Sermon Archives

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As a reformed congregation within the PC(U.S.A), Highland centers each worship service around hearing and responding to God’s word. CD’s, which include a full audio recording of our worship services, are available in the church library.

Dec. 22, 2024From Generation to Generation: The Judgement and Redemption of the World
Dr. Randy Harris
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Dec. 15, 2024From Generation to Generation: We Can Choose a Better Way
Rev. Debbie Layman
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Dec. 08, 2024From Generation to Generation: The Love That Casts Out Fear
Dr. Randy Harris
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Dec. 01, 2024From Generation to Generation: Jesus’ Family, and Ours
Dr. Randy Harris
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Nov. 24, 2024I Am Thankful to Be Thankful
Rev. Debbie Layman
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Nov. 17, 2024We Are the Church Together
Dr. Randy Harris
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Nov. 10, 2024When Our Stuff Gets the Best of Us
Dr. Randy Harris
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Nov. 03, 2024The Church in the River of Time: The Church in the Present Moment, Surrounded by Saints
Dr. Randy Harris
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October 27, 2024The Church in the River of Time: What Should the Church Do with Its Future?
Dr. Randy Harris
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October 20, 2024The Church in the River of Time: What Should the Church Do with Its Past?
Dr. Randy Harris
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October 13, 2024Thy Kingdom Come…on Earth
Rev. Steve McCutchan
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October 06, 2024Has Everyone Been Fed?
Rev. Debbie Layman
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September 29, 2024Faithfulness Sustains the Generations
Dr. Randy Harris
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September 22, 2024A Word about Greatness
Dr. Randy Harris
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September 15, 2024Questions of Identity
Rev. Debbie Layman
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September 08, 2024Bringing Our Needs to Jesus
Dr. Randy Harris
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September 01, 2024Jesus Goes to the Oscars: Wheat, Weeds, and The Shawshank Redemption
Dr. Randy Harris
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August 25, 2024Jesus Goes to the Oscars: Ratatouille, and a Taste of Grace
Rev. Courtney Stevens
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August 18, 2024Jesus Goes to the Oscars: Barbie, and Remaining Stuck
Rev. Debbie Layman
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August 11, 2024Jesus Goes to the Oscars: In the Lost-and-Found Department with Finding Nemo
Dr. Randy Harris
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August 04, 2024Jesus Goes to the Oscars: Chariots of Fire and Doing the Words of Jesus
Dr. Randy Harris
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July 28, 2024Jesus Goes to the Oscars: Soul, and Learning to Trust in an Anxious Time
Dr. Randy Harris
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July 21, 2024Jesus Goes to the Oscars: Harriet, and Not Losing Heart
Rev. Debbie Layman
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July 14, 2024Jesus Goes to the Oscars: All the King’s Men and the Upside-Down Way of JesusDr. Randy Harriswatch
July 07, 2024Jesus Goes to the Oscars: Places in the Heart and God’s Great Banquet TableDr. Randy Harriswatch
June 30, 2024Jesus Goes to the Oscars: Green Book and the Journey from Bondage to FreedomDr. Randy Harriswatch
June 23, 2024Jesus Goes to the Oscars: Toy Story and the Call of Friendship
Dr. Randy Harris
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June 16, 2024Hold Fast to What Is Good
Rev. Debbie Layman
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June 09, 2024Jesus Goes to the Oscars: The Muppet Movie and the Invitation to Follow
Rev. Courtney Stevens
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June 02, 2024Jesus Goes to the Oscars: Field of Dreams and the Treasure of God
Dr. Randy Harris
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May 26, 2024Overflowing
Dr. Randy Harris
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May 19, 2024Unleashing the Spirit
Dr. Randy Harris
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May 12, 2024You Will Receive Power
Dr. Randy Harris
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May 05, 2024The Wide Welcome of God’s Love
