Joshua Michael Weidmann - Honest to God: the Means to True Transformation

If you are tired of the game and are searching for something more authentic, then you have to read Joshs call to a more honest and transparent walk with God. With a compellingly articulated combination of present day stories and biblical reflections from the lives of those whose hearts chased after God, Josh has charted a course for those of us who want to be honest with God.

D R . J OE S TOWELL
President, Cornerstone University

We love our masksthose elaborate covers of self-protection constructed daily in hopes of concealing our wounds, our doubts, and our brokenness. Thankfully, God calls us out, inviting us into His light, where all thingseven wounds, doubts, and brokennesswill be made new. In a culture hungry for authenticity, Weidmanns book is a profound exploration of biblical authenticity. Its an amplification of Gods glorious invitation to acknowledge who we really are, and so uncover more of who were being made to be.

M IKE Y ANKOSKI
Author of Under the Overpass

With a deeply pastoral heart, Weidmann dares you to be honest. Showing how honesty is at the heart of true growth, and digging into all the ways we seek to hide and cover, he casts a vision for true authenticity in the midst of grace.

K YLE S TROBEL , PhD
Author and Cofounder of Metamorpha

Drawing on Joshs own faith journey, Honest to God calls a new generation to crave transparency with God, face our own people-games, and address the fallout that can result. Identifying struggles such as image management, Josh helps the reader with practical how to steps. What I found most refreshing was his exploration of our times of anger with God. Young people who want a serious discussion have found it.

A NDREW J. S CHMUTZER , PhD
Professor of Biblical Studies, Moody Bible Institute and
author of The Long Journey Home: Understanding and
Ministering to the Sexually Abused

In his book Honest to God, Josh urges us to drop whatever masks we might be wearing and dare to be real with God. He models that kind of honesty by sharing of his own faults and shortcomings. As the apostle Paul said, If I must boast, I will boast of the things that show my weakness (2 Corinthians 11:30). Honest to God is a gospel-centered book that will speak not only to youth, but to anyone who is struggling with people-pleasing tendencies or hypocrisy. In other words, it speaks to all of us.

D AVID J ONES
Senior Pastor, Village Church of Barrington

Josh Weidmann offers the gift of freedom in Christ with a fresh perspective, written powerfully and woven with self-disclosing humor, from the precious heart of a pastor. In Honest to God, we are provided with the opportunity to exhale and breathe in the truth before us: Living honestly before God fulfills our own desire to choose life and live fully every day.

M AUREEN Y OCKEY
Executive Director, Alternatives Pregnancy Center

Josh Weidmann wants to live, and Jesus came to make us alive! Honest to God offers the first steps of authenticity on the way to the glorious kingdom where grace, truth, and love are the invitation to become sons and daughters of our Father.

W ES Y ODER
Author of Bond of Brothers: Connecting with Other Men
Beyond Work, Weather and Sports

Josh Weidmanns book Honest to God reveals a life-transforming truth, that when you are truly honest to God, it is IMPOSSIBLE to stay the same! God already knows it all, so why not lay it bare before Him? This book has caused me to re-evaluate my approach before God.

M IKE R OMBERGER
Senior Pastor, Mission Hills Church

Not only is Josh Weidmann a world-class evangelist, but also a passionate writer and a born storyteller who spurs his readers to greater depths of devotion and commitment to God. In Honest to God, he combines biblical, personal, and pastoral insight with a desperately needed message of transformation through honesty.

B ENIAMIN P ASCUT , PhD
Candidate, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge

Honest to God is a provocative pathway of practical equipping. It reveals the way to shed lifeless, non-intimate, inauthentic relationship with God and, instead, to embrace unshackled honesty, transformational freedom, and incredible joy!

D R . D WIGHT R OBERTSON
Founding president of Kingdom Building Ministries and
author of
You are Gods Plan A and There Is No Plan B