In seasons of hurting, it is difficult to find comfort and peace. But there is a source that we can draw from. In Psalm 34, we find the future King David running for his life in a cave, surrounded by others who are miserable. Yet, David can still praise God. Psalm 34 Superscription Psalm 34:1-3 1. WHEN I AM HURTING I WILL PRAISE GOD PASSIONATELY AND PUBLICLY . PSALM 34:4-7 Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ on my right, Ch...
Aug 11, 2025•28 min•Ep. 346
As we continue our sermon series For Every Season, we hear from fellow church member, Dr. Matt Kim, a Professor of Preaching and Pastoral Leadership at Truett Seminary. In Psalm 95, we see a calling on our lives to worship and the how, why, and a warning. PSALM 95:1-11 1. THE HOW OF WORSHIP: We worship the Lord by coming to Him, by singing, by making a joyful noise, and by coming into His presence with thanksgiving (vs. 1-2). There is nothing complicated about the verb ‘come,’ except to say that...
Aug 03, 2025•32 min•Ep. 345
When we walk through difficult seasons, how do we know who to trust or if we can trust? In this week's sermon, Pastor John walks through Psalm 18 and how we can find trust in different seasons of our lives. PSALM 18 SUPERSCRIPTION - Psalm 18:1-3 1) Review the attributes of God, and you’ll find your trust in Him increase . PSALM 18:4-6 PSALM 18:7-15 2) We trust most deeply in the thing we consider to be the most powerful. PSALM 18:16-24 3) The easiest person for God to lead is the obedient. PSALM...
Jul 27, 2025•26 min•Ep. 344
We continue our sermon series looking at Psalm 51 as we look at repentance and the depths of sin. Also, we find new life in Christ which is freely given. Psalm 51:1-17 Sin is the serious defiance of God. Sin firstly is offensive to THE LORD. Sin is extensively devastating . God is so gracious. Exodus 34:6 The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness . God’s grace is costly to Him, but free to us. Confession leads to restoration....
Jul 21, 2025•32 min•Ep. 343
We continue in our sermon series, For Every Season, in Psalm 40 as we look at what it looks like to wait. When we find ourselves waiting on the Lord, what is our response? PSALM 40:1-3 God bends down, listens, and lifts up those who are waiting. What if your season of waiting allowed others to see what to do in their season of waiting? PSALM 40:4-5 In a season of waiting, don’t fall for lies, and trust that you are in God’s view! PSALM 40:13-15 There will always be detractors, accusers, and betr...
Jul 13, 2025•26 min•Ep. 342
In this week's sermon, Pastor John covers Psalm 46 where we find God as our help in time of trouble and a fortress we can run to. Especially in a season of life filled with anxiety. And even now, as we reflect on the flooding in the Hill Country. God is our provision! PSALM 46:1-11 Psalm 46:1 1. God is both awesome and accessible. PSALM 46:2-3 2. Nothing - absolutely nothing - should move God’s people, who are under God’s hand, into fear! PSALM 46:4-5 3. God has given ME provisions so that I wil...
Jul 07, 2025•33 min•Ep. 341
This week, we continued our sermon series For Every Season and took a look at Psalm 30. As Believers we are called to joy. But how do we do so even in seasons of tumult? Joy is THE enthusiastic state of our soul as we believe that God is with us, for us, and in us! Psalm 30:1-12 VV1-3 When we focus on our situations we become enslaved to them, when we focus on God we experience freedom! VV4-5 the bent of God is grace and favor toward His children . Weeping believer, there is certainty that joy i...
Jun 30, 2025•35 min•Ep. 340
This week, Pastor Mark Wible continued our For Every Season series with a message from Psalm 90—a psalm of reflection on God’s faithfulness. Drawing from Moses’ prayer, Pastor Mark reminded us that God is our dwelling place in every season: in His eternal sovereignty, in our waiting, in His chastening, and in His favor. As Pastor Mark reflected on 40 years of ministry, he encouraged us to anchor our lives in the unchanging presence and faithfulness of God.
Jun 23, 2025•39 min•Ep. 339
This week, Pastor Jeremy Daniel continued our For Every Season sermon series with a message from Psalm 88, a Psalm of Lament. In one of the darkest prayers in Scripture, we learn to turn to God, cry out our complaints, ask boldly, and ultimately choose to trust Him. Lament is the act of clinging to a God Whose light has overcome, is overcoming, and will overcome the darkness.
Jun 16, 2025•33 min•Ep. 338
This week, Pastor John continued our For Every Season sermon series with a message from Psalm 9. This Psalm invites us to cultivate gratitude by choosing to give thanks, remember God’s faithfulness, and rejoice in His sovereignty. In a world full of hardship and injustice, we can rest in the truth that God sees, God reigns, and God has not forgotten us.
Jun 09, 2025•33 min•Ep. 337
This week, College Pastor Drew Humphrey launched our new series, For Every Season , with a message from Psalm 89 on true security. In a world marked by uncertainty, insecurity, and pride, Psalm 89 calls us to anchor our hearts in the unshakable character and promises of God. We are invited into lasting security—rooted in His love, His covenant, His distinctiveness, and His glory. Use this link to access Drew’s 351 OT Prophecies notes....
Jun 02, 2025•33 min•Ep. 336
In this week’s message, Pastor John Durham closes out our Whole Heart series by unpacking Haggai 2:20–23. He reminds us that God will shake all that is temporary in order to establish what is eternal. Through Christ, we receive an unshakable Kingdom, and even what feels lost or broken can be fully restored. God is not finished.
