The Well (BGVA) Lessons and Messages

It's one thing to criticize "the church for not doing enough" and another thing to actually "put up or shut up". We aren't called to be believers of rhetoric, but believers of love and truth. God makes it very clear, cover to cover, how we are to regard the poorer amongst us. As a church family, we must be committed to compassion for the needy. Otherwise, how can we claim to stand for the love of...

Hints of the Messiah pop up early in the Old Testament. It's almost as if God already knew what He was going to do the second sin entered into the equation. God knew we couldn't do it on our own. He gave us opportunities and provided the framework to do it, but ultimately that only served the purpose of proving that we can't earn it. The conclusion was clear: salvation must be a gift. There is no...

Christ, our living hope! We associate the concept of "Hope" with Christianity, but hope has been built into mankind's relationship with God since the beginning. The literal atonement (or covering-over) of Adam and Eve at the end of Genesis 3, God's promises to Noah, the covenant with Abraham, God's commissioning of Moses, the anointing of David, and the words of the prophets all speak to God's des...

Sermon Description: It's funny that when we talk about God's gifts, we often forget the big picture of creation. Creation is evidence of God's generosity and an ever-present gift handed to us from the beginning. In the beginning, God created all things and THEN he created Adam and Eve before resting. This is a pretty clear indicator that we were the culmination of God's creation. We also know Adam...

God gives us purpose by design. We are to honor and worship God as a way of magnifying His glory. We were created in God's image and the angels are said to look upon us in awe. Displaying God is built into our literal and metaphorical DNA! When you look at how God uses His chosen people, it is explicitly to contrast His glory with the compromised, inglorious creations of man. The painting created...

God's salvation is beyond understanding and seemingly beyond our reason. He offers it freely to even the most undeserving individuals. It is something that is intangible and so often overlooked in casual discussions of thanksgiving, but yet it is the most enduring and powerful gift we have ever received.

God is infinitely loving. God's creation of us is saturated with signs that God desires us. This desire is affirmed through God's continued signs and actions to reconcile our rebellious hearts to Him. Though many may see God as distant, He is an intimate God who loves you. God didn't have to do this; He could have easily just destroyed it all and started over again, but we can be thankful for God'...

God's compassion is both remarkably relatable and simultaneously beyond our comprehension. On the one hand, he forgives and heals as only a God can do, but then... as if to remind us that we are truly made in His image... He weeps at the human condition leading to death. In a way, God's compassion acts as a bridge between the highly relatable testimony of Christ's life to the utterly remarkable di...

God's goodness is evident in the trials and the victories. All of us are bent towards different ends of the happy-sad spectrum. Some of us remember God in the good times, then cling to whatever worldly thing we can during the bad times. Others are the exact opposite, holding fast to the cross in the bad times, but immediately forgetting God's graciousness as soon as life events start looking up. I...