Desoto Hills Baptist Church

A church doesn’t become a community landmark by accident and it definitely doesn’t multiply into two healthy congregations without trust. With DeSoto Hills Baptist Church approaching its 20th anniversary, we sit down with Delane Morris and Troy Morris to tell the origin story from the inside: the roads that used to be gravel in South Haven, the Carriage Hills years that shaped their faith, and the...

Jesus’ final words in Matthew 28 are not gentle suggestions, they are marching orders backed by total authority. David Burgess, Minister of Discipleship at DeSoto Hills Baptist Church, walks us through the Great Commission and shows why it belongs to every believer, not just pastors, missionaries, or “super Christians.” If you’ve ever felt too ordinary to matter, too unsure to speak up, or too dis...

A church building can look finished long before the story behind it is fully told. We’re looking ahead to DeSoto Hills Baptist Church’s 20th anniversary by sitting down with Brother Mark Manning, who remembers the early Carriage Hills days and the long, detailed road to moving onto the current campus in Southaven, Mississippi. From swinging by the job site after work to tracking the needs of the w...

Losing your way rarely happens all at once. It usually starts with a small shift in who we listen to, what we laugh at, and what we allow to shape our decisions. From DeSoto Hills Baptist Church, David Burgess walks through Psalm 1 with a clear warning and a better hope: the life that feels steady, joyful, and “blessed” is the life that gets planted in the Word of God. We unpack the Psalm’s progre...

Outreach can feel awkward even when you genuinely care. Fear of saying the wrong thing, getting pushback at work, or looking “too religious” can quietly keep you silent. We wanted to name that honestly, then talk about a better path: equipping people to share the gospel with clarity, kindness, and courage. We walk through what’s coming next at DeSoto Hills Baptist Church in Southaven, Mississippi...

The wind turns, the plan changes, and suddenly the journey feels dangerous. That’s Acts 27 in a sentence, and it’s also the story many of us are living right now. As Paul begins his trip to Rome, we watch him face uncertainty on the sea and pressure on the soul, and we ask a hard question: what does it look like to trust God when life is not “sunshine and roses”?  We walk through the opening of Ac...

They bought 15 acres when it was basically a cotton field and a two-lane road, then trusted God with the rest. That single decision helped shape what would become DeSoto Hills Baptist Church in South Haven, Mississippi and it’s the starting point for a candid, personal 20-year anniversary conversation we think every church family can learn from.  We’re joined by Paul Wardlaw, one of our founding m...

A single shout cuts through the courtroom: “Paul, you are out of your mind.” That reaction from Festus is more than a dramatic moment, it’s a mirror. When the resurrection of Jesus lands in front of us, we often deflect it the same way we deflect anything that threatens our control: we label it foolish, file it away as “too much,” or move on before it can ask anything of us. We walk through Acts 2...

We catch up on summer life, travel, and the value of unplugging, then look ahead to a big fall season at DeSoto Hills. We connect our 20th anniversary celebration to Matthew 16 and talk about how confessing Jesus as Christ reshapes what we think church is and what we do with the gospel.  • summer updates, camping and vacation plans, and the discipline of unplugging  • DeSoto Hills Baptist Church 2...

A light brighter than the sun stops a violent persecutor in his tracks and turns him into a witness for Jesus. That’s the scene Paul describes in Acts 26:12-23, and it forces a personal question: are we moving toward the light, or fighting it while pretending we’re fine? We unpack Paul’s road to Damascus conversion as he speaks before King Agrippa, including the haunting line, “It is hard for you...

Paul is chained, accused, and stuck in political limbo, yet he opens his defense by calling the moment “fortunate.” That tension is where we start in Acts 26:1-11, as Paul stands before King Agrippa and Governor Festus and explains the real reason he’s on trial: hope. Not a fresh trend or a private feeling, but the ancient promise God made to Israel, now fulfilled in Jesus Christ. We walk through...

