Horizons Community Church Lincoln

This message wrapped up our series “Seeking Higher Ground,” which focused on our primary relationship with God. The final grace of knowing Him intimately is being grafted in, cared for, and made to produce fruit. So consider this week how God is caring for you—pruning, protecting, guiding you, and how God is working to produce fruit in you that will truly impact others.

Look at My Dress Daddy! This morning as I prepared breakfast for my kids, they colored in the dining room. My daughter (age 3) shouted in excitement, “Look, Daddy! My dress has two crosses on it!” Thinking she found cross patterns, I peeked around, instead, to see she’d drawn two bright orange, glittery, permanent crosses on her new summer dress. In enthusiastic defense, both Samuel (age 5) and Li...

This week is the 4th of “Seeking Higher Ground,” growing in our good, good God. This Sunday is the first of the “knowing benefits” in our relationship with God. God empowers us through our intimacy in Him. But why? Right   After the Close, Maybe you too have been in a situation, seeking God’s power, wisdom, and deliverance, only to feel like nothing happened, no one was listening. Someti...

Our 25th Anniversary Sunday will be full of stories, celebrations, memories, and dreams, and will ultimately focus us on the future and learning to know and “unknowable” God through relationships. Winds of Celebration I hope you’ll have a chance to watch Sunday’s message, with long-time member and leader, Susan Sapp, speaking to the 25 incredible years of ministry at Horizons. It is worth hearing!...

Breakout Session - Seeking Higher Ground Moving from our big-picture look at relationship, we now focus around our most primary—that with our God, Father, and Creator. Our second in the series, “Breakout Session” Leads us into a deep look at what we know and what we are actually being told by the Spirit and how we might break out of those previous molds to dive deeper into the truth of who God is....

Seeking HIGHER Ground, We’ve Been Punk’d! Moving from our big-picture look at relationship, we now focus around our most primary—that with our God, Father, and Creator. Our first in the series, “We’ve Been Punk’d” suggests we might be going about our relationship with God in a misguided way. Discover the actual relationship God wants to have with you, and you with others!  The Beauty of Knowi...

Ash Wednesday Service

Go Big to Go Home! Today's Message the main point was that God chooses His greatest, most impactful, and long-lasting work to be done through the BODY of believers over the individuals of faith. So, while it may be the trend right now to break away from those we don’t agree with, step aside from anything that might obligate us, or be a lone hero, smaller, in God’s world, simply won’t be better. My...

on Holy Ground, Relationally Revealed Week two of “Holy Ground,” our focus moves from how God designed us to be relational to how relationship is the essential key to knowing and experiencing God Himself. Of all the ways God could have gathered His people and made His name known, God chose relationship with each of us as His primary way. Of all the things that are important in the Kingdom, relatio...

Okay, please know I have full respect for worship artists, they deeply bless our worshiping world. But, I have always been a little annoyed with how focused a bulk of our worship lyrics are on the individual. Yes, yes, it IS AMAZING He died for YOU, saved YOU, loves YOU, and is always with YOU. But in this message talked about God’s ultimate intention being on the BODY of Christ, the collection of...

Horizons’ final week of “A New Beginning” concludes this Sunday with a New Vision. Vision is like a raincoat when it’s raining. It’s the last thing you put on before going out, but essential for keeping all the other resolves from getting ruined. Cover all the changes you made in your heart, mind, focus, and friends with a worthy vision. Better than a new car or even a whole-home makeover, a new,...

Sunday, and the Road   The fourth week of “New Beginning,” during Sunday message, met us in an interesting place. As it turns out, we ALL are faced with the presence of others’ influences in our lives and choices. And, we all travel the road of navigating influences together. Yet, I’m guessing most of us don’t realize we hold the controls to those influences. We are given the freedom and resp...

Horizons’ third week of “A New Beginning” turns to a New Focus. From Paul’s teaching in Colossians, we are reminded and challenged to set our minds on things above and not on earthly things. What are those “things from above,” and how do we make the shift? Better than a new car or even a whole-home makeover, a new, healthier, holier YOU awaits!

Crazy Brain Training When I was in seminary, I was not looking forward to studying the Hebrew language; it seemed impossible to learn. Yet, I remember the day I started getting it. I had finished my Hebrew flashcards and went on to an assigned book. I looked at the page of English words and could not make out even one for about 20 seconds. Then my brain remembered I needed to look for different wo...

Good parenting starts first with a good vision. From good visions good plans ensue. Have you ever witnessed what happens to parents and churches when children start growing healthy and robust faith relationships? Every parent and every engaged member of that church will find healthier, more robust faith as well. A Double-Vision Sunday! When I was a kid x-ray vision was always on the list of superp...

A New Beginning This first Sunday of 2022 shines the light of Epiphany as we celebrate 2021 and look toward the New Year. Our first series launches into the newness provided to us by the restarting of things and new approaches. Week one focuses in on starting the year with a new heart, letting our love be sincere, life-giving, and way-making. The First-Light Sunday! When I was young and played in...

This Sunday the 26th, following Christmas Eve, Horizons celebrates the Savior and all our volunteers and staff with an ONLINE ONLY worship special. We’ll worship from our living room to yours with the final message of Worthy, focusing on what response we should have from Christmas. It’s honest, practical, and hopeful. See what it means for you!

Come join us for Christmas Eve at Horizons!

a WORTHY King, Children’s Program! Our Horizons children will be sharing their version of the Christmas story this Sunday, 9:00 service, as we enter our final week of Advent. This Sunday, Jesus’ worthiness as Lord and King is exalted and raised up. But just as many were unsure then because Jesus didn’t meet their expectations for King, so do we tend to be a bit uncertain today. Jesus is the worthy...

Horizons’ series “Worthy” focuses on the person, presence, and purpose of Jesus, as we near our Christmas season. Our focus will help us to see why He is worthy of our devotion, worship, and following. This Sunday, Jesus’ worthiness is most clearly seen in the nature of His invitation. Simply put, His kingdom was extended not to those who deserved it, but to those who desired it—and not just for t...

Horizons’ series “Worthy” focuses on the person, presence, and purpose of Jesus, as we near our Christmas season. Our focus will help us to see why He is worthy of our devotion, worship, and following. This Sunday, Jesus’ worthiness is attributed to the story written by all who came before Him to prepare His way. Jesus’ overlooked ancestral lineage tells an incredible story of the real people who...

Horizons’ series “Worthy” focuses on the person, presence, and purpose of Jesus, as we near our Christmas season. Our focus will help us to see why He is worthy of our devotion, worship, and following. This Sunday, Jesus’ worthiness is attributed to his divine embrace of sacrifice. For Jesus, it was not a loss, but a way to life and greater things.

Horizons’ series “Worthy” focuses on the person, presence, and purpose of Jesus, as we near our Christmas season. Our focus will help us to see why He is worthy of our devotion, worship, and following. This Sunday, Jesus’ worthiness is attributed to his divine embrace of sacrifice. For Jesus, it was not a loss, but a way to life and greater things.

Horizons once again returns to the Gospel of Matthew for a final dive into our remaining passages in this testimony. “Worthy” focuses on the person, presence, and purpose of Jesus, especially as we approach our Christmas celebration. This first Sunday, worthiness is attributed to the things of heaven as opposed to the things of our human hearts. Jesus teaches this through two interactions with Pet...

As we move into the final months of the year, we often see God moving in hearts to embrace their relationship with Jesus. But what does it mean and how do we respond? Sunday is all about what it means to be baptized or to reaffirm your baptism as a part of your affirmation of what God is doing in your heart and life. Ready to be baptized or renew your baptism? Let us know!  https://horizons.c...