Wellspring Church Sermons

Wellspring Church celebrated its 20 years of ministry this Sunday. This message from Acts 2:42-47 describes what it means to be a Gospel-centered community.  Text: Acts 2:42-47 Speaker: Sam Shin Date: 4/7/19 (Twenty Year Celebration)

Nehemiah 8 is all about the Bible. It really is the book of life not only eternally, but for the here and now. We will look at three verbs that help us to understand the significance of God’s Word from Nehemiah 8: 1) Read (v. 1-8), 2) Repent (v. 9), 3) Rejoice (v. 10-18). Text: Nehemiah 8:1-18 Speaker: Sam Shin Date: 3/31/19

There is opposition to Christ and His Kingdom. But if you read the rest of Neh 6-7, despite the relentless opposition, we can rest assured that God is even more relentless in His pursuit of His people. Text: Nehemiah 6-7 Speaker: Sam Shin Date: 3/24/19

Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; 20 for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. 21 Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a h...

When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion,     we were like those who dream. 2   Then our mouth was filled with laughter,     and our tongue with shouts of joy;   then they said among the nations,     “The LORD has done great things for them.” 3   The LORD has done great things for us;     we are glad. 4   Restore our fortunes, O LORD,     like streams in the Negeb! 5   Those who sow in tears   ...

For we are slaves. Yet our God has not forsaken us in our slavery, but has extended to us his steadfast love before the kings of Persia, to grant us some reviving to set up the house of our God, to repair its ruins, and to give us protection in Judea and Jerusalem. Text: Ezra 9:9 Speaker: Jeff Locke Date: 3/3/19

Now there arose a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers. 2 For there were those who said, “With our sons and our daughters, we are many. So let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive.” 3 There were also those who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain because of the famine.” 4 And there were those who said, “We ha...

Author Nik Ripken writes in his book Insanity of God, “One of the most accurate ways to detect and measure the activity of God is to note the amount of opposition that is present.” If we use that standard, then we surely know God was quite active in Nehemiah's life. In Nehemiah 4, we look at how Nehemiah 1) Faced Opposition, 2) Fought Surrender, and 3) Overcame Opposition. Text: Nehemiah 4:1-23 Sp...

How does Nehemiah actually get the impossible mission of building the wall off the ground? He uses does three things: 1) Evaluation (v. 9-16), 2) Vision (v. 17-20), 3) Building (3:1-32). The third point was covered at Wellspring Members Vision Meeting later in the afternoon. Text: Nehemiah 2:9-3:32 Speaker: Sam Shin Date: 2/10/19 (Members Vision Meeting)

This message followed a week of prayer and fasting. As we continue in the series in Nehemiah, especially as he is about to build a wall to protect Jerusalem from marauders, it is important to remember the idea of breaking down walls in order to build supernatural unity. What causes this supernatural unity? The Gospel. It does so by being, 1) at the Center of our identity (v. 11-13), and 2) at the...

Last week began the series on Nehemiah's daunting burden over the ruins of his homeland. He was so troubled, he wept and prayed for 4 months, this as a man of action. But as J. I. Packer comments, he had to and we have to if we ever want to do anything that honors God. Prayer...centers on the hallowing of God’s name and the doing of his will—has, among its other effects, a reflex effect. It purifi...

This week begins a new series on the book of Nehemiah. Nehemiah had such a big view of God and it gave him strength, security, peace, and contentment in the midst of uncertainty, insecurity, danger, turmoil, complaint, grumbling, weariness. He also placed a high priority of prayer. Prayer as we shall see today and in coming days, was not an add-on for Nehemiah. It wasn’t a “spiritual discipline.”...