Highland Gospel Mission

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in Psalm 81 today, as well as a few other places in the new testament. Life is full of decisions. We can decide to do things that only satisfy ourselves, whether it be drinking, drugs, porn, binge watching our favorite shows, or just withdrawing from the world in general. And while some of these things aren’t neces...

Greetings everyone, and Merry Christmas to all of you. We will be in Luke 2 today. What have we made Christmas about? Food? Family? Gifts? With that comes the dread that everyone faces. The amount of money spent on those gifts, the amount of time spent on food preparation, the stress that goes into traveling here and there, and then after everything is done and over with, we're all exhausted,...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in John 13 today. What does it look like to serve? Jesus showed us what it looks like to serve selflessly by washing the disciple’s feet, and explains humility. Yet at the same time, we see Satan entering Judas to selfishly betray Jesus for money. Our capacity to serve and love one another should be just as Jesus l...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in Matthew 9 today. As Christians, where should our focus in the church be? A lot of believers are selfishly focused on what's going on within the four walls of the church, and are either turning a blind eye to or judging the world. Why are we attacking the lost for being lost? Why are we surprised, angry, or u...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be Romans 1 today. What does it mean to be faithful? For Christians, having faith doesn’t just mean believing. You could believe in a specific cause or movement, yet if you don’t care enough to invest in it, it won’t get anywhere. You can believe in God, yet if you don’t care enough to acknowledge Him as part of your...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in John 15 today. What does it mean to abide? It comes from the word “abode” which means home. To abide in Christ means that Christ is your home, that our default go-to is Christ. Jesus is our vine, and with God as the vinedresser, He expects us to produce fruit. Apart from Christ, we can’t do that. Make Christ the...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in Ephesians 4 today. Have you ever had to talk your legs into moving to walk, or move your body without having to go through a lot of effort to do so? Then congratulations, your body is working exactly as it should. Now of course there are diseases and illnesses that cause the body to not communicate with its part...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in Luke 18 today. How is your prayer life? Do you have one? Imagine having a relationship with someone, but never talking to them. That relationship typically doesn't go anywhere, and that's the same way with our relationship with God. If it doesn't seem like God is there when you need Him, perhaps try...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in Romans 5 today. For those of you who are Christians, what did you expect when you became a believer? All of the saints such as Peter, Stephen, Paul, and the early Church Martyrs suffered and died because of their faithfulness. They could have backed off when the persecution came and played it safe, but that woul...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in Luke 10 today. The Bible teaches us to love your neighbor as yourself. Yet most people carry false pretenses about specific groups of people, or come up with justifications to harbor specific feelings. The Pharisees were famous for doing this, and Jesus saw right through it. Our purpose in life isn’t supposed to...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in 1 Timothy 3 today. Highland adopts a Southern Baptist denomination, but this denomination isn’t without issues. There are some churches that hold traditions that go contrary to actual scriptural doctrine. One example are the qualifications of pastors and deacons. Some people have been divorced in the past, and o...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in 1 Corinthians 5 today. How much has the world desensitized you? As the world continues to get worse and worse, the Church is starting to become numb to sin going on within the Church. When you become a Christian, you are expected to struggle, but you are a new creation, and should not be the same person you used...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will continue in 1 Corinthians 10 again today. We know from last week’s passage that the Israelites made many mistakes, and if we’re honest, we have made the same mistakes. As Christians, we are still fully capable of doing evil, but what makes us different is that we have the ability to choose otherwise. That doesn’t mean...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in 1 Corinthians 10 today. Do you ever complain when you don’t get your way? I’m sure most of us have (I know I have). Maybe your paycheck wasn’t as big this week as you thought it would be, or maybe the coffee machine at the gas station was out. Or maybe half of your coworkers called out and you had to do extra wo...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in Genesis 32 today. Sometime after Jacob moved his family, he wrestled with a man that ended up being God. Many of us wrestle God every day, but for the wrong reason. When Jacob wrestled with God, he wanted to be blessed with what God promised him, rather than wrestling to have God leave him alone. Whether you wre...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in 2 Timothy 4 today. Can we all agree it’s been a rough week? Most of the country is grieving, the enemy is rejoicing, and a lot of people are lost and don’t know what to do next. If you are seeking vengeance, just know that Charlie Kirk is now a Martyr, and God will avenge the evil that has come upon us. Any one...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in Acts 8 today. How many of you have been baptized? Many were " baptized” as a baby by sprinkling, but that doesn't do anything to save your soul. If our goal is to just baptize people, then all we're doing is giving everyone a bath without cleaning their spirit. Baptism doesn't save you, but what...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in 1 Peter 3 today. If you are a believer in Christ, is it ok to intentionally sin? Afterall, Christ’s sacrifice covers all sins. NO!!! Even though we are still saved regardless, choosing to sin still affects those around us. When we come to be believers in Christ, our lives should transform, and our actions are su...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in 1 Peter 1 today. Who likes to suffer? If you’re a normal human, nobody likes to suffer. But as a Christian, if you are being faithful, suffering is pretty much a guarantee. All too often, we avoid suffering, but when we play it safe, others miss the opportunity to hear the Gospel. We aren’t supposed to be comfor...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in Ephesians 5 today. What is it that God wants you to do with your life? The answer will be different for everyone. But our actions should have purpose to the extent that others will know who Jesus is. If we keep to ourselves in the dark, the world will stay asleep and be in the dark. This world is in desperate ne...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in Matthew 24 today. Have you noticed just how much the world has changed in just the past 50 years? Morals have shifted, major weather events have increased, wars are starting to pick up, just as Jesus told us. We are living in the end times, and things are going to get much more difficult for the Church. The pres...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in 1 Corinthians 4 today. What does it mean to be a steward? If you’ve ever had a manager or been a manager, you would know they basically fit the definition. They are responsible for making sure things run properly, but more importantly, they are responsible for the people that look up to them. As Christians, we a...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in Philippians 3 today. What are you capable of or qualified for? Maybe you’re a great speaker, savvy with money, or great with your hands. Now take those things that you are great at, and throw them out the door. God wants to fill us with qualifications even greater than we could ever achieve on our own. Trying to...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in 1 John 1 today. Have you ever lost your way? Have you ever made a mistake and committed a sin that you swore you would never do again? You're not alone. We all struggle with sin to some degree, but the difference between genuine Christianity and self righteousness is that genuine Christianity is made righteo...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in 1 Kings 19 today. Elijah had just destroyed the prophets of Baal, yet when he received a threat from Jezebel, he got scared and hid in a cave. God boldens us, but we are still human and will have those moments of fear. It's in those moments that God often whispers to us in the most unexpected ways, rather th...