by Josh Weidmann | Feb 4, 2014 | Articles, Preaching
Finding the right time to sermon prep has always been a task for me. Ever since my preaching ministry began, I’ve struggled to ensure that my time outside the pulpit best prepared me for my time inside the pulpit. For years I seemed to always be in fear of the next...
by Josh Weidmann | Feb 4, 2014 | Articles, Preaching
This weekend I opened my sermon with a joke. I thought it would bring laughter at the beginning of what I knew was going to be a heavy sermon. However, the joke didn’t work well at all. The reason being, I forgot a key line in the joke. It was a simple line that...
by Josh Weidmann | Feb 3, 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 3, 2014 | Articles, Preaching
Many pastors think that if you preach at a problem that will fix it. I was one of those pastors (perhaps I still am at times). If you preach often, I am sure you can identify with me – you see a problem in the church, so you plan a sermon to preach at the...
by Josh Weidmann | Feb 3, 2014 | Christian Life, Preaching, Sermons
This message is on the parable of the minas in Luke 19. Jesus tells this story to make at least two points. One has to do with the timing of His second coming being a long way off. The other has to do with how we are stewarding what we’ve been given in the meantime....
by Josh Weidmann | Jan 19, 2014 | Articles, Preaching
A Friend of mine asked me if had any good “Openers” for a sermon he was going to give at the local Lutheran High School chapel. After giving a little thought, I told him that I had one I’ve used many times, and it pulls the teen right in-without...
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