Highland Church Podcast

February 20, 2019- Part 7 in this Wednesday night class series with Jim Martin. Life is hard. Everyday, ordinary people are called upon to be brave. The Bible is full of people for whom doing the right thing was difficult and challenging. Some give up, some become discouraged, and others learn to be brave.

February 13, 2019- Part 6 in this Wednesday night class series with Jim Martin. Life is hard. Everyday, ordinary people are called upon to be brave. The Bible is full of people for whom doing the right thing was difficult and challenging. Some give up, some become discouraged, and others learn to be brave.

February 3, 2019- Part 5 in this Wednesday night class series with Jim Martin. Life is hard. Everyday, ordinary people are called upon to be brave. The Bible is full of people for whom doing the right thing was difficult and challenging. Some give up, some become discouraged, and others learn to be brave.

We are dependent. All of us. That we are independent, self-made, strong—its all an illusion. As Paul, who tried to enter Asia, and was prevented by God, will tell you, we don’t go where we want to, we are allowed, much like the children who come to Jesus. And like those children, and as any of you can tell anyone around you, we don’t choose what comes our way in this life, Kingdom or otherwise, we receive it. Not always thankfully. We are not in control. We are not independent.

January 30, 2019- Part 4 in this Wednesday night class series with Jim Martin. Life is hard. Everyday, ordinary people are called upon to be brave. The Bible is full of people for whom doing the right thing was difficult and challenging. Some give up, some become discouraged, and others learn to be brave.

We don’t know our neighbors. But are called to love them. The Good Samaritan story is told to illustrate this. But the story does much more, modeling how Christ transforms us into people capable of loving—people he calls: “neighbor.”

January 23, 2019- Part 3 in this Wednesday night class series with Jim Martin. Life is hard. Everyday, ordinary people are called upon to be brave. The Bible is full of people for whom doing the right thing was difficult and challenging. Some give up, some become discouraged, and others learn to be brave.

January 16, 2019- Part 2 in this Wednesday night class series with Jim Martin. Life is hard. Everyday, ordinary people are called upon to be brave. The Bible is full of people for whom doing the right thing was difficult and challenging. Some give up, some become discouraged, and others learn to be brave.

January 9, 2019- Part 1 in this Wednesday night class series with Jim Martin. Life is hard. Everyday, ordinary people are called upon to be brave. The Bible is full of people for whom doing the right thing was difficult and challenging. Some give up, some become discouraged, and others learn to be brave.

Wilderness is a disruptive and destructive force in the world and in our lives. Biblically this is true. We look to powerful people to stop a spiritual force. They can’t. We look to scripture for a God who does (and he ultimately will), but we first find a God who does his work within the wilderness. Making a way where there seems to be no way.

God is immense. All that immensity is wrapped up in the person of Jesus, and in those who are one with Jesus. Sometimes we don’t feel that fullness because we chase satisfaction instead. But like Christ, we should embrace God’s fullness, and be thankful because of it.

God still speaks, though sometimes we don’t know it is God speaking. God speaks through phenomena. God speaks through dreams and visions. God speaks through angels. God speaks audibly. God speaks through humans. And God speaks in a still small voice. The right posture is: Speak Lord, for your servant is listenting.

Allen Black gives us part 4 in this study of the book of James. Believing that real faith is more than just belief and must result in action, the brother of Jesus wrote a guidebook for living the life of faith. He calls us away from our double-mindedness to a pure devotion that changes our lives and the lives of those around us. He encourages us to live as friends of God and not as friends of the world. This lesson tonight focuses mostly on the passage about anger found in James.

Former Highland preacher, Harold Shank, joined us for our 90th Anniversary. He delivered a message about the wonders of God. God can do the impossible and he often does that through improbable people.

Culture thinks sex is good, and often the church says the opposite. But sex isn’t good or bad, its holy. Sex is the union of body and soul, a physical act with spiritual permanence. Jesus warns us about this, but statistics of sexual addiction are rampant. So 1) we & others do get hurt by our sexual sin of our bodies, 2) our bodies are eternal and 3) our bodies are not our own. Accountability helps to control our bodies for the sake of our souls.

Allen Black: The Book of James_ Wisdom For Life Part 3 by Highland Church Podcast

Allen Black gives us part 2 in this study of the book of James. Believing that real faith is more than just belief and must result in action, the brother of Jesus wrote a guidebook for living the life of faith. He calls us away from our double-mindedness to a pure devotion that changes our lives and the lives of those around us. He encourages us to live as friends of God and not as friends of the world.

Is it good or bad to be mad? The New Testament says bad, but of course God and Jesus get angry. Jesus gets angry for the sake of a man experiencing injustice. We tend to get angry because of our ego, not injustice. Even when mad for compassionate reasons, we tend to remain inactive. If anger can ever be righteous, it should be rare, for the sake of another, and producing compassionate action.

Allen Black gives us part 1 in this study of the book of James. Believing that real faith is more than just belief and must result in action, the brother of Jesus wrote a guidebook for living the life of faith. He calls us away from our double-mindedness to a pure devotion that changes our lives and the lives of those around us. He encourages us to live as friends of God and not as friends of the world.

"The Story We tell Ourselves" about ourselves can put us in a downward spiral of depression and anxiety. God has hard wired each of us with the ability to change the way we use our minds to create an upward spiral of peace, joy, and well-being. Len Shelby shares some "tools and strategies" on how to change the stories we tell ourselves that create the downward spiral of depression.....to stories that create an upward spiral of faith, hope and love.