The Heights Baptist Church

In Genesis 12 and 15 Abram is called Abram, but when we read the passage in Romans 4, he’s called Abraham. Why the name change? Also, from Romans 4, Paul describes Abraham as never wavering in his faith, so what is going on when he jumps the gun and has a child with Hagar. Good questions in which the answers have some real value to our faith walk today.

If God took the crucifixion of our Lord Jesus, which was the most wicked act conducted in the history of mankind and used it for His glory, the same thing is true for anything else we may go through in this world. God is sovereign and in complete control. God is able.

Rev. Jordan West, our Young Adults Pastor continues in Genesis 17 as we look at circumcision and it's importance in the Bible.

God made the heavens all by Himself… earth… animals… trees… you… me… everything, therefore He doesn’t need fleshly help in order to accomplish His will. All He wants us to do is simply believe/trust/wait on God. This is what Abraham & Sarah needed to learn, and same thing that we need learn. God’s way is the only way.

Genesis 1-11 is the big view of where everything came from and why things are the way they are. In Genesis 12 we shift. Moses has led the Jews out of Egypt and is introducing them to their God. Not a first introduction, but now a very thorough introduction from Genesis to Deuteronomy. God is going to use Genesis 12-50 to tell them where they came from and why there are His special people. And that...

Sometimes things just work out. It was not on purpose that I am preaching Genesis 10-11 today and doing the Lord’s Supper, and yet, wow! These two things landed on this day separately and they absolutely go together. At the Tower God divided us up and at the Table He made us one again. Let’s look today at Genesis 11:1-9.

The flood story is big. It is big action. It is big impact. It has big questions. It is by far the biggest judgment of God on the earth and humanity still to this day. It is just a flood of big going on. But under the surface, pun intended, there are great spiritual lessons, examples for our daily life and walk with God. In the flood God has something for you. Open your Bible with me to Genesis 5:...

The day finally arrived. A day God had said would come a hundred years earlier. The Ark was finished, full of animals and supplies, and Noah’s family. God shut the door the ark. And then God, well, killed everyone. Today and next Sunday I want to focus our attention on some profound spiritual ideas we need to take from this.

Our study in Genesis brings us not only to one of the big moments in the Bible, but one of the big moments in the history of planet earth. So many ancient religions and cultures have a flood story. Do you know why? Because it happened. They’re trying to explain this event in the history of our earth. Do I believe in the flood, Noah, the Ark? I certainly do because Jesus believed in it.

Today we are going to look at one of the not so well-known characters of the Bible, but one that has a great walk with God. You don’t have to be a Bible hero to have a great walk with God. Turn with me to Genesis 5. I am going to read 1-11, and then 21-24.

Well, we are in Genesis 4 today, but going to at Deuteronomy 12:4 and Romans 12:2-3. These verses are about worship, and not just the minutes before a sermon happens in church on Sunday morning. This is about the life offered up to God in worship. One verse says don’t take your cues from the world on how to worship God. The other says don’t take your cues from yourself. In both I elevate myself to...

Today is our sixth message and a message connected to 3 Sundays ago. We looked at Adam and Eve fall into sin. It is kind of stunning that a serpent is talking, but very purposeful, because temptation is always talking to us from wherever we perceive the voice to be coming from. We learned how important it is to trust God, His word, His goodness. In verses 8-24 today we are going to see the fall ou...

We used to say it is wrong to smoke marijuana because it was illegal and as Christians, we are to obey the law. Well, it is now recreationally legal in 19 states and medically legal in 36 others. This requires us to think through this issue with a little more thought and Todd Miles will show us what that looks like to think biblically and as a disciple of Christ on this issue. He will also give us...

Adam and Eve failed. It’s hard to grasp just how big a failure that was. Their failure produced every lie, every murder, every rape, every war, every cancer, every divorce, every bad day. Their failure is why the lawn mower breaks. And on and on and on. And they can’t blame their failure on heredity, the environment, or anything anyone did to them. And yet they will blame. We might feel like we ca...

Earlier this year, I came across the passage in Matthew 4 about Jesus being tempted in the wilderness. Something about that passage really just stuck out to me and I knew that it was what I wanted to preach on if I was given the opportunity.

out. Today we look at marriage. Most people get married, regardless of religion, race, generation, continent, culture; the great majority of people get married. Let’s see what God had in mind. Read Genesis 2:18-25.

Where does identity, our understanding of self, come from? Is it something we create or something we are given? There’s not going to be universal agreement on that, but has a universal answer been given? I believe so. We talk much today about social construct, the social things that build who we are: like little boys are to play with G.I Joes and girls, Barbies. There are constructs we are going t...

So last week our focus was on the 6 days of creation and today the 7th day as we continue our series in Genesis. I am using a sermon today that I have not only preached before, but recently, just two years ago. I think this is so important to our health and well-being and we just don’t get. When I did this 2 years ago, I did a sermon before this one trying to prove we are all walking around on emp...

We can choose God or reject God. No other part of creation does that. The rest of creation is doing what it is designed to do. We have a choice to do what we are designed to do, or not. In this role we are also given dominion over this world, both a privilege and a responsibility. We will be judged and blessed accordingly.

Who am I? Why am I? Is there a God? Is there something besides this? Does it matter how I live? Deep, philosophical questions with complex answers? Perhaps, but maybe there are simple answers that go a long way to understanding a lot. God wants you to understand a lot. And that is why He gave us the Bible and that is why it starts with Genesis, beginnings or starting points. I am excited to be sta...

Happy Resurrection Day! He is alive! It’s so good to see everyone this Easter weekend and celebrate with you that He is alive! My message today is entitled Two Rocks and a PoPo. Let me start with our passage for the day. 1 Corinthians 15:3-6.

Good morning and welcome to The Heights on Palm Sunday. Karen and I along with 88 of you just got back from Israel, back from the road Jesus was on when they waved those palm branches. It was the most incredible time in the Holy Land, worshiping and learning together as we walked where Jesus walked. And from that excitement and energy I'm here today to share this moment with you. All are welcome t...

Let’s look to the Bible to see what all we can discover about Methuselah and who he was. Turn with me this morning to Genesis Chapter 5 and we begin reading in verse 21. (Gen 5:21-27)

Today’s sermon title is Fighting in the Church! And it is not to tell us not to fight, but to fight! Wait, what?! Doesn’t Jesus, the Bible tell us to work at unity, to not fight? Well, I may have let you assume something about the word fight. When we hear that word, we think of anger and arguing, even pushing and punching. That’s not what Jude is talking about. Sorry, I may have left that impressi...

It is crazy out there! Dangerous out there! We might even say evil out there! We can’t ignore it. It’s not going away. It is just getting more crazy, more dangerous and more evil. And that’s why we need to fight . . . in here. Huh? Turn with me to the letter from Jude. Go to the end of the Bible and you’ll find Revelation. Jude is right before it. Today is our second of three messages dedicated to...