The Heights Baptist Church

We took your questions LIVE via text message. Throughout each service our moderator, Andy Huff, posed questions to our panel of pastors. 8:20am service questions.

You Asked for It!  You have been given the opportunity to ask questions and we’re ready to answer.  We picked two questions that we will spend a whole message on, today and May 11.  These were picked both because of most asked and most current.  Today is about suffering and evil and May 11 will be about near death experiences and the afterlife.  And then next week we are going to use a panel and h...

Easter is a little different for me this year. I have been to Jerusalem, just a couple of weeks ago. I have been to Golgotha. I have been to the tomb. I have looked in. He is not there. He has risen. He has risen indeed!

Today we enter the week of our Lord’s Passion, beginning with Palm Sunday, when He triumphantly entered Jerusalem, and then next Sunday, Easter, when He rose from the grave conquering sin and death for you and me; so that we could be forgiven and restored in righteousness to God. In the midst of this week, the night before He would go to the cross, Jesus gave us the Lord’s Supper, a way to remembe...

John teaches that the true believer should constantly be changing from the time that he comes to faith, until the moment he is perfected when he sees Christ face-to-face. From this, we can understand that the NATURE, the DESTINATION, and the SHAPE of Christian faith is TRANSFORMATION, and that SEEING God fuels that transformation.

Rev. Ronnie West, our Education Pastor, shares a sermon based around his life verse.

This Thursday Karen and I will overlook Megiddo, site of a final cataclysmic battle called Armageddon. Friday we will stand on the mount where Jesus gave the Sermon on the Mount. Saturday we will be on the Sea of Galilee where Jesus walked on the water. Monday is the Mount of Olives, the Garden of Gethsemane, and the Upper Room. And we finish at the empty tomb. To say I am excited is just bit of a...

We base most of what we do on a book written 2000-3000 years ago. Much of our opportunity today in this church came from the faith and work of those before us. So we have to achieve this precious balance between looking back and looking forward, between respecting the past, but not so dedicated to it that we sacrifice our future. Here’s my compass: if it comes from God’s word it doesn’t change. Bu...

Today is the last in our series on the Lamb of Wall Street. Today I want to show you the Lamb calling us to a lifestyle. The lifestyle of the wolf is always more, always bigger, always better. Get it and look like you’ve got it. Happiness and strength are in more. But that pursuit of more comes with great stress. The Lamb has, all that we need, with peace.

No one knows us better than God, and He knows how important it is for us to have something to look forward to, so He has given us the greatest thing of all to look forward to. It is so incredible that it has the power to help us endure suffering, the power to choose right, the power to give us joy in all circumstances. And shocking so many believers do not enjoy this hope. We don’t look forward to...

Today’s message is not about budgets or giving or what we have or do not have. It is not about what we do or do not do with the money we have. For those things are all products of a choice. Today’s message is about that choice. Money is a way we will serve God, or it will be our god. What would we point to in our lives as evidence of the choice we have mad? Wall Street will tell us to choose money...

We are family, and together we do this thing called The Heights. To pray, to give, to serve effectively implies a level of understanding and knowledge. While we are this big place that meets in four services on two campuses, we are still a family, and family has to talk every now and then about where we are and what’s happening.

Guillermo Morales, the national field director of Chosen Children Ministries, shared during our closing services for our 2014 Global Impact Conference.

One of the things I love about our church is seeing more and more people telling God-stories from the mission field. I think to be a church about missions is to be a church that is about the heart of God, and that is just good.

I can’t believe we are already at our fourth and final message on forgiveness, already at the end of January. We started the year off saying forgiveness may be the greatest need in our lives, not just once at salvation, but an ongoing issue. We have spent the last two weeks looking at forgiving others as the way of handling that anger. Today I want to come back to guilt. Because just like Satan wi...

One of my favorite Bible characters is Joseph. His story is told in Genesis 37-50, and I think it is one of the most inspiring stories of forgiveness inside or outside the Bible. I am amazed by the number of people he forgave and the depth of the offenses against him that he forgave. I am amazed how he held onto God through it all. It is not hard to turn all the pain we endure into anger against G...

Last week we talked about receiving God’s forgiveness, saying this was the biggest need in our life, whether that is what we were thinking on January 1 or not. If we don’t have His forgiveness then it doesn’t really matter what happens good or bad this year. Jesus says we gain nothing if gain everything we want in the world, but lose our soul. So forgiveness is the big issue in life, and I think m...

I am going to suggest our real need is forgiveness, whether we need to receive it or give it. My guess is very few were thinking that was there real need on January 1. Over the next several weeks we are going to learn how to live in it, enjoy it, and give it. We are going to discover the power and life it gives, to forgive.

We want Happiness. God wants Holiness. Why is it that most of the time we will choose Happiness over Holiness? Maybe we have a fundamental misunderstanding of Holiness.

In Hebrew Jesus is Yeshua, and it literally means “The Lord is salvation.” Jesus says when I come under His name, He will confess my name to the Father and the angels.

Frankincense. I could have picked any of the three gifts or talked about all three, but I have chosen one. Frankincense was a fragrance to remind people of God and that is why it was not to be used in common ways.

We are continuing our series today called Christmas words and our word for today is fulfilled. We probably won’t see that word on a Christmas card, and it doesn't evoke those Christmas emotions like the word manger or star; but this is a profoundly significant Christmas word.

There are some words in the Christmas story that make Christmas, Christmas. I want to talk about 5 of them this Christmas season: virgin, Jesus, frankincense, fulfill, and angels. We are going to be looking at angels at our Christmas Eve service, and I am already pretty excited about that one, but today, we are going to look at this word, virgin.

Well here we are at the end of another sermon series, It's Complicated. God speaks into our world, into our lives to give direction and to give what is good for us. We have looked at marriage, homosexuality, living together, divorce, pornography, money, and politics; and today, boycotting. And the issue is not as much boycotting, as how we influence change; and boycotting in a consumer culture has...

McKrae Game is the Founder and President of the Hope for Wholeness Network. He shares his beliefs on the causes of homosexuality from the approach of someone with same-sex attractions now living a biblical standard.