HighPoint Devotionals

There is a law written into the fabric of creation that most of us learned before we ever set foot in a classroom. Plant tomato seeds and you grow tomatoes. Plant apple seeds and you grow apples. It sounds almost too simple to be worth saying. And yet the Apostle Paul, writing to the church at Corinth in 2 Corinthians 9, reaches for exactly this image to make one of the most profound spiritual arguments in all of Scripture. The principle is this: whoever sows sparingly will

Most of us would never bow down before a golden statue. The idea feels primitive, even absurd. We are modern people. We have moved past that kind of thing. And yet, if Jesus is to be believed, idolatry is not a relic of some ancient, unenlightened age. It is alive and well, and it may be sitting in your wallet right now. In Matthew 6:19-24, Jesus pivots in the middle of His greatest sermon and begins talking about money. He does it without apology and without softening the b