The Heights Baptist Church

We are continuing today our series called Can I? Today’s topic is can I develop my own sexuality, sexual identity, sexual values? That almost sounds silly in today’s context. I mean it is your body. Right to privacy. And the biggest of all in our culture, your feelings, your truth. And this has brought us to a place in our culture where almost nothing is wrong.

Good morning and welcome to The Heights and to a new series called Can I. We are going to explore a variety of topics like drinking to carrying a gun to how we entertain ourselves; and the goal is not as much yes or no, but how we come to that answer and how we live that answer in a way that serves people around us. Us, now that is an interesting word in light of today’s particular topic: Can I do...

There is a problem in our communities, in our nation, between blacks and police officers. The problem is much bigger than that, but it seems that is where the problem is most glaringly showing itself. As I read this passage it seems to me that the church ought to be trying to discover what role we can play in bringing harmony and peace to racism.

Our Next Generation Pastor, Rev. Jerry Witte, shares about how the church and family can work together to make the best use of time to impact and help our children to grow up in the Lord.

Here at The Heights one of core values is sharing the Good News. We want to be faithful as the church gathered that in all we are and do, the Good News is being shared. We also want to help you, the church scattered back into the world at the end of each Sunday to be able to carry that Good News into your work place, schools, daily lives and relationships.

We cannot separate our relationship with God from our relationship with people. There is no situation where I am right and good with God, while there is hate and anger in my heart for a person, a race, a kind of people. To love God is to love people.

Last week and this we have been looking at When Life Seems Off Course. Wouldn’t it be great if life had some kind of a guarantee? Well, it kind of does. Today I want to talk to you about God’s Lifetime Guarantee. Let’s turn to Romans 8:28.

Today, I want to talk to those who are trying to live for God, trying to follow the examples of Jesus, trying to do things right and your life still feels out of order! You know what is worse than coming across a drink machine with an out of order sign? OK, well, lots of things, right? But I am specifically talking about a drink machine with no sign, but when you put your money in nothing comes ou...

A number of years ago here at The Heights we began a good deeds ministry called Chrestos. We called it Chrestos because in Romans 2:4 it says our good deeds would lead to repentance and Gods kindness. Chrestos is the Greek word for kindness. Chrestos is not actually a word, at least not in our language. And so without intending to we kind of created our own little secret code word. So Chrestos is...

Rev. Ronnie West examines John 21:7-19 this week.

While Satan’s power is fully controlled by the sovereign and good purposes of God, his power is real and the harm it does is real. We just cried out to the Lord over that harm and where we feel it, but we don’t stop there. Strive for faith and hope in the midst of suffering, but stand in the victory.

How much power does Satan have? Satan has as much power as God allows and not one bit more. Satan plays the exact role God intends for him to play. So really, I don’t need to know how much power Satan has because I know who holds all the power. His name is Jesus.

Knowing that Satan’s first order of business every day is to twist this word in your life so you doubt it; means we must give our greatest efforts to know, understand, and live this Word. We have to know God’s word.

We will look at Ephesians 2:1-10. These passages will help us get four perspectives on Satan's influence: the battle from the air, the battle on the ground, the battle in the person,the battle in time.

Ephesians six says that we have an enemy, he is nearer than you think, and we need a people that can SEE. When it comes to the idea of Satan, there is unbelief, ignorance, embarrassment, and inaction. Much of that is a failure of perception. 2 Corinthians calls him the god of this world. We have had our perception shaped by poor pictures of Satan and this world. We desperately need new eyes. That’...

I believe my soul, our soul was created just for this: to know the living God, the Almighty, the Most Holy, the First and the Last, the Ancient of Days, the Great I am, the Everlasting Father, as our good, good Father. Jesus wanted us to know God as our Father.

I want to share something with you today personal to my home. Karen and I have 4 kids and have now been through 4 High School graduations. After graduation I gave each one of my kids a priority list of how to finish here and how to start there. Now that I have shared it with all four of them I’d like to share it with you as I believe it has application to a variety of beginnings and endings.

I would like to suggest today that if we live worthy, are worthy of the life Jesus laid down for us, that we will also accomplish being worthy of the soldiers who laid down their lives for us. I can’t imagine a right and good way that honors a soldier, but not the Lord, or vice versa. So let me share a couple thoughts from this passage of how we live worthy of the gospel and in doing that we live...

Randy Hahn, one of our graduating youth, shares the Word today as part of our 2016 Youth Sunday.

Here at The Heights, we believe that life is better when we're connected with other Christ-followers in our community. Join us in welcoming the Worship Ministry and Senior Pastor of Mount Olivet Baptist Church in Petersburg, VA as they lead our services today. Dr. Wesley Keith McLaughlin is a uniquely gifted and powerful preacher who has served as the Senior Pastor or Mount Olivet Baptist Church s...

Here at The Heights, we believe that life is better when we're connected with other Christ-followers in our community. Join us in welcoming the Worship Ministry and Senior Pastor of Mount Olivet Baptist Church in Petersburg, VA as they lead our services today. Dr. Wesley Keith McLaughlin is a uniquely gifted and powerful preacher who has served as the Senior Pastor or Mount Olivet Baptist Church s...

There are a group of words that God wants so much to describe our lives, words that so fully characterize the follower of Jesus: respect, honor, submit. These words collide with a life lived for self, and living for self is the most natural thing we do. But respect, honor, and submit all call on me to be first concerned, even serve others well-being; and not be bitter about it.

Last week we talked about choosing oneness in our marriage. A word I did not use last week, but a word that is very important to the work of oneness is vulnerability. To be vulnerable is to let the guard down, open the door, let them in; and man is it hard to do that when you are hurt. Today we look at one of the most amazing things about God that is perhaps the most difficult to practice: forgive...

It is difficult to understand, but in marriage there is perhaps a unique opportunity to just touch the edge of glory, the edge of this mystery of the Trinity. God gives us marriage with a purpose of this oneness relationship where we experience His being and practice being like Him.

Well, good morning Heights Family. I want to start this morning spending a few minutes with Jerry Witte, our Next Generation Pastor. We just watched a video introducing a ministry called Married People.