Jeff's Musings

Whether you like it or not, your staff is on social media and probably on it quiet often. If you are smart, you will have your company or ministry on social media as well. You can be a knucklehead and ignore social media or you can leverage it to help your company or ministry fulfill […]...

Since the beginning of the biblical record, God promised God’s people that someday He would dwell among them. No more wondering what God is like, no more wondering if God really cares, because with the coming of this Child of Promise we can each know that God understands us. We can be assured ...

One of the reasons why many people never succeed in life is they give up too soon.  I played lots of sports when I was young and still like to today. My favorite sport to play was basketball.  Everybody knows that you often win in the last couple of seconds.  The last couple seconds of […]...

So many peple try to find the meaning of Christmas.  Some think it is a feeling or a spirit.  We get caught up in the packages and bows, parties, and shopping. This is the worst time of the year for depression, because so many people have this idea of Christmas as a Currier & Ives […]...

Ben Franklin said, “Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time for it is the stuff that life is made of.” Time is a gift from God. For many of us we treat time more as a commodity than a gift. Time is a gift. It is something to be treasured. It is something […]...

I have to admit, I tend not to be a focused person as I go from one thing to the next, one project to the next, one person to the next. I confess, I am writing this post more about me than you. I need laser intense focus. One of my all time favorite animated […]...

Several months ago I released an e-Book on Amazon titled Missionary Writing that focuses on the pursuit of passion to write much like the passion a missionary has to abandon all. This short eBook looks at a writer’s calling of spreading the message they have to share that must be heard. If you wri...

Definition of Integrity  (from Webster’s Online) “Integrity is the quality or state of being complete or undivided or incorruptible.”  This is saying that you can’t compartmentalize your life. Integrity means wholeness, unseparated, you’ve got it all together. Mark Twain, talking about t...

I write about leadership quite often here on my blog, only because I believe there is a large, gaping hole in leadership in churches, non-profits, government, and corporations. If only we would have men and women step up and be leaders, things would be quite different in all the domains I listed abo...

There are people that you just really like to be around and there are people you do your best to avoid being around. What is the difference between these two very different people and why do you want to be around one and not the other? Is it all about their personality? Is it because […]...