HighPoint Devotionals

“I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine.” -Song of Solomon 6:3 Pastor Jack did our premarital counseling. He pulled no punches...

I hate romantic comedies. I can imagine every male reading this entry just thought "Amen, brother." They're lame. I know the story before it

Well, we did it! My brother and I successfully pulled off the big surprise and showed up at our parents' house Friday night for their big..

“We see a lot of new faces around here” began the conversation with a concerned church member. “But so many of them don’t stay.” He was...

(December 12, 2019) Yesterday, my wife went out-of-town, which means I was in charge of getting our 9-year old to gymnastics practice...

"Be careful with your words. Once they’re said, they can only be forgiven not forgotten." - Carl Sandberg. This is one topic that made me...

If you know anything about the Olympics, you're probably like me and are in awe of what those athletes are able to accomplish. When you...

"I'm not there...I'm here!" I've said that to a few people these last few days. My son lives in Orlando, and we have really been trying...

"One Sabbath, when Jesus went to eat in the house of a prominent Pharisee, he was being carefully watched. There in front of him...

"Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost." I Timothy 1:15 When I was 13 I began attending a Baptist...

In 2003, a movie was released called Cheaper by the Dozen – where Steve Martin plays the role of Tom Baker, a college football...

It didn't take long to notice the obvious: people weren't just coming there for the pizza! While the pizza was good (correction: REALLY goo

Brent Curtis said that if he could write the script for his life the title would be, "God Helps Brent Pursue Money...

When you read that title, I bet you thought this would be a post about Pro-Life vs. Pro-Choice. It’s not, but the phrase came to my mind fo

Faith seems like an odd, shifting, abstract concept sometimes. There doesn’t seem to be a satisfying way to define it. It is something like

We had just finished our meal when suddenly I looked up and Hallie (my 21 year-old stepdaughter) was gone. I looked all around and finally

“Why is it that when we talk to God it is called prayer but when God talks to us it is called schizophrenia?” (Lily Tomlin) I grew up...

“And there we all were, as invisible as you could wish to see.” C.S. Lewis, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (Chronicles of Narnia, #3) We...

When I was in high school, our youth group did a dramatic presentation of Jesus’ death for Easter. The local newspaper came out and...

How many of you love surprises?!? I'll wait a minute to count all of those I see, even the ones in the back of the room...