Dr. Randy Harris
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April 28, 2024Let Us Love
Rev. Debbie Layman
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April 21, 2024The Good Shepherd
Dr. Randy Harris
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April 14, 2024Real Presence
Dr. Randy Harris
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April 07, 2024The Continuous Feast of Easter
Dr. Randy Harris
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March 31, 2024Transformed by Love: Love Is Stronger than Death
Dr. Randy Harris
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March 29, 2024Good Friday Tenebrae Servicewatch
March 24, 2024Transformed by Love: Learning to Love Anyway
Dr. Randy Harris
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March 17, 2024Transformed by Love: Learning to Love Our Neighbors
Rev. Debbie Layman
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March 10, 2024Growing Into StewardshipChristopher Layman
A Future With HopeJosie Scott
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March 03, 2024Transformed by Love: Learning to Love Our Enemies
Dr. Randy Harris
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February 25, 2024Transformed by Love: Learning to Love Jesus
Dr. Randy Harris
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February 18, 2024Transformed by Love: Learning to Love God
Dr. Randy Harris
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February 14, 2024Ash Wednesday Worship Servicewatch
February 11, 2024The Promise of Newness
Dr. Randy Harris
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February 04, 2024The Threat of Grace
Dr. Randy Harris
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January 28, 2024Life Worth Living: The Joy of Serving
Rev. Debbie Layman
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January 14, 2024Life Worth Living: United with Christ
Dr. Randy Harris
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January 7, 2024Home By Another Way
Dr. Randy Harris
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December 31, 2023A Thrill of Hope: Christmas Present
Dr. Randy Harris
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December 24, 2023Candlelight Christmas Eve Servicewatch
December 24, 2023A Thrill of Hope: Love Has Come
Rev. Debbie Layman
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December 17, 2023A Thrill of Hope: Rejoicing in the Desert
Dr. Randy Harris
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December 10, 2023A Thrill of Hope: Where Good News Begins
Dr. Randy Harris
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December 3, 2023A Thrill of Hope: Participatory Hope
Dr. Randy Harris
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Nov. 26, 2023He Shall Come to Judge
Dr. Randy Harris
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Nov. 19, 2023Recognizing Moments of Grace
Rev. Debbie Layman
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Nov. 12, 2023Our Treasures, Our Hearts
Dr. Randy Harris
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Nov. 5, 2023In Good Company
Dr. Randy Harris
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October 29, 2023Reformation Sunday: Celebrating the Confessional Tradition of the Churchwatch
October 22, 2023Something to Say: “Hope That Does Not Disappoint”
Dr. Randy Harris
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October 15, 2023Something to Say: “What Use Is the Church?”
Dr. Randy Harris
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October 8, 2023Something to Say: “Shall Woman Preach?”
Rev. Debbie Layman
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October 1, 2023Something to Say: “Who Is Jesus Christ for Us Today?”
Sermon by Dr. Randy Harris, read by Rev. Courtney Stevens
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Sept. 24, 2023Something to Say: “Made, and Remade, in God’s Image”
Dr. Randy Harris
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Sept. 17, 2023Something to Say: “Maker, and Redeemer, of Heaven and Earth”
Dr. Randy Harris
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Sept. 10, 2023Something to Say: “Sankofa and God’s Steadfast Love”
Dr. Randy Harris
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Sept. 03, 2023Singing Through the Summer: “Christ, Be Our Light
Rev. Debbie Layman
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August 27, 2023Singing Through the Summer: “I’m Gonna Eat at the Welcome Table
Rev. Courtney Stevens
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August 20, 2023Singing Through the Summer: “Is Love All It Is Cracked Up to Be?
