Super Bowl Sunday

This weekend is Super Bowl Sunday - now a national sports holiday.  The ticket cost for the first Super Bowl?  Six dollars.  The cost for a ticket for this Super Bowl - priceless.  The official cost of a 30 second commercial is $4 million.  The players on the winning team will receive $92,000, on the losing team players receive a measly $46,000.

Everything about the Super Bowl is big.  There is good and bad in the bigness.  The bad is that this event is perhaps the cause of the largest sex trafficking effort in the country.  I'm not blaming New York, the Super host city is always that way.  FBI statistics tell us that the average age of a girl to get caught up in sex trafficking is 12-14 after she enters this world, her life expectancy is seven years.  There are 1.5 million victims of human trafficking in the U. S. generating for those who use and abuse them $87  million a day.

There is a dark side we need to pray about on Super Bowl Sunday but there is also an opportunity for light to shine in the center of all this attention.  It is a great platform for players and others to share their faith.  Some coaches and players of the Seattle Seahawks  have prepared a video to share their faith in Christ and what it means to them.  You can watch it by going to this link:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC1iD8yzndM
It is fifteen minutes long but worth the time or you can show up for the Youth Super Bowl party Sunday night at 5:30pm in the Student Center where it will be shown at half time.

There will (hopefully) be many feats of great athletes on Super Bowl Sunday but this Sunday morning I want to share with you the story of the greatest athletic effort I think that I have ever seen.  It did not happen at the Super Bowl, obviously I can't afford that, it happened at a Junior High track meet not far from Victoria and it came from the most unlikely person. I hope you will come Sunday.  I pray it will be super and I promise it will not cost you a dime.

for the journey...

Tim