Horizon West Church Podcast

Thank you for joining us at Horizon West Church! We hear in today's message Paul's explanations of why the resurrection of the crucified Jesus Christ makes such a profound difference to us. Pastor Chris teaches us what Paul wrote about the science, the theology, the hope, and the result of the resurrection. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you! If you would want...

Thank you for joining us at Horizon West Church! With today's message, we have started into the final thoughts in Paul's first letter to the church in Corinth. The preceding chapters contain instructions on how to live as Christians and as a community of faith. Starting in chapter 14, Paul explains why these instructions are important: because the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus happened,...

Thank you for joining us at Horizon West Church! In today's message, we read Paul's instructions to the church in Corinth for how to worship together. Paul provides timeless lessons on how churches can come together in ways that build the community's faith, engage those who are seeking God, and offer genuine praises to God. If you prayed to make Jesus your Lord today, we want to rejoice with you!...

Thank you for joining us at Horizon West Church for this New Year's Eve service! We have a tradition that we mark the start of a new year with a "blessing" service, filled with worship and prayer. For this year's service, we are focusing on how God has blessed us and how we can be ready for what God wants to do with us in the coming year. We are structuring this prayer time around three "movements...

Thank you for joining us at Horizon West Church for this Christmas Eve service! The story of God's gift to us in the birth of Jesus is the greatest story ever told, as God "became flesh and dwelt among us." The story of Christmas brought us Jesus to show us by thought and action what God's love is like, so Paul could write it for us in 1 Corinthians 13 that we have been studying for the month of D...

Thank you for joining us at Horizon West Church! As we have been preparing for Christmas by studying the characteristics of God's love in 1 Corinthians 13, we have reflected on the essential nature of love and the strength inherent in love. In today's message, we consider why Paul wrote that love is "the greatest of these." Pastor Chris shares with us how this passage illuminates to us that only l...

Thank you for joining us at Horizon West Church! As we anticipate our Christmas celebrations, we remember that the birth of baby Jesus is a gift of love to us from God, so we're studying the "love chapter" of the Bible, 1 Corinthians 13, leading up to our Christmas Eve services. In today's message, we reject the pop culture view of love as "emotion" and delve into the commitments that love equips...

Thank you for joining us at Horizon West Church! As we celebrate the season of Advent leading up to Christmas, we rejoice that love came down to earth with the birth of the baby Jesus. There is no passage of scripture that better defines God's love than 1 Corinthians 13, and this week begins a short series on what this passage teaches us about God's perfect love and how we are to live so that we a...

Thank you for joining us at Horizon West Church! In today's message, Pastor David Uth reminds us that being a faithful Christian is not about us. Being faithful to Jesus means following the two greatest commandments that Jesus explained in Matthew 22:37-40; we are to love God and love other people. We should avoid anything that would distract us from following these two commandments. For more info...

Thank you for joining us at Horizon West Church! As we prepare to celebrate the Thanksgiving Day holiday, Pastor Chris gives us five reasons why giving thanks is important to us. In these five reasons, we consider how expressing thanks is beneficial to our souls, to the growth of our faith, and to the authenticity of our witness. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, vi...

Thank you for joining us at Horizon West Church! Each of us are unique individuals, shaped by our personal experiences, and blessed by God with talents and abilities specific to us to be used in service to God and to others. Healthy environments prosper from the strength of the diverse contributions of participants, but unhealthy environments, like the church in Corinth, tear themselves apart by r...

Thank you for joining us at Horizon West Church! Just as God has a plan to engage every one of us in service to His Kingdom, God also has unique plans for each church to reach communities and share the Good News. The church in Corinth was too distracted by the differences in that body of believers to be effective in following God's lead, so Paul shared with them timeless truths of how God brings u...

Thank you for joining us at Horizon West Church! It is God's desire and God's plan to engage every one of us in sharing our unique gifts in service to His Kingdom. God knows what is deep inside each of us, and because He knows just how special we are, God has summoned us to be someone and do something that we otherwise wouldn’t if we didn’t belong to Him. For more information about our in-person S...

