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Passage: Hebrews 1:1-4 Speaker: Pastor Mitch Kim Series: Jesus Our Breakthrough: The Invitation of Hebrews Speaking In Son
This is message 4 from the 2021 Women's Retreat, "Relentless Love", given by Pastor Joyce Dalrymple.
This is message 3 from the 2021 Women's Retreat, "Relentless Love", given by Dr. Christin Fort.
This is message 2 from the 2021 Women's Retreat, "Relentless Love", given by Pastor Joyce Dalrymple.
This is message 1 from the 2021 Women's Retreat, "Relentless Love", given by Pastor Joyce Dalrymple.
Passage: Esther 4:1-17 Speaker: Christin Fort Series: We Are A Faith Family Prayers of a Righteous Community
Passage: Luke 5:17-26 Speaker: James Lee Series: We Are A Faith Family Discipleship In Light of the Son of Man
Passage: 1 Corinthians 5:18-20 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: We Are A Faith Family God's Mission to Redeem All Things
Passage: 1 Corinthians 12:12-26 Speaker: Stephen Hong Series: We Are A Faith Family Honoring One Another In Christ
Passage: Exodus 1:15-2:10 Speaker: Joyce Dalrymple Series: We Are A Faith Family A Tale of Three Mothers: The Midwives, The Birth Mother, And The Princess"
Passage: Book of Acts Speaker: Scott Moreau Series: We Are A Faith Family We Value Multicultural Community: Stories From Antioch
Passage: John 13:34-35 Speaker: Michael Tso Series: We Are A Faith Family Living The Costly Love Of Jesus
Passage: Psalm 137 Speaker: Heather Zimmerman Series: We Are A Faith Family How Do We Pray With 'The Mad That We Feel'?
Passage: John 15:1-17 Speaker: Cheryl Baird Series: We Are A Faith Family The Top Of The Plant
Passage: Psalm 119 Speaker: Scottie May Series: We Are A Faith Family Living According To The Word Of God: A Journey
Passage: Colossians 3:16-17 Speaker: Kathy Woods Series: We Are A Faith Family Living According To God's Word
Passage: 2 Timothy 4:9-22 Speaker: Reggie Ramos Series: Forming Love In A Culture Of Fear Hope Despite Heartbreak
Passage: 2 Timothy 4:6-8 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Forming Love In A Culture Of Fear Finishing Well
Passage: 2 Timothy 4:1-5 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Forming Love In A Culture Of Fear Fulfilling Our Work
Passage: Deuteronomy 6:4-9 Speaker: Mitch Kim From Generation To Generation No matter how fast a runner runs in a relay, if they drop the baton when it is passed to the next runner, they will lose the race. Similarly no matter how faithfully and sacrificially one generation serves and follows the LORD in their
Passage: 2 Timothy 3:10-17 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Forming Love In A Culture Of Fear Persevering By All Of Scripture “I give up.” These words have a deafening finality to them. “In the face of conflict, I gave up on my marriage.” “In the face of doubts, I gave up on my faith.” “In
Passage: 2 Timothy 3:1-9 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Forming Love In A Culture Of Fear Love Distorted This year, the flu has been almost nonexistent. In our vigilant fight against COVID-19, we have not only reduced the spread of this coronavirus but also the spread of the flu virus! While COVID-19 can destroy the body,
Passage: 2 Timothy 2:22-26 Speaker: Stephen Hong Series: Forming Love In A Culture Of Fear Vessels Of Love Only Jesus Christ can cleanse us from all unrighteousness with His precious blood (1 John 1:9). And He makes us into a holy and an honorable vessel, ready for every good work (2 Tim 2:21). However, with
Passage: John 20 Speaker: Cheryl Baird When God Shows Up In her fear and stress, Mary did not recognize Jesus until He spoke her name. What was it like for the eyewitnesses in John 20 to navigate the reality of the resurrection? How could they absorb the living Jesus when they still felt the trauma
Passage: Mark 16:1-8 Speaker: Mitch Kim The Unfinished Story The gospel of Mark ends on a cliff hanger but fails to provide the next episode. While commissioning witnesses for the resurrection, those witnesses say “nothing to anyone, for they were afraid” (Mark 16:8). The early church was so uncomfortable with the ending, they wrote
Passage: 2 Timothy 2:14-21 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Forming Love In A Culture Of Fear The Work Of Love Palm Sunday celebrates the entry of Jesus to Jerusalem. When a King comes, he invites us to follow, even to a cross. The shape of love is not a cuddly heart but a painful cross,
Passage: 2 Timothy 2:8-24 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Forming Love In A Culture Of Fear Enduring Through Jesus Christ Why are we surprised by suffering? Our Savior died on a cross, so suffering should not devastate us; our Savior not only died on a cross but defeated the power of death with his resurrection.
Passage: 2 Timothy 2:1-7 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Forming Love In A Culture Of Fear Entrusted To The Faithful Will it take 24,657 years to reach the world for Christ or 21 years? If a dramatic evangelistic campaign saw a thousand people come to Christ every day, then it would take 24,657 years for
Passage: 2 Timothy 1:8-18 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Forming Love In A Culture Of Fear The Shape Of Love What is the shape of love? Typically we see love shaped as a heart— round, squishy, and warm. But heart-shaped, squishy love easily gets disappointed by the cost of love. For Christians the shape of
Passage: 2 Timothy 1:3-7 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Forming Love In A Culture Of Fear The Spirit Of Love Sometimes it feels that the roaring fires of our vision and faith cool to embers. Recently my daughter Eden was literally jumping up and down with excitement while chattering about ideas to reduce pollution by
Passage: 2 Timothy 1:1-2 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Forming Love In A Culture Of Fear The Power Of Love Walking with my father at the end of his life, I realized the power of love. After After thousands of sermons preached and many churches planted, the lasting fruit of his life was seen in
Passage: 1 Timothy 6:11-21 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Truth Over Spin The Fight Of Faith Is there a fight to your faith? Since church is on the weekends it is easy to consider matters of faith as “leisure.” Matters of leisure should be comfortable, uplifting, and encouraging for us. We work during the week,
Passage: 1 Timothy 6:2-10 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Truth Over Spin Dealing With Dissension What if the problem of our division is our disordered desires? We live in a period of deep division, and the lines of division run through our nation, our church, our families, and even our marriages. Yet division is not
Passage: Psalm 67 Speaker: Mitch Kim The Joy And Justice Of The Nations Why should we care about mission? We have enough problems each day; why should we be moved by events on the other side of the world or outside our own community when we struggle to deal with our own problems? Psalm
Speakers: Steve & Mary Westergren Unfinished Steve & Mary Westergren came to share about the continuing work of the Christian & Missionary Alliance around the world.
