Pastor Jeff’s Blog

Let’s lay aside every weight and sin that so easily entangles us…. – Hebrews 12:1 One of the things that I love about where I live is that bald eagles are plentiful. We frequently see them flying [...]

More than anything you guard, protect your mind, for life flows from it. – Proverbs 4:23 CEB Watching your heroes fall is painful. Over the last few months multiple stories have surfaced about [...]

He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? – Micah 6:8 Two years ago, a truck driver [...]

Don’t forget to show hospitality to strangers, for some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it! – Hebrews 13:2 I just returned from a weeklong bike ride [...]

 Go ahead and be angry. You do well to be angry—but don’t use your anger as fuel for revenge. And don’t stay angry. Don’t go to bed angry. Don’t give the Devil that kind of foothold in your life. [...]

The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them. The cow will feed with the bear, [...]

The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God. – Leviticus 19:34 My grandparents came from [...]

“Leave your native country, your relatives, and your father’s family, and go to the land that I will show you.” – Genesis 12:1 The Bible is filled with stories of people who were called by God. [...]

Then Jesus went to work on his disciples. “Anyone who intends to come with me has to let me lead. You’re not in the driver’s seat; I am. Don’t run from suffering; embrace [...]

I don’t mean to say that I have already achieved these things or that I have already reached perfection. But I press on to possess that perfection for which Christ Jesus first possessed me. No, [...]