Horizon West Church Podcast

Thank you for joining us for today's worship service! As we approach Christmas, Pastor Chris brings our attention to the visit by the angel Gabriel to Mary, who was the first person to hear of the coming of Jesus. In Gabriel's discussion with Mary, we find four statements of good news that are true for us just as they were true for Mary: God is with us, we do not need to be afraid, Christ's kingdo...

Thank you for joining us for today's worship service! We're continuing in our study of the book of Colossians, examining Paul's guidance in chapter three of how we can be radically transformed by the love of God. Pastor Chris breaks down for us how our relationships can be transformed by God's presence in our lives, including our relationships with God, with other people, with our selves, with the...

Thank you for joining us for today's worship service! Reading from the second chapter of the book of Colossians, Pastor Chris identifies for us four competing versions of "truth" that sow confusion in our society, detracting from the real truth of the Gospel. In Paul's letter, he identifies the distractions created through misplaced human philosophy, through confusion regarding Jewish law, through...

Thank you for joining us for today's worship service! Pastor Chris continues teaching from the book of Colossians, and this week focuses on the first eleven verses of chapter three. In this passage, Pastor Chris teaches us five movements in our spiritual development that Paul lays out for us, as we set aside our old selves and become more like Jesus. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we...

Thank you for joining us for today's special worship service, held at the property where our church building soon will start construction! Pastor Chris shares a story from the end of 2 Samuel where King David erects an altar at God's direction to end a plague affecting that kingdom. Just as in the Bible story, our community is suffering in depression, anxiety, desperation, and sin. Just as in the...

Thank you for joining us for today's worship service! Pastor Marcio focuses us today on Matthew 16:13-17, a conversation between Jesus and His disciples about who people say He is. We each make choices in how we live and how we treat others based on our personal answer to this essential question. Pastor Marcio guides us to think about who we truly believe Jesus is, and about what choices we will m...

Thank you for joining us for today's worship service! As we continue our study of Colossians, Pastor Chris calls us to reflect on what is important to us, and how that has changed as we have matured. Paul called for his readers to consider the same question, and to choose to invest themselves in the immortal. We see in this passage three steps Paul gives us for how to become spiritually rich. If y...

Thank you for joining us for today's worship service! We're continuing our study of Paul's letter to the church in Colossae, looking in the first chapter at verses 15-23. In these brief verses, Paul puts forward that in God through Jesus Christ, we have been created, redeemed from our sinfulness, and restored in our relationship to God. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoi...

Thank you for joining us for today's worship service! Today we're beginning a series based on the book of Colossians, written by Paul when he was imprisoned in Rome. In this letter, Paul guides the church in Colossae to abandon false teaching and embrace the simple, profound truth of the Gospel. Paster Marcio leads us to consider three seeds of transformation that Paul presents: faith, hope, and l...

Thank you for joining us for today's worship service. We're wrapping up the "God's Story, Your Story" series with the divine gift of restoration. Jesus' ministry was filled with acts of restoration in the healing of broken bodies, the renewal of broken souls, and the demonstration that God is with us, even in turning death into everlasting life. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want...

Thank you for joining us for today's worship service AND our church's seventh birthday! Pastor Chris continues our series "God's Story, Your Story" by guiding us to understand the profound grace in God's offer of redemption to us. Through sin in the Garden of Eden, death came into our world and enslaved us. We are not capable of buying our release from death, but Jesus Christ has redeemed each of...

Thank you for joining us for today's worship service! Pastor David Loveless starts with this question: "When is the last time your day went exactly as you planned?" As he leads us through Psalm 118, we see where God instructs us to live in the present with the grace God provides for this day. In stories of Jesus' ministry we see how Jesus engaged with people in the present, not allowing concerns f...

Thank you for joining us for today's worship service! Today, Pastor Chris is guiding us into the difficult topic of evil and suffering in our world. He verbalizes the question we all have asked at some time, "If God is loving, powerful, and aware, why does evil exist?" To explore this question, Pastor Chris teaches from the first chapters in Genesis and the temptation for Adam and Eve -- and us --...