Rev. Jud Milam
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August 13, 2023Singing Through the Summer: “Living In–Between
Dr. Heather Ferguson
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August 06, 2023Singing Through the Summer: “Come, Ye Sinners, Poor and Needy
Rev. Debbie Layman, Milo Archambault, and Christopher Layman
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July 30, 2023Singing Through the Summer: “Once Upon a Time
Rev. Jodi Lingan
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July 23, 2023Singing Through the Summer: “Will You Let Me Be Your Servant
Rev. Debbie Layman
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July 16, 2023Singing Through the Summer: “Out There and In Here
Rev. Joe Blankinship
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July 09, 2023Singing Through the Summer: “My Shepherd Will Supply My Need
Rev. Courtney Stevens
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July 02, 2023Singing Through the Summer: “This is My Song
Rev. Debbie Layman
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June 25, 2023Singing Through the Summer: “High Waves, Deep Water
Rev. Felicia Stewart Hoyle
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June 18, 2023Singing Through the Summer: “Help Us Accept Each Other
Rev. Debbie Layman
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June 11, 2023Singing Through the Summer: “Trial and Triumph
Dr. Steve Scott
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June 04, 2023Singing Through the Summer: “Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty!
Rev. Courtney Stevens
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May 28, 2023Singing Through the Summer: “Sounds of the Spirit
Rev. Debbie Layman
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May 21, 2023When Church Seems Useless
Dr. Randy Harris
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May 14, 2023The God Who Won’t Let Go
Dr. Randy Harris
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May 07, 2023A Tale of Two Meals
Dr. Randy Harris
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April 30, 2023Youth Sunday
Service prepared and written by our Highland Senior High Youth
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April 23, 2023Abundant Life, Together
Dr. Randy Harris
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April 16, 2023Really Believing
Rev. Courtney Stevens
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April 09, 2023Easter Worship “What Matters at Easter
Dr. Randy Harris
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April 07, 2023Maundy/Tenebrae Servicewatch
April 02, 2023System Update
Dr. Randy Harris
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March 26, 2023The Living Lord in the Kingdom of Death
Dr. Randy Harris
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March 19, 2023Surely We Are Not Blind, Are We?
Rev. Debbie Layman
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March 12, 2023Living Water
Dr. Randy Harris
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March 05, 2023Love Invasion
Dr. Randy Harris
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February 26, 2023Tempted by Goodness
Dr. Randy Harris
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February 22, 2023Ash Wednesday Servicewatch
February 19, 2023Safe on the Mountain
Rev. Debbie Layman
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February 12, 2023Fully Human
Dr. Randy Harris
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February 05, 2023A Word about Salt
Dr. Randy Harris
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January 29, 2023Crazy Talk
Dr. Randy Harris
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January 22, 2023When Love Comes to Town
Rev. Debbie Layman
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January 15, 2023What Are You Looking For?
Dr. Randy Harris
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January 08, 2023Beloved, Chosen, Called
Dr. Randy Harris
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January 01, 2023Singing Our Way to Bethlehem: What Star Is This, with Beams So Bright
Rev. Courtney Stevens
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December 25, 2022Singing Our Way to Bethlehem: Incarnate in Song
Dr. Randy Harris
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December 18, 2022Singing Our Way to Bethlehem: The First Nowell
Dr. Randy Harris
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December 11, 2022Singing Our Way to Bethlehem: My Soul Cries Out with a Joyful Shout
Rev. Debbie Layman
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December 04, 2022Singing Our Way to Bethlehem: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
Dr. Randy Harris
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November 27, 2022Singing Our Way to Bethlehem: O Come, O Come Emmanuel
Dr. Randy Harris
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November 20, 2022Let Your Light Shine: Sharing Our New Quality of Life
Rev. Debbie Layman
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November 13, 2022Let Your Light Shine: Sharing the Gifts We Are Given
Dr. Randy Harris
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November 06, 2022Let Your Light Shine: Reviewing Our Faithfulness in the Light of the Saints
Dr. Randy Harris
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October 30, 2022Let Your Light Shine: Finding Our Why for Our Sharing
Dr. Randy Harris
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October 23, 2022Let Your Light Shine: Connected as God’s Creation
Rev. Debbie Layman
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October 16, 2022Let Your Light Shine: Being Neighbors
Dr. Randy Harris
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October 09, 2022Let Your Light Shine: Scripture and Issues of Christian Faith and Life
Dr. Randy Harris
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October 02, 2022Let Your Light Shine: Bread for the World
Dr. Randy Harris
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September 25, 2022Let Your Light Shine: Going Far, Together
Dr. Randy Harris
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September 18, 2022Let Your Light Shine: A Caring People
