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Tom Carter
Rick Warren defines worship as ‘bringing pleasure to God’. Our work is one of the main vehicles through which we worship. In the second talk of our series, Tom Carter asks how our can work bring God pleasure and what this might look like?
Bible verses for this talk are 1 Corinthians 10:31, Colossians 3:23-24, and Colossians 1:10.
Additional resources for this series can be found HERE.
Tom Carter continues our series on John by looking at chapter 15.
Continuing our Christmas 2023 series, Tom Carter asks how the hope we have in Jesus can sustain and comfort us when life is tough and painful.
The Bible reference for this talk is Luke 1:39-56.
What does it take to live a good life? In a world where we’re told to try harder and do better if we’re to see results, the good news of Jesus tells a different story. How is this acted out in baptism?
Tom Carter explores these questions as part of a baptismal service at Highgrove Church.
(The Bible verse for this talk is Titus 3 v.3-7.)
The woman who anointed Jesus gave up a valuable asset to bless him and prepare him for what was to come, yet the disciples didn’t “get” it.
Tom Carter looks at why Jesus commended her and used her actions as a lesson for his disciples, and asks how we can follow her example of costly worship.
(Bible reference for this talk - Matthew 26:6-13)
On Remembrance Sunday, Tom Carter looks at the difference that faith in Jesus makes to our hope.
Acts 3:1-10 describes the story of Peter healing a person who had been lame from birth.
How can we reconcile a view of a God who heals with the reality of illness, disease and suffering that we see in the world today?
Tom Carter navigates us through this tricky area as he ends our Holy Spirit series by looking at the gift of healing with three questions:
Why does God heal?
Does God heal today?
How does God heal?
Anxiety is the most common mental health issue of our age. It dominates many people’s lives, robbing them of joy and peace.
For Christians, anxiety seems to be a long way from Jesus teaching us to live ‘life in all its fulness’ (John 10:10).
Fear is a normal emotion and we need to learn to respond to it with skill and faith. In this talk, Tom Carter looks at three practical ways we can do this in daily life.
You can find the small group notes for each of the three weeks by clicking here.
The Whole Minds website is a new resource from the Woodlands Church family and features contributions from people at Highgrove. Visit https://wholeminds.org.uk for stories of challenge, hope, encouragement and to see how God has been at work in real lives.
Continuing our Pressing Issues mini-series, Tom Carter looks at why racial justice matters to God.
Families can be a place of unconditional love, acceptance and support, and as humans we need all these things.
Tom Carter kicks off our new series, ‘Together’, by looking at the impact a loving church family can have.
We celebrate Easter Day 2021 by looking at the events of Jesus’ resurrection and what it means to us today.
Jesus called his disciples to ‘Follow me.’ At Highgrove Church, we want people to FOLLOW Jesus more closely. What role does the church family have in helping us draw closer to God?
What does the Bible teach us about self-control?
The Bible tells us to worship God, but what does that mean? Why do we sing in church? Tom Carter investigates!
In the first talk of our new series, Tom Carter looks at the importance of sacrifice in our Christian lives.