Passage: Genesis 14:1-15:1 Speaker: Ron Morrison Choosing To Get Involved In The Battle On this Sanctity of Life Sunday before Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Rev. Dr. Ron Morrison, shared the Word with us. He is from Hope Alliance Bible Church in greater Cleveland, Ohio; and has spent decades in the city, bringing the hope
Passage: Haggai 2:1-9 Speaker: Mitch Kim Seeing Clearly It is easy to get caught up longing for the “good old days”; nostalgia gives rose-colored glasses. Especially when times are hard, we look back to when times were “better.’ In Haggai 2 the people of God were missing the “good old days.” They faced the
Passage: Revelation 21:1-8 Speaker: Stephen Hong Hope For Tomorrow, A Vision For Today If a clear vision shapes our present reality, endured hope welcomes the future. Who and what will be your vision and hope this new year? Where can we find certainty during this uncertain season? In Jesus Christ alone, who will wipe away every
Passage: Luke 2:8-20 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Come, Lord Jesus Longings Fulfilled How will our longings get fulfilled? Over these past few weeks we have been hearing testimonies expressing our longings for rest, deliverance, healing, and joy. And we want these longings to have a climactic Hollywood fulfillment where evil is dramatically destroyed by
Passage: Isaiah 9:1-7 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Come, Lord Jesus Longing For Joy An angel announces in this season, “Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people” (Luke 2:11). Great joy! So many songs announce joy during this season, but sometimes our experiences
Passage: Isaiah 53:1-6 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Come, Lord Jesus Longing For Healing A microscopic virus has brought the powerful world to its knees. We today sense and see our frailty and weakness more than ever before. We cannot impose our will upon the world, but we must mask, distance, and wash lest we
Passage: Isaiah 7:1-17 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Come, Lord Jesus Longing For Deliverance We long for deliverance. We face enemies that feel impossible to overcome— a microscopic virus that has shut the world down, sharp disagreements that divide nation, community, church, and family, and illnesses that linger far too long. Sometimes, though, our longing
Passage: 2 Samuel 7:8-16 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Come, Lord Jesus Longing For Rest Is Advent a prolonging of the joy of Christmas? We love the joy of Christmas—gathering with loved ones with food and gifts to celebrate Christ. So does Advent simply prolong that joy? No. Advent is not a prolonging of the
Passage: 1 Timothy 6:1-2 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Truth Over Spin Character Of Servants How do you deal with systemic evil in the world? Sometimes the systems become so deeply rooted that it is difficult to uproot them without tearing up the very foundations of society. Slavery in the ancient world was like that;
Passage: 1 Timothy 5:17-25 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Truth Over Spin Care Of Leaders How do we build a culture of honor? Without honor we use and discard people as disposable; with honor we value as God values, blessing both those who overlook and those who oversee others. Last week we looked at how
Passage: 1 Timothy 5:3-16 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Truth Over Spin Care For Widows Our passion for God can be seen in our action for the marginalized. In the ancient world, widows were particularly marginalized since the identity of women was embedded in their husband and family. Widows were therefore vulnerable and without basic
Passage: 1 Timothy 5:3-16 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Truth Over Spin Care For Widows Our passion for God can be seen in our action for the marginalized. In the ancient world, widows were particularly marginalized since the identity of women was embedded in their husband and family. Widows were therefore vulnerable and without basic
Passage: 1 Timothy 4:11-5:2 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Truth Over Spin Character Of Teachers Do you ever doubt yourself? I do. When you think about our task as “the church of the living God” to be “a pillar and buttress of the truth,” we probably should feel inadequate to that task! The danger of
Passage: 1 Timothy 4:11-5:2 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Truth Over Spin Character Of Teachers Do you ever doubt yourself? I do. When you think about our task as “the church of the living God” to be “a pillar and buttress of the truth,” we probably should feel inadequate to that task! The danger of
Passage: 1 Timothy 4:6-10 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Truth Over Spin Character Of A Good Servant What makes life worth living? Most luxuries and entertainments promise that they’ll make us happier, give us pleasure, or make us more comfortable. But fleeting pleasure is not the same as satisfaction, and comfort is no substitute for
Passage: 1 Timothy 4:6-10 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Truth Over Spin Character Of A Good Servant What makes life worth living? Most luxuries and entertainments promise that they’ll make us happier, give us pleasure, or make us more comfortable. But fleeting pleasure is not the same as satisfaction, and comfort is no substitute for
Passage: 1 Timothy 4:1-5 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Truth Over Spin Character Of Spin Do you ever struggle to receive gifts? I do. We don’t feel worthy or don’t want to feel obligated or just feel bad. Yet when we do not receive gifts that we ought to receive, we end up struggling in
Passage: 1 Timothy 3:14-16 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Truth Over Spin Character Of The Church We often despise the mundane work of life. When I feel myself despising the mundane work of paperwork, dishes, garbage, child-rearing, and cleaning, I think of the apostle John. After Jesus ascended into heaven, the other disciples traveled the
Passage: 1 Timothy 3:14-16 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Truth Over Spin Character Of The Church We often despise the mundane work of life. When I feel myself despising the mundane work of paperwork, dishes, garbage, child-rearing, and cleaning, I think of the apostle John. After Jesus ascended into heaven, the other disciples traveled the
Passage: 1 Timothy 3:14-16 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Truth Over Spin Character Of The Church We often despise the mundane work of life. When I feel myself despising the mundane work of paperwork, dishes, garbage, child-rearing, and cleaning, I think of the apostle John. After Jesus ascended into heaven, the other disciples traveled the
Passage: 1 Timothy 3:1-13 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Truth Over Spin Character Of Leaders What did you want to be when you grew up? Did you want to be a doctor or police officer, a writer or an artist, a mom or dad, teacher or a musician? Our jobs or vocations don’t always line
Passage: 1 Timothy 3:1-13 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Truth Over Spin Character Of Leaders What did you want to be when you grew up? Did you want to be a doctor or police officer, a writer or an artist, a mom or dad, teacher or a musician? Our jobs or vocations don’t always line
Passage: 1 Timothy 2:8-15 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Truth Over Spin Prayer-Formed Relationships A good coach helps an athlete overcomes challenges to accomplish their goals. God’s purpose is that, “ˆFor from the rising of the sun to its setting my name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense will
Passage: 1 Timothy 2:8-15 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Truth Over Spin Prayer-Formed Relationships A good coach helps an athlete overcomes challenges to accomplish their goals. God’s purpose is that, “ˆFor from the rising of the sun to its setting my name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense will
Passage: 1 Timothy 2:1-7 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Truth Over Spin Prayer-Formed Salvation Sometimes we become so heavenly minded that we are of little earthly good. This was the problem in Ephesus as people were devoted to myths and endless genealogies (1 Tim 1:4). How do we break out of such a myopic
Passage: 1 Timothy 2:1-7 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Truth Over Spin Prayer-Formed Salvation Sometimes we become so heavenly minded that we are of little earthly good. This was the problem in Ephesus as people were devoted to myths and endless genealogies (1 Tim 1:4). How do we break out of such a myopic focus?
Passage: 1 Timothy 1:12-20 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Truth Over Spin Grace-Formed Fight How do you fight when you feel so feeble? When problems seem so big, we often feel small. Ephesians was a large, wealthy, thriving city in the Roman Empire that had rioted in opposition to Christianity. How could a young leader
Passage: 1 Timothy 1:12-20 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Truth Over Spin Grace-Formed Fight How do you fight when you feel so feeble? When problems seem so big, we often feel small. Ephesians was a large, wealthy, thriving city in the Roman Empire that had rioted in opposition to Christianity. How could a young
Passage: 1 Timothy 1:8-11 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Truth Over Sping Spin-Formed Sin Spin forms us. Vigorous debate to learn truth forms and strengthens us. When our discussions shift from pursuing truth to winning arguments or proving a point in vain discussions, these speculations also form us in more destructive ways. In 1
Passage: 1 Timothy 1:8-11 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Truth Over Sping Spin-Formed Sin Spin forms us. Vigorous debate to learn truth forms and strengthens us. When our discussions shift from pursuing truth to winning arguments or proving a point in vain discussions, these speculations also form us in more destructive ways. In 1 Timothys
Passage: 1 Timothy 1:3-7 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Truth Over Spin Truth-Formed Love Truth + Love = Change. Without love, truth can feel condemning and shaming. Without truth, love feels indulgent. But when truth is spoken in relationships of love, lasting change happens. During Paul’s ministry planting churches, he preached the truth of the
Passage: 1 Timothy 1:3-7 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Truth Over Spin Truth-Formed Love Truth + Love = Change. Without love, truth can feel condemning and shaming. Without truth, love feels indulgent. But when truth is spoken in relationships of love, lasting change happens. During Paul’s ministry planting churches, he preached the truth of
Passage: 1 Timothy 1:1-2 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Truth Over Spin Forming Faith This week we begin a new series: Truth and Spin in a Culture of Spin and Fear. For a description of the entire series, click here. In 1 Timothy Paul counters spin with truth. He counsels him of the dangers of
Passage: 1 Timothy 1:1-2 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Truth Over Spin Forming Faith This week we begin a new series: Truth and Spin in a Culture of Spin and Fear. For a description of the entire series, click here. In 1 Timothy Paul counters spin with truth. He counsels him of the dangers
Passage: John 17:20-26 Speaker: Mitch Kim That The World Might Know Jesus is the hope, light, and Savior of the world. For the world to know this hope, light, and salvation, though, they must believe in Jesus. How will the world come to believe in Jesus? Jesus prays for the church’s unity to
Passage: John 17:1-10 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Together, We... Together, We...Are Transformed As We Follow Jesus This season has robbed us of so many of the pleasures of this world — physical health, celebrations with friends and friends, large church gatherings, sporting events, and travel. Some can get discouraged by all that has been
Passage: John 17:1-10 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Together, We... Together, We...Are Transformed As We Follow Jesus This season has robbed us of so many of the pleasures of this world — physical health, celebrations with friends and friends, large church gatherings, sporting events, and travel. Some can get discouraged by all that has
Passage: Various Speaker: Todd & Terri Althaus Series: Together, We... Together, We...Are All Sent On God's Mission To Redeem All Things
Passage: Various Speaker: Todd & Terri Althaus Series: Together, We... Together, We...Are All Sent On God's Mission To Redeem All Things
Passage: Hebrews 10:23-25 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Together, We... Together, We...Can Be Real And Belong Together In Christ “Let us not neglect our meeting together” (Heb. 10:25 NLT) is many pastors’ favorite passage for chiding church members towards more regular Sunday attendance. But that cliché reveals an uncomfortable truth: we all have Sundays where we’d
Passage: Luke 3:1-16 Speaker: Caroline Lancaster Series: Together, We... Together, We...Love And Honor One Another In Our Differences After 400+ years of waiting, Luke uses a familiar refrain to introduce the last of the Old Testament prophets: the word of God came to John in the wilderness. John fulfills the prophecy he quotes from (Isaiah
Passage: Hebrews 10:23-25 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Together, We... Together, We...Can Be Real And Belong Together In Christ “Let us not neglect our meeting together” (Heb. 10:25 NLT) is many pastors’ favorite passage for chiding church members towards more regular Sunday attendance. But that cliché reveals an uncomfortable truth: we all have Sundays where we’d
Passage: Ephesians 6:10-20 Speaker: Stephen Hong Series: Together, We... Together, We...Seek God's Face And See His Hand At Work I had chronic pain in my right knee. It’s infuriating and frustrating when nothing you do to it seems to fix the problem. After years of seeking different medical professionals, finally, last year, there was a
Passage: Luke 10: 38-42 & 2 Timothy 3:16-17 Speaker: Kathy Woods Series: Together, We... Together, We...Live According To God's Word We all have different postures that express our feelings and emotions and thoughts. What is our posture as we engage God’s Word? How do we come to this space to hear from Him? Open Door:
Passage: Hebrews 12:1-2 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Together, We... Together, We... I am concerned about body atrophy. When our legs have been idle for too long, it takes time for circulation to return and function properly. Similarly social distancing easily leads to social isolation, and it is critical that we exercise our spiritual muscles
Passage: Exodus 40 Speaker: John Walton Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus God Coming Home After the long chapters of description of the commissioning and building of the Tabernacle, the work is completed and the Tabernacle is set up. This leads to the grand finale when Yahweh comes to take up his rest
Passage: Exodus 13:17-22 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus God Goes Before Us 2020 has been a bit surprising: a global pandemic; a shelter-in-place for over two months; schooling, graduations, weddings, and funerals moved online; the sad deaths of Ahmaud Arberry, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd; protests and marches across
Passage: Philippians 3:18-4:3 Speaker: Mitch Kim and Cheryl Baird Series: Miscellaneous Gasping For Hope A service of lament.
