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Go 901: Sharing Jesus by Praying Prayers (Eph. 6:19-20) Chris Altrock – Sept. 17, 2017

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Praying for Cesar

A few weeks ago I ate Mexican food with Doug, a friend of mine, in Selmer, TN. Selmer is a small town in middle TN. Perhaps fifteen years ago, that might have been an impossibility–eating authentic Mexican food in a small town in middle TN–unless you count Taco Bell as authentic Mexican food. But these days Selmer boasts three family owned Mexican food restaurants.

Doug introduced me to Paula, whose family ran this restaurant. They moved to Selmer from Mexico. Paula introduced us to her daughter, Jessica, an eighth grader, who helped around the restaurant. She introduced us to her son, Cesar, a senior. Cesar played football for the local high school. My friend Doug had taught both Jessica and Cesar in school. Cesar had recently been coming to the church Doug works part time for. A fellow teenager at school, a member of that church’s youth group, had reached out to Cesar and invited Cesar to start coming to church with him.Read More »Go 901: Sharing Jesus by Praying Prayers (Eph. 6:19-20) Chris Altrock – Sept. 17, 2017

Day of Unbroken Prayer – Prayer Prompts

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From Sunday 6/4/17 1 PM – Monday 6/5/17 1 PM the Highland Church is hosting a Day of Unbroken Prayer.

Participants are spending 1/2 hour slots in prayer during this 24 hour period.

Five prayer prompts for these 1/2 hour prayer times are included in this PDF.

A link to the Google doc is HERE.

The content of the document is below:

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Unbroken: Praying Through the Ordinary Minutes Not Just the Extraordinary Milestones Chris Altrock – May 28, 2017

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Highland’s Women’s Minister, Lawana Maxwell, and I co-lead a class for adults on Wednesday nights called Quest. The class is designed to push adults deeper in their spiritual lives. As Lawana and I were preparing the curriculum, she suggested a compelling book she had read. It’s been a spiritually formative book for our class.

The book is by Nabeel Qureshi and is called Seeking Allah, Finding Jesus. The book is Nabeel’s account of leaving his family of origin and his Islamic faith and embracing Christianity. He lost nearly everything in the exchange.

      For months after his conversion his family attempted to reconvert him to Islam by sending Imam after Imam to him.

      When he decided to marry a Christian woman, they refused to come to the wedding.

      And when he gave up his plans to become a doctor in order to enter Christian ministry, it was the final straw. Read More »Unbroken: Praying Through the Ordinary Minutes Not Just the Extraordinary Milestones Chris Altrock – May 28, 2017