Highland Baptist Church - Sermons

This week, Pastor Mark Wible continued our For Every Season series with a message from Psalm 90—a psalm of reflection on God's faithfulness. Drawing from Moses' prayer, Pastor Mark reminded us that God is our dwelling place in every season: in His eternal sovereignty, in our waiting, in His chastening, and in His favor. As Pastor Mark reflected on 40 years of ministry, he encouraged us to anchor our lives in the unchanging presence and faithfulness of God.

This week, Pastor Jeremy Daniel continued our For Every Season sermon series with a message from Psalm 88, a Psalm of Lament. In one of the darkest prayers in Scripture, we learn to turn to God, cry out our complaints, ask boldly, and ultimately choose to trust Him. Lament is the act of clinging to a God Whose light has overcome, is overcoming, and will overcome the darkness.

This week, Pastor John continued our For Every Season sermon series with a message from Psalm 9. This Psalm invites us to cultivate gratitude by choosing to give thanks, remember God's faithfulness, and rejoice in His sovereignty. In a world full of hardship and injustice, we can rest in the truth that God sees, God reigns, and God has not forgotten us.

This week, College Pastor Drew Humphrey launched our new series, For Every Season, with a message from Psalm 89 on true security. In a world marked by uncertainty, insecurity, and pride, Psalm 89 calls us to anchor our hearts in the unshakable character and promises of God. We are invited into lasting security—rooted in His love, His covenant, His distinctiveness, and His glory. Use this link to access Drew's 351 OT Prophecies notes.

In this week's message, Pastor John Durham closes out our Whole Heart series by unpacking Haggai 2:20–23. He reminds us that God will shake all that is temporary in order to establish what is eternal. Through Christ, we receive an unshakable Kingdom, and even what feels lost or broken can be fully restored. God is not finished.

This week, we took a break from Haggai and our Whole Heart series to hear a message on prayer from our Student Pastor, Ryan Oakes. Drawing from Philippians 4, Ryan reminded us that prayer is not about getting everything we ask for, but about being with God in every moment and bringing our honest selves before Him. He challenged us to let go of our desire for control and trust that, while God may not always change our circumstances, He promises a peace that guards our hearts.

In this week's message, Pastor John Durham continues our Whole Heart series, teaching from Haggai 2:10–19. He emphasizes that righteousness doesn't come through proximity to holy things but through an internal transformation by God's grace. This grace is powerful, rooted in His character, and can not be earned by our own merit.

In this message from Haggai 2:1–9, Pastor Jeremy Daniels reminds us that while the present may seem small compared to the past, God's presence and promises call us to hope. We are encouraged to look up, look back, and look forward—trusting that the future glory God is preparing far surpasses what came before.

In the opening message of Highland's new sermon series, Whole Heart, Pastor John challenges us to examine whether we're building up our own kingdoms or God's. Rooted in Haggai 1, he reminds us that wholehearted obedience, worship, and a renewed focus on God's presence are the path to true fulfillment.

In his Easter message, Pastor John reminds us that Jesus' crucifixion was public, purposeful, and necessary for our forgiveness—and that His resurrection was powerful, promised, and life-giving. Because He lives, we have hope that overcomes guilt, access to lasting peace, and the promise of eternal life. Jesus' story changes everything.

Pastor John presented a powerful Palm Sunday sermon, challenging us to examine our personal faith. Whether you consider Him your King or not, Jesus remains the King of the world and calls us to seek Him not with mild admiration, but with wholehearted surrender.

Pastor John Durham kicked off our Easter sermon series "As He Promised" with a message exploring how Old Testament prophecies in Isaiah point to Jesus as the Lamb of God. Through His silent sacrifice on the cross, He took our place, absorbing the penalty of sin. In this act, God lovingly substituted Himself for us, offering salvation to all who believe.

We conclude our Way, Truth, Life sermon series by looking at what it looks to have union with Christ and the our aim in life towards that end.

In this week's sermon, guest Pastor Jay Mathis led us to reflect on the true meaning of communion, emphasizing that it is a gift of grace, not something we create. Through faithful obedience, we remember the finished work of Christ, proclaim the power of the gospel, and examine the affections of our hearts. Communion calls us to repentance, renewal, and joyful participation in the life Christ offers.

This week, Pastor John continues in our Way, Truth, Life sermon series, as we explore the high cost of true discipleship. Jesus calls us to deny ourselves, take up our cross, and follow Him fully, with a heart fully dependent on Him.

This week, Pastor John led us through Hebrews 10:19-23 as part of our Way, Truth, Life sermon series. He reminded us that through Jesus, we have been given access to draw near to God and experience His powerful help, marvelous presence, and promised assurance.

This week, Pastor John kicked off our new sermon series, Way, Truth, Life, by highlighting how, in John 14, Jesus clearly states that He is the one and only way to God and heaven.

We conclude our sermon series in Jonah and look at the anger of Jonah at the Lord at the end of Jonah compared to our anger.JONAH 4:1   JONAH 4:2-4IF YOU LET ANGER HANG AROUND LONG ENOUGH IT TURNS TO BITTERNESS, AND BITTERNESS TAKES ROOT IN YOUR HEART. JONAH 4:5 ANGER LEADS TO ISOLATION AND WICKED DESIRES.JONAH 4:6-9   JONAH 4:10-11 MANY THINGS WE GET ANGRY ABOUT WERE ONCE OUR PRAYER REQUESTS.YOU FIGHT ANGER BY SURRENDERING ANGER.EPHESIANS 4:26 Be angry but do not sin. Don't let the sun go down on your anger.BE ANGRYDON'T SIN IN ITIT NEEDS TO BE GONE BY SUNDOWN GOD RELENTLESSLY PURSUES THE LOST, BUT ALSO RELENTLESSLY PURSUES HIS PEOPLE TO GROW IN GODLINESS

In this week's sermon, we look at the grace of God and the forgiveness given to us. Those who have received that grace can't do anything but give it.

