Sunday, February 4, 2007 - Facing Your Giants

In what will probably go down as one of the best Sundays of 2007, we had an incredible day! Today is Super Bowl Sunday, and while there wasn't a huge interest in the Super Bowl party because the Pats weren't in (last time we do a SB Party as a church without the Pats being involved), the day was wildly successful.

We were in the 2nd week of Heroes - how ordinary people can live extraordinary lives. The music set the stage and was incredible - we learned the song With You from the movie Facing the Giants. It was a perfect compliment to the day, as we looked at Acts 3 and the hero (the lame man) who defeated the disease that had crippled him since birth, and we related that to how we need to face and defeat the giants in our lives that would try to destroy us. I said a giant was:

• A physical weakness/illness that continually beats you down
• A deep emotional wound from a relationship that still hasn’t healed
• Physical or emotional abuse or neglect that still hurts
• A spiritual battle you lost or in which you failed
• A sexual sin like pornography that pops up at your weak moments
• Substance abuse
• A financial setback like bankruptcy or a bad choice that haunts you, making you doubt every time you want to move forward
• A limitation that you believe you can never get past, a problem you can’t solve

If you did not listen to this message, you owe it to yourself to order it (contact Rod or Pastor through our church website's staff page at www.thejourneynh.com).

But the most incredible part of the day were the three guys who invited Jesus Christ into their lives at the end of the service - Rick, Jason, and Matt. I am excited to see what happens in these men's lives. And we had 150 in attendance...

After the service, in the afternoon we showed the movie Facing the Giants (with site-permission of course) and had about 60 people attend. It was great and very much an exclamation point to the morning message...