Horizon Community Church - Philadelphia

We wrap up Matthew 12, by looking at some weird verses about demons and Jesus ignoring his biological family. We discuss the reasons why some people bristle at the idea of calling a church a family, and we set ourselves up for next week's discussion of the parable of the sower and the soil.

In our July 21 Sunday gathering, Alex explores Matthew 12 and Jesus' rebuke of those who asked for signs. We discuss "putting out a fleece" and how often we use spiritual language to hide our selfish choices.

In Matthew 12, Jesus has a discussion with the Pharisees and he says they are bad trees producing bad fruit. In our July 12, Sunday gathering we discuss what good fruit looks like and what why we feel stuck with things like anxiety, lust and greed.

We continue our series in Matthew by talking about the unforgivable sin that Jesus mentions in Matthew 12. What is it? How do we know if we have done it?

The New Testament authors paint the biggest enemies to who Jesus was and what he was trying to do as the Pharisees, ultra conservative religious people who memorized the Old Testament and kept all the moral rules, but used religion to mask their own evil and wield it as a weapon to control people. Together we discuss how to avoid these same traps as modern disciples.

We continue our series in Matthew, by looking at an unusual passage that mentions an apocalypse and we examine how the word was used differently in the first century and how we need God's eyes to see what we are facing today.

We continue our series in Matthew and explore the concept of Hades and Hell, as we look at Jesus' strongly worded rebuke to the good religious cities that refused to repent and recognize him as King.

We continue our series in Matthew by looking at 11:7-19 where Jesus compares his generation to children who want to watch others play, but don't want to actively get involved. They want to see a prophet in the desert, but want to ignore his message to repent.

Matthew 11:2-6, we continue our summer series in the book of Matthew, looking at how John the Baptist wrestled with Jesus and his expectations of what a Messiah should look like.

Each summer, we've been working through Matthew verse by verse and we've reached Matthew 11. We take some time to review, and set the stage for Matthew's agenda in the next few chapters, and his objective to get us all to wrestle with this question: "do I live as if Jesus is my king?"

We wrap up our series on our church's core values with an encouragement to keep holding on and moving forward!

We talk about our final core value, being Kingdom Minded and what it means for us as a church and as followers of Jesus.

We continue our series on the core values of our church, by talking about our core value to equip people to live and love like Jesus.

We continue our new series about the core values of the church, by talking about how important it is to be outward focused instead of inward focused.

In the second message in our new series about the core values of our church, we talk about how Jesus was people driven, and how as a church we must be as well in order to reach a cynical culture.

We kick off a new series about our core values as a church as Horizon Church turns 6 years old.

We conclude our series on prayer with a message and a practical explanation of meditation and its value in our prayer lives.

In our Easter message we discuss the claims of the resurrection and how God does the unheard of in our lives.

We continue our series about prayer by talking about the spiritual practice of fasting and how it amplifies our prayers.

Intercession is praying for other people, interceding heaven to come to their aid. We need people to put a hand on our shoulder and tell us that we are seen and loved.

We often think of prayer as one directional: of us talking to God. But prayer should be a conversation not a monologue.

We continue our series on prayer by talking about why our prayers often go unanswered.

Yes, you can ask pray to ask God for stuff, but sometimes you need to pray to remember who God is, and that above all he loves you. These prayers are the foundation that our spiritual lives are built on.

We kick off a new series about prayer. Alex shares about his trouble praying the last few years, and we look at some of Jesus' teachings about prayer.

In our Feb 4 Sunday gathering, we finish our series entitled No other Gods, by talking about why Christianity provides unique tools to help people find meaning, satisfaction, identity, justice, and hope and our band leads us in worship.