Disciples Who Hear God's Voice

  Two weeks ago, we had one of the largest VBS weeks in Wellspring history. This year, as in other years, we heard testimonies of kids starting their discipleship journeys with Jesus, encountering God, and hearing his voice. One of the things I love about VBS is that everyone gets really into it. I am usually in the Bible Drama Room, where we put on skits that include a fun science experiment and end with a moment where we minister to the kids.  I never get the idea that the BDR people are "too cool" to get really into it. On the contrary, sometimes I step back and marvel that a bunch of tired, working adults would spend so much time working on a skit for kids. This year the the Main Stage actors worked even harder! They were up at the church rehearsing numerous evenings and afternoons. The fact is, the whole church comes together to pour themselves out for the kingdom, and the love and care shows.  Click here to see Photos from VBS 2025 - Kingdom Climbers Click here to s...

Jerry, serving in the snack room at VBS As of the writing of this post, it’s 3:00 am. I woke up, realizing I hadn’t actually organized strategic prayer for Jerry Slagle yet, and this is no small matter. The original plan was to send out a VBS recap email, but that can wait until next week. Jerry has been fighting cancer for more than two years. Recently, he was given a very sad and scary report from his doctors that he only has limited time left, less than a year. However, two weeks before he got the report, a person on our prayer team had a dream that we believe was from God, telling us that “we need to pray for Jerry.”  Here is the text from that dream: Two weeks ago I had a very intense dream about Jerry Slagle.  In the dream, I knew that he was in a life or death scenario (I assumed the cancer). I was outside somehow gathering people together. We (church members) began urgently alerting each other one by one. Instinctively we began to form a path with people strategically ...

Last week I posted about a GREAT prophetic testimony, but the link I sent was the wrong link! Apparently, I sent a link to my teaching on the Types, Tests, and Shelves for Receiving Prophetic words. I highly recommend listening to that teaching. 😉 Nevertheless, I want you to be able to watch the actual video testimony from Shawn Lazar.  Since this week was VBS, I haven't had time to write a longer, more involved post, so we'll just let today be about correcting last week. Here's the correction:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR3vteKyCV0

Shawn Lazar's testimony  Last week, I posted A Sad Story with a Surprise Ending  about the topic of fake prophets manufacturing things that look like prophetic words. At Wellspring, we had to make a decision about what to do with the invalid prophetic trickery that's going on out there. We decided it would be an overreaction to stop our own ministry. We decided it would be an under-reaction to just carry on without mentioning anything.  Instead, I made last week's post as a step toward transparency and addressing this issue head-on. On Sunday, when we do our own stage prophetic ministry, we will address the fake stuff going on and invite people into critically testing every word.  Today, I want to do two things. First, I want to give the link to a video and a paper that I put together to explain how to categorize prophetic words and subsequently test them. Click here to watch the video and/or read the paper Types, Tests, and Shelves for Prophetic words . Second, I wa...

  Click here to watch the full interview between Mike Winger and Elijah Stephens The picture above is Mike Winger on the left, who is a popular bible teacher online. I watch him frequently, and highly recommend him. The guy on the far right is Elijah Stephens. You may recognize him from preaching at Wellspring a couple of times, including the first time my wife and I ever visited Wellspring.  The guy in the middle is Shawn Bolz, and he represents something enormous and not good going on in the prophecy world. Wellspring believes in prophecy, and we even practice what is called "stage prophetic," where a prophetic minister stands on a stage and delivers prophetic words to random people. I want to take the time in this post to 1) explain Elijah's story, 2) explain this avalanche of false prophets getting exposed, and 3) explain how our practices differ from that false stuff. Elijah's story While Elijah was a student at a ministry school, Shawn Bolz came to minister ther...

  The team of evangelists praying before going to the Dallas Pride Fest in 2024 Today (Saturday, June 28), a team from Wellspring will be going to the Fort Worth Pride Festival to share the gospel of Jesus with whoever will talk to us. In the past, we've gone to the Dallas Pride Festival, and we were able to stand outside, handing out free waters, Gatorades, and snacks.  This year, since the festival is smaller, there's really not a good place to set up outside, so we are trying a different approach. No waters, Gatorades, or snacks. We're just going right inside to talk to people. This is more like the regular street evangelism that we normally do, approaching people and striking up conversations. However, at the Pride Fest, there's an obvious twist. These people won't exactly be random mall-goers. They will be whoever is attending the Pride Festival for whatever reasons they decide to attend.  Please pray that we will be spiritually and physically protected.  Pleas...