Passage: Exodus 34:29-35 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus Encountering Grace Masks are now required when we go to public places. I don’t like wearing a mask—they are uncomfortable, smell after a while, make it hard to communicate, and create a sense of distance with others. But I still wear
Passage: Exodus 32 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus Failing To Represent His Name When we don’t feel in control, we become anxious or seek to deny it or try to master the situation. Yet clearly this novel coronavirus has exposed any illusion of control. We cannot control when we
Passage: Exodus 30-31 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus Set Apart By God's Name We don’t all agree about the way our state or country is handling the COVID-19 crisis. Some of us think we need to strictly adhere to CDC guidelines. Some of us think we ought to reopen much faster than our government’s
Passage: Exodus 28-29 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus Representing God's Name Well The coronavirus has not been with us very long, but already businesses are shuttering, jobs are being cut, investments have been lost, and lives are in danger. We grieve our losses and grieve alongside those who
Passage: Exodus 25-27 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus A Tent In The Wilderness After a thrilling rescue from slavery in Egypt, the book of Exodus ends with a tent in the wilderness. That feels a bit anti-climactic to end with a little camping trip. Yet this tent is not
Passage: Exodus 23:10-24:18 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus Making The God Of Rest Known By now, we’re all tired of staying at home. We’re tired of not being able to see our friends. We’re tired of not being able to go out and do what we’d like to do.
Passage: Exodus 22:21-23:9 Speaker: Joyce Dalrymple Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus Heart Of A Sojourner We are sojourners redeemed by God to be carriers of His character into His world. “Justice is expressing God’s character to God’s world on behalf of God’s people. It’s about holiness and love, truth and grace. It’s
Passage: Luke 24:36-49 Speaker: Steve Hands and Mitch Kim Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus Resurrection And The Lockdown “Christ is risen! He is risen indeed!” The resurrection changes everything — even life in a lockdown. After Jesus was crucified on the cross, the disciples were also locked down, hiding from arrest.
Passage: Isaiah 26:1-9, 16-20 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus Palm Sunday In A Lockdown Isaiah 26:20 feels like God’s invitation to a shelter-in-place: “Come, my people, enter your chambers, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until the fury has passed by.” My
Passage: Matthew 6:25-34 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus The Anxiety Cure The coronavirus has not been with us very long, but already businesses are shuttering, jobs are being cut, investments have been lost, and lives are in danger. We grieve our losses and grieve alongside those who are
Passage: Ephesians 3:14-21 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus Thriving Through A Shutdown This novel coronavirus makes it feel that we are imprisoned in our own home. Our city is shut down; churches, schools, restaurants, health clubs, and even Starbucks is shut down. How do you thrive when you are
Passage: Exodus 21:28–32 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus Church, Rise! What do we do with a passage that talks about an ox that gores? Most of us have not even seen an ox, let alone own an ox! We have to understand the significance of these types of
Passage: Exodus 20:22–24; 21:7–11, 22–27 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus Reflecting The God Who Restores Injustice makes us angry, yet change is agonizingly slow. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr said, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” Caesar may have lounged in
Passage: Exodus 20:1-21 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus A People Defined By God's Name Have you ever felt embarrassed by the generosity of a gift and did not quite know how to respond? Sometimes “Thank you” doesn’t just seem to be enough. If I buy a meal for a friend,
Passage: Exodus 20:1-21 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus A People Defined By God's Name Have you ever felt embarrassed by the generosity of a gift and did not quite know how to respond? Sometimes “Thank you” doesn’t just seem to be enough. If I buy a meal for a friend,
Passage: John 4:27-42 Speaker: Scott Moreau Series: Missions Fest The Rest Of The Story In this week’s message, we explore the rest of the story about the woman at the well. The theme of this narrative is” “It’s the harvest.” The Samaritan woman, a true “loser” in Jesus’ day, becomes a powerful witness for Christ. The
Passage: John 4:27-42 Speaker: Scott Moreau Series: Missions Fest The Rest Of The Story In this week’s message, we explore the rest of the story about the woman at the well. The theme of this narrative is” “It’s the harvest.” The Samaritan woman, a true “loser” in Jesus’ day, becomes a powerful witness for Christ. The
Passage: Exodus 19:1-8 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Missions Fest Making God's Name Known Together This week begins our missions week. Why do we do missions? Why should we care about missions? Missions flows out of a deep understanding of what we are saved for. Sometimes we know what we are saved frombut we don’t know what
Passage: Exodus 19:1-8 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Missions Fest Making God's Name Known Together This week begins our missions week. Why do we do missions? Why should we care about missions? Missions flows out of a deep understanding of what we are saved for. Sometimes we know what we are saved frombut we don’t know what
Passage: Exodus 18:1-27 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus Believing In The Lord, Greater Than All Gods Wellspring was founded with a burden to share the greatness of God with the nations around us. We were not only to reflect but also reach the diversity of our area. But how do
Passage: Exodus 18:1-12 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus Believing In The Lord, Greater Than All Gods Wellspring was founded with a burden to share the greatness of God with the nations around us. We were not only to reflect but also reach the diversity of our area. But how do
Passage: Exodus 17:8-16 Speaker: John Walton Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus Believing In The Lord Our Banner What do you do when the people you love are up against a battle they can’t win? In Exodus 17, the Amalekites attack God’s people out of nowhere. So Moses deputizes Joshua as the leader of
Passage: Exodus 17:8-16 Speaker: Jeter Livingston Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus Believing In The Lord Our Banner What do you do when the people you love are up against a battle they can’t win? In Exodus 17, the Amalekites attack God’s people out of nowhere. So Moses deputizes Joshua as the leader of
Passage: Exodus 16:1-36 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus Believing In The Lord Our God Each generation of God’s people have to discover for themselves, “I am the LORD your God” (Exod 16:12). God is not simply a God or even the God, but He desires to be the LORD our
Passage: Exodus 16:1-36 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus Believing In The Lord Our God Each generation of God’s people have to discover for themselves, “I am the LORD your God” (Exod 16:12). God is not simply a God or even the God, but He desires to be the LORD our
Passage: Exodus 15:22-27 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus Believing In The Lord Our Healer Why does God let things in our lives get so bad sometimes? In Exodus 15:22-27 God’s people had just experienced one of the greatest rescues God had ever provided, only for God to allow them to
Passage: Exodus 15:22-27 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus Believing In The Lord Our Healer Why does God let things in our lives get so bad sometimes? In Exodus 15:22-27 God’s people had just experienced one of the greatest rescues God had ever provided, only for God to allow them to
Passage: Exodus 12:21-42 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus One For All, All For One If ALL of Jesus is to be shared with ALL the world, then this will demand ALL of us. So why hasn’t Jesus yet been shared with all the world? If Jesus is enough, then why
Passage: Exodus 12:21-42 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus One For All, All For One If ALL of Jesus is to be shared with ALL the world, then this will demand ALL of us. So why hasn’t Jesus yet been shared with all the world? If Jesus is enough, then why
Passage: Matthew 2:13-23 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Advent - Our Hearts, Christ's Home At Home In Our Exile Places shape us. The places that shaped Jesus were not powerful Rome, educated Alexandria or religious Jerusalem but exiled Egypt, painful Ramah, and despised Nazareth. If Jesus lived today he may not have lived in powerful Washington DC,
Passage: Matthew 2:13-23 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Advent - Our Hearts, Christ's Home At Home In Our Exile Places shape us. The places that shaped Jesus were not powerful Rome, educated Alexandria or religious Jerusalem but exiled Egypt, painful Ramah, and despised Nazareth. If Jesus lived today he may not have lived in powerful Washington DC,
Passage: Matthew 2:1-12 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Advent - Our Hearts, Christ's Home At Home In Our Journey We are all on a journey…the only question is where. This passage opens up with wise men from the east journeying to find the one who was born king of the jews (Matt 1:2). We have three responses
Passage: Matthew 2:1-12 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Advent - Our Hearts, Christ's Home At Home In Our Journey We are all on a journey…the only question is where. This passage opens up with wise men from the east journeying to find the one who was born king of the jews (Matt 1:2). We have three responses
Passage: Matthew 1:18-25 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Advent - Our Hearts, Christ's Home At Home In Our Disappointment What do you do with your disappointment? When we look back we inevitably see areas of disappointment — in ourselves, our loved ones, and our situations. Advent is a season of longing, and longing encompasses our disappointment. Yet
Passage: Matthew 1:18-25 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Advent - Our Hearts, Christ's Home At Home In Our Disappointment What do you do with your disappointment? When we look back we inevitably see areas of disappointment — in ourselves, our loved ones, and our situations. Advent is a season of longing, and longing encompasses our disappointment. Yet
Passage: Matthew 1:1-17 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Advent - Our Hearts, Christ's Home At Home In Our Story The season of Advent follows a flurry of consumption. Thanksgiving precedes the first Sunday of Advent where we consume too much good food to satisfy our appetites. Black Friday follows Thanksgiving where we are tempted to consume too
Passage: Matthew 1:1-17 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Advent - Our Heart's, Christ's Home At Home In Our Story The season of Advent follows a flurry of consumption. Thanksgiving precedes the first Sunday of Advent where we consume too much good food to satisfy our appetites. Black Friday follows Thanksgiving where we are tempted to consume too
Passage: Exodus 15:1-21 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus Celebrating God's Name Why sing? We spend a lot of time in church singing, but is this simply a warmup to the sermon? In Exod 15:21, Miriam commands the people of God, “Sing to the LORD.” God has delivered them from Pharaoh’s
Passage: Exodus 15:1-22 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus Celebrating God's Name Why sing? We spend a lot of time in church singing, but is this simply a warmup to the sermon? In Exod 15:21, Miriam commands the people of God, “Sing to the LORD.” God has delivered them from Pharaoh’s
Passage: Exodus 13:17-14:31 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus Believing In God's Name God grows our faith through the waters of chaos. Sometimes we wonder why God allows chaos to envelop us, but we see that the LORD actually leads them into the wilderness (Exod 13:18) toward the sea of chaos
Passage: Exodus 13:17-14:31 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus Believing In God's Name God grows our faith through the waters of chaos. Sometimes we wonder why God allows chaos to envelop us, but we see that the LORD actually leads them into the wilderness (Exod 13:18) toward the sea of chaos