Thank you for joining us at Horizon West Church! History shows us that churches can suffer from disagreements that grow so large that they fragment congregations. That was the case in the church at Corinth. Paul's instructions to that church called the members to replace their selfishness and pride with respect and consideration for each other to overcome these divisions. For more information abou...

Thank you for joining us at Horizon West Church! Last Sunday, we celebrated how God has blessed us and committed ourselves to generous giving of our time and resources to God's work. Today, we ponder what comes next -- what does God want us to do as a community of faithful volunteers? There are two stories in Luke 15 that shape how we can show God's love as we commit ourselves to God's work. For m...

Thank you for joining us at Horizon West Church! We conclude our Journey of Grace series with Paul's explanation in 2 Corinthians of how generosity builds more generosity. Pastor Chris compared this cycle to a flywheel, started in motion by God's love for us; as 1 John 4:19 explains, "We love because He first loved us." When we receive God's generosity with awe and submission, our response is to p...

Thank you for joining us at Horizon West Church! We apologize for the technical difficulties this week, some portions have been lost during the message. Today we celebrate 5 years as a church, Pastor Chris reviews the path that God has led us on this far and the vision he see's God leading our church forward. For more information about our in-person Sunday morning services, visit https://horizonwe...

Thank you for joining us at Horizon West Church! As we continue in our Journey of Grace series, we hear today about putting our vision for sharing grace into action. Pastor Chris gives us these concepts to guide us as we take these steps forward: (1) Our actions to give of ourselves must be rooted in our commitment, not in our emotions. (2) God calls us to give according to our actual abilities, n...

Thank you for joining us at Horizon West Church! Today's scripture comes from 2 Corinthians 8 where Paul wrote about the generous giving by the church at Macedonia. When we think about life in the first century, we realize those gifts from the Macedonians took many months to reach the famine victims in Jerusalem, and the church at Macedonia likely never knew how their sacrificial giving helped oth...

Thank you for joining us at Horizon West Church! Paul's letters to the church at Corinth addressed many varied areas of dispute and division within that community of faith. In this week's passage, the dispute had to do with head coverings, but Paul cut through to the heart of the matter in describing a healthy relationship between a husband and a wife. Paul gives us timeless instructions on how ou...

Thank you for joining us at Horizon West Church! In today's scripture passage, Paul continued to instruct the believers in Corinth not to be distracted in living out their faith, but to focus on what truly mattered. Where the Corinth believers argued about proper behavior, Paul patiently taught them to put aside what was less important and focus on the One Thing: living out God's love in everythin...

Thank you for joining us at Horizon West Church! In 1 Corinthians 10, Paul urged believers not only to start their faith journey, but to diligently continue their faith journey and finish our journeys well. He provided several examples of how God's people stumbled in their faith from the stories of Abraham's descendants following Moses in the wilderness. Pastor Chris grouped these teachings into t...

Thank you for joining us at Horizon West Church! God's design for fulfilled and blessed lives is built on our relationships with God and with other people. In today's message, Austin Bracci, our Groups Director at Horizon West Church, explores how the stories of the founding of the Christian church guide us in seeking out and growing those relationships. For more information about our in-person Su...

Thank you for joining us at Horizon West Church! There are two truths that believers throughout history have struggled to reconcile: God is holy AND God is love. Today's message examines Paul's teachings in 1 Corinthians 9 of how God is both holy and love, and how we as God's children should practice both holiness and love with those around us. For more information about our in-person Sunday morni...

Thank you for joining us at Horizon West Church! Our message today looks at how Paul coached the Corinthian church to engage with the diverse population in their city. His instructions in 1 Corinthians 8 lead all believers in showing love first and foremost to everyone. As Pastor Chris explains, "The genuineness of our faith is tested not by how much we know about God but by how much we love him;...