Rev. Debbie Layman
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September 11, 2022Let Your Light Shine: A Good News People
Dr. Randy Harris
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September 04, 2022Counting the Cost
Dr. Randy Harris
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August 28, 2022Speaking of Faith: Table Manners
Rev. Courtney Stevens
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August 21, 2022Speaking of Faith: Learning from the Faith of Jesus
Dr. Randy Harris
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August 14, 2022Speaking of Faith: Faith Is the Courage to Endure
Rev. Debbie Layman
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August 07, 2022Speaking of Faith: Faith Is a Journey
Dr. Randy Harris
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July 31, 2022The Main Thing
Dr. Randy Harris
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July 24, 2022Living by the Spirit
Rev. Debbie Layman
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July 17, 2022Remember Who You Are
Dr. Randy Harris
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July 10, 2022How Does God Make Right What Has Gone Wrong?
Dr. Randy Harris
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July 03, 2022Is It Ever Too Late for Redemption?
Dr. Randy Harris
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June 26, 2022A Different Gospel?
Dr. Randy Harris
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June19, 2022Windows to Love
Rev. Debbie Layman
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June 12, 2022Saved to the Body of Christ
Rev. Steve McCutchan
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June 05, 2022Gifts Given, Gifts Needed!
Dr. Randy Harris
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May 29, 2022Only the Beginning
Rev. Courtney Stevens
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May 22, 2022Held in the Hands of HopeAidyn Burke
Finding Our Way ThroughRiley Hoge
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May 15, 2022The Choice to Love
Rev. Debbie Layman
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May 08, 2022Reckoning Again with the God We Have
Dr. Randy Harris
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May 01, 2022Getting Back to ‘Normal‘”
Dr. Randy Harris
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April 24, 2022Sometimes Seeing Really Is Believing
Dr. Randy Harris
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April 17, 2022Easter Festival Service “Rediscovering Jesus as Risen”
Dr. Randy Harris
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April 15, 2022Good Friday Tenebrae Service (Please note that due to technology difficulties, only the speakers can be heard until sometime during the special music following Communion.)watch
April 10, 2022Who Do You Say That I Am?Jesus as Presence
Rev. Debbie Layman
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April 03, 2022Who Do You Say That I Am?Jesus as Way
Dr. Randy Harris
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March 27, 2022Who Do You Say That I Am?Jesus as Lord
Dr. Randy Harris
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March 20, 2022Who Do You Say That I Am?Jesus as Savior
Dr. Randy Harris
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March 13, 2022Who Do You Say That I Am?Jesus as Teacher
Rev. Debbie Layman
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March 06, 2022Who Do You Say That I Am?Jesus as Friend
Dr. Randy Harris
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February 27, 2022Up and Down the Mountain
Dr. Randy Harris
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February 20, 2022Unrealistic
Dr. Randy Harris
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February 13, 2022Blessed Are You
Rev. Debbie Layman
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February 06, 2022Called Anyway
Dr. Randy Harris
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January 30, 2022The Good News at Nazareth
Dr. Randy Harris
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January 23, 2022Today
Dr. Randy Harris
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January 16, 2022They Have No Wine
Rev. Debbie Layman
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January 09, 2022Something in the Water
Dr. Randy Harris
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January 02, 2022Star Gifts
Dr. Randy Harris
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December 26, 2021Not Where Expected
Rev. Courtney Stevens
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December 24, 2021What the Angel Said
Dr. Randy Harris
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December 19, 2021Expecting the Unexpected
Dr. Randy Harris
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December 12, 2021Unexpected? Maybe Not…
Rev. Debbie Layman
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December 05, 2021Unexpected Messenger, Unexpected Message
Dr. Randy Harris
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November 28, 2021Unexpected Arrival
Dr. Randy Harris
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November 21, 2021All of Our Times
Rev. Debbie Layman
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November 14, 2021New Creation
Dr. Randy Harris
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November 07, 2021Spoiler Alert
Dr. Randy Harris
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October 31, 2021Love: Reformed and Always Being Reformed
Dr. Randy Harris
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October 24, 2021Learning to See
Dr. Randy Harris
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October 17, 2021Seeking the Benefit of Others
Rev. Debbie Layman
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October 10, 2021Reckoning with Our Stuff
Dr. Randy Harris
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October 03, 2021Jesus Loves the Little Children
Dr. Randy Harris
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September 26, 2021The Demands of Discipleship
Dr. Randy Harris
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September 19, 2021What If…?