You can be surrounded by people and still have no idea what to say or do. That “at a loss” feeling shows up at hospital bedsides, in heavy seasons at home, and even in the middle of a public courtroom where everyone expects you to have answers. We pick up in Acts 25:13-27 as Festus tries to deal with Paul, who has appealed to Caesar. The problem is almost embarrassing: Festus cannot find a real ch...

False charges, backroom favors, and a governor trying to keep everyone happy, Acts 25 reads like a courtroom drama, but the real battle is over what we choose to remember. We open with a personal story that exposes how easy it is to miss what’s actually going on beneath the surface, then we step into Caesarea where Paul stands before Festus after two long years in custody. The accusations are loud...

A single sentence can ruin a life: “When I get an opportunity, I’ll deal with it.” We start with a simple story about Kodak and the digital camera a breakthrough they had in hand but shelved out of fear. Then we follow that same pattern into Acts 24:22–27, where Governor Felix has Paul right in front of him, the gospel right in his ears, and conviction right on his heart, yet he chooses delay. We...

Words can win applause, start fights, or hide the truth, but they cannot replace a life that holds up under pressure. We walk through Acts 24 where Paul is hauled into a courtroom before Governor Felix and faces a carefully crafted attack from religious leaders and their spokesman, Tertullus. The charges are serious: stirring riots, leading a dangerous sect, and violating the temple. The tactics a...

A mob is angry, a courtroom is tense, and more than forty men swear an oath to kill Paul before he ever gets a fair hearing. Acts 23 shows how close the danger gets and how quietly God dismantles it, not by removing hardship, but by moving Paul one step closer to Rome just as promised. We walk through the plot, the warning that reaches Paul through his nephew, and the surprising chain of decisions...

A mob is screaming for Paul’s death, a Roman officer is ready to beat answers out of him, and the religious leaders are looking for any excuse to crush him, yet Paul doesn’t lose his witness. We walk through Acts 22:22 to Acts 23:11 and follow the moment where the Lord stands near Paul and says, “Take courage,” then points him forward to Rome. That single line reframes everything: courage is not a...

Paul Revere didn’t become legendary because he won a fight. He became legendary because he carried a message with urgency. That single detail hits differently when we ask what it means to be a Christian witness today, especially as we reflect on the Fourth of July and the approaching 250th anniversary of the United States. We’re not the hero of the story, and we’re not responsible for forcing resu...

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Your friends are crying. The warnings are specific. The outcome sounds brutal. Do you still move forward if you believe God is calling you? We sit in Acts 21 and watch Paul do exactly that, walking toward Jerusalem “constrained by the Spirit” even while believers in Tyre and Caesarea urge him to turn back. The tension is real: godly people can offer sincere counsel and still misunderstand what God...

When life feels heavy and the people we love are hurting, we do not need a shallow pep talk. We need a clear path back to God. With our pastor away due to a death in the family, guest preacher Dustin Tudor brings a message that meets a grieving church with both compassion and honesty, then turns the spotlight where it belongs: on our own hearts.  We walk through 2 Chronicles 7:14 as a practical bl...

Quitting rarely sounds like “I’m done.” Most of the time it whispers, Just slow down. Stay quiet. Don’t rock the boat. From Acts 20:17-38, we listen to Paul look church leaders in the eye and say it twice: “I did not shrink back.” Then we ask the uncomfortable question his life forces on us: what would it take for our faith to have that kind of backbone? We walk through Paul’s farewell to the Ephe...

A “security blanket” can feel harmless until life hits hard and it doesn’t work anymore. We start with that uncomfortable reality and move straight into Acts 20:7-16, where a tired church in Troas gathers on Sunday, shares a meal, listens to Paul teach late into the night, and then faces a terrifying moment when Eutychus falls from a third-story window and is taken up dead. What follows is more th...

A riot has cooled down in Ephesus, Paul is packing for the road again, and Acts 20:1–6 quietly asks a loud question: what does it look like to live as a witness to the kingdom of God when life feels like a long, unpredictable route? We start with Paul’s “great adventure” toward Rome and notice that his path is anything but direct and that’s where so many of us live too. We walk through three concr...