• We have a little saying amongst the NHC staff: It’s the weekend, stupid. In other words, we put a LOT of effort into our weekends. The weekend is when we really get the chance to impact lives and help people encounter God. We worship, teach the Word and lead people to Jesus. And because we’re a simple church, we don’t do a lot of other things. So, when a weekend service hits on all the cylinders, we get excited. This weekend was one of those weekends.
• Worship was great today. I love doing communion and it was so appropriate for us to do it today. It fit right into what we were talking about in Pt. 2 of House of Blues.
• It was really awesome hearing the sound of ripping paper when we all ripped our forgiveness papers together! The sound of freedom!
• Saturday night was rockin’ and rollin’ this weekend. If you haven’t tried a Saturday night service, give it a shot. You get everything that would get on Sunday and then you can sleep in Sunday AM!
• The new service schedule seems to be working out well. Shifting to 6:00 on Saturday and 11:00 for the second Sunday service seems to have put us back on a more workable schedule. But, like many things around NHC, the new times aren’t written in stone. Don’t be surprised if we change it again!
• Spent some time doing advance work on our next two series. Our next series is going to be a 3-week series on prayer called, Vertical. Then that puts us into the Easter time frame. This year we’re kicking off a series on Easter for MEN! We’re calling it Ultimate Fighter and I’m really pumped! I think this is going to be one of the best series we’ve ever done.
• The M25 Food Drop is NEXT SATURDAY!! NHC, because of your generosity in the Christmas offering, we’re going to bless 400 families in our community with enough food and supplies for an entire month. WHAT AN ABSOLUTELY AWESOME THING GOD HAS ENABLED US TO DO!!
• Been a long day. Duke just won. I’m going to bed.
P.S. I'm going to follow up this weekend's message with some posts of forgiveness this week. I'll probably do some FAQ's because a message like this one always stirs up a lot of questions. Soooo, if you have a question about forgiveness feel free to post it in the comments section. Can't guarantee that I'll be able to answer every question, but I'll try to get to the biggies.
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