The Well Sermon Podcast: Recent Episodes
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We long for The Well to be a place where we are continually deepening our faith and love in Jesus while widening our embrace of all people – just as Jesus did.
Links mentioned in the message: The Bible Project: How to Read the Bible How to Read the Bible for All It’s Worth (Gordon Fee) Beyond Screen Time: Identity Development in the Digital Age Meet Gen Z (James Emery-White) From Social Media to Social Ministry (Nona Jones) The Stages of Life: Personalities and Patterns in Human […]
This final message in the series highlights perhaps the central piece of Jesus revolution – die now, live later; death to self, life for others; hardship now, reward coming.
This message will examine Jesus revolution of the way we view our stuff, what is important to us; why a focus on material wealth makes it hard to accept and live in his Kingdom.
This message will examine Jesus new sexual ethic; in a greco-roman world (where sexual freedom/immorality was common place) and a jewish world (where being married was one of your ultimate goals), Jesus arrives as a single, celibate and happy human being
This message will examine the new lens Jesus’ gives in how to live our lives; what does love require (not what does the law require); this actually both frees us (to receive gifts like the sabbath) but raises the bar far above what is simply law-abiding, to sacrificial love for others.
This message will focus on the revolution that Jesus says must start on the inside; that it is easy to judge by outward behaviour, an in so doing, justify ourselves and criticize others; rather Jesus raises the standard far beyond behaviour into the condition of our hearts.
This is the Easter Service and it’s also the launch of a new series: Revolutionary: Three Years that Turned the World Upside Down
This series will be an interview-style conversation between Vijay and his father (Mr. Krishnan), focusing on four different aspects of Mr. Krishnan’s life that most people would say “don’t happen” or seem like anomalies. Each one is meant to present the work of God in our lives as something different than we expect, outside of […]
This series will be an interview-style conversation between Vijay and his father (Mr. Krishnan), focusing on four different aspects of Mr. Krishnan’s life that most people would say “don’t happen” or seem like anomalies. Each one is meant to present the work of God in our lives as something different than we expect, outside of […]
This series will be an interview-style conversation between Vijay and his father (Mr. Krishnan), focusing on four different aspects of Mr. Krishnan’s life that most people would say “don’t happen” or seem like anomalies. Each one is meant to present the work of God in our lives as something different than we expect, outside of […]
This series will be an interview-style conversation between Vijay and his father (Mr. Krishnan), focusing on four different aspects of Mr. Krishnan’s life that most people would say “don’t happen” or seem like anomalies. Each one is meant to present the work of God in our lives as something different than we expect, outside of […]
This is a Selah service where we pause to reflect on what we’ve learned over the past weeks through the Love is Greater than Everything series.
1 Cor 13:6-8a This message closes up the teaching part of the series focusing on the idea that love is a choice; it is a choice to persevere, to never fail (to be faithful). While feelings may fail, the good behaviour of the other person (that is often a motivation for our love) may fail, […]
This is a Valentine’s day message about how hard it is for those who are in love, or living life in very close proximity together, to not keep a record of wrongs. “You always” or “you never” or “how many times do I have to tell you” are all signs that we are keeping records […]
1 Cor 13:4-7a This message will talk about the idea of love as protecting others by telling them the truth (rather than just letting people do or say or think whatever they think is best). We live in a culture that says if you disagree with me, you don’t love me. If you tell me […]
1 Cor 13:4-5a, James 1:19-20 This message explores the issue of anger; love is not easily angered (or love is slow to anger). Love means we don’t go there easily. If we go there easily, it probably means there are unexplored emotions, unexplored hurts (because anger is a “safer” emotion to display than hurt, shame […]
This message explores what Paul means by the fact that love is patient. The word patience actually means to suffer long with. Part of our impatience comes from the fact that we are driven, busy, hurried, task-oriented people; we prioritize stuff, ideas and tasks over people. And people do not behave how we want them […]
This message kicks off the series on love. It explores the contrast Paul makes with doing great things and appearing great, but that without love, it’s nothing. The context was people arguing over (and comparing) spiritual gifting, but he also includes virtue (giving my body to the flames); and we could even include the greatness […]
This message kicks off the series on love. It explores the contrast Paul makes with doing great things and appearing great, but that without love, it’s nothing. The context was people arguing over (and comparing) spiritual gifting, but he also includes virtue (giving my body to the flames); and we could even include the greatness […]
Each year we begin with a week of prayer at The Well. In this message, Vijay invites us to consider what exactly happens when we pray: When our prayers go up, something remarkable comes down!
This Selah service helps you pause and reflect before God as we draw to a close on the “Hope in the Dark” series.
Hope is revealed (seen) through the church What kind of people are we? Do we look like love and hope and safety? Or do we look like critics, judges, an exclusive club? Lampstand – Shed light, give light, be light Churches are referred to as Lampstands which light up a room, street, community Light contrasted […]
This is the first of two message that wrap up Revelation, focusing on the fact that the vision was given to John to be read to 7 churches – not just those 7 churches but in the sense that 7 represents a complete number (in biblical/ancient literature) – and therefore every letter is for all […]
There is evil in the world because there is an evil one. Behind every beast is the age old dragon How does the devil work? How does he influence the world? What power do he really have? Our battle is not against flesh and blood. There is a spiritual battle going on. It’s not always […]
This message tackles the theme of judgement in Revelation – and the idea of judgement itself. This is difficult for us, on some levels but we need to realize that the biblical concept of judgement is good news, in two ways. Judgement not now is good news – this is a time of mercy, patience, […]
This message highlights one of the major features of John’s vision – the issue of power and who is (really) in control. All the church in Rome could see how brutal the roman empire, and particularly the god-like Caesar was. The church had no power, no control, no authority and those who had it were […]