First Orlando - Horizon West Podcast

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.