Author: Jeff Voegtlin

Dr. Jeff Voegtlin has been in Christian service for over twenty years. He is an associate pastor at Fairhaven Baptist Church in Chesterton, Indiana, and a Vice President of Fairhaven Baptist College. As conductor of the church and schools' orchestra program, and overseer of the educational program of the college, his teaching has helped to train hundreds of young adults to prepare for full-time ministry. After completing a bachelor's degree from Fairhaven Baptist College, he received a master's degree in Bible from Pensacola Christian College. In 2007, he completed the requirements to finish a doctor's degree in education from Bob Jones University. Dr. Voegtlin is available for seminars in instrumental and choral music practice and philosophy, for education seminars, and to preach and present the college ministry.

A Ditch on Both Sides

A common problem with humanity is our lack of ability to "keep in the middle of the road." While some might call this a call to compromise, it's really a…

Joshua 9 – Thoughts From My Devotions

But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them. (Joshua 9:19) This…

Joshua 8 – Thoughts From My Devotions

And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel. And all Israel, and their…

Genesis 15 – Thoughts From My Devotions

After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward. (Genesis 15:1) I…

Verifying Repentance

Here's something else I think is important about my post with no title. The verses there tell us that if a brother commits a tresspass against us seven times in…

Christian Vocation

“…however, we are not allowed to think that one Christian vocation is more spiritual than another. All work, if it is legitimate and offered to God, is sacred. We know no distinction…

Either? Faith or Intellect

“This false either/or—either faith or intellect—is…not an exaggeration contrived to make a point. It is at the root of every juxtaposition of the two meant to highlight the importance of religion…

A Scholarly Shame

“But because the Bible is also a human book, written by human authors in human language in a wide variety of literary genres—narrative, poetry, epic, epistle, love song, proverb, apocalyptic,…

2nd Rate Academic Subject?

“While I would not want to seem to be advocating a “Bible as Literature” approach, wherein the Bible is viewed as no more than one religious text among many, I…

I Don't Want to Think

“We require that someone whose religious style we agree with, someone who is safe, give us simple answers to complicated questions. It is better, we think, if we do not have…

No Future Scandal

“The point is simply that we in Christian schools must do everything in our power to ensure that in future generations there is no scandal of the evangelical mind, that…

Not the Greatest Danger

“Which is to say that the greatest danger to faith does not come from too much thought, too much research, from being too academic. If it did, the best thinkers would…

Wide Christian Reading

“That may require reading more widely in great Christian literature than we ever have before. But I do not mean Christian end-time thrillers or romance novels. Those serve only to…

Squeezing Bad Scholarship

“Squeezing lessons out of any subject is bad scholarship. Moreover, it defeats its own purpose, because the subject will teach us its lessons most effectively when we pay attention most…

Faulty Research

“To ask a student to support an experiment on photosynthesis by looking up verses in a concordance that refer to the sun or to leaves is not only poor pedagogy;…