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.

Intellectual Faith

“Moreover, there are just as many stories of young people who have thrown over their Christianity, not because they substituted a more intellectual faith for a less intellectual one, but…

Academic Quality = Spiritual Decline??

“In their zeal to become prestigious, or known for their academic quality, many schools have moved away from their passionately Christian first principles. This is a matter of historical fact…

Powerful Scriptures

“Does not Scripture, clearly presented, have its own power to produce “application”? The Church already labors under a surfeit of sloppy exegesis, inept hermeneutic and fiery exhortation to rush out…

Made to Reflect

“Human beings, made in the image of God, are meant to reflect on the nature of things—cannot live without doing so. They are meant, in a word, to understand. That…

Smart, but Ignorant

“All of this is a reminder, by the way, that the difference between a person who is liberally educated and one who is not is simply, well, a liberal education.…

Metaphysics and Honest Inquiry

“In other words, having a metaphysics is not the same as knowing ahead of time what the consequences of that metaphysics for any particular subject will be. Because I believe…

Matthew 4 – Thoughts From My Devotions

Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into Galilee; (Matthew 4:12) The thought of fleeing danger for our own protection came to my mind…

Isaiah 3 – Thoughts From My Devotions

For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay…

Trespasses and Offenses

Recently, while discussing the biblical practice of forgiveness, a statement was made to the effect of "I was not offended by the issue, so I do not need to deal…

An Open Mind

“An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy. If a man’s mind…

Obeying the Head

“…And because our approvals and disapprovals are thus recognitions of objective value or responses to an objective order, therefore emotional states can be in harmony with reason (when we feel…

Easy Prey

“The right defense against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments. By starving the sensibilities of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished…

Humility-Sublimity

“…the man who says This is sublime cannot mean I have sublime feelings. Even if it were granted that such qualities as sublimity were simply and solely projected into things from…

Cathedral Faith

Recently, I was speaking with a pastor who works in a military ministry on the island of Hawaii. As we talked, he mentioned that it takes faith to build buildings…

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Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother. But…