Passage: Exodus 12:29-13:16 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus Remembering God's Name What practices will shape our identity as a church from different cultures? Different cultures do church differently! Some do potlucks of casseroles and fried chicken; others serve soup and rice. Some value safety and cleanliness; others value gathering and
Passage: Exodus 11:1-12:28 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus Led Out By God's Name What if God actually showed up in answer to our prayers? Annie Dillard says: On the whole, I do not find Christians, outside of the catacombs, sufficiently sensible of conditions. Does anyone have the foggiest idea what
Passage: Exodus 11:1-12:28 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus Led Out By God's Name What if God actually showed up in answer to our prayers? Annie Dillard says: On the whole, I do not find Christians, outside of the catacombs, sufficiently sensible of conditions. Does anyone have the foggiest idea what
Passage: Exodus 9:13-10:2 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus That Pharaoh Might Believe What will God do about the evil that unravels His beautiful purposes for the world? Exodus raises this question as its first chapter presents Pharaoh opposing God’s purposes for his people to multiply and fill the earth. Pharaoh opposes
Passage: Exodus 9:13-10:2 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus That Pharaoh Might Believe What will God do about the evil that unravels His beautiful purposes for the world? Exodus raises this question as its first chapter presents Pharaoh opposing God’s purposes for his people to multiply and fill the earth. Pharaoh opposes
Passage: Exodus 8:1-15 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus That The Magicians Might Know I find it ironic that the dollar bill has “In God we trust” inscribed on top. So often our fears for the future are alleviated by trust in the Almighty Dollar. We hedge our fears for the
Passage: Exodus 8:1-15 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus That The Magicians Might Know I find it ironic that the dollar bill has “In God we trust” inscribed on top. So often our fears for the future are alleviated by trust in the Almighty Dollar. We hedge our fears for the
Passage: Exodus 6:14-7:7 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus Revealing God's Name Sometimes I feel intimidated to be a pastor at Wellspring. So many are accomplished scholars, respected leaders, successful business people, and probing thinkers here that I wonder, “What am I doing here? Isn’t there somebody better for this job?” Then
Passage: Exodus 6:14-7:7 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus Revealing God's Name Sometimes I feel intimidated to be a pastor at Wellspring. So many are accomplished scholars, respected leaders, successful business people, and probing thinkers here that I wonder, “What am I doing here? Isn’t there somebody better for this job?” Then
Passage: Exodus 5:1-6:13 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus My People Sometimes obeying God doesn’t bring wonderful results. Moses obeys God, but his confrontation of Pharaoh leads to miserable results; Moses’ obedience forces God’s people to make make bricks without straw (Exod 5:1–21). As a result, Moses asks the question, “O
Passage: Exodus 5:1-6:13 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus My People Sometimes obeying God doesn’t bring wonderful results. Moses obeys God, but his confrontation of Pharaoh leads to miserable results; Moses’ obedience forces God’s people to make make bricks without straw (Exod 5:1–21). As a result, Moses asks the question, “O
Passage: Exodus 4:1-31 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus Adopted “God loves you and he has a wonderful plan for your life”. While this is true, God’s plan for each of us doesn’t usually center on our short-term comfort, ease, pleasure, or even our happiness. It is “wonderful” in the sense
Passage: Exodus 4:1-31 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus Adopted “God loves you and he has a wonderful plan for your life”. While this is true, God’s plan for each of us doesn’t usually center on our short-term comfort, ease, pleasure, or even our happiness. It is “wonderful” in the sense
Passage: Exodus 3:1-22 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus Learning God's Name Sometimes God’s promises feel unrealistic. Compared to the staggering nature of God’s promises, we can grow disillusioned by the often mundane and frustrating facets of our lives. After reading God’s promises to the patriarchs of a land, offspring like
Passage: Exodus 3:1-22 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus Learning God's Name Sometimes God’s promises feel unrealistic. Compared to the staggering nature of God’s promises, we can grow disillusioned by the often mundane and frustrating facets of our lives. After reading God’s promises to the patriarchs of a land, offspring like
Passage: Exodus 2:1-25 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus Parting The Waters What will God do about the problems that we are groaning about? Does God even care? Sometimes it seems like our groaning before God lands on deaf ears, but God hears the groaning of his people. In Exod 2:23–25,
Passage: Exodus 2:1-25 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus Parting The Waters What will God do about the problems that we are groaning about? Does God even care? Sometimes it seems like our groaning before God lands on deaf ears, but God hears the groaning of his people. In Exod 2:23–25,
Passage: Exodus 1:1-22 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus Born In Egypt Sometimes we forget that our lives neither start on Page 1 nor end with “The End.” Our lives are part of a larger story that God is writing; we start in the middle of a story that continues even
Passage: Exodus 1:1-22 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Coming Home - A Journey Through Exodus Born In Egypt Sometimes we forget that our lives neither start on Page 1 nor end with “The End.” Our lives are part of a larger story that God is writing; we start in the middle of a story that continues even
Passage: Mark 1:1-14 Speaker: Steve Hands Coming Home “Headed home.” Home evokes images of warmth, safety, love, and comfort foods. When I returned home after college, I still remember the satisfying of my mother’s ddaenjjang-jigae(soybean soup) that no amount of pizza and pasta could ever satisfy. God leads his people out of slavery to adopt us
Passage: Mark 1:1-14 Speaker: Mitch Kim Coming Home “Headed home.” Home evokes images of warmth, safety, love, and comfort foods. When I returned home after college, I still remember the satisfying of my mother’s ddaenjjang-jigae(soybean soup) that no amount of pizza and pasta could ever satisfy. God leads his people out of slavery to adopt us
Passage: Philippians 4:10-20 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Partnering Together For The Gospel God Our Strength & Supply One of the incredible blessings of belonging to God’s church is the opportunity we have to care for one another and to receive care in return. As we are able, we provide meals, financial support, emotional presence, counsel, and
Passage: Philippians 4:2-9 Speaker: Kathy Woods Series: Partnering Together For The Gospel Peace This Sunday we get to explore the beautiful gift of God’s peace as we dive into Philippians 4:2-9. In preparation for this message, I want to encourage you to pay attention to how often or how easily you lose that sense of the
Passage: Philippians 4:2-9 Speaker: Kathy Woods Series: Partnering Together For The Gospel Peace This Sunday we get to explore the beautiful gift of God’s peace as we dive into Philippians 4:2-9. In preparation for this message, I want to encourage you to pay attention to how often or how easily you lose that sense of the
Passage: Philippians 3:1-4:1 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Partnering Together For The Gospel Follow The Leader One of my favorite gaming news stories from a couple years ago happened during the Pokemon Go craze of 2016. Everybody downloaded that game on their phones and was playing it everywhere they went. In the middle of the many strange
Passage: Philippians 3:1-4:1 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Partnering Together For The Gospel Follow The Leader One of my favorite gaming news stories from a couple years ago happened during the Pokemon Go craze of 2016. Everybody downloaded that game on their phones and was playing it everywhere they went. In the middle of the many
Passage: Philippians 2:19-30 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Partnering Together For The Gospel Sending Sons & Brothers
Passage: Philippians 2:19-30 Speaker: Jeter Livingston Series: Partnering Together For The Gospel Follow Me As I Follow Christ Paul tells the good people at Philippi to “join together in following my example, brothers and sisters, and just as you have us as a model, keep your eyes on those who live as we do.” And,
Passage: Philippians 2:12-18 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Partnering Together For The Gospel Work Out Your Salvation Recently my eight year old spent some time reading the newspaper. As she asked questions about shootings and court proceedings, I was reminded of how dark the world actually is. How can we proclaim in the midst of that:
Passage: Philippians 2:12-18 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Partnering Together For The Gospel Work Out Your Salvation Recently my eight year old spent some time reading the newspaper. As she asked questions about shootings and court proceedings, I was reminded of how dark the world actually is. How can we proclaim in the midst of that:
Passage: Philippians 2:1-11 Speaker: Phil Vischer Series: Partnering Together For The Gospel Where Does Joy Come From? Everyone wants to be happy. We chase happiness in 1000 different ways. But if we think about it, there are two different kinds of happiness - “cookie happy,” and “hug happy.” Eating a cookie makes us happy, but it’s
Passage: Philippians 2:1-11 Speaker: Phil Vischer Series: Partnering Together For The Gospel Where Does Joy Come From? Everyone wants to be happy. We chase happiness in 1000 different ways. But if we think about it, there are two different kinds of happiness - “cookie happy,” and “hug happy.” Eating a cookie makes us happy, but it’s
Passage: Philippians 1:12-18 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Partnering Together For The Gospel Honoring Christ By Life Or Death What do you want out of life? Comfort? Rest? Peace? Pleasure? Stuck in jail, facing what could be his last few days on this earth, the apostle Paul wanted the same thing he had always wanted: to
Passage: Philippians 1:12-18 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Partnering Together For The Gospel Honoring Christ By Life Or Death What do you want out of life? Comfort? Rest? Peace? Pleasure? Stuck in jail, facing what could be his last few days on this earth, the apostle Paul wanted the same thing he had always wanted: to
Passage: Philippians 1:12-18 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Partnering Together For The Gospel Partnering Through Prison Summer is wedding season; this Saturday I will be at my third wedding in a row! As I counsel couples for marriage, I always challenge them to move beyond a consumerist to a covenantal view of marriage. A consumerist view evaluates
Passage: Philippians 1:1-11 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Partnering Together For The Gospel Gospel Community The church community is something special. It’s fundamentally different from a corporation, a hobby group, or a social club. The tie that binds us is not a common interest, but a common need for God’s grace. Our mission is not to
Passage: Philippians 1:1-11 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Partnering Together For The Gospel Gospel Community The church community is something special. It’s fundamentally different from a corporation, a hobby group, or a social club. The tie that binds us is not a common interest, but a common need for God’s grace. Our mission is not to
Passage: Psalm 118 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Core Values - Prayer Seeking God's Face In Thanksgiving Psalm 118:1 begins, “Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever.” Why do we give thanks to the LORD? Doesn’t He already know how good that He is? As vv 1–4 call
Passage: Psalm 118 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Core Values - Prayer Seeking God's Face In Thanksgiving Psalm 118:1 begins, “Oh give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever.” Why do we give thanks to the LORD? Doesn’t He already know how good that He is? As vv 1–4
Passage: Psalm 110 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Core Values - Prayer Seeking God's Face As King How do we pray from heaven and not just to heaven? Often our prayers are simply to heaven: we are struggling with a reality on earth and heave a couple of prayers toward heaven, hoping that something would stick.
