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In this message, Pastor David Norris invites us into the season of Epiphany by helping us see why the reading and proclaiming of Scripture sits at the heart of our worship. Rather than treating the Bible as background material or inspirational add-on, we are reminded that God’s Word is an active, living means by which Christ is made known among us.

Drawing especially from John 1, Pastor David points us to Jesus as the Word made flesh—the fullest revelation of God’s heart and will. When Scripture is read aloud in the gathered assembly, it is not merely information being shared, but Christ himself being presented to his people. The structure of our liturgy, including the readings, confession, absolution, and communion, forms us by repeatedly placing us under the gracious authority of God’s revealed Word.

📖 Key Themes in This Message:

🔹 Why Scripture is central to Christian worship, not supplemental

🔹 Jesus as the Word of God revealed to the world

🔹 How Epiphany highlights Christ being made known to the nations

🔹 The role of liturgy in shaping us through hearing and responding to God’s Word

🔹 Why proclamation is something we receive together, not privately

As we gather week by week, God speaks—comforting, convicting, and revealing himself through Scripture. In hearing the Word proclaimed, we are drawn again to Christ, who meets us and forms us as his people.

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Welcome to Wellspring Church!

In this message, Pastor Billy Waters kicks off our new sermon series, Liturgy, by inviting us to slow down and ask an important question: Why do we worship the way we do? Rather than treating our Sunday service as a collection of habits or preferences, this sermon helps us see liturgy as a formative gift—one that shapes us over time into people who love God rightly.

Pastor Billy shares both Scripture and personal story to show that liturgy isn’t about being rigid or old-fashioned. It’s about being re-formed, week after week, by practices that root us in God’s story, train our hearts toward worship, and keep us anchored in His presence.

📖 Key Themes in This Message:

🔹 What “liturgy” really means and why every church has one

🔹 How repeated practices shape our loves and our faithfulness

🔹 Why worship is something we are formed into, not something we consume

🔹 Seeing our service as a faithful response to God’s gracious work

This opening message sets the foundation for the series by reminding us that we don’t just gather to feel inspired—we gather to be formed. In prayer, Scripture, confession, and communion, God is steadily shaping us into people who know how to remain with Him.

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Welcome to Wellspring Church!

In this message, Pastor Billy Waters invites us to linger in the heart of the Christmas story and carry its truth forward: God is with us.

Centered on Matthew 1:18–23, this sermon reminds us that the incarnation is not just something we celebrate once a year—it is the defining reality of our lives. In Jesus, God does not remain distant or abstract; He comes near, dwelling with His people in real, embodied ways.

Pastor Billy weaves together Scripture, reflection, and wisdom from the Church to show that God’s presence is not passive. God desires to be known, welcomed, and wanted, and His nearness reshapes how we live, listen, and respond.

📖 Key Themes in This Message:

🔹 The meaning of “Emmanuel” and why it still matters

🔹 God’s presence as active, personal, and transformative

🔹 How longing and attentiveness mark a life shaped by God

🔹 Receiving Christ not just at Christmas, but every day

The good news is simple and profound: God is with us—not only in our joy, but in our waiting, our questions, and our ordinary days. As we move beyond the season, we are invited to live awake to His presence among us.

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Welcome to Wellspring Church!

On Christmas Eve, Pastor Billy Waters invites us into the heart of the Christmas story—not as a distant memory, but as a present and living reality. At the center of his message is the simple yet profound truth of Christmas: God with us. Christmas is more than a celebration of something that once happened; it is the assurance that God has drawn near and remains present with us.

Drawing on the story of Jesus’ birth and the comforting imagery of Psalm 23, we’re reminded that our deepest longings—for peace, rest, guidance, and restoration—are ultimately met in Christ. God does not promise an easy path, but He does promise His presence, walking with us through every valley and leading us toward life.

📖 Key Themes in This Message:

🔹 Christmas as the celebration of God with us

🔹 Why our deepest longings cannot be satisfied apart from Jesus

🔹 The gift of God’s presence rather than a problem-free life

🔹 Jesus as the Good Shepherd who restores our souls

At Christmas, we remember that the greatest gift God gives is Himself. In Jesus, God comes close—Immanuel—meeting us in our need, guiding us with love, and offering a peace the world cannot give.

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Welcome to Wellspring Church!

In this message, Pastor Billy Waters invites us into the tension and beauty of the Fourth Sunday of Advent by turning to the surprising ending of the book of Jonah. Rather than a neat resolution, Jonah 4 leaves us with a question—one that exposes our hearts and God’s expansive mercy.

