HighPoint Devotionals

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

There is a spiritual practice so rarely discussed in modern Christianity that hearing a sermon about it feels like spotting something almost mythically rare. Prayer gets preached. Generosity gets its own series. But fasting? For most believers, it sits in the corner of their Bible like a distant relative they have heard of but never actually met. Yet Jesus did not treat fasting as optional or unusual. In the Sermon on the Mount, He placed it right alongside prayer and genero

There is something remarkable about prayer. It crosses every boundary of culture, religion, and belief. The grieving mother whispers it in a hospital hallway. The skeptic mutters it in a moment of desperation. The atheist may call it something else entirely, but in that raw, unguarded moment when everything is on the line, something inside every human being reaches upward. We are made for connection with our Creator, and no matter how far we wander from that truth, it finds u

There is a quiet crisis unfolding in the modern church, and it has nothing to do with declining attendance numbers or cultural pressures from the outside. It has everything to do with what is happening on the inside -- inside our motivations, inside our habits, and inside the secret places of our hearts where no one else can see. The sixth chapter of Matthew's Gospel opens with a deceptively simple warning from Jesus: be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of