By Matt Watson There will always be opposition. No matter the type of work, no matter how beneficial, there will always be naysayers and deniers opposing it. This is especially true for those doing the Lord’s work. When we imitate our creator God, and build for him rather than ourselves, the world takes notice and then tries to stop it. …
By Matt Watson Anything that keeps you from pursuing the will of God is not just a distraction—it is an assault from Hell designed to derail your soul. Notice I did not say “keeps you from pursuing your dreams” or “keeps you from living your truth.” That’s because, despite our tendency to be self-absorbed and entitled, life isn’t about you. …
By Al Johnson On September 10, 2025, Charlie Kirk was assassinated while speaking to a group of students at Utah Valley University. I heard the news as I was wrapping up one meeting and running late for the next. Messages flooded my phone with the first videos circulating online. At that point, Charlie had not been publicly pronounced dead. Numb, …
By Matt Watson If The Well Community Church were to receive a letter from the Lord, I believe it would resemble the one addressed to the church in Ephesus in Revelation 2:1–7. We care deeply about sound doctrine and contending for the faith, but this sometimes leads us toward hardness rather than softness. A member once mentioned visiting other churches …
By Al Johnson I love preaching through books of the Bible, and this past Sunday we began a new series through 1 John. The more I spend time studying the Apostle John’s writings, the more I walk away encouraged and excited to pastor Jesus’ Church. John was a dear friend of Jesus, and not the kind of fair-weather friend who …
By Al Johnson By the time John wrote this letter, he was an older man, having spent decades following Jesus and pastoring people. His words in 1 John are not dry doctrine but the passionate plea of a spiritual father urging his children to remain in fellowship with the Lord Jesus Christ. When John first met Jesus, he was somewhat …
“You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God. For the ministry of this service is not only supplying the needs of the saints but is also overflowing in many thanksgivings to God. By their approval of this service, they will glorify God because of your submission that …
“I did not say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.” — Isaiah 45:19 “Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.”— Jeremiah 29:12-13 There will be days that you don’t feel like seeking …
“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or …
“So we fasted and implored our God for this, and he listened to our entreaty.” — Ezra 8:23 The Bible is overflowing with examples of how communal fasting led to God doing mighty things and answering prayers. Ezra 8:23 is one of them! As Ezra and God’s people fasted they brought their prayer requests to God, and God answered their …