Thank you for joining us for today's worship service! Today, we're starting a new series called "God's Story, Your Story" to look at God's big dream for humanity and our parts in it. Pastor Chris is starting in Genesis 1 and exploring what it means to us that we are each made by God, and made in our uniqueness to find our true purpose in God. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to...

Thank you for joining us for today's worship service! Pastor Sócrates finishes our series titled "Witness" with a look at where Horizon West Church is serving others and spreading the Good News. The worship team also leads us in prayers of commitment to the work that God is calling each of us to do where we are and where God sends us. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice...

Thank you for joining us for today's worship service! Pastor Sócrates continues our series "Witness" in today's service with a focus on the phrase "in Judea and Samaria" in Acts 1:8. He shares with us the historical and social context that Jesus' disciples would have understood when they received this instruction. As we learn how harshly those in Judea felt about those in Samaria, we see that same...

Thank you for joining us for today's worship service! Pastor Chris continues the series based on Acts 1:8 with a careful look at how we are to share our faith "in Jerusalem." For Jesus' disciples, the city of Jerusalem meant the center of the Jewish faith, home to the Temple and the Ark of the Covenant. This is not the case for the Christian faith. As Pastor Chris states, "the center of God's plan...

Thank you for joining us for today's worship service! Pastor Chris is starting a new series based on Jesus' instruction to us in Acts 1:8 to be His witnesses. In today's message, we face up to the reality that what Jesus calls us to do is humanly impossible. We need the power of the Holy Spirit, living in us and working through us. As we share our stories of how God has changed us, the Spirit work...

Thank you for joining us for today's worship service! Pastor Chris leads us to review the work of the apostle Andrew from the brief accounts of him in the Gospels. What we see Andrew doing, and what we also can do, is point people to Jesus, notice who is around us, and start with those closest to us. In wherever we go, and with whoever we meet, we can share God's love in us with others, pointing t...

Thank you for joining us for today's worship service! Pastor Chris concludes our Summer in the Psalms series with Psalm 51. This psalm marked the time in King David's life that he was confronted with his sin and repented, and his prayer to God in this psalm guides us when we find that we need to repent. David's prayer expressed his confidence in God's mercy for us, his honesty about his own sin, h...

Thank you for joining us for today's worship service! Our guest speaker today is Holly Rockefeller, a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and a member of Horizon West Church. Holly shares with us God's love letter to us given in Psalm 139. We read in these passages that God knows us better than anyone else, and God loves us more than anyone else. We see that God has a purpose for each of us, and God...

Thank you for joining us for today's worship service! Our guest preacher this morning, Korey Deck, pastors Living Springs Church in DeBary, and previously was the Online Campus pastor for First Baptist Orlando. Pastor Korey selects verse 105 from the longest chapter in the Bible, Psalm 119 for our study this morning: "Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path." In the context of the "d...

Thank you for joining us for today's worship service! Our guest preacher this morning, Marcio Nuncaironi, shares his personal story with Psalm 19. At a time in his life where he needed God's leadership, Psalm 19 guided him to hear from God through His creation, His Word, and His Spirit. Pastor Marcio teaches us this same guideline to improving our communication and relationship with God. If you pr...

Thank you for joining us for today's worship service! Our guest preacher this morning is Stefen Gage from No Walls Church. His message is on Psalm 91, a psalm written by Moses as he and the descendants of Abraham entered the wilderness on the way to the Promised Land. Just like the Israelites, God offers us a secret place: available to all who seek, a place where we are invited to dwell, a place w...

Thank you for joining us for today's worship service! Today's worship service wraps up this week of Vacation Bible School. The theme of this VBS has been Live It Out, with each day having a particular emphasis in how we are to live as followers of Christ. Pastor Chris teaches us today that the early church, known as Followers of the Way, demonstrated remarkable devotion to God and radical generosi...