4/27/2024 0 Comments April 21st, 2024 - ObedienceIs it better to seem religious or to obey God? We would all say it's better to obey, but when someone stops trying to seem religious and focus on obedience, the church crowd has a tendency to pull out some rocks to throw This week, Pastor Ben Hightower continues in Mark 11 to show what Jesus prefers: a show of religion or actual obedience.
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What would you do if Jesus asked you to steal a donkey? This week, Pastor Ben Hightower takes us through Mark 11 to see what happens when people are willing to obey Jesus, no matter how crazy the command might seem. 4/7/2024 0 Comments April 7th, 2024 - DiscipleshipWhat does Jesus expect from us? Is it just to be nice? Is it to go to church? Is it to tell others about Him? We don't have to wonder, because Jesus gave us marching orders before He left. In Matthew 28, Jesus lists four things that we are supposed to do while He's gone. This week, Pastor Ben Hightower takes us through those four things and asks how we're doing at the task that's been left to us. 3/31/2024 0 Comments March 31st, 2024 - BarabbasThere is a story in the Bible that is told over and over and over. The story goes something like this: someone is going to die, they approach death with no rescue in sight, then something arrives to die in their place. The problem with the stories is that the solution is always temporary. Always, that is, until the last time it's told. This week, Pastor Ben Hightower takes us through the last telling of that story: Jesus and Barabbas. 3/17/2024 0 Comments March 17th, 2024 - In VainWhen you become a child of God, you carry His name with you. Carrying His name means that you have privileges, but also responsibilities. So, when Moses said not to carry the name of God in vain, what did he mean by that? This week, Pastor Ben Hightower takes us through the 3rd commandment to help us see what it looks like to take the name of God in vain. How long are you willing to wait for payoff? How fast do you need to lose weight before you quit the diet? How much money do you need to make before you quit the side hustle? We judge new ideas by how fast we make progress and see a payoff and that makes sense for diets and side hustles, but what about when it comes to a new way of living? How long will you wait on Jesus before you see a payoff? This week, Pastor Ben Hightower continues in Mark to see what Jesus says about payoff in the Upside Down Kingdom. How much bad does it take to make something good bad? How much bad does it take to move a job from great to not worth it? How much bad does it take to move a boyfriend or girlfriend from marriage material to breakup candidate? This week, Pastor Ben Hightower takes us through Mark 9 to see what Jesus said about "good" and how "good" something has to be to still be good. What made you want to marry your spouse? Was it the way she looked in that dress? The way he rescued the cat from that tree? What was it that drew you in? We cherish those things that first made us fall in love, but the things that drew us in rarely contribute to the long-term success of the marriage. This week, Pastor Ben Hightower continues our series in Mark to show what Jesus says about how a marriage should work in the Upside Down Kingdom. What is it that immediately says to you, "These are my people"? Is it the Razorback shirt? The accent? The crocs? What is it that immediately says to you, "These are not my people?" We are constantly looking for who is "us" and who is "them". That's not a problem. The problem is what we use to determine who is "us" and who is "them". This week, we look at what Jesus had to say about "us" vs "them" in the Kingdom of God and challenges us to change the way we're making that call. |
Our PastorBen Hightower has been the Pastor of Solid Rock since December 2019. Before moving to NWA, Ben was a Youth Pastor in Malvern, Arkansas and a Church Planter in Fayetteville, Arkansas as well as Columbia, Missouri. Archives
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