The Well Church | Messages

The Great Commission is fulfilled as Paul, Barnabas, & Christians everywhere go and tell others the good news about Jesus. It's not always easy or what they expect but the Holy Spirit helps them and their listeners so that MANY people, both Jew & Gentile, receive Jesus' saving help. New Jesus communities are formed and the blessings of Eden start re-extending across the globe.

There's no sinner so wicked and wretched that the blood of Christ cannot cleanse, no heart so dead that cannot be resurrected, no darkness so deep that His light cannot penetrate. God is able to save the worst of sinners and use them for His glorious purposes.

In the face of intense suffering, the gospel spreads under the Sovereign hand of God as the Church leverages their pain and persecution for the sake of Jesus.

The Church is formed as a new community of Jesus followers wholeheartedly devote themselves to Christ and, as a result, to each other.

Upon ascending to heaven, Jesus sends the promised Holy Spirit to empower His followers to effectively spread the gospel and establish His church.

Having completed His earthly mission and regaining the dominion lost in the garden, Jesus commands His followers to make disciples of all nations until that first creation mandate is finally fulfilled and the glory of God covers the earth as the water covers the seas.

Jesus rises from the dead to conquer death, appearing to His disciples and showing them His total fulfillment of the Scriptures that changes everything.

Jesus lovingly lays down his life on the cross, bearing the full penalty of our separation from God in order to accomplish our restoration back to Him.

In the most wicked act of evil, God works the most glorious act of good, as Jesus lays down His life for His Bride in the greatest display of love.

Jesus overcomes the religious leaders’ traps, confounding the crowds with His unassailable wisdom while exposing the emptiness of legalism and love for this world.

Jesus clarifies who He is, where He's headed, and the worthwhile cost of following Him as Lord.

Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead, showing his power to overcome the final result of the fall through the paradox of His life-giving love.

Jesus exercises His supreme rule and authority over Satan and every demonic force of evil, disarming them and putting to open shame, by rescuing us from the domain of darkness through his triumphant victory at the cross.

Jesus supernaturally feeds a massive crowd, showing his satisfying provision to fully meet not only their immediate earthly needs, but also their deeper spiritual one.

Jesus silences a storm, demonstrating his authority over creation and intent as the Prince of Peace to still not only the seas but also our souls.

Jesus displays his ultimate reason for coming, asserting his authority to forgive sin as he extends mercy to those who know they need it.

Being whole people made in the image of God, Jesus loves children. He affirms their VALUE as equally (un)worthy partakers of His grace and holds up their child-likeness as an exemplary picture of how all people must enter His Kingdom - like a child.

Jesus teaches with total authority, upholding the perfect standard of God’s law and clarifying its original intent, all the while exposing our utter need for the One who has come to fulfill it.

Jesus launches his mission by personally pursuing and calling unexpected people to decisively follow Him as disciples.

At the onset of His ministry, Jesus passes the extreme test of temptation in the wilderness, reversing the story of Genesis 3 by defeating Satan and his lies with the truth about the Father's character, His identity, and their relationship.

Jesus’ baptism marks the beginning of a new creation which God brings out of the chaos of sin and death through the finished work of Christ.

In the birth of Jesus, God uses the heavenly cosmos as well as earthly kings & kingdoms to display His covenant-keeping love, and in proclaiming this Child is the Savior, who is Christ the Lord, the incarnation becomes an invitation to joy and peace for all who would come to worship the King.

After 4 quiet centuries, God breaks the silence with the climactic announcing of the Messiah the Old Testament has been whispering of throughout.

God gathers his people out of exile, prompting and providing for their successful return to Jerusalem to, in the face of opposition, rebuild the temple and city wall, renew their commitment to the Lord, and remember their need for His restoration still to come.

In the exile, God’s people are to live in such a way that displays His glory and goodness, living distinctly different from the world around them in full devotion and dependence on Him as their sure and only hope.