Sermons for whole-life restoration.
Wellspring Church NYC - PODCAST is a rotating sermon feed from a church, with teaching that moves patiently from biblical texts into lived spiritual need. Recent messages center on Jesus, sozo, communion, shame, healing, deliverance, prayer, and the invitation to encounter God personally.
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Wellspring Church NYC - PODCAST is the teaching feed of a church, built around sermons rather than interviews or topical chatter. It has a rotating voice, but a consistent shape. A message usually begins close to the ground, with a table, a scripture, a personal aside, or a felt spiritual problem. Then it widens. The teaching moves from communion to the cross, from biblical figures to present-day pain, from doctrine to the kind of prayer that expects God to act. Recent episodes spend significant time with sozo, a word used to hold salvation together with healing, freedom, forgiveness, deliverance, restoration, and wholeness. That breadth matters here. Salvation is not presented as a narrow transaction or a distant future only, but as something that touches bodies, memories, habits, shame, anxiety, and the ways people try to survive. Seth Bazacas brings a sweeping Easter emphasis, placing Jesus outside the city gate and turning that image into a claim about love moving toward the margins. He also frames Alpha as a table-centered encounter with Jesus, not merely a program. Olivia Munn-Shirsath’s sermons carry a strong ministry-of-healing current, using stories of pain-formed beliefs, prayer, and encounter to show how old wounds can be met by God. Dimetra Barrios speaks into survival mode, human limitation, deliverance, and the body as a temple of the Holy Spirit, often asking the church to slow down, watch, and pray. Brett Pontecorvo brings prayer-team perspective, scripture practice, and personal history into a message about learning to pray through the Bible. The style is earnest and emotionally open. It is also argumentative in a pastoral way, returning to the same truth until it lands. Listeners should expect direct Christian language, prayer, communion, biblical interpretation, and invitations to respond. The show is best for people who want sermon teaching that treats spiritual formation as deeply human work, where shame, pain, exhaustion, and longing are named carefully and then brought back to Jesus.
Made for: For listeners seeking warm, scripture-rooted Christian sermon teaching with a strong emphasis on healing, prayer, communion, and the Holy Spirit. It especially fits people drawn to pastoral messages about shame, pain, survival, and restoration.
What sets it apart: Its center of gravity is sozo: salvation described as forgiveness, healing, deliverance, freedom, and embodied wholeness. The rotating teachers keep the sermons personal while returning to a shared expectation that God meets people in present-tense ways.
Wellspring Church is a diverse and vibrant community in Queens, New York and part of the Vineyard Movement. The Vineyard Movement is a fellowship of over 500 churches in the U.S. and 2400+ churches globally with shared values and ministry. Wellspring was birthed from the scripture Isaiah 43:19, with its name meaning "a source of continual supply". We long to see the Spirit of God revive hearts, help us to relate to one another in intentional community, and join God in the renewing of the city around us. All are welcome to worship with us on Sundays at 9am & 11am. If you want to find out more about our church activities, vision and values, you can visit wellspring.nyc .
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Scripture, personal stories, and prayer meet in sermons that treat Christian salvation as healing and present transformation.
Wellspring Church NYC - PODCAST brings the immediacy of a Sunday sermon into its treatment of scripture, healing, and life with God. Teachings from Seth, Olivia, and Dimetra move between close readings of biblical passages and stories that give those readings emotional weight.
A sheep's marked ear turns into a question about how much authority you're willing to hand Jesus.
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A sermon on the cross as God's movement from the margins to the center.
An Alpha invitation opens into a focused reflection on where Jesus stands in relation to people pushed outside the city. The episode moves from shared food, spiritual openness, and the hope that faith might change a life in a real way, then settles around the cross and…
An Easter sermon that presents resurrection as a present source of healing, freedom, and shared spiritual life.
Easter is framed as a present-tense reality: Jesus is alive, active, and able to meet trauma, addiction, shame, and the ordinary limits of daily life.
