Horizon West Church Podcast

Thank you for joining us for today's worship service! We continue our summer studies of the Psalms with Psalm 1 this morning. These ancient words about that sinful society resonate with us today, as does the guidance the psalmist gives us to grow roots, to meditate on God's Word, and to become a deeper version of ourselves. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for today's worship service! We continue our summer studies this morning with a close look at Psalm 23, focusing on how this psalm reveals God to us and points us to the coming of Jesus. We see how the poet, David, describes God as a loving provider, a rest giver, a good leader, a generous friend, and a faithful presence in his life. In our lives, whether we are in green pastures or dark valleys, God wants to be all of that for us, too! If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for today's worship service! Today, we start a new series studying the Psalms to see how these ancient songs expand our understanding of God and point us to the future coming of Jesus. Today, Pastor Chris leads us in contemplating Psalm 8 and it's declaration of the majesty of God. The Psalmist wrote of our place in the world, and the eternal tension of how we are made in the image of God but we are not God. In the person of Jesus, fully God and fully human, we have the perfect resolution of that tension and our reconciliation with God. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for today's worship service! Today, Nikki Ogden shares her experiences in learning to wait as God works in and for us. The Bible has both good and bad examples of how people waited for God, and Nikki teaches us insights from their experiences to help us strengthen our walk with God as we wait. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for today's worship service! We know how important motivation is in working toward our goals, and we know how challenging it is to stay motivated. In today's message, Joe Loveless guides us to consider our spiritual motivation, which is our drive to connect with God and live in service to His kingdom purposes. Joe also teaches us that we can receive boosts to our spiritual motivation as gifts from God. We know the promise that God will supply all our needs, and that includes the desire and dedication to grow in our relationship with God. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for today's worship service! We live in an turbulent age with rapid social and cultural change. To be faithful followers of Jesus, we need to carefully examine the principles Jesus demonstrated during His time on earth and apply those principles to what we do. Pastor Chris provides three of these principles in today's message, based on the stories of Jesus interacting with Zacchaeus in Luke 19, with the Samaritan woman in John 4, and with the man with the withered hand in Matthew 12. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for today's Easter Sunday worship service! We celebrate Jesus' resurrection every Easter, but the Easter story starts long before the Sunday morning celebration. Ever since Adam and Eve, God has been on an all-out quest to recover the hearts of people and restore the deeply satisfying experience of a relationship with God. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for today's Palm Sunday worship service! This special Sunday recounts the story of Jesus riding a donkey as the crowds cheered His entrance into Jerusalem on the first Palm Sunday. We also remember the other events of that week, including the Passover meal Jesus had with his disciples, and ending with His death on the cross. For today's message, Pastor Chris teaches about the events of the first Passover, where God freed the descendants of Abraham from Egyptian slavery, and about how Jesus used the observance Passover to instruct all of us who follow Him that God also brings us freedom, through the death and resurrection of our Savior. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for today's worship service! As we continue our series on the key elements of practicing our faith, Pastor Chris leads our study of prayer this morning with Jesus' parable of a persistent widow. Like the widow in the story, we have needs, even if we're reluctant to admit it. We need to share our needs in prayer with God repeatedly, and not give up when God doesn't answer immediately, because the discipline of prayer builds up our faith. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

For many of us who grew up attending churches, we recall instructions we were given to believe certain things to be true, to perform particular rituals to demonstrate our obedience, and to abstain from specific sins. Not only has this pattern of believe / perform / abstain / repeat been prevalent in our generations, it dominated the Hebrew faith during Jesus' earthly ministry. Jesus taught a better way: love. In Mark 12, Jesus answered a question about the greatest commandment by quoting the commandments to love God and to love each other. These two instructions are interlinked and equally important, and they were demonstrated in everything that Jesus taught and did. This must be our foundation for the life that Jesus wants for us, that we, too, love God and love each other first and most of all. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for today's worship service! Pastor Korey, who serves as the pastor of the Online Campus of First Baptist Church, cautions us that following Jesus is not a guarantee that only good things will happen to us. Korey shares with us several scriptures where we are told that we will face troubles. The important lesson is that God has prepared us for these troubles, God will be with us in all situations at all times, and that God wants to use every circumstance in our lives to build our faith and increase our peace. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for today's worship service! Since this Sunday was 3/16, this message is on the verse John 3:16. Pastor Chris walks us through this verse word by word as we contemplate God's immeasurable and perfect love for every one of us, demonstrated for us in the life of Jesus. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for today's worship service! Today's topic is baptism, as we continue our study of the basic of our beliefs. The discussion of baptism fits well with last week's discussion of repentance, since baptism is the external demonstration of the internal commitment to let God turn our lives around. The act of baptism is both a rejection of sin and an acceptance of our life immersed our life with God. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for today's worship service! We're continuing our study of the basic truths of Christianity with today's message on repentance. There are two simultaneous truths to consider: no one is immune to the need for repentance, and no one is too far for God to reach. Pastor Chris guides us through four essential steps of repentance that we can follow to strengthen our ongoing relationship with God. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for today's worship service! Today, guest speaker Ben Markham from Discovery Church shares the story in Luke 4 when Jesus taught at the synagogue in His hometown of Nazareth. Those listening were outraged at Jesus' message and even tried to kill Him! What Jesus was teaching that so disrupted their expectations is that redemption is not just for a select few people but for everyone. If we are to follow Jesus, we also need to offer grace, love, and the good news of Jesus to everyone. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for today's worship service! Today we're starting a new series titled "Start Here" to discuss the foundational commands from Jesus to His followers. Pastor Chris speaks today on the command to us to learn and grow as disciples of Christ and to encourage others as they grow in discipleship, too. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for today's worship service! Pastor Sócrates has us consider the urgent need in our world for self-less love that originates with God, a love that the New Testament identifies with the Greek word agape. As servants of God and ambassadors for God, we need to live out this agape love in how we treat others. There are three traits we need to watch for in ourselves that tell us we are loving others the way God loves them. First, our love is "others seeking," not self-seeking. Second, our love is humble, not self-absorbed. Thirdly, our love demonstrates compassion, not condemnation. As we pray this week, let's ask God to show us what it look like in our daily lives to love with this agape love. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for today's worship service! With Horizon West Church getting closer to breaking ground on our church building, Pastor Chris today teaches about the spiritual importance of membership in a local church. In other areas of our lives, membership is a "transaction," where we sign up and pay a fee to access a service. Membership in a church does not follow this transactional model, and Pastor Chris explains how we are nourished by engaging with others in our Christian family through membership in the local church. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for today's worship service! Today, Pastor Chris continues with the idea of going deeper from his earlier message with our "Word of the Year." This is not meant to compare ourselves with others, nor is it an encouragement to greater theological complexity. We are encouraged to grow deeper than we have been before in our faith, in our faith-driven actions, and in our relationship with God. As we go deeper, Pastor Chris gives us three thoughts to help us. First, the deeper life will require less, not more, activities, as we shed that which would distract us from our goals. Second, the deeper life will feel unfamiliar, and we will feel the urge to go back to what we know, but growth requires leaving the comfortable. Third, the deeper life is not one we can pursue alone. God's plan has always been for a community of faith to support each other, including the assurance in Hebrews 12:1 that "we are surrounded by so great a crowd of witnesses." If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for today's worship service! Church member Joe Loveless encourages us today to rethink our negative opinions about work. He shares four shifts in his thinking that led him to reclaim God's blessings in the process of our work and the scriptures that guide us in shifting our thinking. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for today's worship service! Pastor Chris has a practice of sharing our church's word of the year each January. This Sunday, his message presents our word of the year: DEEPER. We are eager to bring people into our community and support them as they find Jesus to be their savior. But there's much more as we grow deeper in the abundant life that Jesus promises His followers. As pastor and writer Rick Warren describes it, "You are as close to God as you choose to be." This year, we will strive to grow deeper in our love for God, in our hunger for God's Word in our lives, and in our commitment to our humanity in the way that God created each of us to be. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for today's worship service! We have a tradition of making the first worship service of the new year a time of meditation and prayer for God's guidance and blessing on our church, our community, and on the ministries that God is calling us to do. In today's message, we consider Terah, recorded in Genesis 11 and 12, who was the father of Abram who later became Abraham. God blessed Terah and led him from his birthplace in Ur toward the land of Caanan, but Terah could only go part of the way in his grief over a son who died young. We see God's mercy and love given to Terah and his family even though Terah failed at the goal God had set for him. God's blessing are not conditional, and we do not earn God's blessings through what we achieve. God's blessings come to us not because of who we are but because God is love. