This powerful exploration of biblical manhood takes us back to the very foundations of creation, reminding us that God's original design for men and women was very good. Drawing from Ephesians 5 and Genesis 2, we're challenged to reconsider what it truly means to be a man in a culture that has distorted masculinity into either toxic caricature or irrelevance. Biblical fatherhood is about leadership and service, not ownership and control. When Paul tells us that a man will leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, he's establishing a truth that a man's primary greatness and glory is found in the wife he loves and the family he leads. Becoming a good man requires taking initiative, leading with humility, keeping promises, nourishing our families, and being willing to sacrifice. We cannot do any of this apart from Christ. 0:00 Introduction to Biblical Fatherhood 7:46 Necessity & Complementarity of Men and Women 18:10 Cultural Corruption vs Christ's Design 27:31 The Primary Calling: Love & Lead 36:39 Gospel Foundation for Goodness

This powerful message challenges us to move beyond casual Christianity into genuine discipleship. We're reminded that the word 'Christian' appears only three times in Scripture, while 'disciple' appears 269 times. This isn't about attending church occasionally or praying when we're in trouble—it's about ordering our entire lives around following Jesus. The Great Commission isn't just a suggestion; it's a command that requires us to go, make disciples, baptize, and teach. What makes this journey possible is the presence of the Holy Spirit working within us, transforming us from the inside out. We're challenged to examine where we are in our spiritual journey: Are we distant from God without desire to move closer? Are we wanting to move closer but don't know how? Are we close enough to see Him but still doubting? Or are we ready to pace ourselves with Him wherever He leads? The message calls us to attend faithfully, give willingly, serve passionately, and grow spiritually—not as isolated tasks, but as interconnected expressions of a life surrendered to Christ.

Happy Easter! John 11 confronts us with the reality that death is our greatest enemy, yet Christ performs His greatest miracle to demonstrate our greatest hope. The story of Lazarus challenges our limited understanding of God's power and timing. When Martha and Mary face their brother's death, they believe Jesus arrived too late, showing us how even strong faith can crumble when confronted with loss. But Jesus is not just someone who can prevent death, He IS the resurrection and the life. We all face two kinds of death: spiritual death, where we exist without God and without hope in this world, and physical death, the final enemy. Through Christ's tears at the tomb, we discover a God who genuinely feels our pain, who groans with anger at the destruction sin has brought into His perfect creation. The miracle of raising Lazarus points forward to an even greater miracle: Christ's own resurrection, which defeats both deaths. When we believe in Jesus, we experience our first resurrection, being called out of spiritual death into abundant life. This first resurrection guarantees our second resurrection, when Christ returns and destroys death forever. We are invited to respond to Jesus calling our name, just as Lazarus heard his name and emerged from the tomb into new life.

Week 7 of Miracles takes us into John chapter 9, where we encounter a man born blind who receives both physical sight and spiritual vision. What unfolds is not just a healing miracle, but a profound lesson about spiritual blindness that affects us all. The disciples ask a question we've all wondered: why do bad things happen to good people? But Jesus redirects their thinking entirely. This man's blindness wasn't about punishment or karma, it was about displaying God's glory. The miracle itself is performed in an unusual way, with mud made from spit, deliberately done on the Sabbath to expose the religious leaders' spiritual blindness. They were so bound by their traditions and man-made rules that they couldn't recognize God's work right in front of them. The message is clear: physical vision is about how our eyes respond to light, but spiritual vision is about how our hearts respond to Jesus. We're all born spiritually blind, and only Jesus can open the eyes of our hearts. Some of us have been feeling God drawing us long before we recognized who He was. The question is whether we'll bow down and worship, or remain in our self-imposed darkness.

Week 6 of 'Miracles' takes us into one of the most astonishing miracles recorded in Scripture: Jesus walking on water. But this isn't just about a supernatural feat—It's about recognizing who Jesus truly is. The disciples had already witnessed incredible miracles; feeding thousands, healing the sick, turning water into wine. Yet something about this moment on the Sea of Galilee changed everything. When Jesus came walking across the waves in the darkness of night, during a storm that had these experienced fishermen terrified and exhausted, they saw Him in His glory for the first time. The veil of His humanity pulled back just enough for them to glimpse His divine nature. This is why they moved from following a prophet to worshiping the Son of God. We're challenged to ask ourselves: How do we see Jesus? Is He still just a good teacher, a miracle worker we turn to when we're in trouble? Or have we truly bowed in worship, recognizing Him as the incarnate Son of God, our only hope for salvation? This miracle reveals three truths we desperately need: the power of our Savior who commands the storms, the presence of our Savior who finds us no matter how lost we feel, and the greatness of our redemption. Just as Jesus walked on water in a glorified body that transcended natural limitations, we too will one day receive transformed bodies like His. The limitations, diseases, depression, and death that mark our current existence will be swallowed up in victory. No storm is too great for Him, and no soul is too lost for Him to find.

