Veronica Springs Church

05/31/2026

Veronica Springs Church

05/22/2026

On Sunday, May 17, 2026, Pastor Bob Ryan opened the service by unveiling Veronica Springs Church's newly completed vision blueprint, the result of a year-long process of prayer and discernment around the church's mission, values, and strategic priorities. He shared that the leadership felt strongly led to begin with the church's first and most foundational priority, hosting the presence of God, and announced a 40-day season of consecration beginning on Pentecost Sunday, May 24th and running through July 3rd, noting with excitement that the dates aligned both with Pentecost and with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association's national 50-day prayer initiative, which he saw as a sign that God was aligning the church with something larger. He anchored his remarks in Joshua 3:5, where Joshua calls the people to consecrate themselves before crossing the Jordan into the Promised Land, drawing the parallel that Veronica Springs stands on the cusp of a new season and must be prepared by the Spirit before moving forward.

Pastor Graham Vernall then took over and delivered an in-depth teaching on the biblical meaning of consecration, defining it as the act of setting something apart and devoting it entirely to God's purposes, and distinguishing it clearly from simply not sinning. He traced the pattern of consecration throughout Scripture, from Israel's repeated need to return to pure devotion, to David's prayer in Psalm 51, to Jesus fasting 40 days in the wilderness, to the disciples waiting in the upper room before Pentecost, making the case that every major movement of God in the Bible was preceded by a season of consecration. He then outlined four practical ways the congregation could personally engage during the 40 days, fasting from food, abstinence from pleasures and media, freewill financial offerings, and the removal of idols, explaining the spiritual purpose behind each one and sharing his own personal story of discovering hidden idols during an inner healing season. He closed by calling the church to yield to whatever the Holy Spirit was personally speaking and to prepare their hearts for what God wants to do in and through Veronica Springs in this new season.

On Sunday, May 17, 2026, Pastor Bob Ryan opened the service by unve...

05/17/2026

On Sunday, May 10, 2026, Veronica Springs Church member Michelle Ryan delivered the Mother's Day sermon, opening with honest acknowledgment that the day carries a wide range of emotions for women, from joy and gratitude to grief, longing, and loss, and creating space for all of it before diving into her message. Drawing from the stories of three women in Scripture, Hannah, Naomi, and Mary, she wove together a central theme that it is often in the place of greatest suffering and loss that God plants a seed of purpose destined to bless not only the individual but generations to come. She connected each biblical story to the messianic line, showing how God used women in pain to help bring forth the kingdom that would ultimately produce Jesus. Michelle then shared her own deeply personal story of losing a stillborn son, Judah Joseph, on the eve of his due date, and how God's faithfulness in the aftermath led her family to adopt a baby boy named Stefan, whose life had been intertwined with theirs in ways they could not have orchestrated themselves. She closed by inviting the congregation to sit quietly before the Lord and ask what imperishable seed he wants to plant, grow, and birth through them, anchoring the message in Romans 8:18 and the conviction that no present suffering can compare to the glory God intends to reveal in and through his people.

On Sunday, May 10, 2026, Veronica Springs Church member Michelle Ryan delivered the Mother's Day sermon, opening with honest acknowledgment that the day carr...

05/10/2026

On Sunday, May 3, 2026, Pastor Graham Vernall delivered the final sermon in the church's series on the foundational doctrines of Hebrews 6, teaching on eternal judgment and making the case that it is not a frightening doctrine to be avoided but one of the most beautiful and compelling truths in the Christian faith. He opened by defining biblical judgment at its core as the act of choosing between good and evil, tracing it back to the Garden of Eden where humanity seized that authority from God, and arguing that the deepest problem of human life is that every person operates from their own internal moral framework with no way to unify around a shared standard of good. He then walked through what Scripture actually teaches will happen on the Day of Judgment, drawing from Revelation 20, 2 Corinthians 5, and Matthew 12, explaining that all people will stand before Jesus and give an account for their works, that believers will be forgiven through the blood of Christ though still accountable, and that the judge is not a distant and fearsome God but Jesus himself, who understands human weakness and temptation. He addressed common questions around heaven and hell honestly, acknowledging the limits of what Scripture makes clear while firmly rejecting the idea that hell is either a myth or well-defined by sources like Dante, and he challenged the congregation to resist what Dietrich Bonhoeffer called cheap grace, the assumption that belief in Jesus carries no expectation of how one lives. He closed by framing eternal judgment as ultimately an act of cosmic restoration, the moment when God wipes away every tear, reunites heaven and earth, and ensures that good, not evil, defines the future of creation.

On Sunday, May 3, 2026, Pastor Graham Vernall delivered the final sermon in the church's series on the foundational doctrines of Hebrews 6, teaching on etern...

05/03/2026

On Sunday, April 26, 2026, Pastor Graham Vernall preached on the resurrection of the dead, the fifth foundational doctrine in the church's ongoing series through Hebrews 6, framing death as the greatest enemy of humanity and arguing that this doctrine is not peripheral but absolutely central to the Christian faith. Drawing extensively from 1 Corinthians 15, he countered the ancient Gnostic heresy that viewed the physical body as evil and salvation as an escape from it, making the case instead that God's material world is inherently good, that flesh was always intended to house the presence of God, and that the resurrection of Jesus and the future resurrection of believers are completely inseparable doctrines. He walked through Paul's teaching on what the resurrected body will actually be like, describing it as a spiritual body grown from the cells of the natural body, imperishable, powerful, and fully capable of housing the glory of God in a way our current bodies cannot. He challenged the congregation to consider how fully believing in their own future resurrection would change the way they live, noting that it was this very doctrine that compelled the early apostles to sacrifice their natural bodies without fear. He closed by addressing the question of what happens when believers die before the resurrection, offering comfort through passages in Philippians and 2 Corinthians that suggest the spirit is immediately present with Christ, while affirming that the resurrected body, not a disembodied spiritual existence, remains God's ultimate intention for humanity.

04-26-2026 - Resurrection from the Dead by Graham Vernall

05/03/2026

On Sunday, April 19, 2026, Veronica Springs Church member Sally Cook spoke about the laying on of hands as one of the foundational doctrines outlined in Hebrews 6, placing it within the context of the Jewish sacrificial system that the early Christian converts her audience's predecessors would have known intimately. She walked the congregation through the Old Testament temple practice of laying hands on an unblemished lamb, transferring guilt from the worshiper to the animal, and explained how this system, though meaningful, was never a permanent solution and required constant repetition every time a person sinned. She then showed how Jesus fulfilled and replaced that entire system, serving simultaneously as the worshiper, the spotless lamb, and the great high priest, making a once and for all sacrifice that tore the veil and opened direct access to God for everyone. From that foundation, she reframed what the laying on of hands means for believers today, not as a ritual to gain access to God, but as an act of blessing, impartation, and commissioning between people who already carry the Holy Spirit within them. She closed by inviting the congregation to pray over one another in small groups, calling forth the gifts and identity they each carry as new creations in Christ.

04-19-2026 Laying on of Hands by Sally Cook