Highland Park United Methodist Church
Highland Park United Methodist Church
This is the official KZread Site for Highland Park United Methodist Church in Dallas, Texas. Our mission is to help people become deeply devoted followers of Jesus Christ.
Online Worship Schedule:
Sanctuary (Traditional) | 8:30, 9:30 & 11 am | Web & App
Cornerstone (Contemporary) | 9:30 & 11 am | Web & App
Cox (Liturgical) | 8:30 am | Web & App
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Highland Park UMC
3300 Mockingbird Lane
Dallas, TX 75205
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214-521-3111
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Thank you.
Isn't it building a house on a foundation...a good/stable building site? The house will be stable when it is built on the good foundation.
Can I get the Reading plan for this
Be a blessing to a needy, Amen.
this is very encouraging God bless you
When Jesus walked the earth he said that the prayer called, "The Lord's Prayer" However Jesus taught, “When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men … but when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your father who is unseen.” People who do so with all the heart no longer see any other human being as too different from themselves to love.
“Now, therefore,” says the Lord, “Turn to Me with all your heart, With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.”So rend your heart, and not your garments; Return to the Lord your God, For He is gracious and merciful, Slow to anger, and of great kindness; And He relents from doing harm. - Joel 2:12-13
As long as you're alive and kicking and you haven't faced your creator and been judged yet. There's still hope for you.
I was prideful and he sure made me feel small When you get too high He knocks you down a peg For humilities sake I did a practice where I took a a scalding shower and imagined the actual pain Jesus went through during the crucifixion. And man just a taste of that pain and sadness and anguish was enough to know that that man Truly was the Son of God. Prepare first by Law and Long fasting Then enter through the middle door And Great truth he revealed to me I had a humility trip And what a Great Trip It Was Thank you for fasting and prayer To the Most High name above names So holy it cannot be spoken on the tongues of man to God goes all praises Humble me Lord My past is behind me and try as they may the devil's and demons try to get me But even in hell I will praise your holy name Even If I never go to heaven I will praise your holy name For Loving God is my Ultimate joy And no man knows my name I will glorify him in the secret place If I fall I hope he reproves me I don't wanna die in sin If I don't make it out tell them to pray for Logan Behlmann a sinner who did too many drugs and messed with blood and stupid shit because of prideful demons who attacked him since he was a tiny Chad of six years old. Don't say the word sex when kids are near by. Teach your kids about it so the creepy drag queens don't have to cause nobody wants a drag queen telling their kids how to live. I should know I'm a theater kid. One Love stop the fear stop the dogma And stop making money off of God A church is just another Cult A relationship with God is personal And a small Group of people who study scriptures together is a great Church Organized Religion is just another Cult but Jesus Christ is Risen and he has the final say. He may make you rich but a real preacher goes and says nothing and let's God do the Work While he studies and grows in the word. I have sinned greatly So please forgive My egotistical Pride And praise be to God Selah Selah Selah
Then if it's not a religion, then give up your tax exempt status.
Amen ❤❤❤
Amen
Interesting because people take a leap of faith when they have children but believe they will have perfect children so don’t think they don’t know what’s ahead. . Everyone assumes that they will have a healthy, neurotypical child and we don’t and we may not feel equal to the unexpected challenges. Somehow we have to figure it out and some people turn away. But those who don’t turn away feel very blessed.
Wesley was an Anglican.
Thank you for this y'all please lift up my family. Tiffany ,Joseph, Kailey ,Christian & Denver.
Beautiful, I just heard about Mother Teresa’s feet from Lila Rose in her book. I’d never heard this about her.
