The Bridge Church Sermons

Jesus meets Peter for breakfast. But for Jesus, a meal is never just a meal. He is not content just to feed us physically. Peter denied Jesus three times, but in John 21, we see Jesus love and restore Peter. Yes, Jesus, loves us, and he also restores us. What shame are you carrying around? Listen to this week’s sermon on how Jesus restores our identity.  To support this ministry and help us contin...

Miracles often happen on the other side of ordinary obedience. In John 2, Jesus performed his first miracle at a party. He took dirty water and turned it into wine—and he did it through the hands of servants.  This means he can take whatever you’ve got too. Listen to this week’s sermon on how God wants to bring hope and healing through your hands.  To support this ministry and help us continue our...

Jesus chose to eat with a man who repressed God’s chosen people by stealing their wellbeing and subjecting them to poverty. Blessed are the poor in spirit. There was no one more impoverished than Zaccheus. He was a hated and rejected man. Yet, Jesus saw him, called him by name, and shared a meal with him.  The gospel is for everyone. The ministry of Jesus was one of eating and drinking. He sees pe...

Take a second to imagine the most important person in your life. If they had been far off or absent for some time, and each day and night, you had watched and waited for them to come home… how would that day feel when they finally returned?  This is the way the Father feels for you. He is filled with compassion, and he waits for every one of his children to come over the horizon after they’ve been...

Jesus got into fights. While dining in the home of a Pharisee, Jesus confronts the teachers of the law about their hypocrisy, greed, and awful treatment of others. Sometimes faithfully following Jesus will include difficult table talk. What does it look like for us to confront like Jesus? Listen to this week's sermon on how Jesus, in perfect loving kindness, engages in conflict and confrontat...

The more undeserving of grace you feel, the better place you’re in to receive it. In Luke 14, Jesus upends what it is to be invited to the table. Rather than a place for looking good, the table is a place for doing good. It’s not for the worthy, but the hungry.  What does it look like for you to accept the invite to the table of Jesus? Listen to this week’s sermon on humility and the grace that He...

Often we wear our busyness like a badge, proclaiming our worth by how much we accomplish. But as we see in Luke 10, Jesus calls us to take time to be present so we don't miss what really matters. He calls us to "be with Him" before we "do for him". To support this ministry and help us continue our God given mission, click here: http://bit.ly/2NZkdrC  Support the show

God often moves most powerfully when we are facing impossible situations. In our moments of desperation, when our backs are against the wall, God asks us to surrender control and trust Him fully. Though we may be facing scarcity and lack, when we give God our all, He can do more than we could ever imagine. To support this ministry and help us continue our God given mission, click here: http://bit....

There is a transformative power of hosting tables in the spirit and style of Jesus. When we invite the people who need it most to the table, the marginalized will cease to be marginal, the lonely will find companionship, and strangers will become friends. In Luke 7, Simon is challenged to examine his heart, acknowledge his own brokenness, and extend grace to others, like the sinful woman who joine...

Jesus often ministered to people while sharing meals together. He welcomed many to his table that others excluded - the poor, the sick, those deemed outcasts by society. This radical act of eating with "unclean" people was in fact one of the most controversial aspects of Jesus's ministry. As followers of Christ, we too are called to move beyond our comfort zones and worldly status t...

God doesn’t always give us answers but He always gives His presence. During the craziness, the loneliness, the hurt, and the frustration of the holidays, it’s easy to lose sight of God’s presence. But, despite all of the distractions and all of the things that can inhibit you from feeling His presence, He is with us. ____________________ To support this ministry and help us continue our God given...

When Jesus calls us to follow him, it’s an invitation into mission - to join the work of redemption through acts of grace. “Come, follow me,” Jesus says, “and fish for people.” As those saved by mercy, we get to pay that mercy forward through kindness, compassion, and gospel hope shared generously in Jesus' name. Every neighborhood and workplace becomes our mission field when we walk empowere...

