Highland Church Podcast

Sunday Morning Message- May 16, 2021 We believe when we give to support missionaries and ministries in Memphis and around the world, we will give life to someone who needs it. The full life found in Christ. So, we’re now calling our Outreach Contribution our Life Giving Sunday. Our goal—needed to support the life-giving ministries of HopeWorks, Agape, missionaries in 4 countries, and more—is $160,...

May 9, 2021- Sunday Morning Sermon Our lesson, for Mothers Day, comes from Mark 7:24-30. Jesus is having a little conversation with this mom about a really big topic at a really big moment in history. So something happens in this little conversation with this mom, that signals to Jesus the time is now to move between God’s promise to one people and God’s plan for all people. There’s something abou...

Sunday Sermon- May 2, 2021 (Mark 6:45-52) We can learn a lot from this passage in Mark where the disciples are struggling at sea. No one likes a hardship. No one wants to be out on the chaotic waters, getting pushed backwards. Everyone of us would choose in the moment, for God to pluck us out of there. Or at least part the water, and let us walk through on dry ground. But no matter how hard it is,...

Sunday Sermon April 25, 2021. Eric is joined by Highland Youth Ministers to share an encouraging word to our graduating seniors and our church as a whole. The world tells Christians, especially young Christians, that if you want to avoid being hungry, you better pack your own lunch, or you’ll have to leave and go find some somewhere else. That there will come a point at which Jesus will no longer...

April 18, 2021 Sunday Sermon (Mark 6:6-13) We all are ambassadors for Christ. But we haven’t mastered this thing yet… right? Right! But I mean, doesn’t God want us to keep learning, keep growing? Yes? Before he sends me out? No. The myth—that we so often buy as Christians—is that once we master this faith thing, then we’ll be ready to go out on behalf of it. But the example—from the most faithful...

Sunday Sermon April 11, 2021 Mark 6:1-6 There’s no place like home. Except—for Jesus—it doesn’t go that way. He is not received when he comes home, he is rejected. He didn’t expect it. He thought he was coming home… to his home. To his people. There’s a saying that familiarity breeds contempt. And that seems to be what’s going on here in Nazareth. But you don’t have to hate Jesus to ignore him. To...

Sermon from Easter Sunday, April 4, 2021 There are a lot of impossibilities in our world but there is one that stands out and always has—people don’t live after they die. Resurrection makes for a nice legend, a good movie, but resurrection is not really possible. It was impossible that death could be beat. Death had the power. But God steals it away in Jesus Christ. Or rather proves death never ha...

We need an anchor, a hope on which to tether our whole lives, our souls, that is actually firm and secure. And that’s where we have the word I want to share with you today. It’s a word that’s only used in the New Testament in the context of the cross of Jesus. Nowhere else. Its one word in Greek, but in English it takes three to translate. The word is translated: “once for all”. Something happened...

March 21, 2021 Sunday Morning Sermon Our passage today comes from Mark 5:21-43. There are many stories in the Bible about men. But this passage is very specific to women. And to the women, the message is simple. You are the precious daughter of Christ. He sees you. He sees what is unique to you. And, Ladies, he is able to heal it.

March 14, 2021 Sunday Morning Sermon Todays passage is from Mark 5:1-20. These stories describe with perhaps more realism than any others, what a life apart from Christ is really like—and why we so desperately need Jesus—even as modern people. Musicbed SyncID: MB01VO6RT5H0CIQ

Sunday Sermon March 7, 2021 Fear is the giving of our attention to what we feel is most real. If this is true, then our attention ought to be directed to the one who is most real. Jesus.

Sunday Sermon February 28, 2021 2020 was a challenging year, with all kinds of changing variables. There is an impulse to suspect those challenges mean something has changed about God. But this parable is first of all a reminder that whatever happens in life the sower is going to do what the sower has always done, scatter seed. The sower is not deficient in this story. He’s a constant. You know wh...

