HighPoint Blog

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...

The bright, red words-“Bible Classes for All Ages” scrolled across the digital sign of a church I drove past. I wondered if the minivan mom

A few weeks ago, I received a message from a relative asking if my brother and I had any plans set to celebrate my parents' 50th Wedding...

In the movie Forest Gump, Lieutenant Dan is full of disdain for all the men in his veteran's group who constantly speak of "Finding Jesus".

I'm not a big NBA fan...honestly, I really can't stand it. I think NBA basketball is five games of 1-on-1 basketball and there isn't...

I was born in December and carried to church in a Christmas stocking. I have endured a lot of sermons. Preaching is a challenge...

This week, I went to a local McDonald's (in Avon Park) to grab a cup of coffee and work off-site for a little while. I went to sit down in