Highland Gospel Mission

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in Lamentations 3 today. The prophet Jeremiah laments about the hardships that he is going through, and has fallen into a state of hopelessness. But that state was temporary after remembering God's promises. We may complain about our circumstances, but the truth is, He cares. This past year may have been hard, but...

Merry Christmas everyone, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill to men! We will be looking at Isaiah 9 today. Today, we are celebrating the fulfillment of prophecy that changed the world for all of mankind. Even though this world is getting worse and worse, the promise that was fulfilled through Jesus gives us peace and hope that we will be restored with the Father in Heaven. R...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will continue in Ephesians 6 today. Having spiritual armor doesn't mean we won't be attacked, but it does us no good if we don't put on all the pieces. If we walk out with just the sword, we leave our heart and head exposed. If we just put on the breastplate and helmet, we can't fight back. What pieces of armor are you mis...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will continue in Ephesians 6 today. Our ultimate instruction is to stand firm in our faith by putting on the full armor of God. Our enemy is not the people of this world, but Satan who is manipulating them and doing everything he can to trip us up from the mission. So when you go out into the world, are you equipped to dea...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in Ephesians 6 today. Have you ever wished that life came with instructions just like that furniture you bought from IKEA? Well it actually does, and if you don't read the instructions, life naturally becomes difficult, and can fall apart like that new coffee table. God provides us instructions on our relationship...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in Galatians 5 and 6 today. As Christians, we have an I problem. A lot of our actions are usually done out of selfish reasons whether it be for personal gain, welfare, or pride. Paul's letter to the Galatians calls us to first examine ourselves so that we would have reason to boast. Are your actions benefiting the...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will continue in 1 Thessalonians 5 today. As Paul closes this letter, we are encouraged to live a life that God wants us to live. The rest of the world still needs Jesus, and God's desire is to use us to seek and save the lost. So we should rejoice always and give thanks, even in the worst circumstances, because God chose...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in 1 Thessalonians 5 today. There’s a lot going on in this world that points to the end times, and a lot of people are still stumbling through the dark. But rather than hide within the safety of the church and pretend that things aren’t getting worse, we need to stay sober and alert, ready to defend our faith. Ther...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in Luke 6 today. The Pharisees had a human approach about the Sabbath regarding what was and wasn't considered rest. Jesus' followers also had a human idea on wealth and prosperity and the best way to live. But our idea on how to live involves trusting ourselves to make the best decisions so that we can have comfor...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in Matthew 18 today. We have freedom in Christ, and for a lot of people, freedom and independence are an important part of life. However, God has not called us to a life to be self reliant, but to be humble and dependent on Christ. Are you using your liberty to serve others and grow the kingdom, or to serve yoursel...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in John 4 today. God doesn’t want a cheap scheduled worship with a set of standards. Rather than follow a set of rules and traditions we created to “worship”, God calls us to worship Him wherever we are by using our spiritual gifts. How are you worshiping today? “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations,...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in John 14 today. As Jesus was comforting His disciples due to what He was about to accomplish, He explains how Oneness with the Father works. We can’t get to the Father who is in Heaven without Jesus, and if we know Jesus, we know the Father. Jesus’ work was completed, but our work is still going on, and He’s call...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in John 8 today. Jesus had a conversation with the Pharisees on morality that led to His great calling. He first established His authority and what truth is, and urges us to use this truth to drive out the darkness in this world. This world is in desperate need of the truth in Jesus. Share His truth today. “Go ther...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in 1 John 4 today. The enemy has put out a spirit of confusion of what is right and what is wrong. If the issue does not confess Jesus and is not of love, it is not from God, but from Satan. This test is designed to clean up ethical gray areas so that we can know the truth, and avoid the enemy’s traps. “Go therefor...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in Revelation 2 today. There are signs and things going on right now indicating that the end is getting closer and closer, and yet fewer and fewer people are being faithful and sharing their faith. This should be a wake up call for the  few remaining faithful Christians not to run around and panic over signs a...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in Romans 15 today. Our role as Christians is to share the Gospel message. This means that in the process, we will have to take on the struggles of others, and it can get uncomfortable. This doesn’t mean that we can’t do some of the things we enjoy, but if we are putting our own comfort and satisfaction before the...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in Matthew 12 today. Jesus tells the parable of the sower and the seeds. The seeds sown by the road don’t develop at all and get eaten up. The seeds sown in rocky soil start off strong, but without deep roots can’t stand up to the pressures of the world and fall away. The seeds sown among the thorns ended up strugg...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in 1 Peter 1 today. The physical persecutions that the New Testament Church faced were beneficial to us to receive the Gospel. When we are persecuted, it's like refining gold with fire. The impure things will separate leaving only pure gold behind. So these trials and persecutions we face today should refine us to...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in 1 Corinthians 9 today. In Christ, we have the liberty to either be faithful and share the Gospel, and the liberty to ignore God’s command and live a life doing whatever we want. We don’t, however, have liberty over the consequences of those choices. If we are faithful to God’s commands, the benefits are both tem...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in 2 Peter 1 today. We have been gifted with the knowledge of God through His word and through the Holy Spirit, and by this knowledge we can live a life with fewer struggles. This is why it's important to keep growing in the faith. “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of t...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in 1 Corinthians 1 today. Corinth was a city where many cultures intermixed and several ideologies made their way into the Church. Today is no different, as many Christians or people who claim to be Christians bring in anti Gospel cultural ideologies that are contrary to God's word. Who's heart are you following, y...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in Galatians 6 today. We covered this topic a few weeks ago, and it bears repeating. Just because you don't do bad things, doesn't make you a good person. This world is getting worse, and people aren't doing as much good as they should. God didn’t call us to do nothing, so why have we become so numb to each other?...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in Titus 1 today. As believers, our faith in Christ is supposed to be guiding our lives. God doesn’t want us constantly tripping through life over the same mistakes, but at the same time, He also doesn’t want us to beat ourselves up over those mistakes. God can still use us in spite of our shortcomings. Stand firm...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in Acts 16 today. A lot of Christians have fallen into a habit where their motives have become more important than what God asks us to do. As a result, we make mistakes that leave us with pain and regret. All God wants from us is a relationship, and from that comes obedience that spares us the heartache. “Go theref...

Greetings everyone, and may mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. We will be in Philippians 2 today. Paul is encouraging the Church to be working towards the same goal, which is seeking and saving the lost. Our responsibilities as members of the body are equally important, and we shouldn’t complain about the things that God has told us to do. In the end, none of our works will be in vain. “...