Psalm 8 - My Devotion Today.

““Yahweh, our Lord,

how magnificent is Your name throughout the earth!

You have covered the heavens with Your majesty.

Because of Your adversaries,

You have established a stronghold

from the mouths of children and nursing infants

to silence the enemy and the avenger.

When I observe Your heavens,

the work of Your fingers,

the moon and the stars,

which You set in place,

what is man that You remember him,

the son of man that You look after him?

You made him little less than God

and crowned him with glory and honor.

You made him lord over the works of Your hands;

You put everything under his feet:

all the sheep and oxen,

as well as the animals in the wild,

the birds of the sky,

and the fish of the sea

that pass through the currents of the seas.

Yahweh, our Lord,

how magnificent is Your name throughout the earth!””
— Psalm 8

I love you,

Rob

Fruit that Remains

In 2006, we began praying for revival. Highland, once a dead church, began asking the Lord to revive us with His life-giving Holy Spirit. We anchored in Psalm 85 - a Communal Payer, which asks the Lord to relent in His anger and, instead, to revive His people, again. The Psalmist asks the Lord to show His favor to His people and to grant salvation through His name.

The Lord directed us to use this Psalm to fashion our corporate prayer-life Each Sunday for the year of 2006, we asked the Lord to show us His favor and grant to us His salvation. He has proven faithful and trustworthy. The fruit of our prayer-life has been that we have encountered the favor of our Lord in ways beyond our wildest imagination. We have also seen so many submit to the Lordship of Jesus.

From 2006-2016, we remained committed to the vision the Lord placed before us. It’s very much been a season of resolve. That being, to give the Gospel to the poor and unify churches together on common, Biblical ground and to remain devoted to the preaching of God’s Word with integrity and conviction.

In 2017, we once again began asking the Lord for revival, calling our church to prayer. We are asking the Lord to produce a harvest of righteousness through prayer and fasting, confidently expecting His glory to be magnified in the life of our church. We’re asking the Lord to revive us individually, as families, as a church, and as a community. All for the purposes of our lives producing fruit, much fruit, and fruit that remains - for the glory of God.

Today, we continue to be fashioned into a people of prayer. I want us to bring to life the demand of Jesus: ‘that His house is to be a House of Prayer.’

Starting this month, we will devote each first Sunday to Communion. We will use this Sunday as a time for personal reflection and corporate worship. During the first Sunday, our Communion Sunday, we will also introduce a monthly focus for how we will pray that month. The remaining Sundays in the month, we will hold corporate worship, pray for revival, and then open God’s Word together.

To bearing fruit that remains, together,

Rob & Carrie

We love you.

10th Annual Highland Hangout

Highland Tribe,

I am so grateful for each of you who made our 10th annual Highland Hangout such a joyous event! I really appreciate my mom and dad hosting us, too. Many memories have been made in your backyard.

We also were able to baptize Pat, Alan and Tyler. They each professed Jesus to be Lord and now, we walk with them, as they walk in the light of Christ all of the days of their lives. Let’s rally around them in love, grace and truth.

Rob

Alan

Alan

Pat

Pat

Tyler

Tyler

Sunday Afternoon Help.

Highland Family,

With the support of the church, Truth Spring Academy will be eating in the sanctuary this school year. We have outgrown the lunchroom. With this in mind, I ask that those willing to help stack the chairs each Sunday, just after our 11am service. It simply involves us taking up the row of 5 chairs, stacking them and pushing that stack along the wall. I appreciate your help, in advance. We will start this Sunday.

I also want you to know that Rock Presbyterian has given Truth Spring Academy a green light to operate out of their facility if we need to, once construction starts.

Highland, Truth Spring could not function without your support, generosity and love. Thank you so much for affording us this chance.

Thank you so much,

Rob