The Well Church | Messages

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.

Through the loving admonition of the prophets, God denounces the idolatry and spiritual adultery of His covenant people, displays His justice in the coming exile for their covenant breaking, and boldly declares His covenant promise to heal, restore, and bless all the nations through His covenant love in the coming Messiah.

Despite the completion of the temple for the nation’s centralized worship, Israel’s devotion to God drifts in the wake of its newfound success and comfort, with Solomon’s divided heart leading to a divided monarchy as the slow drift of syncretistic sin splinters Israel & Judah and sends them spiraling in decline.

In the absence of leadership and destructive spread of self-rule, Israel demands a king for their young nation, rejecting God in the process as their source of direction, protection, and validation and further highlighting God’s gracious promise to David of the coming king whose throne will be eternal.

In fulfillment of His promise, and in response to the Canaanites centuries of evil, God mightily gives his people a home, charging them in the process towards pure devotion to Him as their only hope for future security & joy.

In loving discipline for their unbelief God takes His people through the wilderness, patiently weaning them off their distrusting, self-reliant patterns of the past and re-training them in daily trust of Him as their leader and all-satisfying Lord moving forward.

Upon rescuing His people, God graciously gives the law to direct their new relationship with Him moving forward.

The Lord reveals Himself as the One True God, delivering Israel out of Egyptian slavery by asserting His supreme power over human kings and false gods while displaying His rescuing grace towards all who call on Him.

Despite intense suffering and seeming setbacks, God providentially moves forward His promise through the life of Joseph, turning evil around for His life-saving, redemptive purposes.

God’s faithfulness to fulfill His covenant promise is not deterred by man’s distrust and disobedience, and despite man’s attempts to secure divine blessing through cunningly deceptive schemes, it is only experienced through His patient and merciful grace.

In the face of constant threats to God’s promise, He faithfully protects, expands, and fulfills it with an unconditional covenant commitment, saving by grace those who trust in Him for it.

As sin accelerates and pervades the earth, man’s attempts to appease, obey, and achieve their way back to Eden fail miserably, further accentuating the desperate need for an outside rescue to deliver from death and address the fundamental problem of the human heart.

Sin invades the world, fracturing God’s good design as the human heart is deceived into distrusting God. Yet in the wake of paradise lost, a stunning seed of grace and hope are found.

As the pinnacle of His creation, God crafts humanity in His own image, giving inherent identity and clear purpose as He places Adam and Eve together in the perfect garden