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The Ride of Your Life: Why Knowing God is so Vital to Your Voyage (Ps. 128, 131)

Jonathan Hill is the author of a book entitled What Has Christianity Ever Done For Us?[1] Some of you may be asking that question this morning. Maybe you’re here at Highland because a friend invited you since we just opened this facility or because a family member invited you since it’s Mother’s Day.  You may not regularly attend church.  And as someone not wholly committed to Christianity, you may wonder, “What has Christianity ever done for us?”

 

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Impractical Presents: Giving for and to God by Giving to Others (Prov. 14:31)

Last Monday some of Highland’s staff and elders prayerfully drove through the 11 neighborhoods within two miles of our new facility.  This was part of an ongoing effort to learn more about the new neighborhood.  Afterwards, I stopped by the Hatcher’s new home, just minutes away from the new facility.  As they gave me the tour of their home, I remembered the first time Kendra and I purchased a home.  What I most remember is sitting in someone’s office signing document after document after document.  And what I most remember about the documents is the financial numbers.  They were the largest financial numbers ever attached to my name!  And they made me nervous!  Like many of you, the first home we purchased was not something we could afford with our own resources.  We had to ask an institution for a loan.   That institution possessed greater resources than we did and was able to fund our need.

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Impractical Presents: Giving Worth to Those with None (Prov. 22:2)

I recently came across an online “Net-worth Calculator.”  Net-worth, according to this calculator is the difference between your assets and your liabilities.  It adds up your assets—how much you have in checking and savings, how much life insurance you posses, how much your home, car, jewelry, and art are worth, your mutual funds, pension funds, stocks, bonds, and other investment vehicles.  Then, it subtracts your liabilities—outstanding mortgages, student loans, car loans, credit card debt, and similar items.  What’s left is your net-worth.  This software will calculate any person’s net-worth.

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Real Economic Recovery: Get the Right Perspective on Hard Work (Prov. 10:4)

September was the one-year anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, a financial services firm.  The collapse represented the largest bankruptcy filing in U. S. history and it became a harbinger helping to usher in the current economic crisis.  This September, to mark the one year anniversary of Lehman Brothers’ collapse, the New York Times ran a series entitled “What We’ve Learned.”[1]  The Times asked leading economists to reflect on what lessons we have or should have learned as a result of the past twelve months of national and global financial turmoil.  In the articles, the economists shared the lessons they’ve distilled from these monetary circumstances.

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