Jeffrey C. Long

A few months ago I went through a season of trying to absorb every little jot and tittle of David Allen’s book Getting Things Done. I listened to the audiobook, put ebook of it and Ready for Anything on my pocket pc. Listened to the CD of his seminars. And implemented a lot of his [...]

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Four interesting jobs I’ve had 1. Gas boy at an airport 2. De-beaker at a chicken farm 3. Produce stand 4. Pastor Four movies I could watch over and over 1. Original Star Wars 2. Twister 3. Field of Dreams 4. West side story Four places I’ve lived 1. Pullman, Washington 2. Seattle, Washington 3. [...]

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Opera, the other browser besides Firefox and Safari and Internet Explorer (ew!) is now available on the PocketPC. How exciting! The main feature that helps me is that you can now view pages in landscape view. This formats webpages more like a traditional browser, instead of the slim screen on a PocketPC. It also does [...]

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Whoever trusts in me will inherit the land and possess my holy mountain. (Isaiah 57:13) Whoever trusts in me, says the Lord. How little is demanded of us here! All we have to do is trust in Him, and we receive everything! Admittedly, this certainly includes not taking a course based on our own decision, [...]

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Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. (I John 5:1) In that period it meant a great deal when someone freely and openly confessed that Jesus was the Christ—this man who a few years before had been crucified, rejected by the entire nation, shamefully condemned. And this man was the promised [...]

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January 17 My sins rise higher than my head and their weight has become too heavy for me. (Psalm 38:5) This is what happens when a person otherwise as godly as David falls through pride of heart and security into deep sin that he would hardly have thought himself capable of. So there must be [...]

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You are no longer guests and strangers, but fellow-citizens with the saints and members of God’s household. (Ephesians 2:19) These words are said of the Gentiles who up to this point could only be received as guests and foreigners among the people of God. But through faith in Christ the Gentiles also obtain the rights [...]

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Aren’t those two strange words to put together: Prayer hacks? Let me explain. Anything we do, we can learn to do better, and often the difference between one and another is simply implementing tricks that allow you to accomplish more then you did before. I think it’s ok to apply the same principle to prayer. [...]

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I’ve given up my fight with Yahoo email. I’ve lost. My jeffreyclong account is inaccessible. Yahoo has really dropped the ball in helping me out which is frustrating. Ultimately, the only thing I lost of significance was back issues of an email newsletter that I am having trouble getting at my new addresses. I’ll warn [...]

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The following sermon was preached on Sunday January 15th 2006 at Filer Mennonite Church. It made very liberal use of a sermon resource provided by Mennonite Mutual Aid. At one of our elder meetings a month or two ago, we were looking at an assessment question from a MCUSA booklet that relates to our vision [...]

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