Josh Young

Another whirlwind weekend has come and gone at ACC.

APEX was Saturday night. The theme was Facing Your Giants, based on the Max Lucado book of the same name. We used the story of David and Goliath to show that we should sprint into battle with our giants, whatever they might be.

One of the elements we used was an illustration of just how tall Goliath was. We have these new pillars that spell out the letters of APEX in big, glowing, red letters, and they’re about 8 feet tall each. With a little more height on top of that, Mike placed a wax sculpture of his head on top of it (interesting story - listen to the message to hear about it) to show just how tall Goliath really was. And then we had one of the kids from ACC who was about David’s age come up and stand next to it to show the contrast. Dang, he was tall! I’ve never really visualized it like that, but that was a serious dude to go into battle against.

Thankfully we got an extra hour of sleep that night.

Sunday, we started our new series called LIE$. Lie No. 1 was “The Church Only Wants My Money.” Mike did an amazing job with a message that most ministers struggle with. Money is such a “hot topic” in the church, and he did an excellent job of handling the subject in a biblical way. I’m really looking forward to the rest of the series. Like Mike, I think God is going to blow our minds through this series.