Passage: Psalm 110 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Core Values - Prayer Seeking God's Face As King How do we pray from heaven and not just to heaven? Often our prayers are simply to heaven: we are struggling with a reality on earth and heave a couple of prayers toward heaven, hoping that something would stick.
Passage: Isaiah 43:1-7 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Vision Sunday Vision Sunday: Forming A People To Glorify God Everywhere Visible success can be the greatest enemy of real faith. In America the church doesn’t need persecution because we are comfortable and content. Yet the good enough must not inoculate us to the greater purposes for which
Passage: Isaiah 43:1-7 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Vision Sunday Vision Sunday: Forming A People To Glorify God Everywhere Visible success can be the greatest enemy of real faith. In America the church doesn’t need persecution because we are comfortable and content. Yet the good enough must not inoculate us to the greater purposes for which
Passage: Psalm 73 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Core Values - Prayer Seeking God's Face In Wisdom Should we trust God? At church, we say and sing all the time that God is a “good, good Father”, but how do we reconcile that claim with our daily experiences of pain, injustice, chaos, and trouble? Over a
Passage: Psalm 33 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Core Values - Prayer Seeking God's Face In Praise During the Boxer Rebellion, many mission compounds in China were destroyed. When Hudson Taylor was told of this, he quietly began to sing under his breath. The messenger, impatiently waiting for a directive, burst out, “How can you sing
Passage: Psalm 33 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Core Values - Prayer Seeking God's Face In Praise During the Boxer Rebellion, many mission compounds in China were destroyed. When Hudson Taylor was told of this, he quietly began to sing under his breath. The messenger, impatiently waiting for a directive, burst out, “How can you sing
Passage: Psalm 73 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Core Values - Prayer Seeking God's Face In Wisdom Should we trust God? At church, we say and sing all the time that God is a “good, good Father”, but how do we reconcile that claim with our daily experiences of pain, injustice, chaos, and trouble? Over a
Passage: Psalm 24 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Core Values - Prayer Seeking God's Face On Earth Sometimes we endure frustrations that we have authority to change. One time I was freezing in my study. I assumed that the thermostat was locked and couldn’t be changed. I kept putting on layers and layers of clothing to
Passage: Psalm 24 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Core Values - Prayer Seeking God's Face On Earth Sometimes we endure frustrations that we have authority to change. One time I was freezing in my study. I assumed that the thermostat was locked and couldn’t be changed. I kept putting on layers and layers of clothing to
Passage: 2 John 1-13 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Mother's Day Raising Children In Love And Truth What do you want your children to be when they grow up? Do you want them to be smart, healthy, responsible, secure, or accomplished? If you don’t have kids, what’s the most important way you are developing right now? The
Passage: Colossians 3:12-17 Speaker: Scottie May Series: Mother's Day God's Design: The Wardrobe Of A Christ-Follower May 12 is a Sunday of several celebrations for Wellspring: Mother’s Day, Wheaton College commencement, and dedication of babies. It’s a privilege for me as a mother, grandmother, and a great grandmother to be able to bring the message. We
Passage: Psalm 13 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Core Values - Prayer Seeking God's Face In Lament This week we are beginning a new series on prayer, the sixth of our core values. We have explored the inward values of community and diversity to take outward steps of missions and discipleship with an upward dependence on God through prayer and God’sWord.
Passage: Psalm 13 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Core Values - Prayer Seeking God's Face In Lament This week we are beginning a new series on prayer, the sixth of our core values. We have explored the inward values of community and diversity to take outward steps of missions and discipleship with an upward dependence on God through prayer and God’sWord.
Passage: 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 Speaker: Kevin Hector Series: Core Values - Prayer A Prayer-Shaped Life This week, we begin a series on one of Wellspring's core values, namely prayer: we want to be a people who seek God's face and see his hand at work. With that in mind, Sunday's message will focus on 1 Thessalonians
Passage: Numbers 13:30-14:12 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Core Values - Prayer Living As Sons & Daughters, Not Servants To see breakthrough, we must think like sons/daughters not servants. Sons/daughters focuses on God’s promises not our problems, own the issues instead of blaming others, and delight in instead of despising God. As we follow up from Easter,
Passage: John 20:1-23 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Core Values - Discipleship Transformed As We Follow The Risen Savior Disappointment can bring about the worst in us. At the tomb, the worst in the disciples is brought out. Their doubts, their grief, and their fears are all exposed. Yet when these disciples encounter the risen Jesus
Passage: John 20:1-23 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Core Values - Discipleship Transformed As We Follow The Risen Savior Disappointment can bring about the worst in us. At the tomb, the worst in the disciples is brought out. Their doubts, their grief, and their fears are all exposed. Yet when these disciples encounter the risen Jesus
Passage: John 19:1-22 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Core Values - Discipleship Transformed As We Follow The Crucified King Those of us who grew up in church learned to sing “Jesus Loves Me” from an early age. But as we grow older and face sickness, pain, and struggles, doubt can creep into our hearts. How do
Passage: John 19:1-22 Speaker: Skye Jethani Series: Core Values - Discipleship Transformed As We Follow The Crucified King On Palm Sunday, the crowds in Jerusalem celebrated the arrival of Jesus as their king and savior with shouts of “Hosanna!” (meaning “Deliver us!”). Just five days later, the same crowds were shouting “Crucify him!” and declaring
Passage: John 18:28-40 Speaker: Laura Livingston Series: Core Values - Discipleship Transformed As We Follow The King In the Côte d’Ivoire war of 2010-2011, religion and politics were very muddled. Many churches, mission teams, and Christian families were ripped apart by differing loyalties. Violence erupted over religious, ethnic, political, and other allegiances. In the chaos,
Passage: John 18:28-40 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Core Values - Discipleship Transformed As We Follow The King Are you a good person? How do you know? And is being a “good person” even God’s desire for your life? As we walk through John 18:28-40, we’ll see how religious rulekeeping and punishing troublemakers fails to create
Passage: John 18:15-27 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Core Values - Discipleship Transformed By Failing To Follow Love doesn’t always fix things for people. Sometimes love means letting people fail. Because some lessons can only be learned after falling flat on our face. In John 18:15–27, Jesus allows Peter to fall flat on his face at
Passage: John 18:15-27 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Core Values - Discipleship Transformed By Failing To Follow Love doesn’t always fix things for people. Sometimes love means letting people fail. Because some lessons can only be learned after falling flat on our face. In John 18:15–27, Jesus allows Peter to fall flat on his face at
Passage: John 18:1-14 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Core Values - Discipleship Transformed As We Follow The I AM How do we respond when we are attacked? Do we react with defensiveness to destroy our attacker and defend our reputation? Jesus when attacked did not defend himself. Instead he gives of himself. And he overcame and
Passage: John 18:1-14 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Core Values - Discipleship Transformed As We Follow The I AM How do we respond when we are attacked? Do we react with defensiveness to destroy our attacker and defend our reputation? Jesus when attacked did not defend himself. Instead he gives of himself. And he overcame and
Passage: John 13:31-38 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Core Values - Discipleship Transformed As We Follow The One Before Us God calls us to do more than we are able. Our problem is that we underestimate His calling and overestimate our abilities! In John 13 Peter underestimates God’s calling; he wants to lay down his life
Passage: John 13:31-38 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Core Values - Discipleship Transformed As We Follow The One Before Us God calls us to do more than we are able. Our problem is that we underestimate His calling and overestimate our abilities! In John 13 Peter underestimates God’s calling; he wants to lay down his life
Passage: John 13:18-30 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Core Values - Discipleship Transformed As We Follow The Betrayed Betrayal stings. To build a friendship over time over shared meals and memories is a precious investment. To feel that a friend stabs us in the back feels almost unforgivable. How do we respond to people who betray
Passage: John 13:18-30 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Core Values - Discipleship Transformed As We Follow The Betrayed Betrayal stings. To build a friendship over time over shared meals and memories is a precious investment. To feel that a friend stabs us in the back feels almost unforgivable. How do we respond to people who betray
Passage: Isaiah 6:1-8 Speaker: Jeter Livingston Series: Core Values - Mission God's Glory Is God's Mission Why is “missions” one of the six core values of Wellspring? What’s our motivation for doing missions across the street and around the world? Why do we strive to be a basecamp for global outreach? We can cite many
Passage: Isaiah 6:1-8 Speaker: Jeter Livingston Series: Core Values - Mission God's Glory Is God's Mission Why is “missions” one of the six core values of Wellspring? What’s our motivation for doing missions across the street and around the world? Why do we strive to be a basecamp for global outreach? We can cite many
Passage: Acts 1:6-8; Heb. 11 Speaker: Pres. John Stumbo Series: Core Values - Mission The Alliance World Tour: the Fruit of Faithfulness In this message, the President of the our denomination, the Christian and Missionary Alliance, President John Stumbo, gives us a guided 'world tour' of what God has been doing through our family of
Passage: Acts 1:6-8; Heb. 11 Speaker: Pres. John Stumbo Series: Core Values - Mission The Alliance World Tour: the Fruit of Faithfulness In this message, the President of the our denomination, the Christian and Missionary Alliance, President John Stumbo, gives us a guided 'world tour' of what God has been doing through our family of
Passage: Nehemiah 1–4 Speaker: Jeff Edwards Series: Core Values - Mission Mission from Nehemiah This morning we will connect Nehemiah's mission to our mission today. Nehemiah started at the beginning with prayer... 4 months of it! Nehemiah used the abilities God gave him. Nehemiah trusted in God's promises. Nehemiah fought for the well-being of others.
