Jeffrey C. Long

Today, I handed in the final work necessary to finish my teaching certificate.   I’m done! YIPEE!!!!!! So, it is the first day of a four day celebration that will culminate on Friday when I have a celebration luncheon where I will receive my teaching certificate.  Words cannot express what a feeling of closure and completion [...]

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I hereby declare my first ever Comment-a-thon! I’d like to take a straw poll as to how many readers I have.  I’m ready for the number to be low or high.  But I’d love to get a feel for what’s out there.  So, if you’ll take just a moment, scroll to the bottom of this [...]

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For years, I’ve been a member of the I-know-I-should-read-the-Bible-daily club.  My best attempts always lied in using a daily reading calendar, usually the daily lectionary from the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer.  But my greatest success has come in subscribing to the daily lectionary in email from the Daily Reading site of the Presbyterian Church [...]

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I’ve been a big fan of Tom Peters since the late 80′s when I worked at Eastside Foursquare Church and picked up a copy of Thriving on Chaos.  I was very excited to get my hands on his new book, Project04: Snapshots of Excellence in Unstable Times.  To my eyes it is a much more [...]

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New concert to post.  Check out String Cheese Incident at the Filmore Auditorium in Denver Colorado by clicking Download sci2004-03-11.mp3

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Well, the war….er, I mean election is over, and so has ended my self-imposed news blackout.  I still don’t listen to as much NPR as I used to.  A lot of my driving time is taken up with listening to Bible studies by Steve Gregg. Today, while driving home from dropping my children off at [...]

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For those who have not heard, I have been called to be the pastor of Filer Mennonite Church in Filer, Idaho. We are very excited to serve God and His people there. I am heading there at the end of December, and then once the house sells, Deana and the children will follow. Currently, I [...]

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I’ve used the Anglican Book of Common Prayer (Download PDF here) for years. Something about it helped anchor me in a rhythm of prayer that I found difficult without such a tool. So I was excited today when I received the email announcement that an Anabaptist Book of Prayer was being made available. If you’d [...]

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