Phos Church Messages

Learn about the importance of mental health and how God stands ready to pull us out of the pit when we call.

God's people have always been calling out for rescue. Learn how God has already rescued us, and continues to rescue us.

Learn from Psalm 139 how we can truly know God and be known by Him.

Want to live a blessed life? Join in as our Youth Pastor Jake Phillips breaks down the first Psalm.

To walk in step with the wicked would be to walk alongside the wicked. Think of it like passing by or encountering the wicked. (Disclaimer: Jesus called us to encounter the wicked. He called us to be in relation with sinners. But the difference here is that in order to do what jesus called us to do we need to first be in relationship with Jesus and actively seeking him. In Psalm 1:1 we are talking...

1.) When you think of the word “gentleness, what comes to mind? Is being gentle or humble good traits or bad traits? Why? Is it easy to be gentle or to have faith like a child? Why? 2.) How does God typically speak to you or reveal Himself to you? Is it loud and furious and powerful or is it more like a whisper? Why do you think people sometimes have a hard time hearing the voice of God? What keep...

1.) Why is it that we sometimes do what we do not want to do and do not do what we want or should do? Why is living by the flesh so appealing? Are we truly slaves to it or can we break free? How and why? 2.) What does living by the Spirit mean to you? What does it look like in your every day life? What is the goodness of God and how do we get the opportunity to experience it? What can the goodness...

1.) What is the perfect peace of God? How would you describe it? Have you ever experienced it and how were you able to experience it? 2.) Is all “anxiety”, caring for something or someone, bad? What is bad anxiety in your life? How does it affect life negatively? How do you handle it? Is there something that you church/small group can help you with? 3.) Take some time to work through “the list” in...

1.) What is the joy of the Lord? Have you ever experienced it? What is it like? Does it truly give us the strength to act/move/live like Jesus? 2.) Have you ever been through a period of refining fire? How did it affect you? Where you able to “rejoice” about it later or even during? How and why? 3.) Why does God allow us to go through hardship? How does His joy empower us with His glory? How do we...

1.) Who is the Holy Spirit to you? What do you know about Him and have you felt His working in your life? Was there anything in particular that stuck out to you about the Holy Spirit from the sermon this week or in your personal time with God? Something that perhaps you learned new or that you were reminded of or that you disagree with? 2.) What does the word of God say about our “standing” or con...

“Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat, so do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do. For they preach, but do not practice. They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger. They do all their deeds to be seen by others...

Here are some questions to think through this week: 1.) Have you ever had a “mountain top/valley” experience with God and/or in life in general? If you are willing to share about it with your group, please do! What did you learn from it? 2.) Why is it so hard to see/hear from God when we are in the valley vs the mountain? Do you think God is near or far from you while in the valley? Or is it that...

“Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came up to him with her sons, and kneeling before him she asked him for something. And he said to her, “What do you want?” She said to him, “Say that these two sons of mine are to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your kingdom.” Jesus answered, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am to drink?” They sa...

The parable of the sower tells us that the condition of the soil of our hearts is often affected by the season of life we are in.

We all want Jesus the savior, but we struggle to follow Jesus as Lord

“On one occasion, while the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he was standing by the lake of Gennesaret, and he saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets. Getting into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, he asked him to put out a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the people from the boat. And when he had finish...

“On one of those days, as he was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there, who had come from every village of Galilee and Judea and from Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was with him to heal. And behold, some men were bringing on a bed a man who was paralyzed, and they were seeking to bring him in and lay him before Jesus, but finding no way to bring him in, because of th...

“In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. And all went to be registered, each to his own town. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be re...

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying, “Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among those with whom he is pleased!