Passage: Col. 3:18–4:6 (4:2–6) Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Core Values - Mission Mission in All Spheres Is missions simply an imposition of one culture on another? Colossians reminds us that Christ holds all things together (1:17), reconciles all things (1:20), and hides all treasures of wisdom and knowledge in himself (2:3). Mission, then, is not
Passage: Col. 3:18–4:6 (4:2–6) Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Core Values - Mission Mission in All Spheres Is missions simply an imposition of one culture on another? Colossians reminds us that Christ holds all things together (1:17), reconciles all things (1:20), and hides all treasures of wisdom and knowledge in himself (2:3). Mission, then, is not
Passage: Joshua 5 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Core Values - the Word of God Obedience Today According to the Word of God Each generation has to follow God afresh. The marks of a vibrant faith in one generation become a legalistic straitjacket in the next. Avoiding movies and alcohol used to demonstrate holy separation from
Passage: Joshua 5 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Core Values - the Word of God Obedience Today According to the Word of God Each generation has to follow God afresh. The marks of a vibrant faith in one generation become a legalistic straitjacket in the next. Avoiding movies and alcohol used to demonstrate holy separation from
Passage: Joshua 4 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Core Values - the Word of God Remembering Yesterday According to the Word of God God creates powerful moments to create spiritual momentum and change in our lives. However powerful moments — retreats, mission trips, answered prayers, or breakthroughs— often fail to create spiritual momentum because we quickly
Passage: Joshua 4 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Core Values - the Word of God Remembering Yesterday According to the Word of God God creates powerful moments to create spiritual momentum and change in our lives. However powerful moments — retreats, mission trips, answered prayers, or breakthroughs— often fail to create spiritual momentum because we quickly
Passage: Joshua 3:1–17 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Core Values - the Word of God Trust for Tomorrow According to the Word of God The Bible makes a lot of big claims about who God is and what he’s promised to do to rescue his people. When we choose to follow God into what he’s called
Passage: Joshua 3:1–17 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Core Values - the Word of God Trust for Tomorrow According to the Word of God The Bible makes a lot of big claims about who God is and what he’s promised to do to rescue his people. When we choose to follow God into what he’s called
Passage: Joshua 2:1–24 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Core Values - the Word of God Witness According to the Word of God Is Christianity colonialist? Does the book of Joshua justify conquering other nations in the name of God? Against a colonialist reading of Joshua, the story of Rahab in Joshua 2 sticks out like a
Passage: Joshua 1:10–18 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Core Values - the Word of God Courage According to the Word of God Obedience feels like a burden. Something inside us hates obedience. We’d rather be the one in charge, doing whatever we want. But when it comes to our relationship with God, we find in the
Passage: Joshua 1:10–18 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Core Values - the Word of God Courage According to the Word of God Obedience feels like a burden. Something inside us hates obedience. We’d rather be the one in charge, doing whatever we want. But when it comes to our relationship with God, we find in the
Passage: Joshua 1:1–9 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Core Values - the Word of God Courage According to the Word of God New Year’s resolutions are scary because we are tired of failing them! Gym membership get forgotten after three weeks; read-through-the-Bible plans get abandoned in the wilderness of Numbers. But how do we move
Passage: Joshua 1:1–9 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Core Values - the Word of God Courage According to the Word of God New Year’s resolutions are scary because we are tired of failing them! Gym membership get forgotten after three weeks; read-through-the-Bible plans get abandoned in the wilderness of Numbers. But how do we move
Passage: Lk. 2:1–20 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Joyful Fulfillment - God's Promises Come True (Advent 2018) Promises Fulfilled Good things usually come in better packages; the quality of the packaging ought to reflect their contents. But God doesn’t operate that way. God usually puts His greatest glory in the most mundane packages. The great king,
Passage: Lk. 2:1–20 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Joyful Fulfillment - God's Promises Come True (Advent 2018) Promises Fulfilled Good things usually come in better packages; the quality of the packaging ought to reflect their contents. But God doesn’t operate that way. God usually puts His greatest glory in the most mundane packages. The great king,
Passage: Lk. 1:57–80 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Joyful Fulfillment - God's Promises Come True (Advent 2018) Promises of Salvation How do we raise children who can prepare the way of the Lord in the spirit of Elijah like John the Baptist? We nourish our hearts on God’s promises for more than our own benefit. When
Passage: Lk. 1:57–80 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Joyful Fulfillment - God's Promises Come True (Advent 2018) Promises of Salvation How do we raise children who can prepare the way of the Lord in the spirit of Elijah like John the Baptist? We nourish our hearts on God’s promises for more than our own benefit. When
Passage: Lk. 1:39–56 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Joyful Fulfillment - God's Promises Come True (Advent 2018) Faithful to His Promise Is blessing simply material? We sit down to a scrumptious meal in a warm home with wonderful people and declare, “We are so blessed.” But what if the meal isn’t great, the home is cold,
Passage: Lk. 1:39–56 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Joyful Fulfillment - God's Promises Come True (Advent 2018) Faithful to His Promise Is blessing simply material? We sit down to a scrumptious meal in a warm home with wonderful people and declare, “We are so blessed.” But what if the meal isn’t great, the home is cold,
Passage: Lk. 1:26–38 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Joyful Fulfillment - God's Promises Come True (Advent 2018) Undeserved Promise Christmas nativities are often sentimental, focusing on cooing babies and mooing cows in a picture perfect stable, but the first Christmas was actual far from picture perfect. Yet Christmas is more subversive than sentimental. The birth of
Passage: Lk. 1:26–38 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Joyful Fulfillment - God's Promises Come True (Advent 2018) Undeserved Promise Christmas nativities are often sentimental, focusing on cooing babies and mooing cows in a picture perfect stable, but the first Christmas was actual far from picture perfect. Yet Christmas is more subversive than sentimental. The birth of
Passage: Lk. 1:5–25 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Joyful Fulfillment - God's Promises Come True (Advent 2018) Doubt and Promise Advent is here! Once again we celebrate the story of God bringing about a monumental step forward in his grand rescue plan for humanity by sending his Son to become a man, Jesus. Everything was about
Passage: Lk. 1:5–25 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Joyful Fulfillment - God's Promises Come True (Advent 2018) Doubt and Promise Advent is here! Once again we celebrate the story of God bringing about a monumental step forward in his grand rescue plan for humanity by sending his Son to become a man, Jesus. Everything was about
Passage: Psa. 50:14–15 Speaker: Steve Hands A Sacrifice of Thanksgiving This Sunday, we will open the mic to give you an opportunity to express your thankfulness to God for what He is doing. But what if you don’t know what to say? A few years ago, one of my girls asked a perceptive question, “How
Passage: Psa. 50:14–15 Speaker: Mitch Kim A Sacrifice of Thanksgiving This Sunday, we will open the mic to give you an opportunity to express your thankfulness to God for what He is doing. But what if you don’t know what to say? A few years ago, one of my girls asked a perceptive question, “How
Passage: Romans 16:1–16 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Heaven Touching Earth - Diversity Honoring One Another Why do we waste pages of sacred Scripture on all these names in Romans 16? The church is called to see the nations worship Jesus, and this big vision can only be fulfilled together. Whether Jew or Gentile, male or
Passage: Romans 16:1–16 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Heaven Touching Earth - Diversity Honoring One Another Why do we waste pages of sacred Scripture on all these names in Romans 16? The church is called to see the nations worship Jesus, and this big vision can only be fulfilled together. Whether Jew or Gentile, male or
Passage: Romans 15:22–33 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Heaven Touching Earth - Diversity Honoring the 'Us' Lawrence of Arabia says: "All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake to the day to find it was all vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous
Passage: Romans 15:22–33 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Heaven Touching Earth - Diversity Honoring the 'Us' Lawrence of Arabia says: "All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake to the day to find it was all vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous
Passage: Romans 15:8–21 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Heaven Touching Earth - Diversity Honoring God's Purposes While our small hearts magnify differences to bring division, our small hearts are challenged to grow to embrace others and their role in God’s kingdom. In Rom 15:8–21, we are not only challenged to grow to embrace our brother but
Passage: Romans 15:8–21 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Heaven Touching Earth - Diversity Honoring God's Purposes While our small hearts magnify differences to bring division, our small hearts are challenged to grow to embrace others and their role in God’s kingdom. In Rom 15:8–21, we are not only challenged to grow to embrace our brother but
