Phos Church Messages

Listen in as the pastor search team does a quick panel with our new pastor Brandon Rose so we can get to know him better.

Towards the very beginning of His early ministry, Jesus like most teachers sought out students (disciples) to teach and entrust His mission to. Now there is a whole slew of sermons wrapped up in how and who and why Jesus chose the very eclectic and peculiar group of people that He did. But none were more controversial than perhaps Matthew. Though Jesus had uneducated men, mere teenagers, women, and radical zealots trailing behind Him, the calling of Matthew as a tax collector is especially scandalous.

Jesus is asking for Agape Love.
Total, complete, unconditional love - heart, soul, mind & strength.

Three times Peter denied Jesus
And three times Peter was reinstated, redeemed by Jesus
God is like SERVPRO - “Like it never even happened”
Loving Jesus requires action - Feed my sheep

God is in the business of restoration
“Like it never even happened”
Peter’s story was far from over…

Jesus asks who the people say he is, but more importantly he asks each one of us - who do YOU say I am?

‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’

Matthew 16:18 (NLT) - I will build my church, and all the powers of hell will not conquer it.

Ecclesiastes 4:1 - Again I looked and saw all the oppression that was taking place under the sun: I saw the tears of the oppressed - and they have no comforter; power was on the side of their oppressors - and they have no comforter.

Acts 16:13-15 - On the Sabbath we went outside the city gate to the river, where we expected to find a place of prayer. We sat down and began to speak to the women who had gathered there. One of those listening was a woman from the city of Thyatira named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth. She was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul’s message. When she and the members of her household were baptized, she invited us to her home.

Romans 8:1-2 - So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus. And because you belong to him, the power of life-giving spirit has freed you from the power of sin that leads to death.