Highland Gospel Mission

Greetings, and may grace, mercy, and peace be multiplied to you. We will be in Luke 19 today. Zaccheus was a wee little man, but was willing to go to great lengths to see Jesus. He knew he had to change his life after defrauding people, but it took a sycamore tree to get him noticed. There are people in this world that are in desperate need of Jesus, but don’t know where to begin, or how to see Je...

Greetings, and may grace, mercy, and peace be multiplied to you. We will be in Philippians 4 today. When things are going tough, it’s easy to get discouraged. As a matter of fact, this is the normal human response. Paul faced very difficult circumstances, many of which we will never go through, but his positive reaction was what made all the difference. As Christians, we should have a positive att...

Merry Christmas everyone, and may grace, mercy, and peace be multiplied to you. We will be in John 2 this week. What do we make Christmas about? For many of us, we make it about giving gifts, making sure the right lights are up, getting the Christmas tree just perfect, making meal plans, and spending time with family we hardly ever see. There's nothing necessarily wrong with that, but if we ma...

Merry Christmas everyone, and may grace, mercy, and peace be multiplied to you. Last week, we talked about John the Baptist, the forerunner of Christ. This week, Doug will be preaching from Luke 1, which gives us the backstory of John’s parents and the role God had for them. These incredible stories were told to share the amazing things God did to prepare the way for Christ. Regardless of how thes...

Greetings everyone, and may grace, mercy, and peace be multiplied to you. We will be in several new testament passages today. John the Baptist was an interesting man to say the least. In humility, he ate locusts and wild honey in the wilderness, yet he was called to be the one to prepare the way for Christ. He lived this way to avoid any distractions and stay focused on the mission that he was cal...

Greetings everyone, and may grace, mercy, and peace be multiplied to you. We will continue in Hebrews 13 today. A common question is why does God want us here? Are we just supposed to follow the law for the sake of righteousness? No, because that doesn't benefit anyone. Following the law doesn't bring about suffering, sharing the Gospel does, and we were called to suffer. Staying righteous...

Greetings everyone, and may grace, mercy, and peace be multiplied to you. We will be Hebrews 13 today. Repentance is a difficult subject to talk about, but it's a fundamental part of Christianity. Paul (or whoever the author of Hebrews is) outlines several key things that we should be doing. It's not about seeking self righteousness, but about being like Christ. We are part of the body of...

Greetings everyone, and may grace, mercy, and peace be multiplied to you. We will be in several passages of scripture this morning, centered around a theme of faith. Jesus said that the faith the size of a mustard seed can move a mountain. When we place our trust in Jesus, our faith can start off that size. But our faith isn’t supposed to stay that size. A mustard seed grows into an enormous tree...

Greetings everyone, and may grace, mercy, and peace be multiplied to you. We will be in 1 Corinthians 3 and Matthew 7 today. When you think of Jesus as a man, you might remember that he was a carpenter. But why? Because his earthly dad (Joseph) was a carpenter? Well when you think about it, our Heavenly father was a carpenter, and a master builder of all creation. Jesus became the chief cornerston...

Greetings everyone, and may grace, mercy, and peace be multiplied to you. We will be in Mark 9 today. This episode has a short message specifically for the kids, with the main message for the adults. Our children are a vital part of God’s kingdom, and Jesus has a special message and warning about children. Sometimes, kids are hard to love. They’re messy, at times annoying, immature, and  they brea...

Greetings everyone, and may grace, mercy, and peace be multiplied to you. We will be in Isaiah 59 today. We have been separated from God through our sin under the influence of the demons that we discussed in this series. Even though God has provided a path of salvation through Jesus, we are still expected to be repentant, and that doesn't mean it's going to be a comfortable life. If life i...

Greetings everyone, and may grace, mercy, and peace be multiplied to you. We will be in Genesis 2 and 3 today. It was in the garden of Eden that God placed man, and it was in that same garden that Satan tried to separate us from God. And for a while, he succeeded. Satan may win many battles, but he's lost the war, as God provided a way to be reunited with man, and that was accomplished through...

Greetings everyone, and may grace, mercy, and peace be multiplied to you. We will be in Matthew 12 today. Jesus spoke about several issues with the pharisees, but it all stems from the evil spirits that influence us on a daily basis. The words we say, and the things we do, has everything to do with the demons that we fight. If we're motivated by our selfish interests, then we're just letti...