Sunday Sermon- February 21, 2021 With a snow filled week in Memphis, and power outages and water shortages in Texas, Eric is taking a break from our study in Mark to look at a passage from Romans. Is it possible to grow in faith and hope during hard times when it is so difficult to see God working? Today we look at a passage that helps us get through these hard times.

February 14, 2021- Sunday Sermon Today’s passage has got to be one of the hardest passages in scripture about what it means to be a family—both a nuclear family, and more importantly what it means to be a spiritual family. In fact, by disrupting what we often assume about the smaller family, Jesus actually defines what the purpose of a spiritual family is. And at the same time—he defines the place...

Sunday Morning Sermon- February 7,2021 Mark 3:29 says “But whoever insults the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven. That person is guilty of a sin with consequences that last forever.” This is troubling isn’t it? That there is something spiritual, something about Jesus, that I cannot afford to get wrong. That I cannot mess up. Because the consequences are irreversible and eternal (“forever”). If th...

Sunday Sermon, January 31, 2021 Jesus is pulling back a curtain in this short scene. Behind it, the truth of human condition is laid bare. Our great danger, bondage even, and our great need comes into clear focus. The good news is that God has broken into our world in Jesus Christ. That not only does Jesus pull back the curtain and show us the puppet master- Satan. He ties him up, and steals what...

If there has ever been a group of undeserving guys, it’s the twelve Jesus calls to him in Mark 3. When I say these are guys are undeserving, I mean unremarkable. Which is not to say they don’t go on to do some remarkable things… But to be called by Jesus? Set aside. Given world-changing jobs. Special…to Jesus, at this point?!. They hardly deserved that. These guys are largely unremarkable. Certain...

Sunday Morning Sermon_ January 17, 2021 We study Mark 3:7-12 and what it means for us today. Eric challenges us, in this politically charged moment, to cling to the cross of Jesus. No matter what happens this week in our nation, as followers of Jesus, we are called to love those who might think differently than we do and even love those who we would consider our enemies. Cling to the cross this we...

January 10, 2021- In todays lesson, Eric shares from Deuteronomy 30 and how it applies to us in these difficult times. He talks about the similarities between these times and when the Israelites were about to enter the promised land in Deuteronomy. He gives us three ways that we can "Choose Life" in 2021.

Sunday Morning Sermon_ December 13, 2020 A lesson from Mark 2:23-3:6. Jesus gets confronted about the Sabbath, but he is really getting confronted on the importance of Scripture. Eric compares Scripture to a house we live in. Jesus believes in this house. Everyone has to have a home to live in. A worldview. Jesus believes the biblical worldview is the only one that can stand up, especially when th...

Jesus is giving our lives context and purpose. That our whole lives are taking place in the context of a wedding celebration, a party. That Jesus—the groom—is being united to his bride, the church, his people. And therefore our purpose is to celebrate, to party. Immauel. God is with us. That should make us want to party.

November 29, 2020- Sunday Morning Sermon The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ is an unplanned pregnancy. It's not just unplanned, its what we might call a crisis pregnancy. Have you ever considered that the good news—the greatest news this world has ever heard—begins with an unplanned crisis pregnancy, with all of its shame and rejection, and two beleaguered parents who did the hardest t...

The beginning of the good news of Jesus Christ is an unplanned pregnancy. It's not just unplanned, its what we might call a crisis pregnancy. Have you ever considered that the good news—the greatest news this world has ever heard—begins with an unplanned crisis pregnancy, with all of its shame and rejection, and two beleaguered parents who did the hardest thing of their lives? The thing they never...

November 22, 2020- Today we want to provide viewers with a vision of a grateful life. Doing so, understanding how grace deepens are sense of gratitude. What happens when the eyes of our hearts are opens and we begin to take notice of the present reality of God around us?

Sunday Morning Sermon- November 15, 2020 Today is so important. What we do, by giving to our Life-Giving Outreach Contribution today, will last. We are giving of ourselves, we are being selfless, because we believe not only are we eternal people, but that every person outside these walls is an eternal person. Wether the young man struggling to get his life right who ends up at Timothy Hill. Or the...