Jonah is angry that God shows compassion to Nineveh, and God gently confronts him: Is it right for you to be angry?Through this exchange, we see how easy it is to celebrate God’s grace for ourselves while resisting it for others. Advent, Pastor Billy reminds us, prepares us not just to receive Jesus, but to be transformed by the wideness of His mercy.

📖 Key Themes in This Message:

🔹 God’s compassion that extends beyond our comfort zones

🔹 The danger of begrudging grace instead of rejoicing in repentance

🔹 Advent as a season that reshapes our loves and expectations

🔹 Learning to celebrate what God is doing—even when it challenges us

The book of Jonah ends without closure, inviting us to step into the story ourselves. Will we cling to our anger and sense of fairness, or will we rejoice in a God who is slow to anger and abounding in love?

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In this message, Pastor David Norris invites us into Jonah chapter 3, where we see what happens when God’s word finally breaks through hardened hearts—and how real repentance always begins with conviction.

Jonah’s message to Nineveh is short and uncomfortable, yet God uses it to awaken an entire city. Pastor David reminds us that repentance isn’t about surface-level remorse or religious behavior; it’s about being cut to the heart by the Spirit of God and turning fully toward Him. When we respond with humility, God meets us not with destruction, but with mercy.

📖 Key Themes in This Message:

🔹 Jonah’s obedience to speak the message God gives—no more, no less

🔹 Why true repentance starts with conviction, not shame

🔹 The difference between temporary regret and wholehearted turning

🔹 God’s deep mercy toward those who respond, even at the last moment

God is always eager to forgive, restore, and bring light where there has been darkness. The question is whether we will listen when He calls us to turn.

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Welcome to Wellspring Church!

Waiting is hard. In this week’s Advent message, Pastor Katie Gayle invites us to take an honest look at the ache, impatience, and longing that shape our lives—and to see how Advent speaks directly into that experience. We live between the first coming of Christ and His promised return, and while we wait, our hearts can easily grow weary, frustrated, or afraid God has forgotten us.

Drawing from the imagery of kids asking, “Are we there yet?”, Pastor Katie names the deeper question we all carry: “God, are You there yet?” Advent reminds us that Jesus will come again to make all things right. But it also forms us as people who can wait with hope—and who know how to turn toward God instead of turning inward to anxiety or false comforts.

📖 Key Themes in This Message:

🔹 Why waiting reveals our desires, fears, and false securities

🔹 The promise of Jesus’ second coming and the hope it brings to real-life waiting

🔹 Learning to turn toward God in the “middle period” between the comings of Christ

🔹 Repentance as a gift—releasing what keeps us in darkness and returning to the One who gives life

🔹 Worship as a way of seeing clearly again who God is—constant, good, merciful, and worthy of it all

Advent is not about pretending everything is fine. It is about naming our longing and letting it draw us back to the God who sees, saves, and sustains. As Pastor Katie reminds us, in our waiting we pray, we repent, and we worship—because Jesus is worthy, and because His presence meets us right where we are.

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Welcome to Wellspring Church!

On this first Sunday of Advent, Pastor Billy Waters invites us to begin the season with a heart check—not merely preparing for Christmas, but preparing our hearts for the second coming of Christ. Walking through Jonah 1, he shows how the prophet’s reluctance exposes the gap between knowing God’s heart and actually sharing it with the world.

Jonah is called to preach to Nineveh, a violent enemy of Israel, yet he runs—fast and far. Not out of simple fear, Pastor Billy explains, but because Jonah knows God is merciful… and he doesn’t want that mercy extended to people he considers undeserving. Even still, God’s mercy moves relentlessly: toward pagans, toward enemies, toward stubborn prophets who would rather drown than obey.

📖 Key Themes in This Message:

🔹 Advent as a season of heart preparation—aligning our hearts with God’s mercy

🔹 Jonah as the “anti-prophet” whose resistance reveals God’s unwavering compassion

🔹 Why we often flee from the people God calls us to love

🔹 The irony of pagans crying out to God while God’s prophet sleeps

🔹 God’s mercy reaching pagans, enemies, and even a reluctant prophet

🔹 Our calling to move with Jesus into brokenness, bringing light, salt, and freedom

Pastor Billy shares the powerful story of a Rwandan pastor whose congregation now includes people who killed his own family—an embodied picture of mercy that refuses to stay away from “the other.” Likewise, we are called to move toward those we find difficult, different, or even painful to love.

Faith isn’t passive. We are ambassadors, fishers of people, salt, and light—sent into dark, hurting places with Jesus to reveal the mercy that changed us first.

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💬 How is God inviting you to respond in mercy this week?

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