Ministry
Pastors, Pulpits & People in the Pews
One of the strangest, most unfortunate aspects of the modern church is often found in the expectation of what happens in the pulpit from those who sit in the pews ...
Read More Guard Your Anointing
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 ...
Read More Reset…Bounceback…Whatever We Call It
Hi, friends. It has been a while since I have personally posted here because, well, frankly, life has been happily boring these days during my ministry sabbatical. In case you ...
Read More Jeff is Officially on Sabbatical
Hi, everyone. I hope you can take a few moments and watch the video below that will give our Transforming Truth friends and family an update about my health and ...
Read More Kingdom Adjustments: New Studio Relocation
Hi, everyone. Have you caught your breath since the Corona-chaos hit the globe? I think I am beginning to. All of us have been rocked by this tiny microbe that ...
Read More Celebrating Others
"Do nothing from rivalry or arrogance, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves." - Philippians 2:3 What a strange charge is given to Christians from the heart of ...
Read More When Your Nets Are Empty
"On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on Jesus to hear the word of God, He was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, and He saw two boats ...
Read More Pastors, Pulpits & People In The Pew
One of the strangest, most unfortunate aspects of the modern church is often found in the expectation of what happens in the pulpit from those who sit in the pews ...
Read More Evicting Jesus
We are ten days into the new year and I thought it was time to post a devotional blog, focusing on a passage of Scripture. Spending my morning in Matthew’s ...
Read More Fat On Molasses
Today my mind rests on how we Christians regard those who do not know Christ. The endorsed approach for the last thirty years by many evangelicals makes a priority out ...
Read More Unforeseen Harvest
God will not always allow you to see visible fruit from your visible labors. Sometimes you are doing everything properly, at the right time, with an excellent motivation but no ...
Read More Words From Long Ago
From the Puritan book of prayers, The Valley of Vision, I lend you the words of the prayer titled "The Servant In Battle". May Monday be kind to us all ...
Read More Encouraging Ministry Update/Prayer Request
God blesses me inwardly to know that I have opportunity to communicate His truth to you though this website. We have never had an agenda and I think I can ...
Read More Sabbatical Plans
It would be difficult to overstate how much I am looking forward to the ministry break I have scheduled from June 17-July 7. It has been a demanding twelve months ...
Read More A Slightly-Longer-Than-Normal But Potentially Helpful Critique Of The Modern Church
Man, I wished I had included a sermon on the words of Jesus below in the latest sermon series "Impact Statements". I'm not sure how I missed this - maybe ...
Read More The Joy Of Motion
Each week I am a happy witness to scores of people engaged in Kingdom work. Much of life connects with others who have been given a passion for advancing the ...
Read More Overspiritualizing Christian Ministry
Moses split the sea. Elijah hit the tarmac in a heavenly chariot and was ushered into God's glory. Isaiah caught a glimpse of the Almighty in His fulness during a ...
Read More When Jeff & Phil Collide
Let me predict that this post will disappoint of few of you who want straightforward bible devotions when I post. Most of the time I awake in the early morning ...
Read More Global Air War
During our television broadcasts each week it is my custom to invite the viewers to join us at Meadow the following week. We really believe that being among the people ...
Read More One Email, Two Phonecalls & An Open Door
Occasionally it's good for us to simply believe that God really does delight in pouring out blessing upon us. Many of you are like me in that you have to ...
Read More Busy But Not Blessed
Sitting still is no longer popular in America. It's even less popular in American churches. You must even take it down a further notch in Baptist churches. After all, doesn't ...
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