Personal thoughts from Pastor Jeff on a(n almost) daily basis.
Here are a couple of back-to-back verses that could potential cause you to squirm in your seat just a bit: “Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed David in the midst of his brothers. And the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon David from that day forward…Now the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and a harmful …
Lately, I have been pondering some of the extreme visible supernatural manifestations in the Scriptures. For the last two years, I have observed an uptick in the activity of the enemy against the Church. I’ve seen an increase in occurrences that can be nothing less than demonic influence over the lives of men and women and teenagers. People that I …
Standing in a convenience store this weekend, I heard a song from my junior year of high school being piped in through the store’s speakers. It was one of my all-time favorites back in the day and, when I heard it, I started wondering why I liked it so much because it was quite slow and mellow. Back in 1987, …
Driving into the office today I had a hypothetical question pop into my mind. I was pondering what my answer would be if God approached me and asked me the question, “Jeff, if I could only impart one thing to you and the people you influence what would you want that one thing to be?” Before I even had time …
“…and You brought them into the land that You had told their fathers to enter and possess. So the descendants went in and possessed the land, and You subdued before them the inhabitants of the land…” – Nehemiah 9:23-24 These two verses contain both greatness and sadness in them. Upon first glance, we might even pass by them without …
“The wasted city is broken down; every house is shut up so that none can enter.” –Isaiah 24:10 That verse is not referring to Hall County, Georgia where I live… but it describes it pretty well today. My daughter took the picture above in our backyard yesterday. It’s really cold, and I’m not really one who enjoys the snow. …
“Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do” – Luke 23:34 Man’s worst moment had arrived. Roman spikes had been driven through the hands and feet of Jesus Christ, pinning Him to terrible timbers. A naked spectacle hung before human eyes that ranged from the raging to the reverent, the Lamb of God …
The more I think on it (and I think on it constantly), the more I am convinced that we Christians have a tendency to find a singular flavor of Christianity that suits our spiritual taste buds, and we then choose to make that our perpetual one-course feast. Once upon a time it was my belief that the angle I had …
Maybe most of us fear hitting rock-bottom because we somehow became convinced it is the one place in the cosmos where God does not exist. Most everyone has a scenario where they don’t let their minds travel. This scenario is the ugliest, hairiest, most intimidating place that your mind can conceive. It is the thing you dread the most. Your …
Sometimes the Father will intentionally and repeatedly emphasize a particular theme in your mind and heart. You will find at these times that your thoughts keep circling back to the matter He is cycling back to you over and over again. You will hear it in every song, in each sermon, or woven into daily conversations with others. The resources …
After being off of work and out of the office for several days, I woke up with the itch to post something on the TT blog today. I’m going to keep it short and sweet today as we consider this simple verse from Isaiah’s writings. The pen is Isaiah’s, but the words are from the Father. “You are My witnesses,” …
It has been an amazing 2017! God has been so gracious, and so good, and so glorious to me in the past year. After a very demanding 2016, this past year was one of momentum and breakthrough. I am so thankful for all of you who helped support Transforming Truth with your prayers and contributions. I will be taking the …
Two thousand years ago, here is a little of what was happening in Heaven and on Earth: God the Father declared in Heaven that the fullness of time on earth had arrived – He sent His Son to us with an unstoppable plan of rescue. The Supreme God would become fully human as the Creator entered into His own …
God is bigger than your idea of him. Watch yourself, one of the easiest things to do for us is to unintentionally lose the true identity of God and replace it with whatever might be going on in our heads. We are prone to think on God through a lens of whatever may be happening in us, around us or …
Jesus was born once upon on earth that we might be born twice for Heaven. Jesus was announced by angelic heralds so that we might learn the value of proclaiming Him as human heralds. Jesus was worshiped by blue-collar shepherds so that all classes of humanity might see they are welcome to do the same. Jesus was held by a …
Because Jesus came, I can never be truly alone. Because Jesus came, I am free from this world and free in this world. Because Jesus came, I can know the only God – now in faith, one day in fullness. Because Jesus came, I will not live in shame, fear or guilt. Because Jesus came, I know that my own …
Peter left the boat while the other eleven Jesus-followers stayed put. The impressive King David fled his own realm when his renegade son, Absalom, facilitated a coup. Peter, the aforementioned water-walker, was the same man who trembled in the presence of a teenage girl and denied his Savior. Frankly, all the disciples scattered like birds when the rock of man’s …
“Likewise, when a foreigner, who is not of Your people Israel, comes from a far country for Your name’s sake (for they shall hear of Your great name and Your mighty hand, and of Your outstretched arm), when he comes and prays toward this house, hear in heaven Your dwelling place and do according to all for which the foreigner …
What if I told you that you that it is essential for the good of your soul for you to experience some trouble. As a matter of fact, without some shake-ups in your life, you would remain a Kingdom toddler. If God does not allow some significant sifting and shifting through difficulty, you and I would hit our later years …
Yesterday was a historic day for New Bridge Church, where I serve with Dustin Pennington as Co-Lead Pastor. The picture above reveals the enthusiastic response of the people who gathered yesterday after a major ministry announcement was made at New Bridge. I chuckle as I write that because, technically, New Bridge is only twenty months old. We shouldn’t be having …
The human mind is weird. Perhaps, more dignified, I should say that the human mind is mysterious. Frankly, we understand only a fraction about that thing with which we understand everything else. Shortly after I awoke this morning, my own mind recalled images of something I have only seen once in my lifetime, and I wanted to tell you about …
Every now and then, 10 minutes in the bible will wreck me for about an hour. Sometimes it makes me wish I had not even opened that sacred book at that particular moment. Occasionally it helps me discover that I am not always in the mood for God to arrest my attention in the middle of what was supposed to …
My son sometimes leaves the cereal boxes open and puts them back in the pantry. The tops of those boxes have to be precisely opened because, if they get torn, the little tab doesn’t fit into the slot …and the top won’t close… and air gets in… and the cereal gets stale… and dad gets irritated. You know how that …
“In everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.” –1 Thessalonians 5:18 I have a very simple thought for this Monday. It is spoken of so often in Christian circles that you might be tempted to pass over it because there is no novelty attached to it. I’m pondering the high call of the …
So I got some folks perturbed with me this week when I made a couple of statements about my support of having armed security at churches. I was informed that Jesus was against that. They told me that I violated the spirit behind “thou shalt not kill” when I asserted that church leaders have an obligation to protect their flocks …
