Jeff's Musings

Luke 18:9-14 A major problem in our world today is religion. In fact, lots of people are turned off to God because of religion. Many people will not consider the claims of Christ because of religion. Religion is a problem. The problem is not simply because some people who profess to be religious sho...

When it comes to living a life of faith how does it work, this thing called faith. What does it feel like? How does it act? What does it do? How do you know the difference between somebody who’s living a life of faith and someone who is not? There are a lot of people […]...

Parents if you only knew what is on your kids myspace.com web pages you would probably have a cow! Or maybe some of you wouldn’t. My wife and I have had our experience with myspace and our youngest daughter last fall. It wasn’t that she was posting bad stuff out there, it was what her [&...

Luke 18:1-8 Why do we feel like giving up? Not making a difference We live in a time where people are giving up on marriage, jobs, family, church and themselves. The reason is we are placing our identities on our careers/job, family, possessions, and not on Christ. In other words, we base our worth ...

When looking at the story of “The Prodigal” it is easy to see that Jesus believes that sinners matter. Now the tax collectors and “sinners” were all gathering around to hear him. But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law muttered, “This man welcomes sinners and eats...

AP Just a short post to rant about Hillary. Did you see her at Coretta Scott King’s funeral wearing slacks? How tacky and disrespectful for a lady who is a U.S. Senator and the wife of a former President to be dressed like that at such a solemn occassion. She was in stark contrast to […...

The only way. Isn’t that narrow minded, bigoted, exclusive, intolerant? Maybe a way to heaven but the way? It sounds so judgmental. If you’re not thinking this way your friends are. Your neighbors are. Skeptics are. Those on the outside of Christianity looking in are. In our world that we live i...

Fellow Pastors, Church Leaders, and honored lay people: Each time I stand to speak I am humbled by the opportunity that God has given to me to be His spokesman of the gospel of Jesus Christ. I am honored that God would seek out and use me to be a part of the greatest plan […]...

Emerging Church leader Brian McLaren has ruffled the feathers of the established evangelical community again including mine, which is hard to do. It’s starting to become more and more common that McLaren’s views of the traditional evangelical church, (what I term the Submerging Church) s...

History over the past two thousand years has painted many pictures of what Jesus looked liked and who he was. Many theologians and skeptics throughout the centuries have each had their idea of Jesus and the truth of the matter is, not a single one of them has done Jesus justice.  As I look back...