Highland Baptist Church - Sermons

In this week's sermon, we discuss our best guess as to what the Lord is doing in and through Highland in 2025.

In Genesis 1, we see that it is not telling a scientific process but revealing a Divine Person. That person is fulfilled in Jesus who is the Creator, He is with us, He is the Word, and He brings us life.

This week, Pastor John kicked off Highlands' new series, God of New Beginnings , by exploring the conversion of Saul in Acts 9:1-19. John highlighted how Saul was radically pursued by God and overcome by Christ, receiving a new life, a new beginning.

This week, the Church gathered as one body at one gathering to worship and pray together. Pastor John spent some time highlighting the power of prayer and emphasizing God as the sole recipient of our prayers.

In this week's episode, College Pastor Drew Humphrey continues in our Unto Us series, focusing on the characteristics of Christ in Isaiah 9. He highlights the title "Wonderful Counselor" and shares four types of counsel believers can expect to receive from the the Holy Spirit today.

This week, Pastor John returns to the pulpit to continue our series Unto Us . He focuses on the title 'Mighty God' from Isaiah 9, exploring six powerful ways Jesus demonstrates His might both to us and on our behalf.

This week, Pastor Jeremy Daniel picks up our Unto Us series with a message about how God established an everlasting kingdom through the work of Jesus. He compares the character of the eternal King (Jesus) with the flawed kings mentioned in the book of Daniel. Pastor Jeremy mentions that the actions of Jesus demand a response of humility from us.

This week, Pastor John continues our Unto Us series, guiding us through passages from Isaiah 7-9, where God has set the perfect stage for the coming of a Savior. He encourages us to turn to Christ, the Prince of Peace, for help in challenging situations, rather than relying on our own efforts to 'save ourselves.'

In this weeks episode, Pastor John gives the first message of the new series: Unto Us. He walks us through Isaiah 7:1-14 and emphasizes Isaiah's presentation of God's promise of a Son, Immanuel (God with us).

In this week's episode, Pastor John delivers his annual sermon in The Cross of Christ series, where he talks about the significance of partaking in Communion. He encourages believers to 'take and eat,' drawing a comparison between the effects of the First Adam (Adam) and the Last Adam (Jesus).

In this weeks episode, Pastor John closes out the Remnant series with Malachi 4. He emphasizes God's truth that some choose to ignore, and reminds us of our hope in the restoration through Jesus.

In this weeks episode Pastor John continues in the Remnant series with Malachi 3, and urges Christians to consider the overflowing grace and generosity of the Lord in our lives.

In this weeks sermon, Pastor John walks us through Malachi 2:10-17 and focuses on Gods standard for our relationships and how that standard protects us.

In this week's sermon Pastor John walks through Malachi 2:1-9 and speaks on the aspects of a good spiritual leader and our responsibility as followers of Christ when leading others.

In this week's sermon, we dive into the second half of chapter 1 of Malachi and the imperfect offerings from the priests. Am I desperate for the nearness of God? What keeps me from believing that in His presence there is fullness of joy?

This week, we start a new sermon series as we walk through the book of Malachi. As Pastor John preaches through verses 1-5 in the first chapter, we see that we can either be entitled or grateful.

Wrapping up our series on the miracles found in the book of John, today we look at how Peter repents when he encounters Jesus post-resurrection.

In this week's episode, Pastor John finishes out our Impossible sermon series in the book of John as we see what it all means as Jesus restores Peter.

John preaches this week on faith in the middle of disappointment.

Drew Humphrey preaches this week on the spiritual blindness of the pharisees who doubted Jesus even as he healed physical blindness.

John preaches this week on fear, and how trust will carry us through the storms we face in life.

This week John preaches on the healing of the lame man at the pools of Bethesda, and the importance of spiritual healing over physical healing.

Pastor John begins a new series on the Gospel of John, preaching on faith that can face a God-sized problem.

In the final sermon of our series on the book of 2 Timothy, John reminds us that Jesus is the only thing we need in life.

John preaches on what faithful leadership looks like from 2 Timothy.