Rev. Debbie Layman
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September 12, 2021The Life-Giving Messiah
Dr. Randy Harris
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September 05, 2021Desperation for Healing
Dr. Randy Harris
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August 29, 2021Amidst the Idols, the Living God
Dr. Randy Harris
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August 22, 2021When It’s All Too Much
Rev. Debbie Layman
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August 15, 2021Change of Plans
Rev. Courtney Stevens
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August 08, 2021Compromise
Dr. Randy Harris
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August 01, 2021On Being Called ‘Christians’
Dr. Randy Harris
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July 25, 2021The Continuing Conversion of the Church
Dr. Randy Harris
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July 18, 2021What Peter Didn’t Say
Dr. Randy Harris
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July 11, 2021Disciples Among Us
Rev. Courtney Stevens
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July 04, 2021Now There Was a Disciple in Winston-Salem…
Rev. Debbie Layman
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June 27, 2021Baptism and the Holy Spirit
Dr. Randy Harris
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June 20, 2021Responding Creatively
Rev. Debbie Layman
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June 13, 2021A New Thing?
Dr. Randy Harris
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June 06, 2021By What Power?”
Dr. Randy Harris
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May 30, 2021Learning to Speak Christian
Dr. Randy Harris
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May 23, 2021All Together in One Place
Rev. Debbie Layman
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May 16, 2021Liminal Space
Dr. Randy Harris
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May 09, 2021Life Together
Dr. Randy Harris
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May 02, 2021The Widening Circle of Divine Love
Dr. Randy Harris
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April 25, 2021Wounds Remain
Rev. Debbie Layman
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April 18, 2021Extraordinary and Ordinary Redemption
Dr. Randy Harris
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April 11, 2021We Had Hoped
Dr. Randy Harris
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April 04, 2021The Impetus of Easter
Dr. Randy Harris
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April 02, 2021Office of Tenebrae
Dr. Randy Harris, Rev. Debbie Layman, Rev. Courtney Stevens
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April 02, 2021Stations of the Cross
Mr. Creighton Holder
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March 28, 2021Prayer in the Night
Rev. Debbie Layman
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March 21, 2021While We Were Enemies
Dr. Randy Harris
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March 14, 2021Actions and Words
Rev. Courtney Stevens
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March 07, 2021Faith Working Through Love
Dr. Randy Harris
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February 28, 2021The Relentless Refrain of Steadfast Love
Dr. Randy Harris
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February 21, 2021Named and Claimed in the Wilderness
Rev. Debbie Layman
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February 14, 2021When Glory and Suffering Meet
Dr. Randy Harris
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February 07, 2021Weariness, Exhaustion, Waiting…and RenewalDr. Randy Harriswatch
January 31, 2021What Have You to Do with Us, Jesus of Nazareth?” Dr. Randy Harriswatch
January 24, 2021The Kingdom of God Has Come Near
Dr. Randy Harris
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January 17, 2021Speak, for Your Servant Is Listening
Rev. Debbie Layman
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January 10, 2021The Making and Remaking of the World
Dr. Randy Harris
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January 03, 2021Arise, Shine
Dr. Randy Harris
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December 27, 2020Practicing Praise!”
