Sermons Archive - New Horizons Foursquare Church

We are called to make disciples, but we can fall short and only get people to make decisions for Jesus unless we open up our lives and make full followers of Jesus. In order to do this we need to be growing into spiritually and emotionally mature adults.

When a person first comes to Christ and crosses from death to life, it seems that there is nothing too difficult. The joy of life in Jesus lifts all else away. This is the invitation that remains, but too often Christians feel a burden in living for God. The Invitation remains however, come to Him because His yoke is easy and His burden is light.

Pastor Mark Harris talks to us about what the consequences are when we justify wrong attitude towards others and what God is asking us to do instead.

When our own lives seem vulnerable, and the world we live in seems fragile, we can mistakenly put the Kingdom of God in that Context. Jesus wants to reshape our perspective my realizing that the Kingdom is on solid ground and forcefully advancing regardless of our circumstances.

Using a conversation with a Samaritan woman, Jesus teaches His disciples that you don't only get the results of what you sow into your life, you also reap the kingdom work of those who have sown before you.

When we become Christians we bring the collection of who we are at that point. Jesus invites us to come close to the Father and be reshaped from the image of the world around us into an image of what Christ looks like in us.

We can interpret hardships as God not caring, but the truth is that hardships in the Christian life are used for shaping us. In Hebrews 12 we learn that hardship is not a sign of the negligence of our Heavenly Father but his love and validation of our position as a son or daughter. He disciplines those He loves.

The book fo Jonah ends with the prophet being greatly disappointed with how life was unfolding. He wanted judgment upon Nineveh, but God showed mercy. In this message we explore how we can use disappointments to uncover what's in our hearts and how we can move closer to God instead of pulling away, like Jonah did.

In today's message, Derek Lofing talks about forgiveness and the struggle Jonah had with God's forgiveness of Nineveh.

There is a tension in the church today with many Christians being troubled over immigration and the affects it has on our country. In reading Jonah, we see a picture of God's heart for the foreigners and his heart to reach all peoples.