The Heights Baptist Church

We are looking today at the fourth of seven signs Jesus performed and the Gospel of John shows us. Other than the resurrection, this sign we are looking at today is the only miracle of Jesus that is recorded in all four gospels. That means something. These writers have as a resource all the things Jesus said and did for three years, and they pick and choose different things to build their case for...

The word righteous appears 3070 times in the Bible. As a professional student of the Scripture I can officially and authoritatively tell you, "That is a lot." Righteousness is a theme of Scripture. What does it mean? I would imagine the average person is really not sure. In the seventies it was synonymous with the word cool, awesome, great, "righteous." I am confident many of the things they were...

Does God know where I am? Does He know what I am going through? Can He help me? Many of us in here would answer these questions yes, yes, and yes. We may even be able to put Scripture references with each one of these questions. But that doesn't mean we always feel like God knows where we are, or what we are going through, or that He can help us. One reason our feelings can't always catch up with...

Our story starts on the third day. This is taking us back to 1:43, where is says Jesus left for Galilee. This is the third day since Jesus began that trip, and He is now in Cana of Galilee. Cana is a small, out of the way village. Couple of quick observations about the story: first, there is no mention of Joseph, Mary's husband. After the birth of Jesus, Joseph is only mentioned once more and that...

We are beginning today a study of the Gospel of John. To study John is to spend time with someone who really knew Jesus well and he wants you to know Him well. He doesn't want us to just say, "Hey, I met Jesus." He wants us to be able to say, "Hey, I know Jesus."

Today is the end of a series, and the start of another. We are ending a series in which we have been talking about what we want people to see when they come to our church. We have focused on some key things: we want people to see God's glory and His people responding to it. We want people to see us loving one another. We hope they see a church that has a compassion for the world, for those who do...

Now, Moms, the Scripture calls us to honor you, but it also defines what an honorable mom looks like. We would not be doing justice to the day to not take a glimpse at God's design for an honorable mom. There are a number of passages and examples throughout the Scriptures, and I will use four from the letters of Timothy and Titus.

An interview by Jimmy G of Richmond, VA AFR affiliate WAUQ of Dr. Randall T. Hahn about the grand opening of our new church facility which occured on May 18, 2008. Used with permission of WAUQ.

When people come to Colonial Heights Baptist they need to see me preaching the Word, but they also need to see you doing proclaiming the message of this Book. They need to see the Bible in our faith, in our actions, and in our message. We have nothing to share with people that is not in this Book. This our fourth message on what we want people to see when they come to Colonial Heights Baptist. We...

When we see people we make judgments about whether or not they are good or bad and how that affects us. We like what they have or we don't want anything to do with what they have. We may look at people with prejudices or preconceived ideas. I guess the truth is we have a wide range of thoughts and ideas that come into our mind when we see someone. I guess the worst thing we do in those thoughts is...

Last Sunday we began a series to help us think and prepare as individuals and as a church family for what we want people to see when they come to our church. We started last week by saying we want them to see God's glory and our responding to it. We are going to end this series by saying we want them to see Jesus. I think Jesus would say to us today that when they come here, they had better see us...

If you are a member of this family, then this house is something God has given you, and He will hold you accountable for what you do with it. Will we be ready to stand before God for what we did with this? He will hold you accountable for what people saw when they got here. I am going to begin today a series on what I believe God wants them to see, and therefore what we want them to see.

Colonial Heights Baptist is not this pew, or the old sanctuary or the new sanctuary or the sign out front. Colonial Heights Baptist is you and me, it is us. That is a physically and spiritually true statement. The building is just an inanimate object that serves our purposes as we serve the Lord. Having said that, it is pretty hard to say the words Colonial Heights Baptist and not think of the bui...

Why is it not anymore crazy to believe Jesus rose from the dead? Think about all we have done today or are going to do: new dresses, hiding eggs, coming to church, go home and have a big dinner, not to mention our living the Christian life - and the reason we are doing all this is because we believe a man was killed and buried on Friday and was up walking around and greeting people on Sunday. Does...

Jesus had never wronged them. If they knew who He was they may have seen Him raise Lazarus from the dead days earlier. Or, maybe they saw Him bless children as parents brought theirs to Him. They might have heard Him say, "Blessed are the peacemakers." He wanted people to know God. How do they demand His execution? How do they choose a murderer to be free in their community over Jesus? That is not...

How thrilling, how heroic the life of an uncover agent. There is one area of life though where there is nothing heroic or thrilling about being undercover. There is one place that undercover is failure. Jesus has not called anyone to be undercover.

We look at the call of Easter on our life. The events that make up what we call Easter are the most significant in history. The world and life literally teeters on Easter. It is more than just a series of events out there in history. Those events speak to us . . . call to us. It is a call of love and we want to respond.

When God speaks to money it is for our benefit. We are going to look today at what we need to understand about money and what we need to do with it. I hope to give us a starting point for wise decisions.

God talks about money. Jesus constantly talks about money. Someone might respond, "Well, Jesus talks about a lot of things, why focus on that?" Two reasons: 1) Jesus talked about money more than any other topic. And, 2) Money is one of the biggest issues in our lives. That means in a big way we need to know what God says about this area of our lives.

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