Going Deeper: Questions to Ask Yourself and Each Other
Dig deeper into Pastor Phil's sermons each Sunday by checking out these questions here if you want to ask them of yourself, or here if you want to share them with your fellowship group.

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Hottest Topic in the Early Church Phil Thorne   Sept 5  10
Lord, Make Me an Instrument Phil Thorne Acts 9:15 Aug 29 10
Mystery & Meaning of Baptism Phil Thorne Romans 6:4 Aug 22 10
Oh How He Loves Phil Thorne Rev 2 Aug 15 10
Hearing God Tony Hunt John 10:4 Aug 8
10
Seeing God Nate Winters Job 42:5 Aug 1
10
Power to the People Dave Martin Eph 3:14-21 Jul 25 10
Out With the Old In With the New Dave Martin Eph 2:1-13 Jul 18 10
Undisputed Champion of the World (Literally)  Dave Martin   Eph 1:18-23 Jul 11 10
The Glory of God's Grace Dave Martin Eph 1:3-6 Jul 4  10
Tech Me to Finish Well Steve Musser 2 Peter 2:12-15 Jun 27 10
Teach Me to Love the Unlovely Steve Musser Acts
10: 23-28		 Jun 20
10
Teach Me to Truly Love You In this sermon, former Associate Pastor Steve Musser takes on the often overwhelming, always trying, and, for some, ever-present issue of suffering and sacrifice.  He traces Peter's struggle with loving Jesus enough to give himself up, and looks at David's long road of suffering until he relinquished himself to God.
  Steve Musser   Jun 13
10
Teach Me to Forgive For those burdened by the pain of past wrongs and from struggling with Christ's call to forgive, Steve Musser helps lift that burden in this sermon, especially when he says, "All God asks us to do in forgiving is to choose not to collect -- to choose not to make those who have hurt us pay for what they’ve done … to let go of our desire to hurt them back."
  Steve Musser   Jun 6
10
Teach Me Faith Everyone who is a follower of Jesus is called upon to live a life of faith. Everyone who is a follower of Jesus is called upon to regularly take steps of faith so significant that if God doesn’t show up, he or she is going to be in big trouble.
  Steve Musser Matt 14:22-32  
Teach Me to Leave it Former West Shore Associate Pastor Steve Musser stepped up to the lectern and warned us that “these lessons from God are not easy lessons. They may very well be the hardest things God’s called you to learn.”  And they were!  Get ready for a message that focuses everything we are and have on sacrifice.
  Steve Musser   May 23 10
Uncommon Zeal Nate Winters   May 16 10
From Jacob to Israel In this powerful sermon, Pastor Phil delivers a message that should stop each of us and drop us to our knees: "The divine message to us today is that we too [like Jacob] better learn to cling, because it is to those who cling, to those who hold onto God with all they’ve got, that God bestows his greatest blessing."  
  Phil Thorne   May 2  10
Walk By The Spirit “What we have is a nature that pulls us downward toward sin -- a nature turned in upon itself, that is selfish and prideful and filled with all kinds of desires, that when followed hurt ourselves and others."  But, says Pastor Phil, "the Spirit of God reverses that nature when God “is cried for and sighed for and prayed for. "

Phil Thorne Gal 5:16 Apr 25 10
Discipline of Service Paul knew that to be a servant meant your life belonged to another.  It meant you served his purposes; obeyed his commands; you did what your Master said, no questions asked.  Everything you earned belonged to the one you served.  The money you made enlarged his estate.  The work you did, you did for his benefit.  The recognition you received for your work ultimately redounded to His glory. 

Phil Thorne Matt 20:28 Apr 18 10
Fear and Faith "Once we are convinced that God is calling us," said John Nesbitt in this pentrating message on fear, "we should never underestimate the power of God working through us to accomplish what we cannot do on our own."

John Nesbitt   Apr 11  10
Easter "When that One who is risen is the Lord of the Universe," said Pastor Phil in his Easter sermon, "and you see him, with your own eyes, ascending into the clouds of heaven, that’s something you don’t really ever get over.  The disciples never stopped talking about it."  Nor will you.  Have you seen Him?

