by Josh Weidmann | Feb 4, 2014 | Articles, Christian Life
How foolish are we to hide from God? If you’re like me, you have times in your life when you try to get away from God in hopes that he won’t find you, convict you, or even change you. I’m under the firm belief that if we would just be people who are completely...
by Josh Weidmann | Feb 4, 2014 | Articles, Preaching
“Become the sermon,” said the wise old sage of preaching to his zealous student, “Allow the message to become as natural to you as breathing. Don’t try to breath through someone else’s lungs and vibrate someone else’s vocal cords. Use your own.” There is great wisdom...
by Josh Weidmann | Feb 4, 2014 | Articles, Christian Life
H-O-P-E. As a child, I always thought “Hope” was just the girl who lived across the street. As I’ve grown up, I’ve come to learn that “Hope” is an essential tool on the road of life. The dictionary defines “hope” as, “A feeling of expectation and desire for a certain...
by Josh Weidmann | Feb 4, 2014 | Articles, Biblical Counseling
As a pastor, I have the opportunity to do quite a bit of counseling. I get to sit with the people that I care about deeply and delve into the problems of their life. As I’ve been doing this more and more over the last 6 years, I’ve learned many valuable lessons. Most...
by Josh Weidmann | Feb 4, 2014 | Articles, Christian Life
If you’re like me, you can find a thousand excuses for putting off something you don’t want to do. I can walk a mile around a mess I don’t want to clean up. I can make twenty unimportant phone calls until I finally work up the courage to make that one really important...
by Josh Weidmann | Feb 4, 2014 | Articles, Preaching
Phillips Brooks, in his Lectures on Preaching, said a powerful statement that should be tattooed on the minds of all those who approach the pulit: “If you are afraid of men and a slave to their opinions, go and do something else. Go and make shoes to fit them. Go even...