There is a difference between backsliding and falling away. God will never leave or forsake the backslider, but your playing with your eternal soul when you turn back to living like the world. No one is promised tomorrow, and if you die in that sinful lifestyle you die in unbelief, and rebellion. because sin is unbelief, and rebellion. He that knows to do good and does it not, to him that is sin. (James 4:17) God will reprove you to bring you back, but we have freewill, and He will never force you to come back. But if you have been reproved over and over and refuse to take heed, the time will come when sudden destruction will come and you will be reprobate. He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and without remedy. (Proverbs 29:1) So it is very foolish using grace to play with your soul that way! But falling away is this; For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.(Hebrews 6:4-6) You see, Life and death are in what you speak. Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof. (Proverbs 18:21) If you once confessed the Lord before men, and now you deny him before men, you have spoken death to yourself. Jesus said, Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven. (Matthew 10:32-33) I backslid and went back to drugs in the past. Got to the point of almost dying. But I never in my heart or with my mouth denied him to be the truth! I never in my heart or mouth blamed him for the mess I made in my life! I blamed myself, and knew I was to blame! I just was so deceived by the devil that told me over and over that God was finished with me, and I was going to hell. So I just did whatever my heart desired, and nothing was to much for me! I did it all, and so much wanted to die, because of what I had become! But I was so afraid, because I knew without doubt, if I did die in the sin I was living in I would go to hell! I was not wrong about that! But the day came when God gave me a choice! I was having a heart attack, and was in such pain I couldn`t hardly even move my chest hurt so bad! I knew that the day had come that i was going to die! And a thought came into my head, I remembered that I heard someone say if you take a asprin when your having a heart attack, it could save your life. I remembered I had seen asprin in the dresser drawer a couple days before. So it took all my strength to crawl over to the dresser, and I got the drawer open, and next to the asprin, was my bible I had not even seen in about two years at that point. It was not in the drawer two days before that. As I looked at both the bible, and the asprin, I heard God speak to me! He said one word, "CHOOSE" I picked up the bible, crawled back to the middle of the bed, got myself on my back, and randomly opened it. Years before that when I was only about a month old in the Lord. I was woke up in the middle of the night, by a hand rubbing my back, like a father rubbing his babies back in the crib. It scared me because there was nobody at home but me! That was the first time I heard that voice the same voice that years later on that bed, said Choose to me! The voice said I have chosen you Michael. And told to write down a scripture in the back of my bible. So I wrote it down. So that day about 4 years or so after that, feeling like my chest was going to explode, totally backsliden, I was able to get back over on my back. I randomly opened the bible to the middle of it, and looked down and there was that scripture I was told to write down in the back of the bible years before! And the nightmare I had when I was first re-born came to my memory. I was in a church with a sweet wholesome looking blond haired maid in a bed and we started making out. I said no I cant do this and pushed her off of me. Then everything in the church went black, and satanic writing was all over the walls in blood. and I felt my hands burning, and looked at my palms and 666 was carved into both of them! The maid turned into a dark haired very beutiful suductive witch, and pointed her finger at me, and started laughing at me! I was frozen on the bed and in total terror! I woke up screaming and drenched with sweat! I couldn`t stop shaking! I said to myself I will not ever sleep again! I went out to the living room and fell on my knees pleading with God! After about an hour, i sat back on the couch and said to myself I am not going back to sleep, I will just sit here and read my bible! I read for about maybe a half page and fell back asleep. I was right in the middle of the same dream, right where it left off! I was terrified, as I laid there helpless in the bed, my hands still had the 666 carved in them, the walls still covered in satanic writing in blood, the witch still pointing and laughing at me! But then, a little old lady walked up to me in the bed, and in a soft peaceful voice said, Come on! She smiled at me, and again said, Come on. I got up and followed her, and she went up 3 stairs and stood behind the alter of the church, then she disappeared. I went to go up there but a line formed in front of me, and the people all walked up the 3 stairs one by one, and around the alter, and back down the other side. I was last in line, a when my turn came I did the same thing as the rest did. But as i walked down the other side, the witch was standing in front of me, pointing and laughing at me. But my hands stopped burning and I looked at them and the 666 was gone on both hands! I then put my right hand out into her face and I saw through her eyes my now clean hand, then I saw through my eyes again, and saw the look on her face had changed from laughing and mocking to pure terror! She then flew backwards like she was being pulled by some force! She got smaller and smaller until she hit the back wall of the church and she just was dust against the wall! Instantly the church was light again, and all the satanic writing was gone! That is what i remembered as I saw that scripture as i was having my heart attack! I started balling my eyes out like I have never cried so hard before! I said why Lord? Why would you have mercy on me? After how I have sinned against you like I have? I heard him say, Did not I tell you I would never leave or forsake you! Then as soon as I heard that, my chest completly stopped hurting! And that was the day I picked up that bible, and made it my delight! I slept with the word playing, It was the only thing i listened to when i was driving. The Lord gave me a job where I could read it all day long as i was working! Why am I telling you all this? Because I know if I would have chosen the asprin, I would be in hell right now! Don`t play with your salvation! Fear the Lord and depart from evil! God will not make you love him! He will not make you serve him! He will not break his covenant with you, but he has given you freewill! And you are free to choose life or death! Know this, Sin is unbelief! Sin is rebellion! If you choose to you can break the covenant with him! You can deny him! Or you can harden you heart so much, and refuse to be corrected, that you will not be able to return! I have come to understand the reason he had such great mercy on me.Because I wanted to come back the whole time! I just thought the sin I committed that started me on that path, was unforgivable! And I could not forgive myself of it either! I didn`t think I was worthy to be forgiven, and I wasn`t! I never blamed him, and never denied that he was God! I didn`t become that way because I just didn`t want to serve him! I self destructed because of the shame of my sin! Not because I wanted to have my old life back! We have to understand the treasure Jesus is! It is treasure that when you find it, you forsake all for it! Nothing comes even close to comparing to it! Everything else is worthless vanity! We are given a priceless gift to cherish and use as its intended to be used! Don`t think for a second that you can not throw that gift away like Adam did! Don`t think you do not have freewill to choose! Don`t throw your salvation away! For how shall we excape, if we neglect such a great salvation? Whatever you do you will reap what you have sown! Hebrews 3:8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: 9. When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. 10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. 11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) 12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. Freewill Brethren! Don`t go back to eating your own vomit, and wallowing in the mire! Nothing you can do, nothing you can have nothing, you can feel, nothing you can desire compares to Him! In Christ`s Love!
