It's Monday and the holy hangover is kicking in full force. But I wanted to download some of my thoughts from the weekend, so here goes...
• Attendance was way up, especially in the first service. Guess everybody was tired of being cooped up last week with the snow and ice.
• Jon and the band did an awesome job of leading a great worship set. I have to admit, I love our band and I love Jon's heart and what his leadership is doing with our worship. We're connecting with God in worship more and more every week and it's creating an environment in which God is moving in some incredible ways. Love it!
• Leah introduced us to the family we'll be helping through our next Habitat for Humanity project. It was not only exciting to meet this single mom and her kids but it also put a face on this project for us. And I was glad to hear that so many of you signed up to help build this family a brand new home. Once more, so many of you seem to be grasping what it means to BE the church and not just COME to church.
• We kicked off our new series - God Is Great, God Is Good, a series based on the book of Habakkuk. Here are a few bullet points from the message:
- Sooner or later we all face the big question: Is God really great and good? Let's be honest; sometimes what we see with our eyes doesn't match up with what we have believed in our heart.
- That leads to a crisis of faith where we start to doubt what we've believed - that God is great and good.
– What we have to learn is that God sometimes answers our prayers and plays out his plan for our lives in ways that we don't expect...in ways that sometimes don't make sense to us.
- Why? Because he's God and we aren't. He sees things we can't see and knows things we don't know.
– That means I have to learn to trust God when I can't see all the details. It also means I never judge God's greatness or goodness by my faulty view of this world or my circumstances. If I really want to judge God's greatness and goodness there's only one place to look - to the cross!
– We ended the day with one of my favorite hymns, It Is Well With My Soul. It's such a classic hymn, but when you understand the story behind it, it just takes the song to whole 'nutha level.
- Lots of emotion in the room in both services, myself included. Great day. God showed up. He spoke. He moved in our hearts. And once again, people got saved. It doesn't get much better than that! I'm ready for Part Two!
If you missed yesterday be sure to check out the message here.
Was so great to be back, even though it was only a week, it felt much longer ! Great message, really spoke to me. I want you to know that I will never get tired of hearing about your daughter and how God is working to heal you and through you with that devastating life change.
Posted by: Laura Lindsey | February 09, 2010 at 05:47 AM