Highland Baptist Church

Recorded 2-22-202

II Timothy 4:9-22 The Need for Community

Pastor Larry finished preaching a series on the letters to Timothy. Listen and be challenged to enjoy the church community the Lord has placed you in. 

I. The Need for Community in Times of Joy and Sadness:

II. The Need for Community is Used by God to Rescue:

Discipleship Reflection: How can we better appreciate the need for church community?

        1. We focus more on enc...

II Timothy 4:1-8 “Finishing Well”

2/15/2026

 Application:

• Sometimes, it is very difficult to hear the truth; it’s even more difficult to live it out. To finish well means the follower of Christ must proclaim God’s truth through scripture. Like the workman Paul spoke of earlier, we all have a level of commitment to handling the Bible.
• The proclamation of the word drives preparation, correction, rebuke, and encouragement with pa...

II Timothy 3:10-17 “Equipped for Good Work”

2/8/2026

 Application:

• The purpose of the workman of Christ is to demonstrate a single-minded commitment to the Lord Jesus. There must be a single-minded purpose within the body of Christ, a purpose, a drive, a mission, a unity.
• If we can’t relate to severe persecution for the gospel, we can relate to the present sufferings of this age. These sufferings, though painful, can be usefu...

Recorded for 02-02-26 Morning Worship

Application and Prayer Points:

 Application:

• The listing of rotten characteristics listed II Tim 3 are characteristics that must not be named among the church. These are characteristics of the unregenerate. These rotten characteristics reflect the world we live in. Thus, the urgency of the gospel message is vital.
• A simple profession of faith without genuine repentance can no more carry yo...

Recorded for 01/25/2026 Morning Worship. 

II Timothy 2:14-26 To Be Unashamed

Application and Prayer Points:

 Application:

• To Be Unashamed Will Produce The Approved Worker. To serve Jesus with all you have, but He is worth it; you remind them (followers of Jesus) of these truths.
• There is a right way to express the truth of the gospel and to avoid quarrelsome or hurtful words that do nothing but harm the message of the gospel....

Recorded 1/18/2026

Pastor Larry Stephens continues the sermon series through II Timothy. This week, Pastor Larry highlights four disciplines illustrated by the apostle Paul for effective discipleship and disciple-making.

Application:

• A faithful teacher takes the time to ensure the lesson is correct and invests enough to ensure that the recipients understand and receive it. A faithful teacher, passing down truth, ensures the me...

Recorded 1/11/2026

Reverend Thomas Barber continues in the sermon series through the second letter of Timothy. He issues a challenge to pass down and guard sound doctrine and to encourage those who suffer for the sake of the gospel.

Application:

• As a church, we are always reforming (semper reformada) and evaluating missions, ministry, and disciple-making principles.
• Uphold sound doctrine and pass it down to the next generation...

Recorded 01/04/2026

Pastor Larry Stephens returns to the sermon series on Timothy and Titus.

II Timothy 1:1-12 “Protecting The Treasure.”

Application and Prayer Points:

 Application:

• “Who are you discipling?” By the end of this journey through II Timothy, I hope you can identify someone in your life that you are discipling. Someone to whom you can pass down gospel truths.
• Remember where God brought you from and where you are n...

Recorded 12/28/2025

Pastor Larry Stephens delivers the last message of 2025 with a challenge involving sanctification. 

2Co 5:17  Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Discipleship Reflection: New Year's Steps Toward Sanctification:

1. Adopt healthy reading, meditation, and prayer rhythms.

2. Resolve to s...

Recorded 12/14/2025

Pastor Larry Stephens brings the joy of the cross that Christ endured for sinners. 

12 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, 2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despisi...

Recorded 11/02/2025

Pastor Larry Stephens delivers a sermon to kick off a season of thanksgiving. According to 1 Timothy 4:1-5, the apostle Paul calls out those teaching the doctrine of devils. 

I. Thankful the Spirit of God Reveals Truth  II. Thankful for the Good Things God Created

Discipleship Reflection: What should we be thankful for?

1. Salvation in Christ Alone.

2. Family.

3. Creation.

4. The Gift of Scripture. 

5. The G...

Recorded 10/26/2025

Pastor Larry Stephens delivers a message on the importance of Christ-like behavior. This is more than just behavior modification; it flows out of loving Christ.

1Ti 3:14  I hope to come to you soon, but I am writing these things to you so that,  1Ti 3:15  if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and bu...