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When I think of just getting pummeled with bad news, I can’t help but think of Job. Not the whole story of Job, just the really bad day that got it all started. Listen. Read Job 1:13-22.

The Christian cannot lose their mind, act in fear, and forget everything they know from God’s Word in pandemic or any other reason for pandemonium. We have too big a responsibility at this exact moment to be swept up in fear. At this exact moment, we have the responsibility to act like a follower of Jesus. Now what does that mean?

We are enjoying today here at The Heights the faith, the sacrifice, the love for God of people who came before us. What are we setting up for the people who will come after us? Each of these six weeks we have looked a core value of The Heights and today brings us to Sunday Fuels the Lifestyle.

If you have been with us the last few weeks, you remember that we are in right in the middle of our 100-year celebration. We thought it would be good to focus each week on one of our core values, the values that got us here and the ones we hope will be the base for going onto the next 100 years. This week we will looking the core value, We Live To Tell. I will tell you that this one today is what...

Servanthood, the mentality; serving the activity is absolutely in the running for a word to define the Christian life. The Christian life is ultimately about being like Jesus. We’re not serving to earn God’s love and forgiveness. We’re not serving trying to earn a place in heaven. We’re not serving to prove we’re good. We’re serving because we want to be like Jesus, and Jesus was a servant from wa...

This passage gives us what would be the most well-known command to the Jew of the Old Testament. Instead of holding up John 3:16 at a football game they would hold Deuteronomy 6:4. It is the Great Commandment. Jesus called it the great commandment to love the Lord our God with all we are; and the very next thing said is, 'You gotta get this to the kids, the next generation, always be thinking abou...

Good morning, Heights Family! We are in the midst of our 6-week celebration of the 100th Anniversary of The Heights Baptist. Each week we are remembering a core value that has made us 100 years strong and today we think on a Life Shaped by the Word.

Today we kick-off of a 6-week celebration of the 100 Year Anniversary of The Heights Baptist Church. You may be wondering when the actual anniversary is, well, it was 100 years ago, at 8:00 last night. We are 100 years old! There was a people who had a vision, a faith. They loved the Lord and believed that love could be could grow, could reach if they did it together. And look at us 100 years late...

The stated result of following Jesus; Jesus’ desired result of Peter and Andrew, you and me following Him is that we would become fishers of men. We would spend the balance of our days going and getting, reaching people. And yes, we are going to read the Bible, pray, go to church and a host of other things that all serve to make me the most efficient at reaching people. If I am going to be one who...

God did not set up a way for strength and life that only a few would be able to attain: the very smart, the very brave, the very official. No, He set up a way that every one of us can do. Every one of us can lead, can help, can encourage someone. Today we add a third way: lead someone to serve. Why would we want to do that? I am so glad you asked. And I will let Jesus answer. Turn with me this mor...

What you can do and be with the Lord, you can do alone. There is truth to that, but not really. Yes, you can pray, worship, read your Bible, handle a moment of temptation alone; but the one who is doing the Christian life alone, is not doing the Christian life. It is a team and anyone genuinely living the Christian life knows they are on a team and wants to contribute to the strength of the team

What does 2020 hold for you? Will it bring the best relationship ever with the living God? That’s a big question. I am guessing a lot of us are here today because of the idea that question holds. We’re starting a new year and thinking about things we want to be a part of that. Do I need God, want God? Would God be a help? Is God even interested in me? The good news is, yes, He is interested in you...

January 1, 2020 marks a new day, new month, new year, new decade. It is big without the cherry on top of 2020 vision. And when we mark it tends to make us stop and think. And that is where we want good vision. And I don’t think anyone can help us do that better today than Job. Mentioning Job is synonymous with suffering; but we forget, Job’s story begins and ends with him having everything. The bu...

We have been looking into the Christmas story to learn from characters like Mary, Gabriel, Simeon what they did that made Christmas special for Jesus. I’d like to conclude that series here tonight with the wise men from the east. Let me read from Matthew 2:1-12.

There is something about being a child that makes this time of year so magical, so wonderful. We’ve been talking about what makes a great Christmas, and it really revolves around being a child, doesn’t it? Which is interesting because Jesus said you won’t find God or heaven if you don’t have the faith of a child.

We are in the midst of a Christmas series where we are looking at what we can do that would make a great Christmas for Jesus. We put all kinds of effort into a great Christmases for ourselves or for those we love, but it is about Him, right? What are we doing to give Jesus a great Christmas? So far we have got some help with this from Jesus and then Mary, and now today we return to the Christmas s...

How do we make it a great Christmas for Jesus? Last week we got some help from Jesus Himself. We saw that what can make a great Christmas is to want what God wants or a desire to do the will of God. We saw Jesus desire the will of His Father, even above His own desire. So Jesus gives us the example, the starting point. And today we will learn something from Mary that adds to this gift of doing God...

I am guessing most of us have some ideas of what would make a great Christmas: a certain present, a trip or family gathering, everyone just get along. Now, we are in a room of people who largely believe Jesus is the reason for the season, right? I mean I hate to sound like a cliché here, but it is His birthday. The only one we really need to be thinking about having a good Christmas would be Him,...

I have a different Thanksgiving sermon today. I am using a passage that has probably never been used with Thanksgiving before. Well, that’s not true, it has been used at least once, by me. I am preaching a message today I preached 11 years ago on Thanksgiving, and while I rarely do this, I felt this one was wort pulling out again. I don’t think we can ever overestimate how important being thankful...

As we wrap up our weekend of celebrating and honoring our senior adults, Rev. Mike Osborne shares about generations, and how each is to continue teaching and reaching the next generation that follows.

So the title of my message today is a tricky one: God Honors the Soldier. I feel like I need to qualify that. That title is not suggesting that God honors every war, that God honors every action of a soldier, or even that God honors every nation that assembles a military. So what does God honor?

We arrive today at the last message of our 2019 Year of the Bible! This has been great, until today. Attempting to cover the whole Bible in 42 messages; yeah, we’re going to miss some big things, and for the most part this curriculum has done a pretty good job until today. To cover Revelation 19-22 in one message . . . No, that’s ridiculous. I decided to cover what comes next: the Second Coming of...

Today and next week, and we will have walked through the Bible in 2019. If this is your first time here, you just made it, kind of, to the 41st of 42 messages. I think this has been a great year as we have connected some dots, got a better feel for the big picture, maybe seen some passages we’ve not seen before. And as we now turn the corner to head home we come to a sad story. There’s a conflict...

The decades are adding up that we have been educated to believe we came from nothing and we return to nothing. There’s no God. There’s no after life. This is it. That is what the science says, if we look at the evidence like they do and ignore what they do. When one accepts as true that which they would not normally accept in the lab of science, like nothing can create something. In my opinion sci...

Rev. Ronnie West and a few members of our leadership pipeline team share with the church about the future of leadership development and discipleship at The Heights.