Passage: Romans 15:1-7 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Heaven Touching Earth - Diversity Honoring with Endurance Misunderstandings make relationships difficult. When an English-speaker met her Mexican boyfriend’s parents, she sought to express her embarrassment at her limited Spanish by saying, “estoy embarazada.” Her embarrassment grew exponentially when she realized that she had inadvertently said, “I am
Passage: Romans 15:1-7 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Heaven Touching Earth - Diversity Honoring with Endurance Misunderstandings make relationships difficult. When an English-speaker met her Mexican boyfriend’s parents, she sought to express her embarrassment at her limited Spanish by saying, “estoy embarazada.” Her embarrassment grew exponentially when she realized that she had inadvertently said, “I am
Passage: Romans 14:13–23 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Heaven Touching Earth - Diversity Honoring Others' Convictions Conflict can make us myopic. We focus in on the areas of disagreement, and we want to prove that we are right…and they are wrong. And the greater our diversity, the more areas that we have to disagree about! The
Passage: Romans 14:13–23 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Heaven Touching Earth - Diversity Honoring Others' Convictions Conflict can make us myopic. We focus in on the areas of disagreement, and we want to prove that we are right…and they are wrong. And the greater our diversity, the more areas that we have to disagree about! The
Passage: Romans 14:1–12 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Heaven Touching Earth - Diversity Honoring Christ Navigating diversity is hard. Whether it is different ways of doing church, or political views, or of sports teams, we should not let differences divide. Sadly though, America has not done a good job in navigating differences as 11 AM Sunday
Passage: Romans 14:1–12 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Heaven Touching Earth - Diversity Honoring Christ Navigating diversity is hard. Whether it is different ways of doing church, or political views, or of sports teams, we should not let differences divide. Sadly though, America has not done a good job in navigating differences as 11 AM Sunday
Passage: 1 Peter 5:12–14 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Heaven Touching Earth - Community Community—A Place to Belong and Be Real I have a question. “How have you helped or been helped to belong and be real here?” Over the past six weeks we have applied truths from 1 Peter to form our community as a
Romans 3:20-25a Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Heaven Touching Earth - Community Belonging to Jesus *due to technical issues, the first portion of this message is missing. Being a community where people can belong and be real together sounds great! We all long for deep acceptance, to be known fully and loved fully. So just how
Passage: 1 Peter 5:1–14 (focus vv.1–11) Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Heaven Touching Earth - Community Being Real with Authority *due to technical difficulties portions of this sermon are missing. “I love Jesus but hate the church.” Many people want to connect with the life-giving grace of God without the messiness of the church. Yet God’s
Passage: 1 Peter 5:1–14 (focus vv.1–11) Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Heaven Touching Earth - Community Being Real with Authority “I love Jesus but hate the church.” Many people want to connect with the life-giving grace of God without the messiness of the church. Yet God’s grace flows through means. In the face of suffering, persecution,
Passage: 1 Peter 3:8–4:19 (focus on 4:7–19) Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Heaven Touching Earth - Community Being Real with Suffering Can we be real about suffering? Sometimes we want to fix or ignore suffering; we focus on solving the problem or hope for things to work out in the end. Yet how should we respond
Passage: 1 Peter 3:8–4:19 (focus on 4:7–19) Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Heaven Touching Earth - Community Being Real with Suffering Can we be real about suffering? Sometimes we want to fix or ignore suffering; we focus on solving the problem or hope for things to work out in the end. Yet how should we respond
Passage: 1 Peter 2:13-3:7 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Heaven Touching Earth - Community Being Real With Submission Sometimes we protect ourselves in a bubble that God wants to burst. Our bubble allows “good” people (=agreeable and comfortable) close to us and keeps “bad” people (=disagreeing or awkward) away from us. Yet God sometimes bursts that
Passage: 1 Peter 2:13-3:7 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Heaven Touching Earth - Community Being Real With Submission Sometimes we protect ourselves in a bubble that God wants to burst. Our bubble allows “good” people (=agreeable and comfortable) close to us and keeps “bad” people (=disagreeing or awkward) away from us. Yet God sometimes bursts that
Passage: 1 Peter 2:1-12 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Heaven Touching Earth - Community Belonging To A Chosen People Competition permeates life. We constantly find ourselves in “us vs. them” situations. It’s me vs. the 300 other applicants for that scholarship or job; me vs. those 3 other eligible bachelors for that girl; me vs. my
Passage: 1 Peter 1:13-25 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Heaven Touching Earth - Community Belonging To A Holy People Communities with high standards flourish. We might assume the opposite; make things easy for people to join a community, then many people will join. However without high standards, community falters. When a church fails to be distinct
Passage: 1 Peter 2:1-12 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Heaven Touching Earth - Community Belonging To A Chosen People Competition permeates life. We constantly find ourselves in “us vs. them” situations. It’s me vs. the 300 other applicants for that scholarship or job; me vs. those 3 other eligible bachelors for that girl; me vs. my
Passage: 1 Peter 1:13-25 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Heaven Touching Earth - Community Belonging To A Holy People Communities with high standards flourish. We might assume the opposite; make things easy for people to join a community, then many people will join. However without high standards, community falters. When a church fails to be distinct
Passage: 1 Peter 1:1-12 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Heaven Touching Earth - Community Belonging To A Born Again People So what is the church supposed to be? When we planted Living Water Alliance Church seven years ago, we wanted to create a space where misfits fit. Second-generation Asian Americans neither fit in their immigrant (whether
Passage: 1 Peter 1:1-12 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Heaven Touching Earth - Community Belonging To A Born Again People So what is the church supposed to be? When we planted Living Water Alliance Church seven years ago, we wanted to create a space where misfits fit. Second-generation Asian Americans neither fit in their immigrant (whether
Passage: Psalm 48 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Zion Joy Of Zion Joy is meant to be shared. The joy of a stunning sunset deserves, even demands, to be shared with others. If God is the“joy of all the earth,” how will that joy be spread to all the earth? Psalm 48 shows that the joy
Passage: Psalm 48 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Zion Joy Of Zion Joy is meant to be shared. The joy of a stunning sunset deserves, even demands, to be shared with others. If God is the“joy of all the earth,” how will that joy be spread to all the earth? Psalm 48 shows that the joy
Passage: Psalm 46 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Zion Refuge Of Zion Fear paralyzes. Remember jumping off the high dive for the first time? When I climbed climb up those stairs to the high dive, looked over the side of (what felt like) hundreds of feet down, I was sure that a leap would lead to
Passage: Psalm 46 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Zion Refuge Of Zion Fear paralyzes. Remember jumping off the high dive for the first time? When I climbed climb up those stairs to the high dive, looked over the side of (what felt like) hundreds of feet down, I was sure that a leap would lead to
Passage: Psalm 74 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Zion Rescuer Of Zion Do you ever feel like you just can’t get through to God? If our hearts are supposed to be highways to Zion, how come sometimes it feels like there’s a big “road closed” barrier in the way? It can be hard to reconcile
Passage: Psalm 84 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Zion Highways To Zion Is your heart a highway to hell, or a highway to heaven? All of our hearts have paved highways in a certain direction, and we often must repave our hearts highways to head in a better direction. . When I am overwhelmed, I
Passage: Micah 4:1-5 Speaker: Jeter Livingston Series: We Are Wellspring 2.0 We Are A Basecamp In this installment of our series, We Are Wellspring, 2nd edition, we will examine Wellspring as a base camp for global mission, a phrase heard often around our community, thanks to Pastor Mitch. But what in the world does that
Passage: Psalm 84 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Zion Highways To Zion Is your heart a highway to hell, or a highway to heaven? All of our hearts have paved highways in a certain direction, and we often must repave our hearts highways to head in a better direction. . When I am overwhelmed, I
Passage: Ephesians 3:1-13 Speaker: Cheryl Baird Series: We Are Wellspring 2.0 We Are A Mystery Paul uses the metaphor of “Mystery” to describe the Church. We are a living, breathing, group of people drawn together as a community of faith which is the body of Christ. God chose to reveal the mystery through Paul when
Passage: Micah 4:1-5 Speaker: Jeter Livingston Series: We Are Wellspring 2.0 We Are A Basecamp In this installment of our series, We Are Wellspring, 2nd edition, we will examine Wellspring as a base camp for global mission, a phrase heard often around our community, thanks to Pastor Mitch. But what in the world does that
