Horizon Community Church

05/29/2026

05/06/2026

You can now listen to the songs we sing on Sunday throughout the week. Follow the Horizon Worship Playlist on Spotify. It can be found in our link tree.

04/04/2026

Each day this week we will be following Jesus leading up to his death and resurrection.

One of the things about Jesus that irked the religious elites the most was his indifference toward gaining an audience at the tables of the rich, powerful and influential. Instead, Jesus held meals with traitors that worked for Rome and with s*x workers, outcasts of the religious society. Jesus ultimately would be killed because he ate with what the religious leaders saw as the wrong kind of people.

On Wednesday, Jesus was holding one of his controversial dinners where everyone was welcome, at Simon the leper’s house, when a woman entered and poured an expensive burial perfume on Jesus’ head. This story is also found in Matthew and John and those versions say this is Mary the sister of Lazarus.

Spikenard, the perfume she used would have cost about $50,000 in today’s money. By anointing his head with burial perfume she was saying, “I’m listening. I hear that you keep saying you have to die.” His disciples kept denying his teachings about having to die, but Mary was listening.

The disciples criticized her act of worship arguing that the money could have been spent better. Sometimes our pragmatism gets in the way of our worship. Jesus though defended her action saying, “She has anointed my body in advance for burial.” This act so frustrated Judas that he left and schemed with the religious elites about how he might betray Jesus. He agreed to betray Jesus for 30 pieces of silver, roughly $200 today. The cost of worship is high. The cost of betrayal is cheap.

Read more: Mark 14:1-11

04/04/2026

Each day this week we will be following Jesus leading up to his death and resurrection.

Jesus and his disciples return to Jerusalem and pass by the fig tree that Jesus cursed the day before. It has now withered and died. Jesus returns to the temple that he threw into disarray the day before and begins to teach.

His teaching is interrupted by challenges and traps by all the religious elites: the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the scribes, and the Herodians. The Pharisees were the religious conservatives, the Sadducees were the religious liberals, the scribes copied the Old Testament and taught it, and the herodians were nobles who supported the puppet king Herod.

All the powerful and wealthy people saw Jesus and his teachings as a threat to the established order. Throughout the passage he warns the people that their religious teachers were corrupt, proud and judgmental. In Mark 13:28 Jesus sums up his rebuke like this: learn from the fig tree. Not every religious person who looks spiritual is spiritual. Just because someone has a position or has education doesn’t mean they have a heart like God desires. These teachers and the temple itself, Jesus predicted would soon come to ruin. His words came to pass in AD 70.

Read more: Mark 11:20-13:37

03/23/2026

Podcast is posted! Here are the slides to follow along with the first sermon in our new relationship series. Listen wherever you download your podcasts.

02/11/2026

In our Feb 8 Sunday gathering we continue to explore the Lord’s Prayer. This week’s discussion questions are below: 1. When you think about prayer, what do you usually ask God for? How does that compare to the idea of “daily bread” in the Lord’s Prayer? 2. What do you think Jesus is teaching us by telling us to ask for what we need today instead of what we might need tomorrow? 3. Why do you think daily dependence on God can feel uncomfortable or even scary? 4. In what ways do we try to control the future instead of trusting God to provide for us? 5. The sermon said, “Daily bread teaches us to trust God as provider, and forgiveness teaches us to trust God as judge.” What does that idea mean to you? 6. Is there a difference between forgiveness and removing consequences? Why is that distinction important? 7. How has God already provided for your real needs in this season of your life? 8. Is there someone you are struggling to forgive, or a hurt you’re still carrying? What would it look like to “release it to God” this week? 9. This week’s practice is to ask two questions each day:
What do I really need today?
What do I need to release today?
How might that change the way you pray or live this week?

02/09/2026

Jesus taught his disciples to pray for their daily needs mirroring this verse from the wisdom of Proverbs.

02/06/2026

At Horizon we focus on building faith, relationships and friends. Plaid optional.

02/02/2026

In our Feb 1 Sunday gathering we continue our series on prayer.

Tune in to wherever you listen to podcasts.

Discussion Questions: Phillip Yancey describes prayer as “power sharing.” What do you think about that idea? Does it challenge or affirm how you normally think about prayer? The sermon describes the kingdom as “already available, but not yet fully realized.” Where do you see signs of God’s kingdom breaking in right now? Where do you most feel the tension of the “not yet”? Using Dallas Willard’s definition of kingdom as “the space where your will gets done,”what are the main “territories” of your personal kingdom right now? Which ones are hardest to surrender to God’s rule? “Your kingdom come” assumes something is wrong with the world as it is.
What realities in our world, community, or personal lives most stir you to pray this prayer honestly? The sermon claims that not everything that happens on earth is God’s will.
How does that idea sit with you emotionally and theologically? How does it affect the way you respond to suffering, sin, or injustice? Peter Greig says we can’t pray for the kingdom until what breaks God’s heart breaks ours. What do you think breaks God’s heart today—and how aware are you of those things in your daily life? Jesus’ prayer in Gethsemane models “not my will, but yours.” Have you ever had to pray that kind of prayer? What did surrender look like in that situation? The sermon suggests God often answers kingdom prayers by moving us. Can you think of a time when prayer changed your perspective or prompted you to act rather than wait? This week’s practice is to pause and ask what God would want done before praying. How might that reshape the way you pray for your family, work, finances, or future this week?