Highrock Church Brookline: Recent Episodes
Highrock Church Brookline
This week, Pastor Brynn from Highrock North Shore opens our new sermon series The Greatest Commandment of All Time.
This week, Pastor Yumiko concludes our sermon series The Light Shines: Stories of Chirstmas.
This week, Pastor John continues our sermon series The Light Shines: Stories of Chirstmas, focusing in on the Shepherds.
This week, Pastor Matt Webel from Highrock Haverhill opens our new sermon series The Light Shines: Stories of Chirstmas, focusing in on Mary.
This week we learn from a new preacher in our Pass the Mic series, Pastor Dani Kilgore. Pastor Dani serves as the Outreach and Missions Pastor at Marin Covenant Church in California, a sister church in our denomination.
This week, Lainie Battaglie from Highrock Haverhill concluded our sermon series Let Justice Roll: the Book of Amos.
This week, Pastor Yumiko from Highrock Brookline continued our new sermon series Let Justice Roll: the book of Amos.
This week, Pastor Matt from Highrock Haverhill continued our new sermon series Let Justice Roll: the book of Amos.
This week, Pastor John continued our new sermon series Let Justice Roll: the book of Amos
This week, we are hearing from a Covenant leader, Pastor Gustavo Torres. Pastor Gus serves as Associate Pastor and Praise Leader at Iglesia del Pacto Evangelico Peniel, a Spanish-speaking congregation in Chicago.
Rev. Stephanie Ahn Mathis speaks on Acts 9 and the transforming power of Jesus to change the hardest of hearts.
Sabbath is more than just a day off or a day to recover and relax. It is a time that God has set apart and blessed and he has invited to to partake in the joyous feast that he's prepared.
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In the story of the wise and foolish builders, Jesus reminds us of the importance of not only hearing Jesus' words but obeying them and living them out. It is not only the path to wisdom but the one that helps us to endure the storms of life.
Jonah's reason for running from God is revealed and God twice asks him the poignant question: "is it right for you to be angry?" It is a lofty task to make sense of God and His ways and it is important for us to conider our own hearts in the matter what our understanding of what is "right" actually is.
In this chapter we see the entire city of Nineveh repent after hearing Jonah's very lackluster prophetic word. The king of Nineveh poses an important question: who knows? Acknowledging that ultimately no one can fully know what God will do.
Compared to the grace, mercy and compassion of God, Jonah's, and ours, is very much lacking. As we see God deliver Jonah from certain death, the dichotomy becomes apparaent in subtle ways through Jonah's prayer of thanksgiving and seeming repentance.
In our journey of faith, God sometimes asks things of us. Whether it is to do something, to give up something, to tell someone something. In Jonah's case, he was to tell the Ninevites to repent. And just like Jonah, our response is often to run in the other direction. Jonah 1 shows us a God that is full of grace even when his servant responds in disobedience.
And on the night that Jesus was betrayed, he tells his disciples — his friends — in the same way that God has loved me, so I love you. As God has chosen me for the purpose of healing and redeeming the world, so I am choosing you to go and do likewise. I am choosing you to heal and renew the world. As God has eklégomai’d me, so I eklégomai you.
In Exodus 4:29-6:9, we see how God spoke when Moses believed in God but the circumstances told God was not in control. And God spoke to reveal the identify as the deliverer.
In the opening chapters of Exodus, Israel is a community in crisis ruled by brutal leaders and oppressive laws. But God's salvation was not far off - floating in a basket and hidden among the reeds of the Nile.
Opportunities to obey God are presented many times in the life of the believer. God calls us to to his service in ways that at times appear insignificant or challenges our carefully laid plans or past experiences. Ultimately, our obedience to Christ's call to follow him and become his disciple leads us to share the gospel message for others to answer his call and become disciples.
Jesus has made a way for us to be able to enter into the direct presence of God. Explore what the author of Hebrews intends for us to do with that truth and the vital role that community plays.
