Stay The Course, The End Is Great!

The Heights Baptist Church

Stay The Course, The End Is Great!

August 18, 2024

August 18, 2024 • Dr. Randall T. Hahn

I am excited today to begin a 13-message series on 1 and 2 Thessalonians. In a world gone crazy we get clear direction from Thessalonians of what to do in real time. This isn’t advice to consider if this ever happens, but directives in the heat of battle. Thessalonians is going to take the complexity of our time and say, 'Keep it simple, stupid.' Okay, not the stupid part. But we really can overthink and that leads to paralysis. Being canceled, being labeled, being rejected keeps us paralyzed. Thessalonians is going to address that. But not everyone is paralyzed in a chaotic world. Some have directions the church needs to take. In

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.

Friends That Offend

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?

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'?