The Heights Baptist Church

So, you ready to fight? Can the same Jesus, the same Bible that calls us to peace, call us to fight? Can a people of grace, love, forgiveness put on the gloves? Today we begin a 3-week series in the book of Jude. It’s one page. I like how Chuck Swindoll described this book of the Bible that resides next to Revelation. 'Jude is like a one-room chapel beside a massive cathedral, often lost in the sh...

No matter what we are going through, as children of God, help is on the way. While we may be tested by the Lord, we need to have faith in the Lord. We will be sustained by Jesus Christ.

The title of my message today is Preparing for Profit. Not your normal profit, but the big one. We talked last week about coming into big money and how often the proves to be a disaster for people, and that is why the Bible warns about it. Or even the regular profit. You finally get that big raise. In America that means one year from now you will still have the same financial stress and debt. Only...

Throughout history money has an incredibly powerful impact on us and we don’t always manage that impact well, nor the money, and that is why the warnings. Is there a way to prepare for money?

So why does God use weakness and helplessness in our lives? Because that is what keeps us touching first, what keep us operating out of devotion, dependence and discipleship. If we don’t touch first each day then our tendency is to get distracted and busy, and look what happens. Someone who loves the Lord, but feels distant from the Lord. Someone who loves the Lord, but easily angered with His peo...

Today is our third week to think about helplessness. As I have been working on this series, and for me that goes back before Christmas, I’ve been amazed in my Bible-reading to see how much this thread of helplessness runs through the Bible. When you are looking for it, you see it. So many verses take on a new understanding. It is not about how strong I am, but rather how much I trust in, depend on...

Last week we learned from the story of the Canaanite woman in Matthew 15 and a teaching from Paul in 2 Corinthians 12:9 that helplessness is the very place we are to be working from. We need our weaknesses and inabilities for they drive us to cling to Christ where we most experience the power of God. Today we are going to understand the significance of our helplessness; and that God is presenting...

Much of my prayer life may be asking God to keep me from the place He is trying to get me. That would seem to put my prayers at odds with God. What is this place? Helplessness. Have you ever felt helpless? Did you want to stay in that place? No, of course not. I can’t help but think most of us will do almost anything in a state of helplessness to no longer feel helpless. And when I say 'God wants...

This morning I want us to work our way through an entire book of The Bible. And this particular book of The Bible has also been made into a movie. The difference being while this movie is less than 2 hours long it will only take you 6 and a 1/2 minutes to read through the book that we're going to work our way through this morning. Turn with me to the Old Testament book of Jonah. As we work our way...

If you have been at The Heights during this Christmas Season you have heard us talking about prepositions, two in particular: around and in. On Christmas Eve or Christmas morning, many homes, many churches turn to Matthew 1-2 or Luke 1-2 and read the Christmas Story, the real one, the historical one about Jesus. And in those stories, we learn a lot about what went on around Jesus at His arrival. A...

It is good a good thing to not use our body for evil, but that does not mean we’ve used it for good. The way so many our living in our culture today gives a lot of us a chance to feel very self-righteous because I’m not like them. I haven’t done that. But the command of Christmas is more than just not doing that. The command of Christmas directs me to think and act just like Jesus, to have the sam...

It is Christmas, and that means we focus on Christmas passages that give us the Christmas story. These passages tell us what is going on AROUND Jesus at His birth. Around Him there were angels praising and delivering messages. Around Him was a virgin birth. Around Him was a mom and dad traveling to Bethlehem. Around Him was a star and shepherds. And we love what was going on around Him. Our Christ...

I love Christmas ____________ . What goes there in the blank for you? Lights? Cookies? Movies? Music? Gifts? Bonus! Quite a few words can go in that blank. Elf on a shelf is not one of them. Doesn’t fit. I have word that I don’t think anyone would put there, but should. It is not as natural or easy to say as Christmas cookies or Christmas music, but it is so much more what Christmas is all about t...

Join us as we celebrate Dr. Hahn's 20th Anniversary at The Heights Baptist.

We all have things we need to do in life, to this week. We all struggle with letting less important things crowd out the more important things. We need to focus on what is most important. Jesus seems to be saying the act of remembering is how we keep the main thing the main thing. We need in our lives the discipline of remembering.

There is a forever. You are forever. And we are going to spend forever in either Heaven or Hell. One has to ask, *What can I do? How can I know? Can anyone know?* The good news is God wants You to know and He is patient as you hear and learn. Listen to God’s heart.

We have been studying Heaven and Hell since September 18, and we will conclude next week. One of the things we have learned is that while the words Heaven and Hell have a general meaning of where people go when they die, Heaven and Hell are actually places, events that are out there in the future, still to come; which leaves the question, “What about now? Where do we go when we die?” That seems in...

Today is our fifth Sunday on Heaven and Hell, with still two more to go, but we have covered enough to generate some questions which I am going to try and answer. We had about 40 people ask over 75 questions, not 75 different questions. There are duplicates so don’t get nervous how long this will take. We will hear answers we understand and agree with, some that will enlighten. There may be some t...

What would make Heaven, Heaven for You? What is it hard to imagine Heaven not having? I imagine most of us have something: a pet, a person, a pleasure, a place. I mean we are sure Heaven is good and wonderful and all, the whole streets of gold thing; but if we are honest, it is just hard to imagine Heaven being all that is promised if found out that something wasn’t there. Could Heaven be missing...

Todd and Veronika Gallagher with their three children are missionaries in Ukraine. As war broke out their plans changed, but they continued to minister to refugees and the church in Ukraine from their home base in Brasov, Romania.

A disturbing concept in Christianity is the prospect that one day vast numbers of people will go to hell. Some of them we know and love; because we all have people we know and love that will not come to Christ. It is such a disturbing idea it’s just easier to ignore or only refer to in the vaguest of terms. The great majority of Christians can go to church for years and never hear about hell. It i...

We are a physical people in a physical world, and we were made that way by God. And it is in these physical, concrete images of the world that heaven is described to us in Revelation 21. Don’t dismiss these descriptions as having some indefinable, mystical idea. Hear it for what it is. Let’s read Revelation 21.

Why is it so important to study Heaven and Hell when it costs $50, $60 dollars or more to fill my gas tank, when we just learned that our kids are on average 1-2 years behind in their education due to Covid, when we have such a polarized nation, when home is becoming more frustrating, when . . . and where does the list stop of more pressing needs than day dreaming about a Heaven or Hell? What if I...

Are we really helping, encouraging, providing for people to grow in the Lord, be strong in the Lord, in the context of an increasingly anti-Christian society. Can we stand strong and true? Is our church helping you be and do what God has called you to be and do? As we worked on this, we found ourselves going in a whole new direction. We stopped thinking of discipleship as a class we go to for 8 we...

Today and next Sunday I am going to be sharing around our vision and what we are going to be doing here. at The Heights and I think they bring some great opportunities for you as an individual and us as a church. And on September 17, we are going to start an 8-week series on Heaven and Hell. How important we keep in mind the final destination, an eternal destination, as we work through today’s iss...