In this life, God orders our experiences by times and seasons. When God opens the door for new beginnings, we should seek out God's handprint in our new journey and remember the stories of God’s faithfulness in our lives and the lives of others. This is what Joshua did in Joshua 4 when the Israelites crossed the Jordan river and setup memorial stones to the Lord to remind them and future generations that the Lord's hand is powerful.
What does it mean for us to taste and see that the Lord is good? By exploring Psalm 34 and David's experience of the goodness of God we can begin to see how it becomes a reality for us.
In John 4:4-24 we see Jesus make himself known, and the Samaritan woman cast off her own enriched tribal allegiances, her own cultural norms and customs so that she can worship God in sprit and truth.
In Part II of Why Worship, we continue our study of what it means to worship in Spirit and in Truth. One expression of truthful worship is Praise. Using Psalms 150 as a pattern, we see that God desires that we praise him for who He is and what He has done.
In John 4, Jesus teaches the Samaritan woman on the true essence of worship. Forsaking places and rituals, Jesus identifies worship as a heart position that manifests itself through our sacrifice back to God.
The armor Paul speaks of is not our armor that we put on ourselves to go into battle - it is GOD'S armor that he gives us to wear. This sermon, which includes a focus on speaking to the kids, explores his armor.
We read in Ephesians that the human marriages of this world are but copies of the ultimate marriage between Christ and his Church. And if that is true - if our marriages serve, as Paul says, as illustrations of the real marriage - then how do we conduct those marriages so that the illustration is a faithful one?
The Apostle Paul reflects upon the great transformation that happens when we come to faith in Jesus Christ. Using the analogy of changing clothes, we are encouraged to throw off our old sinful nature and put on our new nature. As we live out this new lifestyle, we are encouraged to: (1) Live blameless and (2) Live as children of the light.
Immediately after Paul drives home his unity speech, he begins with next section with, "however". Make every effort to keep unity in the body. However... and he goes on to explain that everyone has been given their own gift for the purpose of building and edifying the body. This sermon explores the 5 gifts that he mentions and challenges the existing structures and priorities of the western church.
God never gives you an assignment without equipping you for the task. When God called the church to make disciples of all nations, He promised that the Holy Spirit would be with you to give you power from on high. Pentecost Sunday marks the igniting of the church for the purpose of being sent out to reach a dying world.
Meals weren't just a physical necessity for Jesus - they were a spiritual opportunity. Sharing the table in this life created an opportunity to invite someone to the eternal feast in God's kingdom. And we are invited to use the table to build genuine relationships and create spiritual opportunities.
In our attempt to love and reach out to friends and family, many Christians tend to talk too much and listen too little. The passage from John provides us with an illustration of what listening with care can look like and the fruit that is yielded from this labor of love.
An introduction to the BLESS sermon series: When God sent the nation of Israel into exile he did not tell them to mourn the loss of their power or lament that they no longer ruled the nation that they ruled - he told them to bless Babylon and pray for its flourishing. This sermon examines the church's loss of power in recent decades and the opportunity that living as exiles introduces.
This Easter sermon that happened to fall on April Fools explores the powerful evidence for a literal, physical resurrection from 2000 years ago. And what that brings and means for our lives today. Christ is Risen! Risen indeed.
The claim that God became flesh inspires us. The claim that God became sin disturbs us. This passage explores the journey of The Word made flesh being made sin for us - and the crucifixion it led to.
The foundational doctrine for the whole of the cosmos is the doctrine of the Trinity. As Christians we affirm that our God is one AND that our God is community. This sermon explores this truth and how this central truth informs the way we see everything around us.
The conversion of the Ethiopian eunuch in Acts 8:26-40 reminds us that there is no one who is too powerful, too rich, and too different to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
In the first part of the Knowing God series, Pastor Josh illustrates how God's character is majestic.
Pastor Josh's illustrates what a commited life of prayer can look like in today's context.
Pastor Yumiko shares about her year spent serving at Tokyo Life Church in the Ikebukuro neighborhood in Tokyo, Japan.