The Well Ministry

In this week's sermon, Pastor Nathan dives into Jacob's blessing of Joseph's sons and specifically how the fruition of Jacob's blessing over Ephraim is relevant to us today.

Have we grown comfortable in a place that is not our home? In this week’s sermon, Pastor Nathan explains how the oath Jacob asks of Joseph in Genesis 47 reminded Jacob’s family, as well as reminds us today, of where our true home really is.

As Jacob prepares to bring his family to Egypt, he is filled with trepidation because of the words spoken to his forefathers. In this week's sermon, Pastor Nathan shows us what God reveals to Jacob that calms his fears and gives him the courage to go to leave the promised land.

In the busyness of life we can think of our identities in terms of the many hats we wear, but what does the Bible have to say about our identity? In this week’s sermon, guest preacher Ryan Pierce helps unpack Galatians 3 and 4 and the Biblical foundation of who we are in Christ.

Are we acting like people who believe God’s word is true and He is working all things out for our good? In this week’s sermon, we see Jacob revived at the news that Joseph was still living and how different our own dark seasons can look when we stand on the truth of God’s word.

As we've continued through the story of Joseph we've seen how Joseph consistently references God as "the God", the one and only, while living in a foreign land where people worshiped many gods. But are there more than just nominal references to God in his story? In this week's sermon, we see once again how the Old Testament can point us to Jesus.

Is praying a desperate measure for you or your first choice? In this week's sermon, we continue in the story of Joseph and see what happens when Jacob finally allows for Benjamin to travel with the brothers back to Egypt. 

"My chains are gone, I've been set free." Jesus said He came to free us, but what does that look like in our lives today? In this week's message, Pastor Nathan continues in the story of Joseph and how sin can craft chains that we are unable to break free from on our own.

Do we take God's word for granted? As we read about Joseph's role in preparing Egypt for years of famine, Pastor Nathan explains how, even in the years of abundance, Joseph still had to hold tightly to the words of God. It serves as an important reminder of what we need to be storing up in preparation for the famines in our own lives.

We all know what it feels like to be forgotten. In this week’s sermon, we resume the story of Joseph where, despite a hopeful beginning, the chapter ends with those hopes dashed as he is not remembered by the cupbearer. It’s a poignant reminder of our own forgetfulness and the unconditional love God still has for us.

Do we place our hope in what God can do in our situations or in God himself?  In this week’s sermon, Pastor Nathan talks about Joseph’s time at Potipher’s house and how even after being wrongfully accused Joseph’s hope wasn’t in the restoration of that situation but in the Lord whose plan for Joseph was much greater.

Sometimes running away from our problems seems like the easiest solution. This week’s sermon picks up in Genesis 38 as Judah flees the turmoil he has caused at home only to create for himself an even stickier situation at Timnah. It shows how God can redeem even the most ungodly of situations when we stop running and own up to the sin in our own lives.

In times of hardship do you doubt the providence of God? In this week’s sermon, we begin the story of Joseph and see how, even from the very start, God was already working all things for good.

Do you know what you have in Jesus? In this week’s sermon, Pastor Nathan goes over the family line of Esau where we can see the generational consequences of Esau despising his birthright and not fully realizing the blessing of being born into the promise.

Do we hold on to titles that God has not given us? In this week’s sermon, we look at the death of Rachel and the reasons Jacob felt so strongly about changing Benjamin’s name.

Because of the surrounding people’s beliefs, Jacob’s initial understanding of God was likely limited. Similarly today we can settle for a limited relationship with God because of the people and the culture we surround ourselves with. In this week’s sermon, we see how much Jacob’s relationship with God had deepened since the last time he came to Bethel and what could be holding us back from experie...

When tragedy strikes sometimes we want to take charge of the situation so we can salvage what we see as the best possible outcome. In this week’s sermon we go through the story of Dinah, and see how taking matters into our own hands usually means we’re overlooking the redemptive work God is able to do.

When we’re worried about something we often assume the worst. In this week’s sermon, we continue in the story of Israel, or Jacob, as he returns to his brother Esau after fleeing for his life 20 years earlier. We see how through prayer God can change people’s hearts to create an outcome that’s even better than we could imagine.  At the end of the message is a guided prayer that we encourage y...

Reading the story of Jacob you may feel a distaste for his character, but in this week’s sermon, we watch Jacob be born again as he faces his past and encounters God, who has a different future in mind for his child. 

God is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love but do we desire mercy for those we find most despicable? In this week’s passage, God appears to Laban, Jacobs’s deceitful father-in-law, and we see how God thankfully doesn’t follow our standards of who we think is worthy of his attention but instead is full of love and mercy even for those farthest from Him.

In scripture we are reminded that our battle is not against flesh and blood — so why do we still try to fight in the physical instead of the spiritual? In this week’s sermon, Pastor Nathan continues in Genesis 30 and shows how despite Laban’s continued deceit and manipulation God moves in ways that defy the natural.

Sometimes we can be looking for love in all the wrong places. In this week’s sermon, Pastor Nathan unpacks the story of Jacob, Rebekah, and Leah and how we can still see this story’s truths ring true in our lives today.

How do we react when the wells we are drawing from get filled in? In this week’s sermon, Pastor Nathan shows what the story of Isaac and Abimelek can teach us about the true source of living water.

It can be easy to look at ourselves and only see our shortcomings, disqualifying ourselves from being used by God and then going to others, who we consider more qualified, for access to God. In this week’s sermon, Pastor Nathan unpacks the story of Jacob’s ladder and how that access to heaven was only a taste of the access that is now available to all because of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit.

In this week’s sermon, Pastor Nathan takes an in-depth look at the story of Jacob and Esau and how it relates to modern-day Christianity. Can we have the blessing without the birthright?