Jeff's Musings

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...

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. […]...

Well, I have to say, I am probably going to get phone calls and emails over this one. Today Bridge Church has two billboards going up in the area that say “We Apologize For…” with the web address, www.weapologizefor.com. Here is what this is all about: I grew up in a church that was good [...

Some of you may remember(if you are over 40) the television commercial that Wendy’s Hamburgers ran in the 70’s with two little old ladies looking at a hamburger bun with a speck of meat on it and one of the ladies passionately asks, “Where’s the Beef?” Obviously, the commercial was a slam ...

Today at Bridge Church I am speaking on a discipline that has been lost in the church today… fasting. The church in general has gotten into the habit of not practicing on a regular basis the disciplines of communion and fasting. Over the years I did not make fasting a priority in my spiritual ...