Horizon Community Church - Philadelphia

When Jesus talked about the gospel he was usually talking about the Good News. What did Jesus mean when he said Kingdom and why is it good news for us today?

The gospel is the central message of Christianity, but most of us would struggle to define it or explain it, and often our explanations sound like bad news, not good news.

As we conclude our series on fame, we look at how Jesus responded to fame.

Big isn't bad, but it isn't better.

Is it wrong for a follower of Jesus to be ambitious? Is it wrong to want to be your department supervisor? Is it wrong to want to start your own business or write a book? If I’m trying to learn to live and love like Jesus, should I abandon all personal ambition? The short answer is no, ambition in and of itself is not wrong. But, I think in order to answer that question we need to clarify somethin...

We continue our series on Fame, by discussing how pride sneaks Into our lives and poisons our souls.

Make the kingdom of God your first priority and God makes your needs His priorities. Too often, we focus on the urgent, instead of the important. We focus on our crisis instead of on Christ! Fame is when our needs and desires are our top priority, instead of making Jesus our top priority.

Our culture is obsessed with Fame, but we're famous in the eyes of God when those who know us best respect us most.

We conclude our series on faith. An unshakeable faith is only found in the arms of an unshakeable King! Sometimes God shakes the things we hold onto so we cling tightly to the only secure thing: Him!

From the Peter walking on the waves, we explore the ways to tell the difference between faith and foolishness.

In Matthew 8, Jesus encounters a centurion with faith that amazes Him. By believing without having to see the results, we too can have a faith that amazes God.

Sometimes God asks us to do something we don't want to do so we try to run away and we end up running from a God who is with us and for us, who is the source of every good gift in our lives!

What would our lives be like if we lived in the holy confidence that God was with us and for us? What if every obstacle we encounter, we remembered that a good God had led us here not to defeat us, but to reveal his power through us to the world? What if we lived like conquerors instead of living like the conquered? I think it would change everything!

Sometimes our step of faith drops us into a deadend between two bad options, but God shows up and shows off in the places that seem hopeless.

Sometimes we miss what God wants to do, because we give up before God shows up. Our faith needs some faithfulness.

Sometimes it seems like our step of faith is dead in the water, our God sized dream is past its expiration date and then God steps in. Somewhere we’ve decided how long things should take and if they don’t happen in our expected window we give up on them. Experts or the majority tell us that is how things work, but God rarely works in the window of availability we expect him to.

We kick off our new series on developing an Unshakeable faith.

We conclude our series on the spiritual disciplines by discussing the importance of scripture in building our souls!

We discuss the important spiritual discipline of prayer.

We continue our series on practicing the spiritual disciplines to develop our spiritual muscles by talking about the importance of Worship.

We continue our series on the spiritual disciplines of Jesus by talking about the importance of having a spiritual authority who can tell you when you are wrong.

We continue our series on building our spiritual muscles by practicing the spiritual disciplines of Jesus. This week we talk about simplicity and how when we try to have it all, we overburden our soul. Simplicity is reverse FOMO -- it is missing some things so you can enjoy the best things!

We continue our series on the spiritual disciplines by talking about the importance of Sabbath.

We continue our discussion of the spiritual disciplines that Jesus practiced by talking about how self denial and serving others builds our spiritual muscles!

We kick off our new series about practicing the spiritual exercises of Jesus with the spiritual discipline of Silence and Solitude. In a busy, noisy world we need moments were we stop and listen to our soul.