Disciples Who Hear God's Voice

Many of you are aware that we are entering into a season of Bible reading and Scripture memory as a church. Last week, we read Matthew Chapters 1 & 2. If you remember way back in 2023, we started our Gospel of the Kingdom series, and I began preaching through Matthew one passage at a time, so as we read as a church, we will be covering familiar ground for a little while. If you want to learn more about how to read scripture effectively, and if you want to stay on track as we read together, visit the scripture reading page on our website! www.wellspringdfw.org/bible-reading-memorization ______________________________ Last Sunday, I made a big to-do about bringing your physical Bible to church on Sundays. I’m a big fan of getting well acquainted with a good, old-fashioned physical Bible. However, afterward, a church member shared her Bible discipline with me, and I found that she has a really good relationship with the scriptures and ONLY reads electronic Bible sources, listens to t...

 I have two small-ish and probably pretty nerdy corrections to make about something I said in last week's sermon. I made two mistakes when I was talking about the Septuagint and the Hebrew language. Mistake #1: I said that Hebrew had gone extinct at one point. That's not correct. Ancient Hebrew never went extinct because it, like Latin in Catholic Mass and Koine Greek in Bible translations, continued to be used, studied, and understood in certain religious contexts (including Bible translation). Because no one spoke it as a native language, but because many people learned it in a religious/educational context, it was a dead language, not extinct. (Click here for an article about Extinct vs Dead languages ) If it had ever fallen out of use in religious things, it would have gone extinct. Mistake #2: Ironically, because I made this mistake ALSO, it made my ultimate point still valid and even a little MORE interesting now that we're clearing it up. I said the Septuagint was w...

Now that we’ve moved our emails back to Saturday, we’re putting all the notes that our note-taking team compiles during the sermons on their own separate blog post that you can find here: www.wellspringdfw.org/sermon-notes-1 I will probably share a little about this in an upcoming sermon, but I will share it here in more detail. Many of you know that a number of people in the church have been in a season of prayer and fasting for some time now. Many people on the Kenya team have experimented with fasting, some for the first time, some are pushing a little deeper into their fasting. I know of people who have fasted longer than they ever have in this recent season. I know of some people who have tried a Daniel fast for the first time in this season, and they are reaping the benefits of freedom from sugar! It’s a real thing. For myself, I have been in a season of fasting now for quite a while, and I have been praying for the Lord to restore my passion for prayer. I used to have a strong p...

When we went to the mall on Thursday for outreach, we walked by a store, and a young man inside was highlighted to me. It is somewhat hard to say what it means for someone to be "highlighted," but basically, when I see the person I start to feel a bit excited that if we talk to him or her, something will happen. We went into the store and began talking to the guy, but the conversation was bland at best. We shared the love of Christ with him, and I gave him a card for the church. Then two ladies walked by the front of the store, and they were highlighted to me as well, so we chased them down and began talking to them… And the conversation was even MORE bland than the first. As we were leaving that second encounter, I told the people I was with that that was two swings and two misses for me. Usually, when someone is highlighted, something noteworthy happens. However, I don’t get too discouraged by things like that. You just have to take chances. Once we had gotten a pretty good...

Saturday Emails... Hey friends. We have finished our Make Disciples series, and we’re heading back to the book of Matthew, continuing in our Gospel of the Kingdom series. I’m glad to be back to Matthew because preaching exegetically through the scriptures is really my bread and butter as a teacher.  One thing we tried during Make Disciples was sending out the email on Monday along with sermon notes. The idea was that if we got notes to people as soon as possible after the sermon, small groups would all have them available through the week to help with discussion. We are still trying to determine how effective the notes were for that purpose, but we found out that hustling to put the email out on Monday cut into my precious sermon prep time for the next week pretty severely.  Therefore, we’re moving the email back to Saturday. If you loved getting the sermon notes please respond to this email and let us know.  Exploding eardrums… Last Sunday, the music during the first s...

From the Pastor's Desk Hello Wellspring, Pastor David here to give you an update about our Missions Ministry! This week, we are sending out our first Mission Updates. Mission Updates are regular updates on how to KNOW, PRAY, GIVE, GO for our Mission Partners [we have 10 of them! 5 local and 5 non-local!].  2 Things Will Happen as a Part of this Update: Adopt a Mission Emails  - if you selected to adopt one of our Missions through the Missions Week sign-up, the sign-up during the Member's Meeting, or the sign-up option online...you will be getting your FIRST Missions Update this week sent to your email address.  Mission Blog Updates  - all Mission Updates for every ministry will be posted on our  Missions Blog  so you can hop onto our website and see how our Ministry Partners are doing.  If you haven't Adopted a Mission yet If you haven't adopted a mission to KNOW, PRAY, GIVE, GO for 2025; you can do so by selecting the Mission at the top of the Mi...