Jesus, doesn’t make any assumptions. In fact, what he does in Matthew 15 leads us to this next principle in facing the giants of life. Here Jesus makes it clear that bringing my life into alignment with His grace and the truth of His word defeats the giant of unworthiness...

As we continue our series “Real Life – facing off with the giants”, this weekend we face off with a giant that impacts millions of people of all ages each year. In 1 Kings Chapter 19. Here we are introduced to a man by the name of Elijah. Elijah faced many of the same emotional and physical giants we face in our life today. One of those giants is the Giant of Depression when he asks God to take his life...

This weekend, we are going to be dealing with the giant of guilt, and its close counterpart, shame. Both of these are realities for us today – we cannot escape them. Ever since sin entered, they have been here, but neither guilt nor shame are necessarily evil. In fact, both guilt and shame can be helpful or harmful, depending on how we use them...

This week we go back to the beginning, well almost the beginning, in Genesis Chapter 24 when a man named Abraham decides it is time for his son Isaac to know love. Through this account God shows us that while Romance is a loving feeling we all desire, it is an elusive giant unless we realize Love is an act of will, not just an emotion of the heart.

When grief comes or has come in your life, what do you? Do you face the giant alone? Do you try to just get through it, survive it? Do you allow yourself a time to grieve and then simply move on? As someone who has faced this giant for over 40 years, I want to give you everything I know to help you, when your times comes, to face off with the Giant of grief. -Dave Colbert

This week we face off with the giant of Friendship! How to build a friendship from the ground up. What should it look like. What is reasonable to expect. And how we can navigate the ups and downs.

The reality is that faith and trust in God are often increased through waiting appropriately, and waiting appropriately means not becoming impatient with God, but seeking to understand what He is doing in the midst of our waiting and joining Him in that....

Trying to hold onto hope can sometimes feel like battling a giant. We need something solid to hold on to! What can you hold on to when life's storms crash over you? The better question is, Whom can you hold on to? The writer to the Hebrews highlights the answer for us: Hebrews 6: 19 We have this hope as an anchor for the soul, firm and secure....

Most of our giants don't carry a sword or shield, but something more threatening.... He doesn't parade up and down the hills of Judah, he prances through your office, bedroom, classroom, the darkness of night. How long has your giant stalked you? What power has he been given over your day, your sense of peace, your ability to move forward? How do you face Him? And with what do you come against Him once and for all?

How do I stay the course? How do I continue to live in this New Normal without turning back, without falling short, without bringing along with me some of the choices and hang-ups that were part of my old way of living. Moses’ message – “Stay true to the end”.