Highland,

As we continue through our text in James, take the time to read the passage, please. Let your hearts marinate in the living Word of God, as you ask Him for wisdom. No matter how condemnable you may feel, the Lord, as James promises, the Lord will give you wisdom, without criticizing you. Our text is James 3:13-4:8. Let’s allow the Spirit of the Lord to convict and counsel our hearts, Highland - thereby ever changing our heart’s attitude! The result in our yielding to the Holy Spirit’s convictions and counsel is that we become ‘holy as He is holy.’ Our life’s conduct (our attitude and our actions) is therefore being renewed by His holy nature, leading to works of wisdom, which is coated in meekness.

“Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”? But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you” (James 3:13-4:8).

Understanding meekness with more and more clarity is where we will focus this Sunday. I look forward to seeing you. In closing, on a practical note, sermons for the last two weeks have now been posted. You can find them on our audio-page.

Sunday Morning Schedule

8am: Doors open
8:30–10:00: Coffee & Conversation & Devotion in our Dining Facility
9am-10am: Sunday School
10am: Sunday Morning Service in our sanctuary (which is our gym)

This Fall classes

Classroom 1: 0-2 year olds: Church Nursery
Classroom 2: 3 and 4 year olds: First Green Room
Classroom 3: Kindergarten-Second Grade Class: Second Green Room
Classroom 4: Third-Fifth Grade Class: Yellow Room
Classroom 5: Tweens & Teen Boys: Red Room
Classroom 6: Women’s Bible Study: Second Orange Room
Classroom 7: Men’s Bible Study (Ongoing throughout the year): First Orange Room
Classroom 8: Tweens & Teen Girls: Blue Room
Red-brick Sanctuary: The Truth Project (begins at 8:45)
Dining Facility: Life Class Devotion (Ongoing throughout the year)

As we look forward to the upcoming Spring Session, if you are interested in leading a class, please let me know. We will discuss. Again, thank you to all who’ve made this semester possible.

update from david klaus

Highland, so many of you have come around the Klauses and their ministry in Myanmar, and several of you are now in regular contact with Myanmar kingdom pioneers yourselves! For anyone interested in hearing more inspiring stories from the emerging underground church in Myanmar, David Klaus will be hosting a "Myanmar: State Of The Kingdom" interactive Zoom call on Thursday, Sept. 19th from 8:30-9:30pm. You'll learn some context for what's happening in Myanmar, how the body of Christ is adapting, and how you can meet and pray for Myanmar pioneers personally without ever needing to buy a plane ticket. Register for the Zoom call here.

*‘This Church Opens Wide Her Doors with a Welcome from Jesus Christ.’*

highland cafe update

Highland Cafe’ continues to offer the love of Christ to our sidewalks Monday thru Friday, 8:30am-11:30am. To those who serve, thank you for opening your hearts in such a committed fashion! Prayer meeting is held in cafe’ Wednesdays, at 9am.

We appreciate those who’ve helped to stock the cafe’ with bottled water, K-cups & coffee supplies! This is an ongoing way in which you can support Highland in such a small but impactful way! Please consider helping, thanks!

Let’s keep our home clean

Since we have Terry Young cleaning, at this point on Sundays after service, our responsibilities will include:

Classroom Responsibilities

Wiping down desks
Cleaning up art-related stains
Placing chairs on top of the desks
Sweeping the floors

Sanctuary

Pick up all trash
Clean up all spills
Stack and store chairs

Dining Facility

Stack chairs
Fold tables
Sweep floors

This will allow him to come in and mop Sunday afternoons. If you have questions, please connect with me or Megan directly. Thank you!

I love you, Highland.

Rob