Jeff's Musings

Resistance to change comes due to a variety of reasons. Some of these reasons include fear, tradition, lack of confidence in people, focus, timing, ignorance, and faithlessness. People fear the unknown and change brings with it the unknown. Questions are raised as to what will we be like in the futu...

Download 91505_podcast.mp3 Should Christians fight and reject “the right to die” movement, just as we fight against the abortion industry? A basic Christian belief is that my life is not my own to do as I please, but it belongs God. If we believe that the Bible teaches that murder is wrong and w...

I am so enraged I may not be able to write sensibly today! There are a group of people traveling around the country protesting the funerals of soldiers who have given their lives in the service of The United Sates of America in Iraq and Afghanistan. They sickening thing about these people is they cl...

Since the middle of the 20th century the objectivity of language has been challenged. Image is favored over words, feelings over concepts, intuition is prized more highly than knowledge. With the development of the virtual world the barrier between public certainty, and private conjecture has been d...

Mike Riddel implores his readers to give true representation of who Jesus is when communicating evangelistically. Riddel grieves that when “Christ is perceived as being the icon of good and respectable people, this has little relevance to peoples sordid and tangled lives.”[1] Jesus who live...

If you were to look at my personal profile on this site you would see that one of my hobbies is trying to get my basement finished. It has been a three and a half year project, with all the labor being done by myslef and my wife Julie. When we bought our home our […]...

Showing compassion aka mercy to other people is a hard thing for most of us to do, myself included. When someone has hurt us or done something to harm us, our gut instinct is to get back at them as much as they hurt us. It all boils down to the one word that we […]...

"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled." Matthew 5:6 NIV   In the world, 20,000 people die of hunger each day. In this same world, over 1 billion people live on under $1/day. No wonder, so many are hungry.    In the United States:...

A fellow bogger, Steve McCoy posted an article on his blog a couple of days ago titled, "I Am Gay Friendly" by Christi Avanat that got me to thinking.  To read the article go to http://www.stevekmccoy.com/sbc/2005/07/on_being_gay_fr.html Being the pastor of a church that meets in a mo...

Below is an excerpt for a research paper written for my Masters. I thought it might be helpful, because we as pastors many times struggle with the issue of administration. Because of the way the term Administration is used today, we tend to think of this gift (see 1Co 12:28) in terms of mere adminis...