HALLELUJAH! WEEK 5 THE HARD-FOUGHT HALLELUJAH

About this episode

Pastor Ethan discusses the inspirational story of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team and its coach, Herb Brooks, drawing parallels to the theme of underdog victories.

This past week, with the Olympics just behind us, Pastor Ethan brought up one of the greatest sports movies in history: Miracle, about the true story of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team and their player-turned-coach, Herb Brooks, who led them to victory over the seemingly invincible Soviet squad. That truly is one of the best. I think that victory spawned the idea to make another pretty good hockey movie, The Mighty Ducks. Again, great movie about the underdog achieving the seemingly impossi...

Topics covered

• sports
• Olympics
• hockey
• underdog stories

Keywords

• Miracle
• The Mighty Ducks
• Herb Brooks
• Soviet squad

Mentioned in this episode

Products: Miracle, The Mighty Ducks

Books & works: Miracle, The Mighty Ducks

Places: U.S.

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