The Heights Baptist Church

I would imagine most of us at one time or another have had the feeling that someone was watching us. Maybe you even caught them watching you. At first it is bewilderment. Are they looking at me? Do I know them? Then we move from bewilderment to fear. Am I doing something wrong? Do I need to wipe something off or pull something up? Once we are convinced we are in the good, then we get perturbed, "W...

Today we want to continue the story, but we different from last week, we want to put some faces with the story. Your prayers, your giving, your walk with Christ in this Church is not just impacting ideas and visions, but actual people. I hope today you will see how the Lord is using CH Baptist to impact our world, our community, and people.

I don’t know the exact date, but it was a Wednesday night in February of 2003. I had a vision of what God wanted to do with Colonial Heights Baptist Church and I wanted to share that. I called a group of people together from throughout the church to meet with me and talk about this. There were probably 30 people in the room.

Hebrews 9:27 says we have an appointment with God and it is death that ushers us into that appointment. A part of that appointment will be an audit.

Now if there is only one way, I guess it then becomes kind of natural to wonder about all those who didn't hear about the one way. To be honest with you, I find it somewhat interesting that we can spend our whole lives without ever thinking about people on the other side of the planet and their spiritual well-being, but when confronted with our own spiritual well-being we cannot get past what happ...

Why would someone come to Christ and His church, if we are indeed the cause of so many problems in the world and some of the worst people in society? If our lives are living proof that Jesus and the church make no difference, then really, why?

"If there is a loving God, why did He let this happen?" My goal today is to give some answers that give us reason to hang on.

We need to affirm that God has indeed communicated one way? If He has, then that is our responsibility whether society appreciates us for it or not. We do not fear and obey society. We fear and obey God. If He has called us to communicate one way, then we communicate one way!

Unfortunately for many in our world today, the Bible is not valid for verifying anything. It is interesting how quickly man dismisses the Scripture when it has never, that is a big word, but It has NEVER been disproven scientifically, historically, archaeologically, or spiritually.

Every person on the planet asks questions about God. Is there one? Has He spoken or revealed Himself so that we can know Him? How do we get to God? Is there more than one way? If there is a God, why is there is evil and suffering? Does God have a purpose for my life?

Let's take another opportunity to look to the life of Mary and see what she treasured about Christmas. Look with me this morning to Luke 2:19.

Now Christmas is a gift. It is God's revelation that He is entering the world in His Son, as a baby, and that baby will become the payment for my sins, so that I can live eternally in heaven as God's child. Well that wonderful revelation leads Mary to break out in song. When is the last time you broke out in song?

What would it be like to be Mary, to be hearing the unbelievable, the impossible? I am excited about this series. Mary is an amazing woman of God that has been largely ignored in the Protestant church.

Did you know that it is the Lord's desire that we as a church, you as an individual regularly experience His power and presence. It is not God's design for that to be something unique and special.

It is as simple as this: if you go to that appointment trusting in yourself: your works, your religion, a plastic Jesus, your efforts to be something; then you are in trouble because there is nothing you can do that covers your sin. There is nothing you can do that can make you like God. But if you go to that appointment having put your faith in what Jesus did for you on the cross, you are declare...

Water is a symbol of new life in the church, and yet, that very same water has divided the church. Whole denominations have been developed over water. What am I talking about? Baptism. Where do we begin in discussing baptism? This is an issue many of us formed our belief probably more on our religious heritage than Scripture.

Today we take on another of the most well-known stories of the Bible: Jonah and the whale.

Now we come to a giant in the landscape of great stories of the Bible. His name is Moses.

Dr. Hahn and Rev. Wilbur (worship pastor) discuss worship and where we are going in the worship ministry at CHBaptist.

Isn't that the point? Let's get into the furnace with Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego and see if there is a reason to have faith, even when God doesn't . . . Turn with me to Daniel 3.

Today we come to what might qualify as one of the most well known stories in the Bible, David and Goliath. We love an underdog. It gives us all hope, "maybe me, maybe I could."

We should read and study them asking, "Why did God record this for me to interact with thousands of years later? What does God want me to do with this story this week?" We are going to begin today looking at Noah and the flood.

God has given you an identity, and it is one that will bring you real power, confidence and direction. It will set your life on a course of eternal significance.

What do we do in the face of adversity, in the position of rejection, in depths of loss - we go back to Jesus and back to Jesus and back to Jesus. We do everything we can to make it all about Him. Our message today is simply this: living for Christ always produces a win.

Jesus wants you to be compassionate. What do you think that means? Were you compassionate this week? Can you point to it? Was there a place where you could have, and didn