Phil Thorne
  Apr 4  10
The Discipline of Surrender "God was never more present, never more powerful, never more engaged in salvation than in the weakness of the cross," said Pastor Phil in his Palm Sunday sermon. God calls us, he says, "to surrender our lives to him, to submit to the suffering he allows to come our way, and to trust him ... to trust him with our very lives."
  Phil Thorne


  Mar 28 10
Prayer ... continued When Jesus taught his disciples -- and us -- to pray, he started with "Our father," say Pastor Phil in a recent sermon. The most important thing about prayer is:
  • not when you pray or where you pray or even how often you pray;
  • not what you ask for or what you don’t ask for;
  • not whether God answers your prayers or what you need to do to make sure that God answers your prayers;  and
  • not even, really, what you say or how you say it.
The most important thing about prayer is ...   

Phil Thorne   Mar 21 10
Prayer Pastor Phil continued his series on spiritual disciplines by focusing on prayer.  He says that, "prayer is one of the keys to unlocking all the good things God has for us: wisdom and strength, healing and salvation, peace and patience, and all the fruit of the Spirit.  However, Phil asks, "Why, oh why, do we not use the key?  Why do we pray so little and so late?"
  Phil Thorne   Mar 14 10
Holiness Tony Hunt   1 Thes 4:7 Mar 7 10
Giving “Man looks on the outward appearance, but God looks on the heart,” Pastor Phil reminded us in his February 28 sermon, Giving – another in the series of spiritual disciplines.  “When it comes to giving, the most important question is: What does our giving reveal about our hearts?  The second most important question is like it: What does our giving do to our hearts?  Where your treasure goes, there your heart will become more and more invested.” 
  Phil Thorne Proverbs 3:5-6 & 9-10 Feb 28 10
Sabbath Sabbath is a day of rest, but it is much more than that, Pastor Phil uncovers in this sermon.  It is also "a day of relationship, a day of release, and finally, a day to reorder our lives.  From the very beginning, the Sabbath was a day of rest for the sake of relationship.  What makes it holy is not just that we do no work.  What makes it holy is that we meet with God.  To be holy is to be set apart to God."
  Phil Thorne   Gen 2:1-3 Feb 21 10
Fasting "Jesus is led by the Spirit into the solitude and silence of the desert to hear the voice of God," says Pastor Phil.  "Fasting — doing without food — is simply part of that process.  Jesus is hungry for God, hungry for a word from God, hungry for the presence of God.  Fasting from food embodies this hunger.  That’s what fasting does.   It enables us to experience in our physical beings a spiritual hunger for God."
  Phil Thorne   Matt 4:1-4 Feb 14 10
Meditation
 Says Pastor Phil in this sermon, “if you want to become like Jesus you have to have the mind of Christ.  You have to see what he sees and know what he knows and think what he thinks.”  Want to know if you have a like mind?  Phil offers lots of questions to test yourself.
  Phil Thorne Rom 12:2

Psalm 1		 Feb 7 10
The Great Omission Jesus sent his disciples into the world to make disciples.  Not being disciples, not making disciples, Pastor Phil notes, is the "great omission of modern Christianity."
  Phil Thorne Matt 28:18-19 Jan 31 10
Going With the Flow  Steve Johnson Micah 6: 1-8 Jan 24 10
A Life-Giving Church Almost four years ago, on March 12, 2006, Pastor Phil sang a song – actually the song was to make the point of his sermon.  It is called, “Deep and Wide.”  He asked then, as he does again in this sermon, what kind of church do we want to be?  The answer is one that flows deep and wide, not “conforming to this world but being transformed into the likeness of Christ by the renewing of our minds.”  Read on …
  Phil Thorne   John 17 Jan 17 10
Keeping in Step With the Holy Spirit Ian Campbell   John 14 Jan 10 10
Following Jesus Into the World Jesus’ parting from his disciples must have been painful and confusing, says Pastor Phil in this sermon.  Jesus tells them that “I am going now to him who sent me … but it is for your good that I am going away.”  “Our good?” his followers must have asked themselves.  And then Jesus points out that they “will grieve but your grief will be turned to joy.”  The grief, then, is for this life and the joy is for the next?  Yes, says Phil, but not quite.
  Phil Thorne   John 17 Jan 3 10