We are in a series right now called The Core. We are looking at the core values of The Heights. Last week we talked about our commitment to Scripture. This book contains every answer we need for faith and life. It is completely accurate and totally authoritative. Today we look at a second core value: our church wants to consistently encourage and inspire you with the worthiness of God.

Core training is key to your posture which communicates your stance, your strength, and how you take things on; and that is what we are going to spend the next 6 weeks doing. We are going to do some training in our core values. These values represent what holds the whole body together. We have 6 core values: a commitment to Scripture, a lifestyle of worship and prayer, sharing the good news, living in community, a culture of serving, and reaching the next generation. Let's start today with this commitment to Scripture.

Core training is key to your posture which communicates your stance, your strength, and how you take things on; and that is what we are going to spend the next 6 weeks doing. We are going to do some training in our core values. These values represent what holds the whole body together. We have 6 core values: a commitment to Scripture, a lifestyle of worship and prayer, sharing the good news, living in community, a culture of serving, and reaching the next generation. Let's start today with this commitment to Scripture.

Perhaps nothing causes us to question God more, feel abandoned by God more than suffering. If He is good, how can He allow suffering, unless He really does not have all power? The first words are “in the beginning.” Genesis tells us how creation got here, how man got here, how evil and suffering got here, and how Israel got here. It is the foundation for the rest of the story, but Genesis is not the first book written. Job is, and Job has one theme: where is God in suffering?

Perhaps nothing causes us to question God more, feel abandoned by God more than suffering. If He is good, how can He allow suffering, unless He really does not have all power? The first words are “in the beginning.” Genesis tells us how creation got here, how man got here, how evil and suffering got here, and how Israel got here. It is the foundation for the rest of the story, but Genesis is not the first book written. Job is, and Job has one theme: where is God in suffering?

This is our third message of looking at a mosaic of Jesus. We are looking at Him from some different angles, through some different lens, seeking to get a better picture of Him that leads to a fuller response to Him, for He is worthy of our best response. Today we see that Jesus is as the purpose of God meaning our purpose.

This is our third message of looking at a mosaic of Jesus. We are looking at Him from some different angles, through some different lens, seeking to get a better picture of Him that leads to a fuller response to Him, for He is worthy of our best response. Today we see that Jesus is as the purpose of God meaning our purpose.

Have you ever experienced one of those *aha* moments? I mean one of those times when you see something that is so amazing that you just stand in awe? John the Baptist had one of those moments.

Have you ever experienced one of those *aha* moments? I mean one of those times when you see something that is so amazing that you just stand in awe? John the Baptist had one of those moments.

Jesus called Philip to follow Him. Philip in the Greek language means lover of horses for you horse lovers out there. Of the apostles that get some print, Philip it appears to be one of the more uninitiated in the group. The Scripture shows him in a couple of places not really knowing what to do, missing the point, or just kind of watching when maybe he should have been responding. But that is good news, isn't it? Some of us are trying to understand this whole Jesus thing, but feel a step behind, not really sure how to initiate. Hey, Jesus can work with that.