Disciples Who Hear God's Voice

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...

From the Pastor's Desk That’s the thing. We don’t know what the survey says till you fill it out! As you know, we are in a series at church right now called Make Disciples, but our call to make disciples is much bigger than a simple sermon series. This coming Sunday will be the final sermon in our series, but our mission to Make Disciples Who Hear God's Voice will not end.  Survey This survey is a chance to find out how the members of the church are doing in areas of discipleship that we’ve been focusing on since we began our new vision. Below is a link to the Annual survey that we talked about at the member meeting. Take the survey HERE Website We have updated the Wellspring website to help us stay focused on the vision. You'll find a brand new Missions page that tells you how to Know, Pray, Give, and Go to the various ministries we support and partner with. You'll find a page that captures our heart behind Discipleship and a page explaining   how to Belong at Wel...

From the Pastor's Desk If you were at the Sunday service, you know that the one thing all Christians should be eager to do is to practice the spiritual discipline of fasting.  The link to the sermon along with notes are all below, but there are a number of resources I wanted to share with you that help you understand the physical side of fasting. It's a topic I'm more and more interested in, but I practiced self-discipline by NOT just giving you an hour-long TED talk on the physical benefits of fasting.  Here are a few videos I've collected over the years that have gotten me excited to fast. These are not from a Christian perspective, and you'll see that some are just put together by YouTubers, but if you're taking on a fast, hopefully, you'll find these helpful. Remember, we fast for the Spiritual benefits, but God has designed us to ALSO get great physical benefits from this spiritual practice.  Videos about the physical side of fasting: What happens to yo...

From the Pastor's Desk For the past few weeks, we've talked about intimacy with God , and I've tried to give practical things we can do in our Christian lives to grow in intimacy. A few weeks ago, I said that one of the ways to grow in intimacy with God is actually to grow in vulnerability with one another.  When we do the hard work of being honest and letting others see into our lives, our honesty muscle grows, and our self-deception muscle shrinks . Our self-deception muscle is not something we develop intentionally. A lot of the time, we don't even know we have it, but this strange muscle I'm talking about is the culprit behind self-righteousness and that curious habit we have of being VERY aware of everyone else's faults and failures but refusing to even acknowledge our own.  Ironically, we don't develop that self-deception muscle because we have a high view of ourselves. We develop it because we are afraid to face how fickle, judgmental, selfish, and un...