Judgement and Grace

Since I have been preaching to the youth group, the Great Commandment, and the Great Commission, and how the Bible keeps pointing back to that, I have been having the thoughts about judgement versus grace. Brian Zahnd has been pointing out that Jesus preached against the “who’s in, and who’s out” thought.  Then I ran [...]

5/2/2013 Why would God End the world?

I’ve been trying to share my youth messages that I have been doing. Both by sharing the text, and recording an mp3. However, since I’m having trouble affording hosting, probably only text for the time being. I had a week where I asked the students what questions they have. One question was “Why would God [...]

The Jeff Show – #9 Unforgiveness.

Here’s the link to Sound Cloud where I uploaded it. Here’s the Bible Verses from my talk: Paul said, in Colossians 3, 13 Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. 14 And over all these virtues put on love, [...]

The Jeff Show #8 – That Others Might Live…Life Church Youth Group 1/10/13

Here is what I taught tonight to the youth group. The Jeff Show – #8

Love your…

Part of what I have been riffing on as of late is the whole grace vs. guilt, or mercy vs. sacrifice. Of course this all comes down to Love. We are supposed to love…our God. … our neighbors. …our enemies. When I see the American Christian church as of late, I see more people, drifting back [...]

More Grace and why I am on this kick

I’m not a great writer. I’m good, to the extent that I do get compliments when somebody reads these posts from time to time, but not great. Sometimes, I wish that more people read my blog and commented on what I had written, if only to learn from others as they read what I said. [...]

The Jeff Show #7 – What Do You Desire?

Recently, I feel like God has been leading me into something. I’m not sure what, but the verse that much of this feeling is based on is Matthew 9:13, “But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners (NIV).” Couple this [...]

I Saw This Article about Sin

If you remember from the past, I wrote a series on Grace and Guilt. Here is a post from College Ministry Thoughts: Shame/guilt and conviction are not equals.  In fact they couldn’t be more opposite.  They stem from different “sources” and lead us to two completely different places. This fits in with what I was [...]

The Jeff Show – #4 – Who should be served by the church?

Recently, I feel like there has been a growing amount of reading material that has speaking to me about Grace,  as I meditate on it. You know, helping your neighbor, and loving your enemy. I was perusing through Facebook, one morning, and ran into my union’s Facebook page. There are all sorts of people in [...]

The Power of Story, the Power of the Scene

I’ve been listening to Don Miller‘s, “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years.” Without getting into too much of the book, he realized that life is a story, and that God is asking us to live a better story. In the section that I’m listening to, he is talking about how important scene is. You [...]

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