Phos Church Messages

We are in week 2 of our series “The Road To Easter”, where we are looking at some of the most significant episodes of Jesus’s life that led to the cross and the resurrection. While the cross and the empty tomb of resurrection are the end of that road, Easter is the culmination of God’s eternity-spanning plan to rescue us, His people, from the clutches of sin and death and give us new life, a hope, and a future wrapped in His never-ending love. And as we take an extend look at the interactions and events that led into Easter, I believe there is so much we can learn from and grow through in our mission to live out the hope and resurrection of Jesus in our own lives and share that hope with the world around us!

This week we are going to dive into the deeper part of the pool as we look at “The Last Supper”, one of the more universally life-altering events in Jesus’s life! This particular message is a little more “academic” and detailed, because the significance surrounding the Last Supper, stretching thousands of years back to the Exodus of Israel, cannot be understated in it’s importance to our relationship to God and the world around us today. Whole libraries of books have been written on this subject alone so we will only be doing a fly-by overview of this but I can assure you that if you can hang with us on this one, it will be a blessing to your heart! Alright then, let’s get to it!

We hope you all have had a great week and spent some time outside enjoying the beautiful weather. It’s good for the mind and the soul!

We are in week 2 of our series “The Road To Easter”, where we are looking at some of the most significant episodes of Jesus’s life that led to the cross and the resurrection. While the cross and the empty tomb of resurrection are the end of that road, Easter is the culmination of God’s eternity-spanning plan to rescue us, His people, from the clutches of sin and death and give us new life, a hope, and a future wrapped in His never-ending love. And as we take an extend look at the interactions and events that led into Easter, I believe there is so much we can learn from and grow through in our mission to live out the hope and resurrection of Jesus in our own lives and share that hope with the world around us!

There are so many important moments in Jesus’s life as He made His way to goal of His mission on Earth that it has truly been a chore trying to narrow them down for the few short weeks we have before Easter. Last week we looked at the Jesus’s trial in the desert with the enemy and how Jesus’s handling of it can help us as we walk through our own deserts trials. This week we are going to zero in on Jesus’s miracle of “The Raising Of Lazarus” and examine how this showy and yet very intimate moment in Jesus’s life can speak into our lives! Alight, let’s make a start of it!

Hello there friends!

Well it’s March and we are entering into Easter season so it’s time for a new series! One of the things that puzzles me about Easter is our treatment of it. We more or less devote four, five, six weeks or even two months to Christmas, depending on when you chose to start listening to Christmas music haha! But Easter, arguably the single most important event in all of creation, when the culmination of God’s great effort and sacrifice to save humanity from sin and death and bring us back to Him comes to fruition, more or less gets regulated to a weekend. To the cross and the tomb.

While the cross and the empty tomb are the end result of God’s plan and therefor cannot be understated in terms of importance to us, Easter is so much more than just the span of three days! There is so much to consider in light of what God was doing to redeem the world and bring us back to Him. In light of this, we are going to spend the next several weeks walking down “The Road To Easter”. We are going to step into and examine some of the most intimate, trying, and powerful events of Jesus’s life as He was walking towards the cross and our freedom! I truly believe there is so much to learn and gain from spending time with Jesus in this way, particularly in light of the past year and what is going on in the world around us. Join us on this journey and let’s sight our eyes and heart on the redemptive plan and sacrifice of the Son of God!

Today, we are going to spend some time and focus on how to manage our relationship with the church.

The “Church” - not this building but the people… alternative terminology - the Church Body.

People who are deeply connected to the body are transformed and make incredible impacts all over the world. Many of those who don’t find connection with the body of Christ, tend to flounder in life and find themselves on paths to destruction.

Questions for Discussion

Think back: Have you ever been mean to someone just to make them mad? How did that work out?

Dig in: According to today’s biblical texts, what does it mean to imitate God? What are some things the biblical texts say that you need to let go of?

Look ahead: what can you say to a young person this week that might encourage them for the rest of their lives?