Jeff's Musings

Too often, it seems, this attitude is missing from teams, organizations or the community. It’s missing because people are quick to opt out of the ‘we’ part. “What do you mean, we?” they ask. It’s so easy to not be part of we, so easy to make it someone else’...

I have on several occassions made the comment that I believe that America is no longer a Christian nation. I based that comment and belief on the documented research of The Barna Group and The MIssional Research Center. Basically, we are a nation with a population of 300 million plus people and it i...

My spouse is the former Julie Ann Smeenge and we were married on May 25, 1981. For those of you suffering from math deficiency, that is almost twenty-nine years. We were just kids when we said the two words that we really didn’t understand then and sometimes still can’t comprehend today. I was n...

…are we stuck in High School? I had two brushes with higher education this week. The first was at a speech I gave in New York. There were several Harvard Business School students there, invited because of their interest in marketing and exceptional promise (that’s what I was told… ...

Have you noticed that common sense is not so common. It is actually a challenge to find people who have good old common sense. A lot of smart people are not too wise. They may be educated but they don’t have wisdom. They may have all kinds of degrees but they’re a wash out with relationships...

Maybe the title of this post grabbed your attention and you wanted to see the lies that are in the Bible. I guarantee that there are lies in the Bible, but they are not spoken by God, Christ, the apostles or the prophets, but the Bible is full of lies. The first lies can be […]...

I can’t say enough about this one. How many times have you done something really stupid and later you think, “I should have asked so and so their advice.” It happens time and time again all through our lives. When we are kids we think our Dad is the smartest man in the world, there […]...