Jeff's Musings

Yesterday, I ended my blog talking about Amy, who was a plant in out church service this past Sunday and how one of our ladies befriended her without knowing Amy was a plant. Amy was playing the part pf a homeless young lady in order to see how our people would react to such a […]...

We have all wondered if we were someones favorite at one time or another.  I came from a large family; Mom, Dad, five boys and four girls, plus the assorted pets. Of the nine kids, I am the youngest and because you are the youngest, you automatically get the label "the favorite", whic...

April 15, 2005. What is so significant about that date? One, it was the date that your federal, state, and local tax returns had to filed by midnight or you could be penalized. Second, it was the date that Lake Ridge Church set out to show Lake County, Ohio that God loves them in practical […...

The Faith that Works The Faith that Works … is a faith that is hospitable to rich and poor alike James 2:1 NLT “My dear brothers and sisters, how can you claim that you have faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ if you favor some people more than others?” The Faith that Works …is a [&...

Not all faith is powerful. There is a faith that fails. There is a faith that is worthless. James says that faith without works is dead. The deeds we do are the natural outgrowth of our faith. If there are no deeds, no works of the flesh, then there is no real faith because real […]...

The answer is of course, yes. W O R K – four letters.  Maybe you were thinking of another four letter word to describe your job that wouldn’t be mentionable here in this blog. Let’s be honest, though, for many of us work IS a four-letter word. It’s something we’d just assume a...

There are three kinds of fear that you can have.  The first is surface fears. Surface fears are things like you’re afraid you’re not going to be able to pay your bills, you’re afraid you’re going to run out of gas before you get to the gas station. That’s a surface...

We’re quick to avoid murder, stealing, and drunkenness, but we often assassinate other people and leave destruction in our wake by the way we use our tongues. Husbands have stabbed their wives with words that are as sharp as daggers and wives have lashed out with tongues that cut and pierce. Paren...

This is not a spiritual post as such, but if you are from Tennessee or follow the Lady Vols basketball program it can be a "spiritual experience", if you know what I mean. Tennessee has always been and probably always will be a football school.  Don’t think that Tennessee is jus...

We all carry guilt around. We all carry the "If only"s, the regrets. Guilt builds barriers between you and God. I don’t want to get to know God if I feel like He’s going to judge me. Maybe you got the wrong message. Jesus said, "I didn’t come to condemn the world. I ...