In this week's sermon, Pastor John walks through Jonah 3 and how the Ninevites repented which leads to our repentance. More so, it leads to our unreserved yes to the God of all creation.

This week, College Pastor Drew Humphrey continued our sermon series Relentless Pursuit, walking us verse by verse through Jonah chapter 2. He highlighted Jonah's humility, noting how he viewed his time in the belly of the big fish as a life-sustaining act of grace from God.

This week, Pastor John kicked off our new series, Relentless Pursuit—a verse-by-verse study of the book of Jonah. He reminded us how easy it is to run from God, saying, "There's always a boat," but encouraged us that, while we may be runners, God is always pursuing us.

In this week's sermon, we discuss our best guess as to what the Lord is doing in and through Highland in 2025.

In Genesis 1, we see that it is not telling a scientific process but revealing a Divine Person. That person is fulfilled in Jesus who is the Creator, He is with us, He is the Word, and He brings us life.

This week, Pastor John kicked off Highlands' new series, God of New Beginnings, by exploring the conversion of Saul in Acts 9:1-19. John highlighted how Saul was radically pursued by God and overcome by Christ, receiving a new life, a new beginning.

This week, the Church gathered as one body at one gathering to worship and pray together. Pastor John spent some time highlighting the power of prayer and emphasizing God as the sole recipient of our prayers.

In this week's episode, College Pastor Drew Humphrey continues in our Unto Us series, focusing on the characteristics of Christ in Isaiah 9. He highlights the title "Wonderful Counselor" and shares four types of counsel believers can expect to receive from the the Holy Spirit today.

This week, Pastor John returns to the pulpit to continue our series Unto Us. He focuses on the title 'Mighty God' from Isaiah 9, exploring six powerful ways Jesus demonstrates His might both to us and on our behalf.

This week, Pastor Jeremy Daniel picks up our Unto Us series with a message about how God established an everlasting kingdom through the work of Jesus. He compares the character of the eternal King (Jesus) with the flawed kings mentioned in the book of Daniel. Pastor Jeremy mentions that the actions of Jesus demand a response of humility from us.

This week, Pastor John continues our Unto Us series, guiding us through passages from Isaiah 7-9, where God has set the perfect stage for the coming of a Savior. He encourages us to turn to Christ, the Prince of Peace, for help in challenging situations, rather than relying on our own efforts to 'save ourselves.'

In this weeks episode, Pastor John gives the first message of the new series: Unto Us. He walks us through Isaiah 7:1-14 and emphasizes Isaiah's presentation of God's promise of a Son, Immanuel (God with us).

In this week's episode, Pastor John delivers his annual sermon in The Cross of Christ series, where he talks about the significance of partaking in Communion. He encourages believers to 'take and eat,' drawing a comparison between the effects of the First Adam (Adam) and the Last Adam (Jesus).

In this weeks episode, Pastor John closes out the Remnant series with Malachi 4. He emphasizes God's truth that some choose to ignore, and reminds us of our hope in the restoration through Jesus.

In this weeks episode Pastor John continues in the Remnant series with Malachi 3, and urges Christians to consider the overflowing grace and generosity of the Lord in our lives.

In this weeks sermon, Pastor John walks us through Malachi 2:10-17 and focuses on Gods standard for our relationships and how that standard protects us.

In this week's sermon Pastor John walks through Malachi 2:1-9 and speaks on the aspects of a good spiritual leader and our responsibility as followers of Christ when leading others.

In this week's sermon, we dive into the second half of chapter 1 of Malachi and the imperfect offerings from the priests. Am I desperate for the nearness of God? What keeps me from believing that in His presence there is fullness of joy?

This week, we start a new sermon series as we walk through the book of Malachi. As Pastor John preaches through verses 1-5 in the first chapter, we see that we can either be entitled or grateful.

Wrapping up our series on the miracles found in the book of John, today we look at how Peter repents when he encounters Jesus post-resurrection.

In this week's episode, Pastor John finishes out our Impossible sermon series in the book of John as we see what it all means as Jesus restores Peter.

John preaches this week on faith in the middle of disappointment.

Drew Humphrey preaches this week on the spiritual blindness of the pharisees who doubted Jesus even as he healed physical blindness.

John preaches this week on fear, and how trust will carry us through the storms we face in life.

This week John preaches on the healing of the lame man at the pools of Bethesda, and the importance of spiritual healing over physical healing.

Pastor John begins a new series on the Gospel of John, preaching on faith that can face a God-sized problem.

In the final sermon of our series on the book of 2 Timothy, John reminds us that Jesus is the only thing we need in life.

John preaches on what faithful leadership looks like from 2 Timothy.

John continues in the book of 2 Timothy, preaching on how we as Christians should pattern our lives in the midst of a Godless world.

John continues in 2 Timothy, preaching on the difficult task of faithfulness.

John continues our series going through 2 Timothy, echoing Paul's warning against strife and ungodly arguments. 

John continues our series on 2 Timothy, this week preaching a reminder that we are not too far gone for God to use us, no matter where we are in life!