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Secret Sauce: The Values that Give Highrock its Unique Flavor

Somewhere along the way, you might’ve made a quiet trade. You traded real questions for easy answers, because not-knowing felt too vulnerable. You traded honest risk for playing it safe, because safe rarely embarrasses you. And you traded noticing other people’s pain for scrolling past it, because there’s only so much you can carry before you go numb.

None of that makes you a bad person. It makes you tired, and it’s a strange kind of tired that more hustle can’t fix.

So what if the fix isn’t trying harder but adopting better ingredients? At Highrock, that’s the question we keep coming back to, and we think we’ve found a few that actually work.

While most secret sauces are closely guarded we want to share the ingredients that shapes who we are with everyone! This fall, join us as we dive into our core values of curiosity, courage, and compassion. They’re the key ingredients that make Highrock feel like Highrock, and the biblical values that lead to a full, meaningful life in Jesus.


Sermon Schedule

September 13: Courage (Acts 4:1-13) | Dave Swaim
September 20: Curiosity (Exodus 3:1-5) | John Mury
September 27: Compassion (TBD) | Taylor Burgoyne

Companion Guide

Deepen your learning with prayer and reflection prompts that accompany the sermons. These can be used individually or in groups. Click here for the group guide!


Try Out a Group!

We invite you to take part in our four-session small group experience that accompanies this series. If you’re not already in a group, you can join an open group that meets on Wednesdays (7pm) at Highrock Arlington (14 Mill St, Arlington) discussing the sermon from the previous Sunday. The group is led by our resident theologian, Scott Rice.

Dave Swaim | June 9, 2023
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Dave Swaim | June 9, 2023