Over the course of the last two years, I have been preaching through the Gospel of John on Sunday mornings at Highland Park. We’ve interrupted the series on John several times to engage certain other topics of great importance for the people of God. But John has been our mainstay. Thus far, we have covered the first ten chapters of John’s gospel (in…

Sunday morning, as part of our series on the Identity and Vision of Highland Park, I preached from Acts 1:1-8 on the church “pursuing the mission of God.” In Jesus’ commission to His followers (v. 8), he tells them that they will be His witnesses locally (in Jerusalem), regionally (Judea and Samaria), and globally (the remotest part of the earth). At Highland…

Sunday’s sermon on the community of faith that engages in the worship of God was drawn primarily from Colossians 3:16. The apostle Paul tells the Colossians to “Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you.” He then describes the effect the indwelling word produces on the worshiping church: (1) As the word of Christ dwells within, the worshiping church speaks the…

The word inerrancy means “without error.” It is a word that, as far as I know, is only used in connection with Scripture. To believe in the inerrancy of Scripture is to believe that Scripture never communicates anything as fact that is contrary to fact. At Highland Park, we adhere to The Baptist Faith and Message as a statement of our core beliefs. The…

Yesterday morning, I began a sermon series through our church’s Identity and Vision statement. The message focused on the first and last phrases of that statement – “community of faith” and “gospel of Jesus Christ.” A significant part of the message focused on the New Testament concept of koinonia. Koinonia is a Greek word that is usually translated as “fellowship.” However, the…

We hope you will be blessed an enriched by this blog in the days ahead.. Each post you find here will be written by one of the church’s pastors (Kyle, Matt, or Jay) or someone invited by one of the pastors. Below is a sampling of what you can expect when you visit this page in the future. Weekly Posts: Monday Musings…