Highland Christian Church

The Good News brings great joy. The Good News is revealed in the three titles that the angels use: Savior (a deliverer), Messiah (God’s promised), Lord (all power and authority). This joy is an announcement NOT a set of rules. This joy is a declaration NOT to do list. ( SEE GALATIANS 4:4-5 ) The Good News is people being brought to life because God made His way to us, not that we made our way to G...

The incarnation reveals two things: 1) because of the incarnation, we are also whole. Fully God & fully man to bring us back to God. We are complete. 2) The real hope in a believer is not that “things will get better.” The Christian’s hope is that “Our God Reigns.” Colossians 2:8-10 – “Don’t let anyone capture you with empty philosophies and high-sounding nonsense that come from human thinking...

The incarnation is at the center of God’s pursuit of people. When we consider the whole of Scripture, the lengths that God went to be among His people, we respond in worship. God’s faithfulness fuels our worship (NOT VICE VERSA). 1 Timothy 3:16 – “Without question, this is the great mystery of our faith: Christ was revealed in a human body…”

Like everything else a Christ-follower “does,” thanksgiving is a response. It is a response to who God is and what God has done. Every element of the Christian life is one of response. We are not thankful to earn something FROM God. We are thankful BECAUSE we have grasped what God has already done!

Like everything else a Christ-follower “does,” thanksgiving is a response. It is a response to who God is and what God has done. Every element of the Christian life is one of response. We are not thankful to earn something FROM God. We are thankful BECAUSE we have grasped what God has already done!

Like everything else a Christ-follower “does,” thanksgiving is a response. It is a response to who God is and what God has done. Every element of the Christian life is one of response. We are not thankful to earn something FROM God. We are thankful BECAUSE we have grasped what God has already done!

Peter’s life is a picture of a lifetime of Gospel growth. Strength & weakness, sinner & saint, courage & cowardice. The moment on the beach where Jesus “restores” Peter is a moment marked in time for Peter, but becomes a reassuring moment for us… no how matter “strong” we think we are or how “fallen” we think we are… Jesus meets us. Jesus not only allows Peter to say words (“I love you...

Just outside the Garden Tomb area (one of the possible burial tombs of Jesus’ body), stands the possible location of Golgotha. They now suspect that the location of where the crosses stood is actually a bus station. Whether it’s humorous or ironic, the cross, by its very nature moves people out. They either hit the bus RUNNING FROM the cross, or they hit the bus SENT from the cross. Either way, pe...

While walking the road that Jesus took as He headed outside the city walls, toward Golgotha (Place of the Skull), we came upon an Inn that people can stay at – Literally called “The Guest House.” Also, across from the Guest House was a route that would allow you to leave the Via Dolorosa. So much imagery came to mind considering these visuals. When you are someone’s guest, you stay with them. You...

The Mount of Olives is directly across from the Old City of Jerusalem, separated by a short walk through the Kidron Valley (a famous landscape in Israel’s history), that is now marked by thousands of graves. Even as you walk up toward the wall to the city now, it is marked by hundreds of Muslim graves. The scene in the Garden of Gethsemane is one that many believe – is where Jesus won the victory...

This fountain was controlled by a small church in Bethlehem and was not running but sits dry. It was turned off because of the churches fear that people wouldn’t come into the church and give offerings. If they allowed people to see the water outside, they might not come inside. When we forget that Jesus said fountains will flow FROM HIS PEOPLE – we miss the power of being the church. We don’t jus...

In an upper room, at Passover, in Jerusalem – Jesus gave the disciples the key to seeing the Gospel reach to every corner of the world. He defined for them a love that is not of this world. The disciples were to get really good at loving each other (AS JESUS LOVED THEM – life laid down), and obedience to this command. BUT – Jesus also defined this love, “AS I HAVE LOVED YOU.” Jesus isn’t giving us...

So much about Jerusalem has to do with location worship: “We must worship here or there. We go to ___________ to worship, you go to ___________.” So much of the fighting is about a location. A location to “prove my loyalty” or a location to “display my devotion.” Jesus promised that I time was coming when that wasn’t going to be the case. Location worship would come to an end. God was going to mak...

Boats were not common in Galilee because much of the wood needed to make fishermen’s boats was imported wood. It would have been expensive. Peter and his family lived in Capernaum and what we know about him is that he could have been a wealthy man, based on his fishing company. Based on Peter’s personality through the Gospels, we see a leader, we see a high-impact “get it done” kind of man, but it...

Qumran is in the Judean Wilderness. It is hot. It is dry. There is nothing that communicates – “Hey, I want to be here!” It’s not the place most of us would choose to be. YET, it is in this location that a shepherd boy was throwing rocks and happened to unearth vases full of scrolls that had been hidden away by groups entrusted to hand down the Scriptures to the next generation. It was in the dese...

Standing at the entrance to the supposed birthplace of Jesus, being herded down into a concrete funnel – only one entrance in – to see this place preserved by a church, so many were coming as tourists. “I’ll take a look from the outside in.” “I’ll go visit, but I’m not FROM here.” “I do as they do there, but when I get home, back to normal.” Many are more than willing to VISIT the things of Jesus,...

Isolated - What grows when we are alone? A series that looks at the traits that develop when we go it alone and avoid community.

Isolated - What grows when we are alone? A series that looks at the traits that develop when we go it alone and avoid community.

Isolated - What grows when we are alone? A series that looks at the traits that develop when we go it alone and avoid community.

Isolated - What grows when we are alone? A series that looks at the traits that develop when we go it alone and avoid community.

Man of Action (The Gospel of Mark)

Man of Action (The Gospel of Mark)

Man of Action (The Gospel of Mark)

Man of Action (The Gospel of Mark)

Man of Action (The Gospel of Mark)