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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.