Spiritual formation happens through the stories we believe, the habits we cultivate, and the relationships we foster. Often this process contains suffering and takes place over a long period of time, like the growth of a tree. To become like Christ, we need teaching that paints a picture of the life we were created for, practices that train us in godliness, and genuine Christian community to expos...

This week, we focused on “being with Jesus.” Oftentimes, we are so future-focused that we miss what God is doing right here and right now. Or we are too distracted to remain focused on the presence of God at all. We examined the story of Mary and Martha, and how Jesus rewards those who can set aside the distractions of life and simply be in His presence. Even though our culture will make this diff...

Who is Jesus to you? Like many of the people in the Bible, we have expectations of who the Messiah is and how he should act. But we cannot customize Jesus to our liking and we don't get to define what it means to follow him. He gives us clear instructions in Matthew 16:24, "Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me". We need to let go...

Just like John the Baptist, all Christians will go through seasons of doubt, but it's up to us whether that doubt can become a time of spiritual formation. Let us use our doubts to drive us into a deeper pursuit of Jesus. To support this ministry and help us continue our God given mission, click here: http://bit.ly/2NZkdrC  Support the show

Just like Thomas in John 20, our doubt can show how close we are to God; but the voice of doubt is not something to be ashamed of. You won't be belittled or judged. Let our doubts be challenged and transformed by God's truth and faithfulness. To support this ministry and help us continue our God given mission, click here: http://bit.ly/2NZkdrC  Support the show

Doubt is often seen as the enemy of faith or something to hide and be ashamed of. The truth is that many very faithful people, like Jesus himself, are known to have experienced the tension between faith and doubt. This tension is not always a bad thing! Doubt can be good. It can shake us up, make us think in new ways, and challenges us to see things with a new set of eyes. Despite common misconcep...

Do you ever look at the chaos in the world around you and think, "What is taking Jesus so long? When will he come back?" Most of us have felt that longing before. Knowing that God’s timeline is not ours, a better question to ask might be this: How do we live with patience and purpose while we are waiting? Every day that Christ delays his coming is His patience on display—it's an opp...

Wherever you have something true, you almost always have something counterfeit nearby. This also applies to biblical teachings. But how do we discern between true gospel teaching and false teaching? In 2 Peter, we are given a guide for recognizing and avoiding false teachers and their teachings. Listen to this week's sermon on false teaching – To support this ministry and help us continue our...

Many of us believe the Bible, but if we were pressed to explain WHY we believe the Bible, things would get awkward quickly. We can easily go through life not really convinced that the Bible is trustworthy, but just hoping that it is. To understand the validity of the Bible, we have to answer the questions of how the Bible came to be, how it came to us, and how it came together. Understanding this...

Going to church and learning what the Bible says is important - but it isn't the same as actively living out the truth that we believe. The Bible teaches that the key to growing in godliness is not about knowing more, but about excersizing our faith by being obedient (2 Peter 1:3-11). If you have the desire to grow your faith and deepen your relationship with God, this sermon from 2nd Peter i...

It’s easy to fall into a rhythm of prayer and to just “go through the motions,” but because we never mature past the need for God, we need to get out of the habits we form and dive into what it means to simply be with God in prayer. To be with God, we need to learn how to reorient ourselves, relinquish control, rest, and then respond to Him. This will allow us to enter into a dimension of prayer t...

Did you know we hear 20,000 - 30,000 words per day? And we see/hear 4,000 to 10,000 advertisements per day. That doesn't even include the voices of fear, shame, regret and guilt that we hear in our mind. Each of these voices act as thieves and robbers keeping us from actually listening to God. ____ To support this ministry and help us continue our God given mission, click here: http://bit.ly/...

Prayer is not about getting better at prayer, it is about getting closer to God. So many Christians find praying hard due to distraction, busyness, or being at a loss for words. We make it so much harder than it needs to be. Ephesisans 6:18 shows us that to talk with God, we should pray everywhere, for everything, and everyone. Repetition makes us better at every task, so why wouldn't it help...