A sermon on salvation that moves from Holy Week remembrance to everyday prayer for healing.
SOZO: SAVED TO SAVE treats salvation as more than a future answer about life after death. Beginning with communion at Wellspring during Holy Week, the episode places remembrance alongside the movement from Jesus' entry into Jerusalem to his crucifixion, death, burial, and…
A pastoral reflection on spiritual fatigue, human limits, and the wholeness named by sozo.
Survival starts to look normal when human limits get confused with spiritual failure, and this sermon works that tension through the meaning of sozo: to make whole, save, heal, and restore.
A sermon on pain-trained beliefs, embodied healing, and the kind of encounter with Jesus that makes wholeness feel near.
Salvation takes on a wider, more embodied shape in this Wellspring teaching. Sozo is framed as reaching poverty, captivity, wounded desire, and the beliefs people learn to live by after pain.
A teaching where marked sheep and a pierced ear sharpen chosen belonging.
Olivia, a Wellspring Church pastor and former Salvation Army captain, frames the shepherd as a picture of trustworthy authority. She moves from sheep marked by the ear as belonging to an owner to the Old Testament bond servant who chooses a pierced ear as a sign of lasting…
An Easter sermon that connects the resurrection with present healing, freedom, and a congregation invited to welcome the Holy Spirit.
Seth, a pastor at Wellspring Church, frames Easter as more than a remembered event. For him, the resurrection tests whether faith is alive in the present, moving from signs of authenticity, healing, and freedom in the church community toward the central claim that Jesus is…
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
Pastor Seth Bazacas celebrates Wellspring Church's 8-year anniversary and shares the vision of being a source of continual supply for the gospel in New York City.
Pastor Seth Bazacas returns from sabbatical to discuss the power of waiting and rewiring one's life pace and presence.
Pastor Olivia Munn-Shirsath delivers a sermon exploring Psalm 23, focusing on the metaphor of God as a shepherd.
Seth Bazacas, a pastor at Wellspring Church in Queens, delivers an Easter Sunday teaching on why people search for life in dead places.
Seth Bazacas opens Wellspring Church NYC's teaching podcast by saying Alpha is "an experience over great food where you get to meet Jesus." He argues that when God moves, people move too, and says Jesus' call to "come follow me" makes Christianity "not a spectator sport." The sermon reads Hebrews 13:11-13 and Luke 14, where Jesus suffers "outside the city gate" and a king keeps sending servants until the banquet fills with the poor, crippled, blind, and lame.
At Wellspring Church NYC, Seth opens Easter with communion, says there are eight stations for bread and cup, and frames the table as a place for receiving life rather than earning it.
SOZO: SAVED TO SAVE links Wellspring Church NYC's communion practice to the claim that sozo means rescue, healing, deliverance, restoration, and wholeness.
A church teaching on deliverance and communion, emphasizing that believers are temples of the Holy Spirit.
Seth Bazacas teaches on how shame tries to disqualify us, using Peter's failure and restoration as an example, and emphasizes that Jesus shared communion with Peter knowing he would deny him.
Pastor Dimetra Barrios delivers week three of Wellspring Church NYC's 'Sozo' series, using the Greek word sozo—'to make whole, save, heal, restore'—to examine what happens when survival mode becomes so normal that a person no longer recognizes it as a problem.
Pastor Olivia Munn-Shirsath of Wellspring Church NYC preaches on 'beliefs formed in pain' using the story of Hagar, an Egyptian enslaved woman in Genesis who is abused by Abraham and Sarai, flees into the desert, and receives two direct encounters with God decades apart.
Brett Pontecorvo introduces himself and shares his background before beginning a teaching on praying scripture at Wellspring Church.
A guest speaker at Wellspring Church delivers a sermon about God's presence and protection, using the analogy of the TV show Fear Factor.
Pastor Patrick Murphy of Wellspring Church continues a sermon series on Psalm 23, focusing on God as a shepherd who guides, after sharing church announcements.