by Josh Weidmann | Feb 4, 2014 | Articles, Christian Life
This weekend I started the new sermon series called “Abide”. For two weeks we will be studying what God says through His Word in Chapter 15 of John. Perhaps there is no more important sermon Christ gave while on earth than the simple instruction to abide in Him. But...
by Josh Weidmann | Feb 4, 2014 | Articles, Church, Leadership
The main role of a pastor is to care for the sheep. One of the main ways that we care for those in our churches is by meeting (or exceeding) expectations. If a pastor remains unorganized, then he is bound to fail expectations and therefore not tend to the sheep. Why...
by Josh Weidmann | Feb 4, 2014 | Articles, Christian Life
[Part 2 on honesty and peace | read part 1 here] The young man trudged along the rocky path to the field where his master’s pigs waited for their breakfast. His muscles were stiff and sore from sleeping in the barn, with nothing for a bed but moldy straw, which even...
by Josh Weidmann | Feb 4, 2014 | Articles, Christian Life
Everyone goes through life with a gnawing sense of unease, an unspoken dread we’ve lived with for so long we hardly know it’s there anymore. It taints everything we do with a strange sense of displacement and dissatisfaction. Even when things are going our way, at the...
by Josh Weidmann | Feb 4, 2014 | Articles, Christian Life
The storyline of redemption unfolds throughout the Holy Scriptures and reveals God’s intent to reconcile people to Himself and establish His kingdom on earth. With each turn of the page we find a piece of His plan fall into place, His promises kept, and His prophecies...
by Josh Weidmann | Feb 4, 2014 | Articles, Leadership
How do you kill your giants? That’s right – One at a time. Yes, there are millions of saying like this, but there is truth in all of them – if we are going to take care of those monstrous tasks before us, we have to just take it one little step at...