Highland Gospel Mission

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in Revelation 2 today. The message to the church in Ephesus was a dire warning, and we know today that the church no longer exists. Roughly 4,000 churches close each year in the US alone, with only 3,800 being planted. The reason is that churches are losing their focus. When we make church about everything except J...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in Revelation 1 today. Are you ready for Jesus’ return? The enemy has been feeding us lies and has influenced the world to pressure us into turning away from God. John’s vision warns us about that. Jesus is coming back, and while we don’t know when, it could be very soon based on what’s going on in the world these...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in Psalm 23 today. This psalm is one of the most well known psalms written by David, and also happens to be the theme of our VBS this year. Why do sheep need a shepherd? Because they tend to make mistakes, wander off, and get eaten. Without the good shepherd, Jesus, we are lost. Like sheep, we are in constant need...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in Ephesians 1 and 2 today. Chapter 1 talks about everything that Jesus did for us, which brings us to what we are supposed to do now. In Christ, we are dead to our past. So why do we live like we are still trapped? God loved us so much to send Jesus to cover those transgressions. We have been saved by grace throug...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in John 14 today following a quick message for the kids (main sermon starts at 6:00). Most people would mention God, or at least some version of a “god” to them. Christians talk about Jesus all the time. But the Holy Spirit is incredibly misunderstood, yet equally if not more important than the other two. At the po...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in 1 Peter 3 today. Who all is ready to suffer? Our human instincts tend to avoid suffering. But when we avoid suffering, we are being selfish. By staying comfortable, we avoid things that benefit the kingdom, such as helping out someone financially, giving up a Sunday to lead a Bible study, or sharing the Gospel w...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in Mark 7 today. How many of us follow traditions? I would say most of us do in some capacity. Our church has a set structure of worship. 2 songs, announcements, greeting, more songs, preaching, and dismissal. We do things a certain way not because it’s in the Bible, but because it simplifies things. But when we ta...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in Matthew 24 today. Have you turned on the news lately? How about the headlines in your Instagram or Tiktok feeds? While we don’t know exactly when Jesus is coming back, the things He talked about in Matthew 24 have either already come to pass, or are about to. This is the time to pay attention, and make a decisio...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in Luke 13 today. If everything in your life is going great, should we be ok with that? The safest place to be in the middle of a huge hurricane is in the eye. But outside of that is total destruction and chaos. God hasn’t called us just to be safe and content for our entire lives. If we’re doing ok, someone else i...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in Hebrews 10 today. When you become a Christian, is it ok to keep sinning because Jesus’ blood covered them? Of course not. When we enter into a relationship with Him, the Holy Spirit should drive out our evil conscience. Being a Christian doesn’t mean living the same life you did before you were saved, but having...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in John 10 today. Have you ever been called a sheep for blindly following something or someone? The truth is, we are all sheep. The difference comes down to who our shepherd is. Some follow the lies of the world, run by the enemy that only wants to steal, kill, and destroy. And that enemy isn’t physical, it’s a spi...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in 1 Peter 2 today. Who are we living for? Jesus died for our sins, and we have grace right? That doesn’t give us a license to sin and live for ourselves. The world is frustrating, and full of temptations. It’s easy to only focus on our own circumstances and keep our heads down. But that’s not a relationship. If Je...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. Happy Resurrection Day. We will be in John 8 today. What Jesus did for us on the cross gave us freedom. But I don’t think many of us realize just what that means. We aren’t free TO sin, we are free FROM sin. While none of us will be perfect in this life, nothing that we will do will cause us to stop sinning. Only the power of...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. This week’s message was a little different as it was mostly for the kids, but it still applies to everyone. Every year, we use a dozen Easter eggs that each contain a small item used to explain the story of Jesus’ death, burial, and resurrection. While the story itself is simplified for children to understand, it’s a powerful...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in Ephesians 1 today, which is one of the many letters that this greeting comes from each week. Paul gave this blessing to anyone who reads this, but where does this peace come from? There’s so much going on right now between wars, economic uncertainty, and personal circumstances that makes peace appear to be impos...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in 1 Peter 4 today. Are there people in your life that are unloveable? Maybe that one coworker that gets under your skin, some random guy that cuts you off in traffic, or the older gentleman taking forever in the ATM line. How we treat these people is important for them to receive Christ. Yes, these encounters will...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in 1 Corinthians 11 today. Scripture has given the church 2 ordinations. The first is baptism, which we carry out a few times per year. The second one is the Lord’s Supper AKA communion. When we take communion, as scripture says, we do this to remember Him, to remember what He did and what He went through on our be...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in 1 Corinthians 12 today. A lot of us have worked at a job that has given us special privileges and access to things that are to be used at work, but you wouldn’t be allowed to use them for personal gain. That’s how spiritual gifts work. Each of us has been given one or more gifts, and the expectation is that we u...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in 2 Corinthians 12 today. How often do you brag about your accomplishments? It’s human nature to pat ourselves on the back for even the smallest things. But if we are relying on this strength alone, we won’t get far. Paul boasted in his weakness, because he relied on Christ for strength. If we are going to brag, i...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in James 3 today. Just how dangerous is your tongue? If you’ve ever said something in front of a group of people, and they get upset, can you un-say it? And what then if things escalate to physical violence? All because of something you said. The tongue can sing praises to God, pray over people, and deliver words o...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in Matthew 18 today. None of us are perfect. Everyday, we matrix dodge temptations, and we will struggle, stumble, and fall down sometimes. But when our actions end up causing others to stumble or struggle, watch out. God uses us through our daily lives to accomplish His will, and we have the power to save souls, o...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in Hebrews 11 and 12 today. The people we read about in the Bible share their stories of their faith, and how God's promises were fulfilled in their lives. But their lives weren't perfect, and neither are ours. We all have one thing in common and that's sin. God doesn't want us to repent for the pur...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in Matthew 11 today. If you are a believer in Christ, you are going to go through hell on earth. But that doesn’t mean you should live like hell. Every time you encounter a situation that tests your faith, patience, or just makes you angry, you will likely be tempted to respond negatively. How did Jesus react? He t...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in Philippians 3 this morning. How far have your accomplishments gotten you in life? I myself have singlehandedly produced a podcast, run most of the technical stuff for our church, and from a vocational perspective, can professionally operate just about any vehicle safely. But these accomplishments and skills are...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in Philippians 2 this morning. Every day when you wake up, who is the first person on your mind? If you're like most people, it's yourself. Wake up, probably use the bathroom, shower, breakfast, leave for work, put in 8 hours, clock out and go home, and then more time for yourself right? How much time in th...