by Josh Weidmann | Feb 12, 2014 | Articles, Christian Life, Leadership
Recently I’ve had to have some conversations with people that have been hard – to say the least. Truth has had to be spoken, otherwise it would have left a gap in integrity or shared love. I do not like conflict, I’d rather run a marathon than face...
by Josh Weidmann | Feb 11, 2014 | Articles, Christian Life
This week my closest friend, Keith “Chet” Clerihue, went home to be with the Lord. A few years back he asked me to do his funeral, and as much as I dreaded that day, I was honored to be a part of it. Keith’s life was a sermon – and will someday...
by Josh Weidmann | Feb 4, 2014 | Articles, Preaching
This is without a doubt one of the hardest of the parables to exegete. I struggled with this passage for nearly twice as many hours as it takes to prep a normal sermon. Therefore, I feel it is all the more important to give my resources away for this sermon. Here are...
by Josh Weidmann | Feb 4, 2014 | Articles, Christian Life
“A dear friend of mine who was quite a lover of the chase, told me the following story: ‘Rising early one morning,’ he said, ‘I heard the baying of a score of deerhounds in pursuit of their quarry. Looking away to a broad, open field in front of me, I saw a young fawn...
by Josh Weidmann | Feb 4, 2014 | Articles, Christian Life
Last year my daughter, Grace, met Winnie the Pooh for the first time. Come to think of it, so did I – yet there was a drastic difference in the set of emotions the two of us felt. Grace did not stop squealing at the top of her tiny little lungs. Her excitement...
by Josh Weidmann | Feb 4, 2014 | Articles, Christian Life
I’ve heard many strong leaders give this piece of advice; “Don’t let the urgent knock out the important.” While I appreciate that statement, I find it much harder to implement than it seems. Differentiating between the urgent and the important is a task in-and-of...