Wellspring Church Sermons

What does it mean then to be PRACTICALLY stuck together, stuck together live out? At Wellspring, we are stuck together through Discipleship Groups and Gospel Communities. We will focus on being stuck together in Gospel Communities from Acts 2:42-47 and look at 1) being stuck together by being cut together, and 2) being stuck together through Gospel community. Text: Acts 2:42-47 Speaker: Sam Shin D...

What does it mean to be stuck together as members? Why it is so important for you? We will look at what it means to first, stuck together in submission in v. 7 and 17, and second, what it means to be Stuck together in salvation and sanctification in v. 12-13. Text: Hebrews 13:7-17 Speaker: Sam Shin Date: September 22, 2019

We are continuing series on Our Journey Together. Last week, we looked at being Sent Together Through DGs. We are examining what it means to be saved together as a community. We will look at 2 Corinthians 5:17-20 and explore being 1) Saved together in spite of us in verses 17-18 and 2) Saved together for others in verses 19-20. Text: 2 Corinthians 5:17-20 Speaker: Sam Shin Date: 9/15/19

Why does Wellspring Church exist? To make disciples of Jesus through the Gospel. Plain and simple. That’s not so radical or cutting edge or different. It is straightforward from the Bible. Jesus told His disciples (and the church moving forward) in Matthew 28:19, “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations.” If we want to be followers of Jesus, we can’t decide this is too taxing or difficult o...

How are we to live faithfully as Christians in an environment that is, even in subtle ways, hostile to the gospel? What must our response be? How and when and to whom should we reach out in love and care and mercy? Jude gives us clear and compelling answers to these and many other questions this morning in the text before us. Text: Jude 24-25 Speaker: Chad Porter Date: 9/1/2019

How are we to live faithfully as Christians in an environment that is, even in subtle ways, hostile to the gospel? What must our response be? How and when and to whom should we reach out in love and care and mercy? Jude gives us clear and compelling answers to these and many other questions this morning in the text before us. Text: Jude 17-23 Speaker: Chad Porter Date: 8/25/19

As we continue our study through the book of Jude, we learn more about both the state of the community Jude’s writing to and his passion for the Christ in standing for the truth. Sin creeps into our lives and communities slowly and slyly — often without major fanfare or front page headlines. Today we look more at the issues plaguing this church and how they parallel our own contact, even thousands...

Who are you? That is, what are the most defining marks of who you are as a person? Certainly in our current day and age we have a deep drive to paint a particular picture of ourselves that positions us well in the eyes of others. But what does God say about all this? In particular, what do the opening verses of Jude have to say about who we actually are? That's what this opening message on Jude wi...

About 50 years ago, a worship service holding 400,000 people took place in Bethel, New York. Author Brett McCracken described what was known as Woodstock, the mass gathering celebrating music, drugs, sex, and “peace” defining the counterculture 1960s, as “the festal concert gathering as a spiritual fixture in the liturgies of our secular age.” One attendee proclaimed: “It was indescribable. The fe...

Last week, we talked about the New Heaven and the New Earth from the perspective of Revelation 21-22. John wrote about the beauty of what is to come. But we won’t really come to appreciate what is to come, until we realize what we are set free from. We need to see that creation itself will be set free and the implications WILL help us to live with so much joy today! Text: Romans 8:18-25 Speaker: S...

Author Randy Alcorn notes that five months before he died, C. S. Lewis wrote to a woman who feared that her own death was imminent. Lewis said, “Can you not see death as a friend and deliverer? . . . What is there to be afraid of? . . .Your sins are confessed. . . . Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. . . . O...

Paul describes our body made for heaven in this text as a resurrected body. So what will this body be like? Listen to find out. Text: 1 Corinthians 15:35-49 Speaker: Sam Shin Date: 7/14/19

Hell is to be feared, but it can also show us how much God loves us. This message is from the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus in Luke 16:19-31 and then Outside the Camp in Hebrews 13:11-12.  Text: Luke 16:19-31; Hebrews 13:11-12 Speaker: Sam Shin Date: 7/7/19

We have all heard   the stories of people who have died for a minute or two and have come back to life. There are lights. Maybe a tunnel. Maybe some being, person there. Are they true? We don’t know. We know there are enough people who have made up stories to definitely question the truthfulness of such stories. But it definitely leaves us wondering, what does happen right after we die? This messa...

This is the first message in a series on Heaven. Most people, even those who know much about the Bible, probably have a vague understanding about heaven. You would think we should know so much more. Because truly, heaven is a matter of life and death. But sadly, most of our understanding about heaven is due to pop culture than it is based on the Bible.  So why this series? First, it is to clear su...

Fathers need to remember Paul’s exhortation: “Do not lose heart.” Do not grow weary in doing well. Don’t give up. Press on. Fight the fight of faith. And we see this especially in 2 Cor 4:1-2. In this passage, Paul tells us followers of Jesus do not lose heart. But how can they not lose heart even as they face incredible hardship as Christians? Paul tells us he does not lose heart because he, 1) R...

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? 33 Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God,...

But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction: 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God pu...

Now if perfection had been attainable through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need would there have been for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, rather than one named after the order of Aaron? 12 For when there is a change in the priesthood, there is necessarily a change in the law as well. 13 For the one of whom these things ar...

Gary Thomas, in his book Authentic Faith, tells the story about the time he went with family to Knott’s Berry Farm: When we visited Knott's Berry Farm, an amusement park with a frontier theme, there were virtually no lines, and we went easily from major attraction to major attraction, in many cases walking right on. If the kids really enjoyed the ride, they stayed on and rode again. My then six-ye...

Author Melissa Kruger, describes one of the great challenges of women, which is they place their hope for satisfaction in lesser things that were never created to bear that type of hope. She describes a woman who is standing before an ocean and she is desperately thirsty and takes a big glass of water and she reaches down and wants to pick up that ocean water to drink. And all of us would say no,...

If you have ever gone hiking, you know how hard that first climb can be. I remember hiking the White Mountains in New Hampshire. The challenge was always looking up and seeing what looked like the peak. With that in view, regardless of how far it seemed, as long as you knew that was the end point, you could keep going. But the greatest obstacle was once you reached the peak, you suddenly realize t...

Following the burning down of Notre Dame, billionaires responded with an outpouring of donations. Why? Not because it represented a place where God is to be worshipped, but rather, it represents France and the ideals of the West. Contrast that to the churches burned down in Sri Lanka. Hundreds of Christians  are murdered, but very few care about the murders, let alone the church buildings destroye...

Anyone who has lost loved ones knows the myriad of emotions that follow. There is shock over loss. Intense sorrows and grieving. There is also the buckling down to get tasks done such as funeral arrangements, receiving guests, taking condolence texts and phone calls. But then there is laughter over fond memories. There can be a strange lightness. There might even be guilt of decreased burdens, esp...

Our society is a society of burdens and loneliness, perhaps more than ever before in the history of the world. Despite having more access than ever to one another through the Internet, we have more loneliness than ever. This week’s text in Nehemiah 9-10, we see Israel experiencing a joy in light burdens that has an answer for us today in our own search for such joy in light burdens. We are told ho...