Greetings everyone, and may grace, mercy, and peace be multiplied to you. We will be in Daniel 3 today. This particular story isn’t about a particular demon that has a name, but about the gods that King Nebuchadnezzar served. They represent the selfish pride of the human heart, and the challenges that we face on a daily basis. Shadrach, Meschach, and Abed-nego (aka, Rack, Shack, and Benny) faced a...

Greetings everyone, and may grace, mercy, and peace be multiplied to you. We will be in Jeremiah 7 today. Baal was the top god over the other gods, and in Greek, he's the same as Zeus. Translated, his name means lord, which means he's an impostor because only Jesus is Lord. He represents all the things that God doesn't want us to do. God is very jealous, and despises Christians that fo...

Greetings everyone, and may grace, mercy, and peace be multiplied to you. We will be taking a short break from our spiritual warfare series, and will be in Hebrews 13 today. Homecoming is an interesting time. Even though we are celebrating 125 years of highland being established as a church, this is not our home. God may have called many to serve here at highland, but our focus should be on the ki...

Greetings everyone, and may grace, mercy, and peace be multiplied to you. We will be in several old testament passages today discussing the demon Asherah. Historically, she is the goddess of fertility, but in reality, she is a demon of sexual promiscuity and immorality. We all get these thoughts and temptations, and this isn't exclusive to sexual struggles, but applies to all sins. The questio...

Greetings everyone, and may grace, mercy, and peace be multiplied to you. We will be in Galatians 5 today. This week, we will be discussing the demon Legion, which means not just 1 demon but many. He comes in many forms including drug addiction, porn, alcohol, and many other things that get into the way of our relationship with God. Our only hope against these demons is the freedom we have in Jesu...

Greetings everyone, and may grace, mercy, and peace be multiplied to you. We will be in 1 John 5 today. This week, we will be discussing the demon Molech, the demon of child sacrifice. You may not think that is a problem in today’s society, but it is very much so prevalent in the form of abortion. Our job as Christians isn't to try to stop those demons by force, but by healing and preventing t...

Greetings everyone, and may grace, mercy, and peace be multiplied to you. We will be in Ephesians 6 and 2 Corinthians 10 today. This is part 1 of a sermon series on spiritual warfare, and we will be discussing the demons that we are at war with. To engage in battle, we first must have the holy spirit, and if you haven’t received Jesus, today is the day of salvation. We must put on the full armor o...

Greetings everyone, and may grace, mercy, and peace be multiplied to you. We will be in 1 Corinthians 8 today. We have been given liberty in Christ, and as a result, we know that several actions are not sinful in the eyes of God. However, that doesn’t mean that others won’t be convicted or tempted, so we must be cautious of how we behave in front of others. We may not have to worry about losing ou...

Greetings everyone, and may grace, mercy, and peace be multiplied to you. This week, Pastor Doug will be preaching in Genesis 41-48. When we left off, Joseph had been sold into slavery and things were looking pretty bad for him. But God was faithful, and He continued to gift Joseph with dreams that would not only elevate his own circumstances, but save the lives of his family as well. Things may b...

Greetings everyone, and may grace, mercy, and peace be multiplied to you. This week, Pastor Doug will be preaching  in Genesis 37-41. Joseph was blessed with the gift of dreams and dream interpretations. These dreams come directly from God, and in the case of his brothers, they hated the dream so much that they made his life miserable. Yet God still used Joseph for His will and blessed him in the...

Greetings everyone, and may grace, mercy, and peace be multiplied to you. We will be in 1 Timothy 6 today. The way we prepare ourselves each day depends largely on the circumstances we expect to face. If you are hunting small game, you would want to wear camo, and bring a rifle of some sort with extra ammo. If you are going to war, however, you should equip a helmet, bullet proof vest, a lot more...

Greetings everyone, and may grace, mercy, and peace be multiplied to you. We will be in 1 Corinthians 9 today. We have the freedom in Christ to engage with the culture, but we have a responsibility to do so in a way that is beneficial to the Gospel. If we keep to ourselves, the lost won’t receive Christ. And if we engage with culture in a way that doesn’t promote Christ, how are we different from...