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How can we approach Bible passages that feel troubling or confusing? Pastor Suzanne and Pastor Tony discuss reading through the lens of Jesus, considering a passage’s historical context and genre, and making room for curiosity, humility, and honest questions.

Revelation 21

What does Revelation say about the end of the story—and what happens when we die? Pastor Suzanne and Pastor Tony Vis explore the closing chapters of Scripture and challenge the idea that Christian hope is about escaping the world. Instead, Revelation offers a vision of God restoring creation and coming to dwell with humanity. They discuss how rapture theology became influential, how the new Jerusa...

Pastor Suzanne and Pastor Tony look back at Sunday’s sermon on Revelation 12–13 and then take a deeper dive into the bigger theme of temptation in the Bible. Their starting point is Genesis 3: the serpent’s craftiness, the way we make God stricter than he is, and the pull of fruit that looks good. Along the way they talk about the golden calf, the monarchy, and Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness....

Pastors Tony and Suzanne have a conversation about how Revelation 12 turns vivid, complex imagery into a clear central takeaway: faithfulness and hope in difficult times. It explores the symbolism of the woman, child, and dragon, tracing echoes back to Genesis, the story of Jesus’ birth, and the conflict between God’s kingdom and earthly empires. Pastor Tony explains why Revelation’s recurring tim...

Revelation gets less scary and more brilliant when you learn how to read its symbols the way the first audience would have understood them. Pastor Suzanne and Pastor Tony unpack why context changes everything - and why the images that confuse modern readers were often clear to the people John was writing to. Using vivid examples from Yankees gear in Boston to a Midwestern windmill mistaken for &qu...

Revelation is not the terrifying codebook most people think it is—and this conversation shows you why. Pastor Suzanne and Pastor Tony Vis unpack the book through a completely different lens, one that turns fear into curiosity and confusion into hope. Tony brings years of Bible teaching, study, and a longtime fascination with Revelation to the table while Suzanne names the real problem: this is the...

Mission is not just about going far away. It's about showing up where people are hurting, building communities that last, and caring for missionaries as carefully as the people they serve. Pastor Suzanne sits down with Scott Engelsman , Chief Missions Officer for the Reformed Church in America, for a conversation that moves from the poorest villages in India to the king's palace in Bahra...

In this episode of Bridge Builders, Pastor Suzanne hosts Trish Berry and Dar as they reflect on the church’s discernment process around human sexuality and the creation of its theological position statement. Rather than rehashing arguments, they focus on what it takes for people with different convictions to stay in the room, listen well, and wrestle faithfully together. The conversation explores...

Sunday morning worship at The Bridge with guest speaker Rev. Dave Schutt. Dave addresses the question, “Why does The Bridge have women pastors?” He walks through both the complementarian and egalitarian views of women in church leadership before sharing the biblical case for The Bridge’s egalitarian position. At the heart of the message is the belief that the Holy Spirit gives spiritual gifts with...

What happens when a church starts seeing women as leaders before they have the language to call them pastors? Pastor Suzanne Vogel sits down with Pastor Aaron VIs and Pastor Jane Brown to tell the story of how call, community, and courage opened the door for women in ministry - and why that still matters now.

Why do some churches baptize babies while others wait until adulthood? Pastor Suzanne sits down with Andy Vis and Jen Phillips for a thoughtful, practical conversation that gets to the heart of one of the church's most meaningful and debated practices. If you've ever wondered what infant baptism is really about, or how families make these decisions, this episode gives you a clearer, more...

What if the kids in worship are not the problem, but part of the point? This conversation with Pastor Suzanne, Doug and Carrie VanZanten, and Kelsey McGinnis reframes the chaos, the noise, and the awkward moments as part of how church forms both children and adults.