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us this Christmas Eve! Being such a popular holiday, most people know the "what," "when," "where," and "who" of Christmas, but the most important question to ask is "why?" Why did God send His only son Jesus to be the baby in the manger, the preacher on the hillside, and the man who was executed on a cross and rose again, defeating death? One reason why is seen in the meaning of the name Jesus: "he saves." Jesus came to be the Savior for everyone. Another reason why is seen in the meaning of the name Emmanuel: "God with us." God demonstrated in the person of Jesus that there is nothing that God wouldn't do to reach every one of us with grace and love. On this Christmas Eve, open up and accept God's amazing gift of love! If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for this week's message! On this last Sunday before Christmas, our focus is on love, and the Christmas story overflows with love. When we examine Joseph's part of the Christmas story, we see his love for Jesus in the role model he set, in the sacrifices he made to protect his family, and in the devotion to God shown by his obedient actions. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for this week's message! Today's message in our journey to Christmas concerns joy. Paul knew the essential nature of joy as part of our walk with Christ, so he encouraged us in Philippians 4:4 to "rejoice in the Lord always." In this message, Pastor Chris leads us deeper into understanding and incorporating joy in our lives by asking and answering three questions about joy: what is joy, why is joy important, and how do I find and keep joy in my life? If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for this week's message! As we continue our journey to Christmas, we focus on peace this Sunday. In this focus, Pastor Chris leads us to consider four types of conflict: internal conflict, relational conflict, global conflict, and cosmic conflict. Our Prince of Peace is greater than all these conflicts, defeating the Enemy who sows conflict and drawing us into salvation and peace. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for this week's message! The services for the four weeks will be preparing our hearts for Christmas, a period also known as Advent. Today, Pastor Chris brings us a message about hope, drawn from the story of Ruth and Naomi in the Old Testament. Hope in the lives of Believers is not wishful thinking, but an anchor in our storms and an assurance of a future reality, because we know that God is in control. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

In this episode of the Horizon West Church podcast, Pastor Chris and Nikki answer questions from the congregation related to love and marriage. This “bonus episode” comes on the heels of the church's marriage series, The Perfect Tension, delivered earlier this fall. Each message in that series can be found right here at the Horizon West Church podcast. Additional resources with links are provided in the show notes below: BEMA Discipleship Podcast with Marty Solomon – Season 1: Episode 2 – “Knowing When to Say ‘Enough'” – https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-bema-podcast/id1148115183?i=1000375340016 Sacred Marriage by Gary Thomas – https://garythomas.com/books/sacred-marriage/ The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman – https://5lovelanguages.com/store/the-5-love-languages

Thank you for joining us for this week's message! Pastor Chris Bacon, who leads the NextGen ministry at the John Young campus, gives us this message of encouragement: God has placed us where we are and has given us a purpose. We often question whether we are up to the tasks facing us, but it is God's strength, wisdom, and love that will do great things as we serve God where we are. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for this week's message! We are continuing to give thanks for how God is leading our church as seen in the pledges made for next three years, and today, we consider how we are led to live lives of gratitude. When we examine the life of King David as a guide for cultivating a thankful heart, we learn to slow down, to stay grounded, and to recognize the giver. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for this week's message! This week's special worship service reveals how God has worked in us to pledge financial support for the next 34 months, and much more. God has given us a vision we have seen, and opportunity we have seized, and a moment for celebration of how good God has been to us as followers and as a church. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for this week's message! This week's worship service provides time for prayer and reflection as we consider the election tumult in our nation and the peace in which God is calling us to live. The world wants to entangle us in flawed and temporary matters, but God calls us to be at work on what is far more important: serving the God who loves all of us more than we can comprehend. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for this week's message! We are concluding our series called "Greater" with encouragement for all of us to show greater generosity in response to the divine grace in our lives. We aren't giving so that God will give us something in return. God has already blessed us and continues to bless us immeasurably, and because God has given to us, we give, ready and sincere in our thanks to God. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for this week's message! We're continuing our series with anticipation of the Greater Reach that God will have in our area and beyond because of our faithfulness in being followers of God. In John 14, Jesus promised that His disciples would do greater things than He did. Knowing all the miracles that Jesus did, we can't imagine how we as individuals could possibly compare to our Lord! If we stop thinking as individuals and think more as a vast world-wide community of faith, we better understand what Jesus was teaching us. As Pastor Chris instructs us, God is concerned with salvation, not sensation. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for this week's message! We're continuing our series with anticipation of the Greater Good that God will do through us at Horizon West Church. God has already done great things through us, building a fellowship that reflects what we call our Culture Statement: We are a diverse community of good friends together doing good works and sharing the good news of Jesus. As we live out these God-given values, we will maintain our commitment to be good friends to others, and not just act "friendly." We will do good works, motivated not to gain attention or to earn respect, but because we have been so loved by God that love flows from us to others. We will share the Good News by following Jesus' instruction in Matthew 5:16: "Let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven." If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for this week's message! We're starting a new series that focuses on the Greater Vision that God has given us for Horizon West Church. We are committing these next four weeks to study and worship so that we can carry out this vision to build a permanent presence in Horizon West on the Schofield Road property that God has provided for us. Today, Pastor Chris presents us with three keys for carrying out God's vision. The first key is for us to have Confidence in God's ability. The second key is for us to have Clarity on God's purposes. It is always in God's purposes for us to move forward with the freedom to be who God has made each of us to be. While God's specific plans vary across centuries, geographies, and communities, God's purposes of freedom and moving forward for the Glory of God remain the same. Lastly, we need Conviction about what to do next. This key takes us to the "nuts and bolts" of activities we put on our calendars, steps we set out to follow, and decisions we make to invest our time and resources in what God is leading us to do. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for this week's message! As we complete our series on marriages, Pastor Chris urges us to go beyond the present and examine how we think about our marriages and how our thoughts and actions can lead to healthier marriages. We should be thinking beyond our role and our spouse's role in the marriage, for we are much more than merely a role, and our value in a relationship is not measured by our productivity. We should be thinking beyond our happiness, and even beyond the happiness of our spouse, for happiness is a moving target. God calls us to grow in holiness, not just as individuals but as a couple. We should be thinking beyond our lifetime as well, for God's plan for us is to be a life-changing example of God's perfect love being shared with those around us. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for this week's message! As we continue our series focused on marriages, Pastor Chris gives us seven important questions that people in relationships are thinking, if not verbalizing. Some of these questions come up when a couple start dating, some as the marriage matures, but none of these questions go away, because both people in the relationship are continually growing and changing. We sometimes think of the wedding as the goal to be achieved, but we're wiser to see the wedding as the starting line of a lifelong relationship. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for this week's message! In this continuation of our series focused on marriages, Pastor Chris examines how God's plan for marriages, including physicality, was established in the Garden of Eden as Adam and Eve were unclothed and "not ashamed." While sin has distorted physical relationships, God's plan for marriage still creates and sustains couples who follow it. Pastor Chris describes four cornerstones of this plan, which are exclusivity, mutuality, intimacy of emotion, spirit, and body, and the covenant commitments between couples. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for this week's message! In this continuation of our series focused on marriages, Pastor Chris reviews four challenges that every marriage faces and how couples can navigate those challenges together following God's guidance. What God wants for each of us is that we grow more holy through all of life's experiences. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for this week's message! In this continuation of our series focused on marriages, Pastor Jeff explains how God has designed the marriage couple to function as a team. He gives some practical points for how couples can stay married, growing stronger together through life's experiences and focusing on successes. Philippians 4:8 instructs us to develop and sustain a positive attitude: "Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things." If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for this week's message! In this continuation of our series focused on marriages, Pastor Chris digs deeper into God's ideals for marriage as given in the first chapters of Genesis. One of these ideals is that we grow through close relationships. These relationships can be found in marriages and families, and Psalm 68:6 rejoices that "God sets the lonely in families" so that all of God's children can benefit from the blessings of close relationships. Another of these ideas for marriages is an equal partnership between the spouses, described in these passages from Genesis, a partnership benefitting from the differences between the individuals in a marriage. We want to build our marriage relationships on God's wisdom and catch ourselves before we confuse cultural expectations about relationships with the dreams for marriage that God shares with us. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for this week's message! We are starting a new series focused on marriages, and this first message uses Genesis 1 to explore God's plan for humanity, and more specifically, God's plan for marriage. As Nikki Ogden puts it, "Maybe marriage is less about finding the person who makes you perfectly happy and more about finding the one whom God uses to help you become holy; to look more like Jesus." Pastor Chris explains, "The starting point in understanding marriage is to understand the love story between God and His beloved, humanity." If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for this week's message! Today's message takes from the teachings of Jesus and Paul to discuss what greatness looks like in the Kingdom of God. As we consider these teachings and God's call for us to pursue greatness, Pastor Chris gives us guidance on making choices for spiritual greatness and on following through on the commitments we make. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for this week's message! In today's Bible passage, Moses is tending his father-in-law's sheep in the desert after running away in fear from Egypt. While in the desert, God grabs Moses' attention in a bush that was burning but not burning up. In the resulting conversation with Moses, God tells Moses he will lead Abraham's descendants from slavery in Egypt into a land that God promised. A key verse in this story is Exodus 33:15, where Moses pleads with God, "If your presence will not go with me, do not bring us up from here." Horizon West Church is approaching a similar challenge regarding a plan to build a permanent building on the property we bought last year. We, like Moses, need to commit ourselves to following God's leadership and listening for what God wants us to do. As the poet wrote in Psalm 127:1, "Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain." Of much greater importance is how each of us respond when God tries to get our attention to call us to serve God. We, like Moses, need to recognize God's presence, trust in God's promise, and follow God's plan. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for this week's message! We are wrapping up our series on the story of Joseph, looking at the passage where Joseph reflects on his life and how God was always faithful and present in good and bad times. Joseph learned the truth that God's way is best, and we can learn the same from Joseph's experience. We can say these words with confidence: We don't know when, where, or how, but God is going to make a way where there seems to be no way. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for this week's message! We are continuing the story of Joseph, and the internal struggles Joseph experienced when he met with his brothers who had sold him into slavery. The "soap opera" of Joseph's life included frequent deceptions and half-truths, paralleling stories from the lives of his father and grandfather. God is at work, even with these questionable actions of Joseph and his brothers. Shiloh explains for us in this story three important truths: God's faithfulness is not contingent on our faithfulness. Life's trials are not an infringement upon God's call on our lives. Our blessings come from (a lot of things but mostly from) how clearly we see. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for this week's message! We are continuing the story of Joseph today, focusing this week on Genesis chapter 41. Last week, we saw how Joseph allowed God to use him, even when he was in jail, to provide answers to two fellow prisoners. This week, we see Joseph, still in jail and forgotten by the one he helped -- it's not fair! Still, Joseph was faithful to God as he waited two more years, and God was actively working good for Joseph even when he couldn't see it. Pastor Socrates gives us three habits to practice to strengthen our faithfulness, particularly in times of waiting: thanking God for every good thing, noticing when God transforms a setback into something good, and sharing with others how God is working in your life. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for this week's message! We are continuing the story of Joseph today, focusing on chapters 39 and 49 of the book of Genesis. Once again, Joseph found himself in unfair circumstances, this time in jail in Egypt. Once again, Joseph remained faithful and obedient to God, and God opened opportunities for Joseph to glorify God by helping his captors and fellow prisoners. As Pastor Korey teaches us, just because God is silent doesn't mean that God is absent, and we also should not be absent in following God's calling to serve others. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for this week's message! We've all been thirsty before, so we can imagine how thirsty Jesus felt, sitting by a well in Samaria in the middle of the day. When he asked a woman who had come to the well for a drink, she was surprised that Jesus would talk with her given her ethnicity and background, but Jesus doesn't let differences separate us from Him. He also gave her what she needed, the Living Water of a restored relationship with God. Jesus offers the same Living Water to us, too! If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.

Thank you for joining us for this week's message! We are continuing our study of the life of Joseph from the book of Genesis. Last week's message discussed obstacles that Joseph had to overcome, and today's message discusses temptations that Joseph had to avoid. They ways that Joseph resisted these temptations give us three approaches that we can use to resist temptation. The first is to put our devotion to God first in our lives. The second is to put distance between ourselves and evil. The third is to run when evil closes in. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want someone to pray with you, we are eager to do so! If you would like more information about our church, we're want to share. Please text the word "NEXT" to 407-77 so we can engage with you. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwestchurch.com. You can also learn more about our midweek events at https://horizonwestchurch.com/events.