you know, many of you who attend Bridge Church have decided to become members of this great work that God is doing in Perry.  Through this process it has been awesome to hear your stories as we have interviewed many of you for membership and how God has worked in [&he...

I am assuming you have heard of the iPhone by Apple or dubbed by many bloggers as the Jesus phone (it can work miracles). If you haven’t heard of the iPhone, then they really need to let you out more often. Anyway, I was one of those who told themselves, that when my contract is […]...

Legalism revolves around trying to please or impress others by following man-made rules rather than God’s principles. It centers around strict conformity to the letter of the law rather than the spirit of the law, which is to follow God. It is contrary to the dynamic of grace. It is opposite of ev...

This is an email I received from my good friend Brad Graves who is launching Cross Church in San Diego. If you can help, please do so. Jeff, Thank you so much for responding to our needs in San Diego and for having us on your heart. Attached is a blog post that explains our […]...

Worldview is a thought system that we have developed for explaining the world around us and explaining our experiences in it. We can possibly believe in spiritual warfare theologically, but that doesn’t necessarily require us to implement it practically. We develop a set of categories where we pla...

How many of you have done this to your kids, “Apologize to your brother/sister right now!” A forced apology is not an apology at all, is it? You can tell when an apology is not real and it does no good. Hypocrisy means pretending to be what one is not. In that sense, a hypocrite […]...

On October 15, 2006, fourteen people who made up the launch team for Bridge Church gathered in our basement to hold the first worship service of this new church. Exactly one year later on October 14, 2007, Bridge Church had 149 people attend our regular worship service! Although we didn’t launch u...

Remember the movie, The Sixth Sense. That was one of the better scary movies I had seen in awhile. The main line that stands out in the whole movie is when the little boy tells a psychologist, “I see dead people.” I see dead people, and I’m not joking about that one. I really do. […]...

This past weekend our family had the great opportunity to be commissioned as missionaries with the North American Mission Board in Atlanta. We met missionaries doing everything from church planting, inner city ministry, chaplains, collegiate ministry, to truck stop ministry. To hear the stories̷...

I have to give credit for this thought to my good friend Steve Sjogren. Through several conversations with Steve, we both agree that many Christians, leaders or not, suffer from Toxic-Callogy. Weird label I know, but what is really weird is that spell check doesn’t kick it out. There are peopl...