Highland Church Podcast

This Sunday is Life Giving Sunday. This is the Sunday that we collect our Outreach Contribution that goes toward supporting some of the best missionaries and ministries around. We will hear from two of those missionaries today and also present a gift to one of our outreach partners, Hopeworks, for transitional housing for men in Memphis being released from prison. Today you’re going to hear some of the Life that your sharing has made possible.

For Mother's Day we look at the story of Hagar and Ishmael. From the moment the child is in her womb, loving him is hard. But where we have limits to providing what we want for our children and loved one's, God promises to hear us and has the power to make them into something.

Tim Stafford continues our Wednesday Night series on Moses. This week we will look at the Ten Commandments.

Eric is joined by HYG Youth Ministers, Ted Crigler, Donnie Stover, and Hanna Thrasher as we honor our graduating seniors. They discuss what the 5 key factors are for making our teens into resilient disciples.

This week, we remembered Jesus’ power to give us freedom from the burdens we carry.

Gary Kenley continues our series on Moses. This week we will look at the interaction between Moses and Pharaoh.

Its Easter Sunday! So, we talked about the resurrection of Jesus. What else is there? Well, it turns out Jesus’ resurrection means that we can be united to him (Romans 6:5).

On the Sunday before Easter its right to focus on Jesus’ life and his death on the cross. One of the stories that best helps us understand the significance of the cross is the story of Abraham and Isaac in Genesis 22.

David Jackson will teach part 1 from a new series called Lessons from Moses.

Wilson McCoy from the College Hills Church of Christ in Lebanon TN joins us today for our message. John presents the gospel of Jesus as an act of new creation in our world. His entrance is good news because Jesus comes as light for all people to follow. As disciples to the light of Jesus today, what might it look like for us to follow him in our world? In this sermon we will explore one key implication for our discipleship to Jesus.

Today's sermon is from Genesis 21:1-7 and Romans 4:1-5. Because Abraham and Sarah had Faith, God was gracious and gave them Isaac. So is Faith a precondition for blessings from God? Is grace earned with faith? We will see what Paul has to say about this in Romans.

What is the thing you are waiting on? Or let me put it this way: How would you finish this sentence: I need the Lord and ______________. How would you fill in that blank? Maybe its something at work. Something at home. Something in your personal life. If you could just have that one thing in addition to the Lord, that would be enough. Let's look at Genesis 15-17 and see how Abraham would answer that question.

Our lesson today comes from Jim Harbin who has partnered with Highland for over 24 years to share the gospel in the Raleigh Community in North Memphis. Jim will look at 1 Corinthians 3:6-11 and will show how God’s plans were fulfilled in our work together. The Sovereignty of God was at work to make the work grow. We remain coworkers in the kingdom to this day. We give God the praise for this continued work.

The promise made to Abraham in Genesis 12 is the first that the bible itself labels the Gospel. That means that this passage shapes everything that follows it, from Old Testament to New Testament, to our church today, and to your daily life, and to eternity. The gospel here is the driving force for everything. Our response—our faith—is a critical part of the Gospel.

Today, we’re launching My Part, God’s Plan. We’re emphasizing serving through the church. And we need every person that attends Highland to find their part here. We are on a mission together, and "each one of you is a part of it."

Why doesn’t God like people to work together? Live together? People decide to live together and build something awesome, and God doesn’t like it. Changes all their languages so they can’t talk to each other. Why doesn’t God like teamwork and building great things? That’s a bad reading on the story of the Tower of Babel. And we know that because of what happens later in the Bible in Acts. But lets dig in a little bit more and figure what’s actually happening here in Genesis.

Today's lesson is the story of Noah. Let's be honest for a second, this is a story that challenges the faith of a lot of people. What kind of God would do this? Flood the world, and as he says, “put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am going to destroy both them and the earth” (Gen 6:13) What kind of God would do that? Doesn’t seem right? But in this story we see that God will make things right and evil will not be forgotten. We also learn that God will remember me and I will not be forgotten much like Noah.

Anybody who has boys cannot afford to ignore this story. Maybe you can if you have daughters. But when you have all boys, every time you send them upstairs to play, you say—Don’t Kill each other…because of Cain and Abel. This story of Cain and Abel is really about all of us. Now this story is a little harder to see ourselves in, at least at first, because most of us don’t kill our siblings. Even when they deserve it, and we really want to. But let me show you something about this story that’s easy to miss, and may hit a little closer to home. I know it does for me.

When we don’t know the truth, we do some unfortunate things. Unfortunate is one thing. But harmful, destructive, hurtful? Most of us have not only seen someone do those things, we’ve done ‘em too. What I want you to see today is that those choices are connected in the very same way to our grasp on truth. This is why its so good for us to go back to the beginning of the story, the first chapters of Genesis. What we are after is truth. So, we go back to its source.

You ever had that moment: This… this is the good life. Don’t you want more moments like that? We all do. What actually makes for a good life? That question may be one of the best ways to approach the first chapters of the Bible in Genesis 1-2. In these chapters I think we can find three things that help us to have the Good Life.