by Josh Weidmann | Feb 4, 2014 | Articles, Leadership
Leadership takes nerve. It demands a willingness to risk comfort, acceptance, and peace-of-mind, in order to find or create something that will impact people like nothing else ever has before. Even as a pastor, I am having to think beyond what has been done and reach...
by Josh Weidmann | Feb 4, 2014 | Articles, Christian Life, Leadership
God is a creative and commissioning God. He never lacks a strategic plan, nor the power or ingenuity to make it happen. That was clear in the creation account captured in Genesis chapter one. There is something to notice in God’s creation account for those of us...
by Josh Weidmann | Feb 4, 2014 | Articles, Christian Life, Leadership
At times it seems that the economy of heaven is upside down. We are used to a this fight-to-win-it world which declare loudly that only the weak will fail. Yet, in God’s eyes, the only way to succeed is to spend your soul at the deepest level. We are called to...
by Josh Weidmann | Feb 4, 2014 | Articles, Leadership
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 at a time. This is just the way that I am wired, and as much as I wish I could change it, I really can’t. So I have come up with some routines that help...
by Josh Weidmann | Feb 3, 2014 | Articles, Christian Life, Church
One of the things I loved about working at Mission Hills is that our vision is clear and concise: Transformed Lives. But as the Discipleship Pastor, my role demanded that I accurately define what it means for a life to be transformed by Christ. Our values...
by Josh Weidmann | Feb 3, 2014 | Articles, Leadership
I am one of the world’s luckiest pastors (Is it okay to use “lucky” and “pastor” in the same sentence?). I am lucky – or should I say “Blessed” – because I have the world’s best administrative assistant...