Cornerstone Community Church, San Jose Ca

One of the oddest phenomena in sports is the slump. The word "slump" is usually used with baseball players, and it happens to even the best hitters. One month Buster Posey is hitting the ball all over the park, and then for no reason at all he can't seem to hit the ball out of the infield. The same batter who is leading the league in home runs suddenly couldn't get a hit if he was playing slow pitch, church league softball. And the harder the batter tries to get out of his slump, the more he thinks about it and the more effort he puts into it, the worse the slump gets. Have you ever gone through a slump? Maybe it was at work, where it just seemed that everything you did turned out wrong, no matter how hard you worked, how well-intentioned you were. Maybe it was an emotional slump, where you just seemed emotionally and psychologically stuck, where all the life and energy and joy was drained out of you and you didn't know how to get it back. Or maybe it was a relational slump. Maybe it was ev