The Heights Baptist Church

Would it surprise you to know this morning that God has a finished picture of you? It is a picture that He dearly loves and treasures. Not a random photograph of some awkward, embarrassing, or even sinful moment in your life. No, a finished, complete, picture of the person He has created you to be.

As we come today to Romans 3:21 we enter a new section of the book that will carry us through chapter 5. This section could be called God's gift to you. Look at 3:21-31.

I have preached ten messages so far in Romans and the last five were a pretty detailed look at our depravity. We are not good. We might have good moments and do some good things, but the presence of impurity, that poison, you remember, is always there. You know, there is tremendous value in us walking these through the wilderness and remembering what we were like before Christ. It is more than jus...

I want to answer two questions: 1) Does Jesus believe in and talk about hell? 2) Who does Jesus talk about being in that hell? There is much we could discuss in these two questions and beyond these two questions, but there is also an incredible simplicity in the answer to these questions.

There are a lot of places we could go in Scripture today for some direction. But I do know this: Jesus is coming back. That is what should define how we live, even more than times of prosperity or times of suffering. Look at 2 Peter 3:14-18.

Rev. Reeves shares about our FAITH program and how we as Christians should be ready to share our faith in Christ with others.

The Bible. Sixty-six different books written over 1600 years with about 40 different authors. Written in 3 different languages on 3 different continents. Is there a connecting thread that brings it all together? Today's message looks at that central theme that weaves it way through the Scriptures and how we are to respond to it today.

Many of us have heard of the story of the "Good Samaritan", but did you know there was a story about a "Bad Samaritan?" What made her bad were some of the same things that makes each of us bad. Then she encounters Jesus! Let's look at what Jesus tells her and us about how our lives can be forever changed.

I have so far preached 9 sermons in Romans. The last 4 have not been a pleasant look at mankind, at you and me. Paul has laid out the case for our depravity. Depravity is about our relationship with God more than each other. The term simply means morally corrupt. It does not mean that we commit every sin, but it does mean we sin and we have within us the ability to commit any sin.

Dr. Hahn talks about celebrating the love that Jesus Christ has for us by observing the Lord's Supper, and our time of evaluting and reflecting on our love for Him.

People who have good news have a smile on their face. People who have good news focus on the goods news. People who have good news want to share it. People ought to be knocking on our doors and offering to take us out for coffee just to hear about this good news, but they are not. Why not?

Even rejecting Him, there is a fear in man of eternity, how am I going to fare standing before God. Concerned, we look around and compare ourselves. Am I in the front of the pack or at least the middle?

We are going to continue our study today of the letter to the Romans. It is not a study of the United States. It is a study of humanity and our depravity. Sadly, as we read this passage it sounds like a perfect description of the American culture.

What is your God like? Do you have a Genie in the bottle God? Is He a kind ol' grandpa who tells you stories, gives you money for candy, and just makes you feel good to be at his house? Or, is your God just up there watching? He minds His own business and let’s you work it out for yourself? I would assume a lot of us in here have a little more accurate understanding of God, but I think all people...

What is your attitude about the gospel? Does the Bible prescribe an attitude for those who have received the Gospel? Let's refresh ourselves on the Gospel, the good story of that which we are to have an attitude about.

The title of our message today is When Its Tough Being a Christian. So, when is it? How about when people make fun of you or persecute you for being one? Or there is a cost to being one: like not being promoted or losing a job, or ignored and left out by family. These kinds of things make it hard.

Turn with me to Romans 1:1-7. We begin our series in Romans in earnest now. We have taken two weeks to just get an introduction. In these opening verses we are going to see that Paul was not just saved from being a murderer, or a legalist. He was not just saved from sin and death. He was saved to something.

Today we continue our introduction of the letter to the Romans. This is placed first among Paul's 13 letters in the New Testament. While the Gospels give us the words and works of Jesus, Romans is going to delve into all that the death of Jesus means for us.

Dr. Hahn talks on Mothers's Day 2011 with his mother and wife.

I am going to do two introductions to Romans, today and the 15th. Today I want you to just get a little bit of a historical feel of Paul, the book, Rome. Then on the 15th it will be an overview of the book itself. We will see what is in it. After that, we will begin working through Romans pretty much verse by verse. I believe it will take no less than 50 sermons.

As we come to the last part of His prayer, we see Jesus pray very specifically for you and me, He prays for people who are going to believe in 2011. Let's see what Jesus was thinking about for you, the night before He was crucified. Turn to John 17:20-26.

Jesus starts to pray for His disciples' safety. Incredible. He is going to be violently executed the next day and He is thinking about their safety. What would make them safe? Look at John 17:6-19.

We saw last week that Jesus' primary focus in His prayer was that God be seen and worshiped. This thought continues on into the verses we just read. Jesus is praying over how He will bring glory to the Father and it is by using the authority that the Father gave Him.

Big moments and big prayers - they go hand in hand with life in Christ, and it was no different for Christ.

Now in this area of serving, it more than just have the same attitude as Jesus. We are created in the image of God. So, if Jesus is a servant, and we are created in His image, then not only are we being commanded to serve, but we were created to serve. So if we were both created and commanded to be like Him - now we are getting to the core of purpose. People wander all over this earth looking for...