Jeff's Musings

Mickey Mantle, an almost mythical baseball star who feared he had failed to fulfill career expectations because of alcohol abuse and whose latter years were haunted by self-recrimination, died of cancer in 1995. He was 63. The former New York Yankees center fielder and a member of baseball’s Hall ...

If you hadn’t noticed, parts of my website had been broken that I thought were fixed, but weren’t. If you had been to my site and wanted to read a post and clicked the continue reading link you would be taken back to the home page. That has been fixed as I was having a […]...

These are the steps I used when I asked God to give me an expansion of the dream and further clarification.  I get Polaroid Vision.  Have you ever taken a Polaroid picture and you stand there seeing it developing and as time goes on it gets clearer and clearer.  I think there are very few [&helli...

Our faith is not determined by what we do, it is demonstrated by what we do. In a very real sense that’s what God says to you. Talk is cheap. Put your money where your mouth is. “I believe in Jesus!” Prove it. Our faith is demonstrated by our actions. Actions speak louder than word...

A lot of TV evangelists have had lots of charisma, but they’ve bombed out because they had no character. They had major character defects. The foundation of leadership is character, not charisma. Charisma has nothing to do with it. You don’t have to have charisma to be a leader. You do h...

No matter what the subject is, balance is the key to a healthy life. Too much involvement in your job, writing, your church activities without proper family time leaves one out of balance. It is also true of mentoring. Balance is healthy. As a follower of Jesus, especially as a leader we need to tak...

Writers can’t shake the need to write. It is unexplainable. It is in them and must be released from the heart and mind to the pen and paper, or in our generation to the keyboard and laser printer. The same is true with a missionary. They have this sense of calling to go when it […]...

Disasters have a way of clarifying values. They have a way of pointing out what matters and what really doesn’t matter. They define your values, notice this verse: “Jesus said…”For one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.” Lk 12:15 (ESV) Don’t confuse wh...

We have to determine in our lives when to stop and when to go. When are there red lights and when are there green lights and should we pay attention to the yellow lights that mean we should use caution. When the green light comes on regarding vision, we cannot sit still, we must move. […]...

There is no argument, no excuse, nothing that you can say that will make me change my mind on this one – the most important relationship outside of the one with God, is the one with your wife. Yes, your relationship to God must be at the top of the list and at the top […]...