Rev. Courtney Stevens
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December 20, 2020Not Impossible
Dr. Randy Harris
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December 13, 2020The Spirit of the Lord Is Upon Us
Rev. Debbie Layman
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December 06, 2020Comforting, Afflicting
Dr. Randy Harris
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November 29, 2020Bring the Candles
Dr. Randy Harris
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November 22, 2020Discipleship Now
Rev. Courtney Stevens
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November 15, 2020Becoming Like the God We Worship
Dr. Randy Harris
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November 08, 2020Faith, Hope, and Love Abide
Dr. Randy Harris
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November 01, 2020Blessed Were They; Blessed Are We
Rev. Debbie Layman
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October 25, 2020The Love Commandment
Dr. Randy Harris
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October 18, 2020Declaring Our Allegiance
Rev. Debbie Layman
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October 11, 2020Saints and Sinners, Called and Chosen
Dr. Randy Harris
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October 04, 2020Bearing Fruit
Dr. Randy Harris
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September 27, 2020Foot Watching
Dr. Randy Harris
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September 20, 2020Confusing Grace
Rev. Debbie Layman
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September 13, 2020The Heart of the Matter
Dr. Randy Harris
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September 06, 2020Pointing Out Our Faults
Dr. Randy Harris
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August 30, 2020Reframing Our Lives
Dr. Randy Harris
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August 23, 2020The Keys
Dr. Randy Harris
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August 16, 2020Examples to the Flock
Rev. Debbie Layman
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August 09, 2020The Church on the Water
Dr. Randy Harris
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August 02, 2020A Counting Lesson
Dr. Randy Harris
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July 26, 2020The Conviction of Things Not Seen
Dr. Randy Harris
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July 19, 2020Stop with the Weeding
Rev. Debbie Layman
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July 12, 2020Sowing the Kingdom
Dr. Randy Harris
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July 05, 2020Bringing Our Weariness to Jesus
Dr. Randy Harris
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June 28, 2020The Ministry of Welcome
Dr. Randy Harris
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June 21, 2020Putting Fear in Its Place
Dr. Randy Harris
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June 14, 2020Youth Sunday
Highland Senior High Youth
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June 07, 2020God Staying with Us
Rev. Debbie Layman
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May 31, 2020A Community of the Spirit
Dr. Randy Harris
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May 17, 2020Accounting for the Hope That Is in Us
Dr. Randy Harris
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May 10, 2020Now You Have Received Mercy
Rev. Debbie Layman
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May 03, 2020Hope in the Time of Suffering
Dr. Randy Harris
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April 26, 2020Risen Christ, Holiness, and Love
Dr. Randy Harris
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April 19, 2020“A Living Doxology”
Rev. Courtney Stevens
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April 12, 2020Easter “Risen Christ on the Loose
Dr. Randy Harris
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April 10, 2020Tenebrae Service
Highland’s Pastors
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April 05, 2020 “Branches in Our Hands”
Rev. Debbie Layman
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March 29, 2020 “Hope in the Valley”
Dr. Randy Harris
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March 22, 2020  “Love in the Time of Coronavirus”
Dr. Randy Harris
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March 08, 2020  “Astonished”
Dr. Randy Harris
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March 01, 2020  “Reckoning with the God We Have”
Dr. Randy Harris
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February 23, 2020  “Enemy Love and Our Crisis of Contempt”
Dr. Randy Harris
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February 16, 2020  “Fully Human”
Dr. Randy Harris
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February 09, 2020  “Salt and Light”
Rev. Debbie Layman
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