Week five of Miracles takes us to the wedding at Cana, where Jesus performed His first miracle by turning water into wine. It's a profound revelation about how we respond when life throws us unexpected disruptions. The wedding hosts faced social catastrophe when the wine ran out, a humiliation that would have marked them for life in their community. Yet in this moment of crisis, Mary demonstrates something remarkable: she doesn't tell Jesus how to fix the problem, she simply tells the servants to do whatever He says. This becomes the blueprint for our own faith journey. We learn that miracles often happen not in the moment of prayer, but in the obedience of taking the next step. This teaches us that God does His best work when we stop trying to control the outcome and simply trust Him enough to move forward in faith. The disruptions in our lives - job loss, relationship struggles, financial stress, health crises - aren't interruptions to God's plan. They're often the very places where He wants to reveal His glory, if only we'll do whatever He tells us.

John chapter 6 challenges us to examine whether we are truly seeing Jesus or merely following signs. The feeding of the 5,000 becomes more than just a miracle about physical bread, it reveals our human tendency to travel great distances following spiritual signs yet somehow miss the destination they point to. When Christ declares 'I am the bread of life,' He is claiming divine identity and offering something Moses never could: abundant spiritual life that lasts forever. Many witnessed this incredible miracle and still walked away. Some people would not believe even if someone rose from the dead. This makes salvation itself the greatest miracle, because it requires God to enable our hearts to respond to grace we cannot earn.

Week 3 of Miracles takes us to the Pool of Bethesda in John chapter 5. Jesus intentionally goes to places of false hope to reveal Himself as our only real hope. The story unfolds in a place crowded with suffering humanity, all waiting for a mythical healing from stirred waters, when the true Healer walks among them. The paralyzed man at the pool had been waiting 38 years, but he was waiting for the wrong thing. He wanted Jesus to help him get to the pool, when Jesus Himself was what he needed. This challenges us to examine our own lives: Are we asking Jesus to get us to what we think we need, or are we recognizing that Jesus is what we need? The question—'Do you want to get well?'—confronts not just physical ailments but the deeper issues of our hearts: our bitterness, our victim mentality, our hidden sins. True healing requires two things: believing Jesus can heal us and acting on whatever He tells us to do, even when it seems impossible or embarrassing.

Week 2 of Miracles takes us into John chapter 4, where a desperate father seeks Jesus to heal his dying son. Pastor Jack unpacks what it means to truly believe in Christ beyond merely wanting miracles from Him. Jesus isn't primarily interested in being popular or performing signs to impress crowds. Instead, He's after something deeper: genuine faith. The royal official's journey from Capernaum to Cana represents our own desperate searches for divine intervention, but Jesus challenges both the miracle-seeking crowd and this anxious father with a piercing truth: unless we see signs and wonders, we will never believe. The greatest miracle isn't physical healing or temporal relief from our problems, it's the forgiveness of sins and salvation of our souls. As we face our own impossible situations, whether with wayward children, crushing depression, or anger toward God, we're invited to bring our desperation to Christ and then trust Him enough to do things His way.

Welcome to Super Sunday at HighPoint Church! We were blessed to have our friend, Adam Curry, here to share his testimony and help us launch Providence Voice hosted by Godcaster. If you want to download Godcaster: Apple: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/godcaster/id6744736606 Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fm.godcaster.mobile Also, check out our new Podcasts created in-house: https://www.youtube.com/@highpointlw/podcasts

In the first week of our new series Miracles, we discover that belief in miracles isn't naive or intellectually dishonest—it's actually the most reasonable position for anyone who believes in God. The psalm begins in a dark place of desperation, with the writer crying out at night, stretching untiring hands toward heaven, questioning whether God has forgotten to be merciful. Many of us know those 2 AM prayers when our hearts are breaking and situations seem impossible. But the psalm shifts dramatically when the writer makes a conscious decision to redirect his thoughts from his problems to God's power. We often work hard to avoid situations where we'd need miracles, preferring comfort over the kind of obedience that requires God's supernatural intervention. Yet God does miracles for two primary reasons: to redeem His people and to glorify His name.

Our final message from our Doors series brings us to James chapter 5 where we are confronted with a truth we often avoid: the judge is standing at the door. But rather than being a source of fear, God's coming judgment should actually inspire us. For those of us who have experienced injustice, exploitation, or suffering, knowing that God will ultimately right every wrong brings profound comfort. We learn that judgment begins with God's household, which means we must examine our own hearts first. Like a farmer who patiently tends the land while waiting for harvest, we're called to remain faithful and active in doing good, even when justice seems delayed. Christ's return will be sudden, like labor pains or a thief in the night. This should drive us to live ready rather than just get ready, maintaining short accounts with God and being ruthless with personal sin. Most importantly, this message points us to Jesus as our only hope, the door through which we must enter to escape judgment and receive salvation.