Please pray for me. I want to be close to God like I once was. I hope I haven't gone too far.
@@joeturner9219 I will Joe! Just the fact you desire God still is a good sign! If you read my whole comment, you see the mercy God had for me! I deserved to be cast away and it all came down to that one choice! The aspirin which to me meant I would trust in that to save my life, or pick up my Bible and repent! I’m telling you I was on the edge of eternally being damned! Truly there was only one choice! And I never have regretted choosing to pick up that Bible and not the aspirin that day! God has totally healed me and my life he has put back in order wonderfully! I am the praise and worship leader in my church, and have a great job, been married now for 18 years, and God has done so much more I could go on for hours, no, days! What you have to do Joe, is not hide your sin, don’t try to cover up what you have done, but come to the Lord humbly, and in total truth, confess your sin, and forsake your sins! Jesus is our High Priest that we can enter into the Holy of Holies by, and receive mercy for our sins! But you must own up to it! You must be totally honest and sincere, and turn back to him wholeheartedly! You might fail again along the way, but if you stay in the race, and when you fall, get back up and keep running, he will give you the grace to overcome! I don’t know you Joe, and do not know what sins you have committed, but I do know my God! And I know He delights in mercy! I know he wants you to overcome! I know He is able to save you, if you just trust him and in truth believe his word, and strive to do it! I will pray for you Joe, but you must like the prodigal son, choose to return to your Fathers house!
Great analogy! That makes me feel so loved by God.
What is your foundation? What do you build your life on? What defines you? If your foundation is shaky, then your life will be shaky. There is only one firm foundation, Jesus Christ. Build your life on Christ and that will give you the assurance that you'll remain standing and firm.
Hear! Hear!
Amen, such a great message thats inspired me today! Thank you.
Love this
Don't try & save your own life!!!
What about Proverbs 1:22-32 ? "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? For scorners delight in their scorning, And fools hate knowledge. Turn at my rebuke; Surely I will pour out my spirit on you; I will make my words known to you. Because I have called and you refused, I have stretched out my hand and no one regarded, Because you disdained all my counsel, And would have none of my rebuke, I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your terror comes, When your terror comes like a storm, And your destruction comes like a whirlwind, When distress and anguish come upon you. Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me. Because they hated knowledge And did not choose the fear of the LORD, They would have none of my counsel And despised my every rebuke. Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, And be filled to the full with their own fancies. For the turning away of the simple will slay them, And the complacency of fools will destroy them.
It is Sad to know that Christianity has an unreliable foundation, One faith-full Christian family have a low percentage to pass-through Christian values to their children. That is why nowadays the European generation can't stand their Christian values, there is much weakness in the Christian system. There are so many degradations of Christianity and the emptiness in our daily life, there are no religious rules or laws that hardly oblige a person to uphold Christian activities in his daily life, which means less care to the faith and more for the secularity and other values. If Christianity wants to stand then Christianity needs a total restoration.
Hi can you please help me I became a Christian a time ago and left drugs and sex and many other sins and I recently 1-2 months ago fell into drugs again and have done drugs like everly day I want to repent but I am afraid it is to late and Hebrews 10:26 makes me really afraid can you please give me a verse that proves it is not to late?
It's not too late! As long as you repent
P GM Thank you I turned to God from drugs again please pray for me to stay clean from drugs and drunkenness and cigarettes ❤️
@@pgm960 You're right.
Awesome!
What a powerful story! Lane made a huge difference in my life when I was making a career change and needed guidance. He walked me through how to pinpoint exactly what I wanted-and more importantly, how to pray about it. I still appreciate all that Lane did for me.
Bless you. Thank you for this video
It touched my heart!
My grandma and my mum say the same thing to me!
I totally agree!
That's right! It is not about us, it is about hurting others.... it's about how we love people!
Great message....
I want to invite you in our country.
I think humans make everything toxic especially religion.
I think when humans sacrificed Jesus it was the end of the "hands on" relationship with God. At that point man and God were separated and any attempt by man to claim any kind of Godly relationship or "house" is sacrilegious and an abomination before God. Man proved himself unworthy. Like the Bible says "no man is without sin". Church buildings and cash don't create miracles that's all the business side of the cult of man and church.
oh, big deal. adam lets himself be vulnerable and he gets kicked out of paradise. no, don't think I'll try that.
Great lesson
JESUS!!!