The Heights Baptist Church

Today we begin a long series on theology, on doctrine. I am calling it What is as I will be looking at what the Bible teaches us about what is the Bible, what is God, what is Jesus, what is the Holy Spirit, what is Satan, what are angels, what is the Church, what is salvation, what is eternal security, what is the great commandment and the great commission, what is man, what is sin, what is Israel...

We are starting off our 21 Days of Prayer today. Dr. Hahn shares about our vision and prayer needs, and leads us in the Lord's Supper. The full service is available in our app and online.

I believe that the tradition of New Year’s resolutions has, at its foundation, a good cause. A new year means a fresh start. And boy, do we need fresh starts sometimes. What does the Lord really want from you? Is it Worship? Sacrifice? Offerings? Turn with me in your Bibles, to the Old Testament book of Micah. (about 30-40 pages from the end of the OT). We will begin reading in chapter 6: 6-8.

Who is that baby in the manger? Who is that that baby born of a virgin? Who is that baby for whom 10,000 times 10,000 angels would fill the sky to sing and worship? Who is this baby for whom the blue-collar workers would come running? Who is this baby for whom the intellects and the elite would come and bow down. Who is this baby for whom the government would tremble? Who is this baby that would b...

Here we are, the 4th Sunday of Advent. Christmas just 4 days away. It’s been a good month of preparing to celebrate the first advent of our Lord and in that being more prepared for the second Advent of our Lord because Jesus is coming back. We have a certain hope in that and we feed that hope, prepare to celebrate it by daily being in God’s word. We are recipients of peace, and we prepare for Chri...

The biggest impact of celebrating the first coming of Jesus should be our readiness for His Second Coming. Have you ever thought of Christmas that way? We’ve looked at hope and said we need to encourage that sure hope with reading our Bible daily. We have looked at peace and said we need to be a people always working at peace as that is a purpose of Christmas. And today we look at joy. Hope, peace...

Last week we learned that Advent has been around for over 1500 years and most of that time the focus of Advent, of preparing for Christmas was repentance and fasting. We’re thinking about preparing for Christmas in a way that God says, 'You’re prepared', and that is a place of great richness, strength, and joy. Last week we looked at hope in the sermon and then the devotional took you to 5 more pl...

Are you ready for Christmas? We ask each other about our readiness for lots of things: vacation, a new job, start of school; but that all pales in comparison to how we inquire of each other’s readiness for Christmas. We ask strangers if they are ready for Christmas! What are we asking about? Cooking and shopping, maybe travel plans, or parties to prepare. Church! Don’t forget that Christmas Eve se...

As we have taken time to think about God’s good in our lives, there is no greater good than the gift of His Son, a gift He gave because He loved. Not because we were owed. Not because we were pretty good at heart. Not even because we had asked. He sent His Son as gift because He loved. And it was Jesus’ love for His Father, His love for You and me that brought Him to the cross.

And here we are at the end of another sermon series, Truths That Kill. We have looked at 3, today will make 4, statements used repeatedly by Christians, by the Church, and by the world that are true statements. But statements that have gained a life of their own apart from the context in which they are true and in that they have become destructive. Today we come to all sin is the same. We will loo...

Join us for our Youth Sunday sermon.

We continue our series on Truths That Kill, and it is not the truths that kill, but the misapplication, misunderstanding, loss of context of truths that can be so destructive to faith and the Church. Today we look at a statement at the very heart of knowing God, of being saved: 'Just say this prayer'. As before we’ll look at the truth, the context, and the problem.

Truths That Kill is the more grabbing title, but as I explained last week it is the application of truths outside their context that can be destructive to our Christian life and the Church. We are looking at four ideas that are true but have some bad application. Last week we looked at 'You don’t have to go to church to be saved'. True, but you do need to go to church to be in a thriving relations...

Truths That Kill. My own title of this series scares me. I would refer to a lot of what we will talk about as elementary ideas, simple truths that have gone horribly wrong. Now to be clear, I am not talking about biblical truth. Biblical truth, God’s truth is life and life eternal! In all things we need God’s truth. At different times the Church has addressed certain conditions, ways of thinking a...

Kids pick up more from us than we realize. They’re always watching. But what do we want them to catch? A love for Jesus. Catching alone isn’t enough. If all we do is live it without ever teaching it, our kids may copy our habits but miss the heart behind them. Scripture calls us to do both: faith is both caught and taught.

Pastor Shay Osborne explains how every believer has both box ministries (within the church) and circle ministries (their personal circles of influence where they live, work, and play). Using John 1 as a model, he shows how ordinary people—like Andrew bringing Peter to Jesus—can impact lives by simply sharing faith within their circles. We are challenged to move from the sidelines into the game, li...

Here we are, the end. We have been studying Psalms since March 9th. I did two messages just introducing the Psalms. I took 3 messages to walk through Psalm 22 as we prepared for Easter. So that’s 5 messages and 24 other Psalms beyond that including today, Psalm 119, the longest Psalm, the longest chapter in the Bible, and it is a Psalm on the Bible. Psalm 119 is about your relationship, my relatio...

Two of the most well-known stories in the Bible involve David. They are stories of David and. David and Goliath, David and Bathsheba. In David and Goliath, we see how great it is, how great it can be when we live for God and His glory. In David and Bathsheba, we learn that even when we are living for God and His glory, we’re not above, we’re not immune to doing great wrong. Our study in the Psalms...

The title of my message today is “How would you describe church?” There are more than a few words: God, worship, family, beliefs, praise, preaching, casseroles. Another set of words: boring, preachy, judgmental, money, casseroles. Regardless of the words we use, we might want to be thinking about the words God wants to use. If we are going to have church, His words ought to build the program. Turn...

Israel forgot who God is. The Church, our church can do the same. All we give God came from Him. Do we give God money? It is all His. Do we give God our life? He is the Creator, the Sustainer, the Redeemer and the Judge of our life. Do we give Him our time? You woke up today because He deemed it so. We give God nothing that does not come first from Him. If we don’t grasp this, or we forget it, we...

Job 42:2, Psalm 115:3, Luke 1:37 and a lot of other passages teach us that God can do whatever He wants. Nothing is impossible for Him. He has all power, all authority. No one, nothing can stop Him. That means God could make us obey Him, make us believe, make us worshippers who sing His praises. And He wouldn’t have to sweat to make it happen. He’d be entirely successful, and the world better for...

From Genesis 1-2 we learn we were created for the presence of God. Therein is our joy, purpose, life. There is not something else. There is not a second and a third thing. To be in and enjoy a right relationship with God is life and life eternal. But Genesis 3, we sinned. Sin makes us entirely not like God and His presence, His heaven. It makes us a life in rebellion. Sin is not just rules we brok...

Today we continue our study in the Psalms with Psalm 37, a wisdom Psalm. Psalm 37 reads like a chapter in Proverbs, a series of short, direct, practical statements on how to live life. They are right and they work. Every one of us needs to hear what God has for us in Psalm 37.

Jesus is the victorious King and eternal Priest who reigns over all creation and intercedes for His people. He has conquered every enemy, including death, and now draws us near to God as our perfect High Priest.

Psalm 111 calls us to worship God with our whole hearts. Through reflecting deeply on His works and character, we grow in knowledge and reverent fear of the Lord, and we are formed into the people He designed us to be.