The Heights Baptist Church

Our love for Jesus does not just lead us to obedience to Jesus, but an eager obedience. Not how can I obey one day, but how can I obey right now. These passages and others show us that delayed obedience can become disobedience. This all means that the time to forgive is now. The time to ask forgiveness is now. The time to bring your finances under the Lord and give to Him what is His, is now. The...

We face problems inside the family, and we face attacks from outside, the world. We can be doing everything right and still face these problems. The only successful way to handle tribulation, problems is under the influence of the Spirit.

As a church, as individuals we value certain things above all others and one of those things here at The Heights is we live to tell. We value this as our commission from the Lord, as our identity, as the thing we are to be doing in all things.

Everything in here (the Bible) hinges on the resurrection. If there is no resurrection, if that did not happen, the Bible says to pity those who believed in Christ only for this world, this life. I am not aware of another religion, philosophy that puts the entirety of its validity on one event and says, 'If this isn’t true, walk away.'

It is very common to feel very alone in pain, to feel like no one knows, no one cares, no one understands. If that’s you right now, you are not alone. Jesus knows. Jesus cares. And He absolutely understands. He’s felt and experienced anything, everything we have. Look at what He experienced in just 24 hours at the cross. I encourage you to take this list I am going to show you, and later read thro...

Jesus challenged all to a radical change in the way we are to live in community with each other.

There has always been charismatic figures and movements that come and go. Some come and stay: Karl Marx or the Founding Fathers. And in this respect, Jesus was a peddler of ideas and He fully expected you to buy in with everything you are and have. And people were intrigued by this preacher, prophet, peddler of ideas. They really saw Him as quite different.

The Pharisees knew Jesus fulfilled every prophecy and still rejected Him. Why? Because He was not what they wanted. It is almost as if they tossed Jesus back up to heaven and said, Try again, God. That might sound unbelievable, until we understand what they were expecting, and how different Jesus was. There was a reason they felt so justified in saying, He’s not my Messiah.

The Hebrews are waiting to hear, to see, to experience what God is going to do. They are waiting for 400 years, wading through the blank pages between the Old and New Testaments. Many are doubting, many are discouraged, many are asking the question, God, where are You? Then after all those years, God answers. His answer? Immanuel – God with us. He speaks and says, I am with you! I am here! God sha...

People go through the motions in all areas of life. We look busy as we wait for the end of the work day or approaching vacation time off. We tell our kids we will play with them and the whole time we are watching a tv show or answering our emails. We go through the motions in worship, maybe doing many of the right things, but amounting to nothing. Malachi is looking at the same thing as he looks a...

Throughout 2019, we have been working our way through the entire Bible both in our Life Group studies and our sermon series. For the past several weeks, we have been looking at the prophets as we move toward the end of the Old Testament. Today we find ourselves looking at two men who were contemporaries, Ezra and Nehemiah.

What are the habits in your life? We all have some from praying to smoking to running to watching a TV show? Some make me strong, ready physically, spiritually for the day. Others at best are useless and may be a bit harmful. We all have habits in these categories: useful, useless, harmful. It is really important to know what you got in the useful category and if they will sustain you in the crisi...

The prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah give us reason to put great hope in God and His salvation even in the midst of the judgment we have coming to us.

Was Jesus not aware that all the earth might include places people would not be able to freely witness? Oh, He was not only aware, but warned us, warned us with the challenge to press on not afraid of what may happen but ready to embrace the reward if it does.

Rev. Jerry Witte, our NextGen Pastor, shares truths from the book of Jonah that we can apply to our lives today.

We are in a series this whole year where in 42 messages we are going to walk through the whole Bible. Today that has us in Hosea. Hosea’s message, how God is going to use Hosea is very centered around being a husband and father, using those positions to show the faithful love of God. So, I think we can get a challenge for husbands and dads, as well as continue in our study.

People every day fall in love with people they know are not good for them, but they’re in love. Evaluate first, then fall in love. The Bible commands a believer not marry an unbeliever. I have watched more times than I can count a believer fall in love with an unbeliever and then try to figure out how to obey the Lord, and they won’t, almost never. It’s a tricky thing to have heart for the Lord wh...

What is one of the biggest things you have ever done for the Lord? What is a big God-achievement in your life? We always want to guard against pride, but it feels good to commit to do something for the Lord, to build, to go, to minister and see it completed. And I am intrigued by Solomon’s focus in the finish. When we finish something it is natural to think, I am finished. There may be something t...

Sin makes you stupid! My good friend Greg tells me that almost every week, and he’s right. Sin makes us so confident that it is there to give us something, when it is only there to take. Sin tells us we have this under control, as we are literally spinning out of control. We should be dumbfounded that we who enjoy God’s grace and forgiveness will actually use that grace and forgiveness as a go ahe...

Join our panel of youth and our youth pastor, Will Witkovsky.

Good morning, and Happy Mother’s Day to all our moms. There are a lot of great things about America and one of them has to be this tradition of honoring our moms, next month, our dads. We won’t do enough, but it is always good to do something. Send the card. Make the call. Honor your mom. Every time we honor, we give new life to the plan. What plan? God’s plan.

Have you ever wondered if you missed God’s answer? God always has an answer for you. Timing can be a big deal in God’s answers because He is not just giving an answer, but the right and perfect answer.

We have an awful tendency to replace life with death, truth with the lie; and that it why it is so critical I am in this book, with His people, and passionately praying, 'Jesus, my Savior and King, give me an eye, a heart, a desire for You alone.'

God the Father asked the Son to come to earth and die for our sins. It was the Father’s plan the Son fulfilled. God loves us even though we rejected Him and His ways. Our sin separates us from God, makes us so unlike Him, so unlike His Heaven. God is loving, but God is just. They go together. Love demands justice, and justice demands wrongs be made right. What Jesus did for us on the cross was mak...

Why would be proclaim, celebrate, herald the death of someone we love? Because He is alive. He is coming back. His death and resurrection means we can live, and live forever. Death no longer holds me! Death no longer holds me! What better thing can we be reminded of as we come to this table? What better thing can we share with someone?