Dear Church

Pastor Slager teaches from 2 Corinthians 12:1-10 that Christians should boast in weakness rather than strength, because God's grace is sufficient and His power is made perfect through our limitations and thorns.

Pastor Bob Wade closes 1 Corinthians with four practical marks of genuine faith: generosity, hospitality, steadfastness, and love — a roadmap for how believers live out the gospel daily and refresh the body of Christ.

Pastor Slager teaches from 1 Corinthians 15:35-49 that believers' perishable bodies will be raised imperishable and glorious, using illustrations from seeds, creation, and the stars to show that the best is yet to come for those in Christ.

Pastor Yule teaches from 1 Corinthians 15:50-58 that believers have certain victory over death through Christ, and therefore must live steadfast, immovable lives, always abounding in the Lord's work.

Pastor Ed Lutz teaches from 1 Corinthians 15:1-11 that the gospel of Christ's death, burial, and resurrection is historically verified, supremely important, and transforms lives through the power of God's grace.

Pastor Kevin Yule shows that denying the bodily resurrection collapses the entire Christian faith, but because Christ has risen, believers have living hope, forgiveness of sin, and the promise of eternal life.

Pastor Yule concludes the 1 Corinthians 12-14 series by teaching that spiritual gifts must be exercised with decency and order so the church is built up, not thrown into chaos, using a cereal bowl illustration to show that every gift is essential and must be used in its proper place.

Pastor Thomas Slager walks through 1 Corinthians 14:1-25, presenting four reasons prophecy takes priority over tongues in the church gathering -- it builds up, benefits, instructs outsiders, and convicts unbelievers -- while urging believers to pursue love above all gifts and to be known as 'Jesus people' rather than being defined by any single good thing.

Pastor Kevin Yule teaches from 1 Corinthians 13 that spiritual gifts and good deeds — no matter how impressive — are worthless without genuine love for God and His church, and that love, unlike temporary gifts, will endure into eternity when Christ returns.

Pastor Bob Wade teaches from 1 Corinthians 12:12-31 that every believer receives a supernatural spiritual gift from God and that the church functions like a human body — each part is essential, no one is superior, and the more excellent way to use every gift is love.

Pastor Thomas Slager teaches from 1 Corinthians 12:1-11 that the Holy Spirit gives every believer a spiritual gift — not for personal benefit but for the common good of the church and the glory of God — and calls Highlands Church to pursue unity over uniformity as each member discovers and deploys their gift in the team sport of Christianity.