As we move into May families with kids await the coming of summer and everyone enjoys the warmer temperatures and brighter days. At High Peak we’re enjoying the renewed Spirit of God’s presence. Our worship services lately have been filled with a sense of joy and celebration that excites me. Think about inviting someone to come experience the wonder of being in God’s presence along with His people!

On Purpose

We’re in week four of our series on the Purpose of High Peak Baptist Church.

Our purpose at High Peak is to

HONOR God!
GROW in His Word!
LOVE others as Christ loved us!

… as we reach for the Peak of God’s glory!

We talked about Honoring God with a sense of excitement and celebration when we meet together and a sense of awe and wonder as you meet with God by yourself. We talked about Loving people in fellowship and service both inside the church and outside the church. We experienced that loving fellowship in two wonderful ways last week – when we prayed over our brother and sister in Christ Tommy Auton and Martha Rector and when we gathered around the supper table that night.

Go and make disciples of all nations ... (Matthew 28:19)

This week we’re going to talk about Making Disciples! Look at Matthew 28:19-20 and ask yourself if you’re a disciple maker.

Events This Week

We have a regular schedule of activities this Sunday:

9:45 – Sunday School
11:00 – Worship
5:00 – Choir, Children and Youth Discipleship Classes
6:00 – Worship

Deacons Meeting at 7 PM Monday

Wednesday at 7PM

• Footsteps for Preschools
• Children In Action
• Youth Classes for boys and for girls
• Singles
• Adult Bible Sunday

Thrive Team Meeting after classes and worship!

Mother’s Day

We will honor our moms and then let you have the evening off with no evening activities!

My sermon this Sunday was about reading the Bible in 2012 and suggested seven ways to read the Bible this year. It will change your life as Hebrews 4:12 suggests. Here are those six ways:

1. Listen to the Bible – I recommend Max McLean’s great Audio Bible
2. Follow a systematic Bible reading plan using the links to the rich on our web site or a Bible app on your smartphone
3. Devotional books
4. The One Year Bible arranges the Bible into 365 readings with OT, NT, Psalms and Proverbs in each day’s reading
5. Pick a book of the Bible and read it till finished then pick another book
6. Follow the readings in your Sunday School lesson book
7. Receive a daily verse via Test Message – you only get a verse a day, but its better than never reading anything

However, you choose to do so, read the Bible. It will change your life!

Will you be reading your Bible in 2012?

Starting August 8th and going through the beginning of September at High Peak have been emphasizing prayer on our 30 Days of Prayer campaign. The goal is to help people be more focused in their prayer life for our church, but also for your personal needs and areas of influence. Here is last weeks message about Praying People in case you missed it. Come next Sunday as we continue for two more Sundays mornings.

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If you haven’t been to our Sunday Night services we are in the middle of a 6 week DVD study called When God’s People Pray with some very inspirational teaching and testimonies from Jim Cymbala and the his church The Brooklyn Tabernacle. Be sure to come and be inspired.

Here is this week’s message in the Old Fashioned Faith series. Dennis Hamrick sings special music and the sermon was on The Sabbath.

Here is our worship service for May 2. I preached the third sermon in my series on Energy from Col. 1:29 (theme verse) and this week’s text Eph. 4:11-16. The choir did the special music. It also features the video I posted previously of the men/boys working at our Associational office on Saturday, May 1.

This is the worship service from April 25, 2010. Special Music this week was by Deborah Meiners brought special music.

Here is the worship service video for April 18, 2010

I began a new series today called ENERGY based on Colossians 1:29. The choir sang a great special and Delores Trenary also lead us in an excellent special music.

We welcomed the Lawsons into the fellowship of our church today!

Here is this week’s worship video from Ustream.

The message is on Jeremiah 29:11 – The Future’s So Bright …

Here is the video of this week’s worship service at High Peak Baptist Church. Sorry we missed last week. There were some technical difficulties.

Here is last Sunday’s worship service that was streamed live.