May 26, 2025•26 min•Ep. 335
This week, we took a break from Haggai and our Whole Heart series to hear a message on prayer from our Student Pastor, Ryan Oakes. Drawing from Philippians 4, Ryan reminded us that prayer is not about getting everything we ask for, but about being with God in every moment and bringing our honest selves before Him. He challenged us to let go of our desire for control and trust that, while God may not always change our circumstances, He promises a peace that guards our hearts.
May 19, 2025•31 min•Ep. 334
In this week's message, Pastor John Durham continues our Whole Heart series, teaching from Haggai 2:10–19. He emphasizes that righteousness doesn’t come through proximity to holy things but through an internal transformation by God’s grace. This grace is powerful, rooted in His character, and can not be earned by our own merit.
May 11, 2025•30 min•Ep. 333
In this message from Haggai 2:1–9, Pastor Jeremy Daniels reminds us that while the present may seem small compared to the past, God’s presence and promises call us to hope. We are encouraged to look up, look back, and look forward—trusting that the future glory God is preparing far surpasses what came before.
May 05, 2025•32 min•Ep. 332
In the opening message of Highland's new sermon series, Whole Heart , Pastor John challenges us to examine whether we’re building up our own kingdoms or God’s. Rooted in Haggai 1, he reminds us that wholehearted obedience, worship, and a renewed focus on God’s presence are the path to true fulfillment.
Apr 28, 2025•31 min•Ep. 331
In his Easter message, Pastor John reminds us that Jesus’ crucifixion was public, purposeful, and necessary for our forgiveness—and that His resurrection was powerful, promised, and life-giving. Because He lives, we have hope that overcomes guilt, access to lasting peace, and the promise of eternal life. Jesus' story changes everything.
Apr 21, 2025•25 min•Ep. 330
Pastor John presented a powerful Palm Sunday sermon, challenging us to examine our personal faith. Whether you consider Him your King or not, Jesus remains the King of the world and calls us to seek Him not with mild admiration, but with wholehearted surrender.
Apr 14, 2025•28 min•Ep. 329
Pastor John Durham kicked off our Easter sermon series "As He Promised" with a message exploring how Old Testament prophecies in Isaiah point to Jesus as the Lamb of God. Through His silent sacrifice on the cross, He took our place, absorbing the penalty of sin. In this act, God lovingly substituted Himself for us, offering salvation to all who believe.
Apr 07, 2025•29 min•Ep. 328
We conclude our Way, Truth, Life sermon series by looking at what it looks to have union with Christ and the our aim in life towards that end.
Mar 30, 2025•30 min•Ep. 327
In this week's sermon, guest Pastor Jay Mathis led us to reflect on the true meaning of communion, emphasizing that it is a gift of grace, not something we create. Through faithful obedience, we remember the finished work of Christ, proclaim the power of the gospel, and examine the affections of our hearts. Communion calls us to repentance, renewal, and joyful participation in the life Christ offers.
Mar 24, 2025•32 min•Ep. 326
This week, Pastor John continues in our Way, Truth, Life sermon series, as we explore the high cost of true discipleship. Jesus calls us to deny ourselves, take up our cross, and follow Him fully, with a heart fully dependent on Him.
Mar 17, 2025•31 min•Ep. 325
This week, Pastor John led us through Hebrews 10:19-23 as part of our Way, Truth, Life sermon series. He reminded us that through Jesus, we have been given access to draw near to God and experience His powerful help, marvelous presence, and promised assurance.
Mar 10, 2025•32 min•Ep. 324
This week, Pastor John kicked off our new sermon series, Way, Truth, Life , by highlighting how, in John 14, Jesus clearly states that He is the one and only way to God and heaven.
Mar 03, 2025•30 min•Ep. 323
We conclude our sermon series in Jonah and look at the anger of Jonah at the Lord at the end of Jonah compared to our anger. JONAH 4:1 JONAH 4:2-4 IF YOU LET ANGER HANG AROUND LONG ENOUGH IT TURNS TO BITTERNESS, AND BITTERNESS TAKES ROOT IN YOUR HEART . JONAH 4:5 ANGER LEADS TO ISOLATION AND WICKED DESIRES. JONAH 4:6-9 JONAH 4:10-11 MANY THINGS WE GET ANGRY ABOUT WERE ONCE OUR PRAYER REQUESTS. YOU FIGHT ANGER BY SURRENDERING ANGER. EPHESIANS 4:26 Be angry but do not sin. Don’t let the sun go dow...
Feb 24, 2025•24 min•Ep. 322
In this week's sermon, we look at the grace of God and the forgiveness given to us. Those who have received that grace can't do anything but give it.
Feb 16, 2025•28 min•Ep. 321
In this week's sermon, Pastor John walks through Jonah 3 and how the Ninevites repented which leads to our repentance. More so, it leads to our unreserved yes to the God of all creation.
Feb 10, 2025•27 min•Ep. 320
This week, College Pastor Drew Humphrey continued our sermon series Relentless Pursuit , walking us verse by verse through Jonah chapter 2. He highlighted Jonah's humility, noting how he viewed his time in the belly of the big fish as a life-sustaining act of grace from God.
Feb 03, 2025•29 min•Ep. 319
This week, Pastor John kicked off our new series, Relentless Pursuit —a verse-by-verse study of the book of Jonah. He reminded us how easy it is to run from God, saying, "There’s always a boat," but encouraged us that, while we may be runners, God is always pursuing us.
Jan 27, 2025•26 min•Ep. 318
In this week's sermon, we discuss our best guess as to what the Lord is doing in and through Highland in 2025.
Jan 19, 2025•33 min•Ep. 317
