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Though it is not something I am proud of, I have to admit that the last few days have been some of the hardest ...
Last night I spent the evening with a friend, and we inevitably got into a conversation about this week’s ...
1. God Lays a Message on the Heart of the Messenger
Here you need to ask the Lord, through fervent prayer, “What ...
It is a daunting task for a preacher to find the right resources for a sermon.
At the onset of a sermon ...
Prayer and evangelism are inseparable. Imagine what might happen if you got together regularly with two of your ...
I’ve been fighting a fever and headaches on and off for the last two weeks. With over 100 hours of laying flat on ...
When I was a beginning my role as senior pastor the elders asked me what I was excepting out of the "laying on of ...
I’ve been reading more than usual lately. This is most likely because my current sermon series is demanding a ...
A man once told me that I smelled like sheep.
At first I really didn’t know what he meant; all that could ...
This week has been crazy. The Q&A series got off to a strong start and I’ve had to do some rethinking and ...
Over a decade ago I started dating my best friend. This past weekend we celebrated 5 years of marriage.
Yes, ...
Do you know about the guy named Asaph in the Old Testament who truly shared with God what was on his mind?
Asaph ...
We are a society of secrets
We say things we do not mean
We think things we do not say
We are a society of ...
In this series I went through 61 passages in the New Testament that had the phrase "One Another" in them. My ...
Remember these words –
“Not my will.”
It was a simple prayer and a hurting cry from a torn soul. Jesus prayed it ...
We take Eldership very seriously – because the Bible takes it very seriously.
Following the example we see ...
Finding the right time to sermon prep has always been a task for me. Ever since my preaching ministry began, ...
Mornings have always been hard for me. I wake up one brain cell at a time.
I’ve learned if I can start the day ...
I will never forget the first days on a job when I realized my boss was going to manage primarily through ...
One of the ways I am trying to avoid silly mistakes is by making sure each post goes through an assembly line ...
I have a nerdy confession to make: I love lists. In fact, I love making lists that are color-coded, ...
I’m pretty sure if you locked me in a room for the rest of my life I would never get bored. My mind goes about ...
I remember when Facebook first started. It was one of those seemingly faddish websites that was sweeping college ...
Recently I found myself in an unexpected heated discussion. It had been awhile since I had seen this gentleman, ...
Summer is usually a season where we get to kick back and enjoy some long weekends and a vacation here or there. I ...
If you’ve ever been to Monroe, Ohio and driven on I-75 then you’ve probably seen the 62-foot tall statue of Jesus ...
Leadership takes nerve. It demands a willingness to risk comfort, acceptance, and peace-of-mind, in order to find ...
Nearly a decade ago I was speaking at several churches in Ireland. The locals had told me about a beautiful ...
In the ancient times of the New Testament, one way to make money was to sell things in the open-air markets in the ...
God is a creative and commissioning God.
He never lacks a strategic plan, nor the power or ingenuity to make it ...
A guest post from my dad, Jim Weidmann:
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For they shall ...
A pastor shares his experience as he was visiting a new couple that started attending his church:
As he talked ...
We are not a wrecked people. We find our comforts close at hand and our convictions deeply hidden.
I am ...
At times it seems that the economy of heaven is upside down. We are used to a this fight-to-win-it world which ...
When I was a little kid, I would play on a merry-go-round at the park with my dad. We would both run around it to ...
This weekend I opened my sermon with a joke. I thought it would bring laughter at the beginning of what I knew was ...
Mornings are a killer. I am not the kind of guy that usually rises with a pep-in-my-step. I wake up one braincell ...
This is without a doubt one of the hardest of the parables to exegete. I struggled with this passage for nearly ...
The central theme to the Gospel of John is that Jesus is the Son of God. This is most evident by the way that John ...
Jesus Christ commanded us to “Go and make disciples” (Matthew 28:19). The final words given to His the apostles ...
Dear God, Giver of Life,
We forget how precious you are at times, and in doing so, we forget how precious life ...
A commercial was playing on the radio as I turned the corner into my office parking lot. I was rather tuned out ...
One of the things I loved about working at Mission Hills is that our vision is clear and concise:
Transformed ...
I am one of the world's luckiest pastors (Is it okay to use "lucky" and "pastor" in the same sentence?).
I am ...
There are times in life when fog is all you see in the five day forecast. Shining a light only seems to worsen the ...
"There is therefore no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." Romans 8:1
The believer is in Christ as ...
Many pastors think that if you preach at a problem that will fix it.
I was one of those pastors (perhaps I still ...
This may sound a bit off, but consider this a pastoral confession:
I enjoy being involved with people at their ...
"Dad, are you singing in the shower?"
As I heard the little voice on the other side of the curtain, I stopped ...
- Francis Drake
The world's ways of dating, “hooking up” and romantic involvement are much different from the Bible’s view on ...
Sin is sticky. Like rubber cement all over our hand, we try hard to get it off and in turn just go on making a ...
Let's face it, work is not always something we enjoy. That is why we call it "Work". all of our jobs are filled ...
My brother said to me recently, “Don’t be afraid to try something you are not ready for, because it will most ...
We take stands for all kinds of things. Think about it: we vote in America so that our voice is heard, we sign ...
Have you ever wanted to see God?
Surely that is what Moses desired in Exodus 33. Even after he had conversed ...
No one wants to be a wimpy leader. I've never met a person that says, "Man, I hope I am a spineless leader who ...
Let's be brutally honest for a second: We are all more interested in serving ourselves than serving others. At the ...
Every week I sit with our Care and Counseling Team to review the current people we are caring for. This is not ...
Making pumpkin pancakes is much harder than I thought. So is being a dad.
Last Saturday I thought I’d try out our ...
In 2002 I was speaking at an event in Ocean City, Maryland where my friend, Ron Hutchcraft, was also speaking. The ...
This is a guest post from Brian Davis
Several years ago, I was seeing a counselor in an effort to work ...
I hate that the main characteristics of my life is that I am so busy. If you ask an of my friends or acquaintances ...
Loss hurts no matter when it comes. Even necessary endings have a way of hurting – though we knew that or they had ...
Travelers from around the world scurried through the walkway in front of me. I grabbed my dried-out breakfast ...
Life is not fair. God is always fair.
Shelly (name changed) is a woman who has had a very hard life. The things ...
This message is on the parable of the minas in Luke 19. Jesus tells this story to make at least two points. One ...
The storyline of redemption unfolds throughout the Holy Scriptures and reveals God’s intent to reconcile people to ...
These confessions were written by Stephen Furtick, Pastor of Elevation Church. He wrote them in his book, "Sun ...
A Friend of mine asked me if had any good "Openers" for a sermon he was going to give at the local Lutheran High ...
For over a decade I have tried to find the best way to format my sermon notes. I've asked some of ...
This is a guest post from Jenna Marie Belcher
Have you ever thought you knew an entire song and the meaning ...
There is no such thing as a spare moment. Every minute I've been given must account for something, whether I like ...
Over the years I’ve spoken with hundreds of people who have opened up and told me their secret failings, chronic ...
How often we make excuses without realizing the true impact that these decisions have on ourselves, those around ...
Ten days ago Colorado experienced another tragedy. Sadly, our State is not unfamiliar with loss. The Columbine ...
I've always considered a new year as a fresh start. A time to right what I did wrong and place something new where ...
Sin is sticky. Like rubber cement all over our hand, we try hard to get it off and in turn just go on making a ...
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One of my favorite movies of all time is The Count of Monte Christo.
It’s a story about a man named Edmond Dontez ...
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