Bridgetown Audio Podcast

From the series "Teach Us to Pray." Intercession means praying for other people, an act of love that enlists the power of heaven. Intercessory prayer is the exercise of Jesus’ victory through recovered authority.

From the series "Teach Us to Pray." Jesus teaches that the first words we speak in prayer should be adoration. But what if adoration is more for us than it is for God? What if adoration is the necessary inner work we need to pray with wide-eyed faith?

From the series "Teach Us to Pray." Contrary to popular belief, prayer doesn’t start with speaking. It starts with seeing. Stillness is the posture from which spoken prayer effortlessly flows.

From the series "Teach Us to Pray." Together as a church family we are going to spend the next 10 weeks on the mystery and invitation of prayer. Join us as we start this week with a simple invitation to pray as you can.

From the series "Advent." "The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth." —John 1v14

From the series "Advent." The Gospel is an invitation to join the new world offered in the birth of Christ. And the only way for this new world to advance is through its citizens.

From the series "Advent." "There was a man sent from God whose name was John. He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light. The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recog...

From the series "Advent." As we begin the season of Advent, we look at creation through the word and the Kingdom of God; the now and not yet. Jesus has come; darkness could not and still cannot stop Him in the world at large, our city, our church family, and in our individual lives. 

From the series "Demonstrating the Gospel." As we end Practicing the Way we look back at the miracle of deliverance in the past decade of Bridgetown Church, and look forward to the miracle of inheritance.

From the series "Demonstrating the Gospel." A follow up conversation with Tyler Staton and Jon Thompson on deliverance.

From the series "Demonstrating the Gospel." What is the role of spiritual gifts in deliverance ministry?

From the series "Demonstrating the Gospel." What is spiritual conflict and can we be demonized as Christians?

From the series "Demonstrating the Gospel." The subtle tragedy of Nicodemus is that in scene after scene, Jesus was awakening something in his heart, but he didn't drop his robes so he could know true life.

From the series "Demonstrating the Gospel." Healing is complex and each one of us comes to it with different experiences and expectations. At times, it's awe-inducing and often breathtakingly personal. And sometimes it's gut-wrenching and feels hopeless. But still, God invites us to ask for healing. In the Scriptures and through the life of Jesus, we see that healing feels like hoping, confronting...

From the series "Demonstrating the Gospel." Deep down each of us long for a God who is not only wise or powerful but a God who is deeply personal. We long for a God who speaks. The God of the Bible is radical not only in how He meets the personal longing of every soul, but that He chooses to speak to people in a surprising way.

From the series "Demonstrating the Gospel." You have been anointed with the same Spirit as Jesus to continue the full ministry of Jesus. What gets in the way of the experience of that astounding promise?

From the series "Demonstrating the Gospel." When God created people, He filled them with His Spirit to go on creating in His image. When God redeems people, He refills us with His Spirit to go on creating in His image. This teaching explores the Spirit’s role in the Church through the words we speak.

From the series "Demonstrating the Gospel." Scripture introduces us to the person of the Holy Spirit through metaphor. Looking at the Spirit through the metaphor of water we see a real and gritty honesty about the suffering in the world, but also an unwavering and joyful hope that breaks into the world.

From the series "Demonstrating the Gospel." The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity, and yet, for many in the Modern West, the Spirit is a familiar stranger. How do we know the Holy Spirit, not as a force to be captured but as a person to know and be known by?

From "Vision Series 2021."

From "Vision Series 2021." A brief look at the vision and future of Bridgetown Church, and leaning into the idea of first century discipleship that Jesus called us to.

From the series "Preaching The Gospel."

From the series "Preaching The Gospel." Our fifth and final best practice for preaching the gospel is to simply bear witness: to live in a way that begs the question. Most of “evangelism” in the early church was simply people living a radically different and deeply good life, and scores of people being drawn into the beauty of the gospel. Millions found Jesus so compelling they were willing to die...

From the series "Preaching The Gospel." In John, Jesus talks about us accomplishing even greater works than He did. But demonstrating the Kingdom of God is often more ordinary, and every day, than we expect.

From the series "Preaching The Gospel." When our methods are old and do not meet the current cultural context, how do we effectively preach the Gospel in Portland?