Passage: 2 Corinthians 5:17-20 Speaker: Kevin Hector Series: We Are Wellspring 2.0 We Are Ambassadors Continuing the series, “We are Wellspring,” we will focus on the biblical idea that “We are God’s Ambassadors.” To make sense of this, we will consider the idea that we are called to be God’s representatives, where this means, among other
Passage: Ephesians 3:1-13 Speaker: Cheryl Baird Series: We Are Wellspring 2.0 We Are A Mystery Paul uses the metaphor of “Mystery” to describe the Church. We are a living, breathing, group of people drawn together as a community of faith which is the body of Christ. God chose to reveal the mystery through Paul when
Passage: 1 Corinthians 12:12-26 Speaker: Reggie Ramos Series: We Are Wellspring 2.0 We Are The Body We’ve all heard the saying, “to shoot oneself in the foot”, which means to say or do something foolish that causes problems for oneself. As we look into 1 Corinthians 12:12-26, we’ll see how the Corinthians were shooting themselves
Passage: 2 Corinthians 5:17-20 Speaker: Kevin Hector Series: We Are Wellspring 2.0 We Are Ambassadors Continuing the series, “We are Wellspring,” we will focus on the biblical idea that “We are God’s Ambassadors.” To make sense of this, we will consider the idea that we are called to be God’s representatives, where this means, among other
Passage: 1 Corinthians 12:12-26 Speaker: Reggie Ramos Series: We Are Wellspring 2.0 We Are The Body We’ve all heard the saying, “to shoot oneself in the foot”, which means to say or do something foolish that causes problems for oneself. As we look into 1 Corinthians 12:12-26, we’ll see how the Corinthians were shooting themselves
Passage: Ephesian 5:21-33 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: We Are Wellspring 2.0 We Are The Bride What is the church? Is it the building we meet in? The song, Bible, and prayer events we run every Sunday? The 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with its programs, staff, and by-laws? The church is the community of “women, men, and
Passage: John 9:1-41 Speaker: Skye Jethani When Certainty Becomes Sin We usually associate certainty with positive virtues like confidence, dependability, and integrity. But what happens when our certainty keeps us from God? In John 9 we see a contrast between the certainty of the religious leaders who rejected Jesus and the humility of a blind
Passage: Ephesian 5:21-33 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: We Are Wellspring 2.0 We Are The Bride What is the church? Is it the building we meet in? The song, Bible, and prayer events we run every Sunday? The 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with its programs, staff, and by-laws? The church is the community of “women, men, and
Passage: Proverbs 23:15-25 Speaker: Steve Hands A Father's Day Gift What gift will bring your father greatest joy on Father’s Day? Gifts for dads are difficult to buy. They are often too expensive or too difficult to figure out. Yet Proverbs 23 spells out a gift that will always give a good father great joy:
Passage: Proverbs 23:15-25 Speaker: Mitch Kim A Father's Day Gift What gift will bring your father greatest joy on Father’s Day? Gifts for dads are difficult to buy. They are often too expensive or too difficult to figure out. Yet Proverbs 23 spells out a gift that will always give a good father great joy:
Passage: Ruth 4:13-17 Speaker: Steve Hands Unconventional Unions God’s eternal purposes are not derailed by desperate times. Instead, the Lord often uses those desperate times to shape our dependence upon Himself and sculpt his own trajectories. As I look back at this past year of Wellspring, I celebrate how the Lord has worked. In our
Passage: Ruth 4:13-17 Speaker: Mitch Kim Unconventional Unions God’s eternal purposes are not derailed by desperate times. Instead, the Lord often uses those desperate times to shape our dependence upon Himself and sculpt his own trajectories. As I look back at this past year of Wellspring, I celebrate how the Lord has worked. In our
Passage: Revelation 14:6-13 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: True Rest Ultimate Rest While Jesus offers rest (Matt 11:28), we look forward to our ultimate rest. While Jesus’ authority over all things rests with us, we still face disappointment and death until Jesus returns. Yet our faith looks forward, and God’s promises are not yet fully fulfilled. Revelation
Passage: Revelation 14:6-13 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: True Rest Ultimate Rest While Jesus offers rest (Matt 11:28), we look forward to our ultimate rest. While Jesus’ authority over all things rests with us, we still face disappointment and death untilJesus returns. Yet our faith looks forward, and God’s promises are not yet fully fulfilled. Revelation
Passage: Hebrews 4:1-13 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: True Rest Entering Rest We often set big goals for ourselves at New Years…and quit. When asked when most people quit their New Year’s goals, a cashier answered, “Most people quit by the third week of January.” Why the third week? “That’s when they stop buying kale.” Similarly
Passage: Hebrews 4:1-13 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: True Rest Entering Rest We often set big goals for ourselves at New Years…and quit. When asked when most people quit their New Year’s goals, a cashier answered, “Most people quit by the third week of January.” Why the third week? “That’s when they stop buying kale.” Similarly
Passage: Matthew 11:25-30 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: True Rest Jesus Rest Jesus came as a King to bring rest. But are we living under his Kingdom and in that rest? Jesus’ Kingdom is not marked by anxiety but peace (cf. Rom 14:17). However, our lives become regularly marked by anxiety because we refuse Jesus’ invitation
Passage: Matthew 11:25-30 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: True Rest Jesus Rest Jesus came as a King to bring rest. But are we living under his Kingdom and in that rest? Jesus’ Kingdom is not marked by anxiety but peace (cf. Rom 14:17). However, our lives become regularly marked by anxiety because we refuse Jesus’ invitation
Passage: Psalm 131 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: True Rest Mother's Rest “Mother love liberates” (Maya Angelou). Yes. Mother love is not about controlling from fear or holding on forever. Mother love is about liberating and launching children into their God-given (my addition) purpose. Yes, mothers care so that children do not fear their situation. Yes,
Passage: Psalm 131 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: True Rest Mother's Rest “Mother love liberates” (Maya Angelou). Yes. Mother love is not about controlling from fear or holding on forever. Mother love is about liberating and launching children into their God-given (my addition) purpose. Yes, mothers care so that children do not fear their situation. Yes,
Passage: 2 Samuel 7:1-17 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: True Rest Kingly Rest It is easy to presume upon grace. Since God has been so good to us, we try to pay God back for what he has done. Yet nothing that we can do can repay what God has done for us. We must not
Passage: 2 Samuel 7:1-17 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: True Rest Kingly Rest It is easy to presume upon grace. Since God has been so good to us, we try to pay God back for what he has done. Yet nothing that we can do can repay what God has done for us. We must not
Passage: Exodus 33:12-23 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: True Rest Anticipating Rest How do we enter into God’s rest and reign in light of sin? Last week we saw that sin unleashes death that frustrates relationships and brings futility (Gen 3:15–19). Yet God reverses the curse of sin and death to bring his people into rest.
Passage: Exodus 33:12-23 Speaker: Jeter Livingston Series: True Rest Anticipating Rest How do we enter into God’s rest and reign in light of sin? Last week we saw that sin unleashes death that frustrates relationships and brings futility (Gen 3:15–19). Yet God reverses the curse of sin and death to bring his people into rest.
Passage: Genesis 3:14-19 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: True Rest Rest Frustrated So often we long to rest from work. Yet God has designed us to work from rest; in Gen 2:15, God literally “rests” (translated ‘puts’; Gen 2:15) humanity to work the temple of creation. Just as God’s rest in creation enthrones God as king
Passage: Genesis 3:14-19 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: True Rest Rest Frustrated So often we long to rest from work. Yet God has designed us to work from rest; in Gen 2:15, God literally “rests” (translated ‘puts’; Gen 2:15) humanity to work the temple of creation. Just as God’s rest in creation enthrones God as king
Passage: 1 Peter 2:1-12 Speaker: Tim Westergren Living Like A Resident Alien The Apostle Peter writes to assure some dispersed, diverse, and disenfranchised followers of Jesus of their value to God, an identity not based on where they are from, but where they are heading. In a culture fractured by identity politics Peter´s narrative corrects
Passage: Psalm 18 Speaker: CVS Overcome Yet Overcoming CVS shared about God's work during a time of trouble.
Passage: Romans 6:1-14 Speaker: Steve Hands Raise To New Life The resurrection of Jesus changes everything. Where we once had no hope of life after death, we now have full assurance of eternal life and bodily resurrection. And even before then, Christ’s resurrection begins to raise our dead hearts back to life. Through baptism we
Passage: Acts 3:1-10 Speaker: Skye Jethani Rehabilitation We use the word “rehabilitation” when speaking about overcoming an addiction or restoring physical wholeness, but the word actually means “to invest again with dignity.” This message will look at how God created us with dignity, the ways our world takes it away, and how Christ has come
Passage: 1 Corinthians 15:20-28 Speaker: Mitch Kim Series: Easter Sunday Resurrection's Rule In C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Narnia feels like Chicago: always winter but never Christmas. Yet when Aslan comes, the witch’s power is broken, and winter thaws. The thaw of Narnia’s winter shows that a new age has
Passage: 1 Corinthians 15:20-28 Speaker: Steve Hands Series: Easter Sunday Resurrection's Rule In C. S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Narnia feels like Chicago: always winter but never Christmas. Yet when Aslan comes, the witch’s power is broken, and winter thaws. The thaw of Narnia’s winter shows that a new age has