Friends That Offend

The Heights Baptist Church

Friends That Offend

September 15, 2024

September 15, 2024 • Dr. Randall T. Hahn

Friends that offend, you need them. God isn't calling us to be offensive, but He is calling us to care and yes, some will be offended by that concern. We won't stay the course in following Jesus if we don't have people in our lives who care enough to ask. Are you building those kinds of relationships, giving that kind of permission?

The Right Question

September 22, 2024 • Dr. Randall T. Hahn

Can I be a Christian and be or do ...? To all of these questions I would say, you are asking the wrong question. The question is entirely about self, and when we come to Christ, self-dies. We took off self and put on Christ. It is not even we who live anymore, but Christ who lives in us. See Galatians 2:20. Our desire now is Christ, and all things submitted to Him. We are going to read a passage that speaks so clearly to this question, to the Church today, the believer today, because nothing happening today is new, and God has answered. Look with me at 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8.

Why The Bible?

September 8, 2024 • Dr. Randall T. Hahn

Everyone has a worldview, a way of looking at and interpreting the world. Some of it is made up of who we are and what we do: male, American, pastor. Much of it is made up of what we trustingly listen to: news, Tik Tok, podcasts, friends. It all shapes how we look at relationships, money, God, sex and sexuality, government, people, people groups, really everything. Your worldview is in operation every day on everything. One would think for something so important we would carefully choose our worldview, but I think for most a worldview just happens to them. Let’s not let it just happen. Let’s purposely choose, and I would the Bible, a biblical worldview. You’re not surprised I’d say that, but maybe asking, 'Why the Bible'?

Our Life Should Speak For Itself

September 1, 2024 • Dr. Randall T. Hahn

When people don’t like someone, they tend to only hear and see what confirms their dislike. It is an uphill battle to change that mind. Good will be ignored. Motives will be questioned. The culture is saying we are a place of hate, we are a people against. I hope we never show them hate, and while there are things God calls us to be against, He really sends us out there with what we are for. We are for people and the gospel. We are for people meeting God-sized life and love. But to have that opportunity we really need to strive, more than the average, to be the best neighbor, the best co-worker, the best teammate. What’s at stake is not people liking us, but people knowing the gospel and an opportunity to connect with God-sized life and love. And that is what Paul is going to show us today as continue our series in Thessalonians.