The Heights Baptist Church

There are 1845 occurrences of the Lord’s return in the Bible, 318 of those in New Testament. It is emphasis of 17 Old Testament books. Seven out of every ten chapters in the New Testament makes reference to this event. The biblical story looks to this moment right here

We continue today in our series on Revelation. This is our 19th message and each one before builds to this one. The whole Bible builds towards this moment right here, the Second Coming of Christ to this world. All of human history will pivot on this moment right here. Time and space pivot on this moment right here. Evil pivots on this moment right here. I don’t think we can over-anticipate this. T...

We are going to a wedding today. In Revelation 6-18 we have seen the devastation of the planet and humanity. We have walked through a reign of darkness and evil, but we walk out of that into the most glorious moment we could ever imagine, a wedding. Chapter 19 is a bridge between the Great Tribulation and the 1000-year reign of Christ on this earth. It is what takes us from the temporary rule of t...

We come today to Revelation 17-18, where will we will see the total and violent destruction of this way of thinking that is defined by the city of Babylon. There is more information in Revelation about the defeat of Babylon than there is the Antichrist or even Satan himself, and yet we are not really clear on what Babylon is.

A day will come when everyone on the planet will be required to make a choice. Who are you loyal to? There will only be two choices. Buddha is not a choice. Mohammed and his version of Allah are not a choice. The trees and the mountains and the whales are not a choice. Atheism is not a choice. What is the choice? Turn with me this morning to Revelation 13:11-18.

We continue today with our study of Revelation in chapter 13.

Now, last week in chapter 11 we met the two witnesses and saw their incredible earthly ministry. Chapter 13 introduces us to the Antichrist and the False Prophet, which we will cover the next two Sundays. And for today that leaves us 5 characters presented in chapter 12. Let me read.

If God could just have someone part the water, or walk on it, just a couple of steps. Do you ever wonder why God doesn’t do some of those Bible miracles today? How about one for everyone. Would that not be proof to an unbelieving world? Might help our faith also. And yet, it really doesn’t, not now, not back then. The people of Israel built a gold calf to worship less than two months after witness...

The last message we saw an interlude between the 6th and 7th seal and today we’re at an interlude between the 6th and 7th trumpet. As we said last time, it is not too late for grace to work, but it does come to an end and that end is in sight. Can you imagine that? Human history as we know it has gone on for thousands of years, and we tend to act like it will just keep going, but there is an end....

In ACTS 26, we find an account of the Apostle Paul sharing his testimony with Agrippa. It is a great study in how to give your testimony. He shares what his life was life before Christ, when he encountered Christ, and what his life has been like since he met Christ. We could take this passage and preach a wonderful sermon on how to develop your testimony, but we are not. Rather we are going to lis...

Right now, we live in a culture where there is almost the same burden on every member of our community: racism. There are certainly different understandings of that and even contradicting understandings. It has us stressed, angry, and wanting change. While as individuals we may not all be in agreement on what is going on, we ought to be able to rally around how we serve this need in our community....

Is anyone ever beyond being saved? Well, the answer is no, it is never too late, until we die. As long as we have life, grace can prevail. And there is no greater proof than the group of people we are going to look at today in Revelation.

What we will see today may be different from how you think of the Lord. God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. The God you are about to see in the Great Tribulation is the God at the cross. He is kind and gracious, as well as just and holy; and a day does come for sin to be stopped.

How long, O Lord? How long till justice is done? How long do we have to wait till wrongs are made right? That question is asked in 1000 B.C. in Psalm 13; in A.D. 95 in Revelation 6 and it is being asked today in 2020?

We come today to one of the most intriguing and debated topics in prophecy, the rapture. What is it? When is it? Why is it? The what and why, not so hard. Now the when, that is where the fun is.

Welcome home! I say that knowing we have more people online today than here present, and for many that will be best for a while. But here or online I think we all respect that the church is a people who gather. I’m grateful for technology and what it enabled us to do during this time our nation, our Commonwealth is figuring this out. But I can tell you this, I don’t want to watch heaven online. I...

Today we continue our study in Revelation. We are at the end of Jesus’ messages to seven churches in the first century, and messages to The Heights Baptist, to you and me. Today we look at churches 2 and 6, Smyrna and Philadelphia, two great churches.

American Christians enjoy a freedom that has been largely unknown by Christians of other times and cultures. And yet, we have as little influence as ever before. How can we have so much and it mean so little? Jesus’ message to 3 churches 2000 years ago might shed some light on this. Look with me this morning to Revelation 2:12-3:6.

Revelation 2-3 are 7 personalized messages to 7 churches. To each church the angel of the church is addressed. And while addressing these 7 churches, each message ends with, 'Anyone who has an ear should listen.' That is a challenge to you and me to listen and adjust accordingly. In these messages to the church, listen for the message to you. The 7 churches can be broken into three groups. 1 and 7...

Christianity is on trial. Is it worth it to follow Christ? A mom is fed to the lions. A brother is imprisoned. A friend’s business is constantly harassed by authorities. Many of the leaders of this fledgling movement called Christianity have been killed. There is a high cost for following Jesus. Where is God in the midst of that? And Jesus steps up to answer as the key witness in this trial. Is He...

Last week we introduced our series on Revelation from the book of 2 Peter and learned in order to rightly read Revelation, we need to ask, "In light of God’s plan for the future, what sort of person should I be today?” With that we charge into Revelation today with a goal to get our bearings. If we don’t have a sense of direction, a sense of the whole, the pieces confuse more.

Every fall I go away for a several days to pray about and plan my sermons for the coming year. I lay all that before the Lord and ask Him to lead me on what I am to feed you from the pulpit each week in the coming year. Five months ago, I felt the Lord leading me to begin a 24-message series on Revelation, to start April 19. I had no idea of what a Covid-19 was. I had no concept of our nation’s ec...

I’ve had a very different approach this Easter, not as much looking at what happened on the cross, but on the way to the cross. We’ve seen people and forces trying to keep Jesus from the cross; people and forces fighting to put Him on the cross. We’ve seen the battle raging around Jesus and His resolve to battle that battle to get to that cross for you. I am going to show us today a strange moment...

So today we’ll continue our Easter series. We are looking at how Jesus battled for us, how His love fought for us, not just on the cross, but all the way to the cross. Last week, maybe a bit of a different idea, we looked that which tried to keep Jesus from the cross. We saw an enemy in Satan, a friend in Peter, and to a degree even Jesus’ own human nature. Today will be more of what we’d anticipa...

It is time to go to the cross! I mean, really, it is on the calendar. Easter is in 3 weeks. I was thinking the other day what is it going to look like approaching Easter this year? Different came to mind. Difficult right after that, oh but then I thought of Jesus. Wonder what words came to His mind as He approached Easter. He was set on getting to it.