In Part 4 of the Path to Redemption series, we arrive at the cross. And what happens here doesn't just tell us about what Jesus endured — it tells us about every heart that was present. Because how people responded to Jesus in his darkest moment revealed exactly who they were and what they really believed.

The crowd chose Barabbas over Jesus. A guilty murderer over an innocent savior. It wasn't the first time people had traded the real thing for a cheap substitute — and it won't be the last. We're still doing it today. Career. Comfort. Politics. Religion. We commit to all kinds of things and sometimes never fully surrender to Jesus Christ.

The religious leaders and soldiers mocked him. They said if you're really the king, save yourself. But here's the irony they missed entirely: if Jesus had saved himself, he could not have saved us. What looked like weakness was God's rescue plan unfolding — foreknown before the foundations of the world.

And then there was one man. Nailed to a cross beside Jesus. No time for good works. No time to clean up his life. No time to get religious. All he could do was repent and ask for mercy. And Jesus said, today you will be with me in paradise.

The ground is level at the foot of the cross. You are not saved because you're good enough. You are saved because God is perfectly and eternally good.

Join us at New Horizons Christian Church — 11340 Howey Cross Rd, Clermont, FL — as we continue the Path to Redemption and walk toward Resurrection Sunday.

In Part 2 of the Path to Redemption series, we enter one of the darkest moments in human history — the mocking, beating, and humiliation of Jesus Christ.
700 years before it happened, Isaiah described it in detail. A man of sorrows. Despised and rejected. Pierced for our transgressions. Crushed for our iniquities. God was not caught off guard. This was always the plan.
In Luke 22, we find Jesus in the hands of the temple guards — trained soldiers, men of strength — and they are using that strength to mock Him, beat Him, and blindfold Him. And through all of it, Jesus says nothing. He strikes no one. He calls no angels.
Not because He couldn't. But because He had purpose.
This message confronts three sobering truths:
Sin turns strength into cruelty. Pride blinds us to truth. And Jesus showed ultimate power through restraint.
He could have called more than 72,000 warrior angels and ended it all. Instead, He absorbed every blow — willingly, intentionally — so that you and I could be restored.
That is not weakness. That is the most powerful act in human history.
If you have been trying to fight your battles alone, fix your sin on your own, or earn your way back to God — this message is for you. Let the purpose behind Jesus' pain drive you to surrender. Because it is by His wounds that we are healed.
Join us at New Horizons Christian Church — 11240 Howey Cross Rd, Clermont, FL — as we walk the Path to Redemption together leading up to Resurrection Sunday.

In Part 1 of the Path to Redemption series, we open in Luke 22 — and find one of the most painful moments in the Gospels. Not the cross. Not the arrest. But a man who loved Jesus deeply... denying he ever knew Him.

Peter wasn't a coward. He was bold, fearless, and ready to die for Jesus — until he wasn't. And the warning signs were there. Jesus saw it coming. He even told Peter it would happen. But Peter trusted himself more than he trusted the warning.

This message traces the slow drift that leads to denial. How distance from Jesus makes you comfortable in the wrong environments. How fear silences what faith once declared boldly. And how — even in Peter's worst moment — Jesus looks at him not with condemnation, but with grace.

The big idea is simple and sobering: Distance from Jesus leads to denial of Jesus. But His grace meets you even there.

If you've ever drifted. If you've ever stayed quiet when you should have spoken up. If you've ever looked back at a moment and thought — I should have been stronger than that — this message is for you.

Denial doesn't have to be final. Peter proves that.

Join us at New Horizons Christian Church — 11240 Howey Cross Rd, Clermont, FL — as we begin the Path to Redemption and walk through what it looks like when grace pursues you even at your lowest point.