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We continue on in our series on love looking at what it means to trust in God. What does it look like for you to believe that God wants only your ultimate good and that He's fighting for you in both the valley and the mountain top?

Pastor Sean starts off our new summer teaching series on the way of Love. In it he talks about the way love hopes. And not just a common, human hope. Instead, we're given a divine, living hope by the Spirit of God. This is a hope that defeats death, that confronts heartache, and that stands victorious in the name of Jesus Christ.

Pastor Cami concludes our series surveying the last part of the book of Genesis and considering the areas that God demonstrated His ability to work difficult things For The Good. In this final installment, we look at perhaps the most difficult of the five. We look at where God is in the midst of our loss. The last couple years have brought with them a great lot of loss for a many great people, not...

What on earth is the "fruit of the Spirit", and why does it matter? We live in a world that, without the Spirit of God at work in people's lives, is full of depravity, selfishness, and violence. The Lord wants to do a different thing in His people. He wants to cultivate new behaviors in those that choose to follow Him and He wants to empower that transformation through His Holy Spirit.

The world is full of injustice. People wrongfully accused and convicted, people skipped over or shown preferential treatment, and people denied access to necessities because of their faith or the color of their skin. In this part of For The Good, Pastor Ryan talks about how we respond in the face of injustice committed against us. Do we seek to get others back for what they've done to us? Or do we...

"God is our Provider." It's easy to say, but hard to believe. Add the pressures of economic downturn, high cost of living, and social pressures to impress to this disconnect between our heads and our hearts and the results can be devastating. We might put our hope in finances. We might draw our identity from our careers or incomes or our roles as breadwinners in the family. Or inversely, we might...

Pastor Mike has been an integral, influential, and infectious leader in the community of The Bridge since The Bridge and Mission Hills Community Church merged. He's been impactful at the property the church resides for even longer, not only as a pastor, but as a teacher, counselor, and mentor. Before addressing the content of this teaching we say thank you Pastor Mike. Happy "refirement"! We look...

Few things have the emotional capacity to wound quite like rejection. We continue to look at the story of Joseph in Genesis, who faced a rejection of incredible violence. Despised by his brothers, He was cast away and sold into slavery. There was a long journey in between, but by the work of God Joseph was able to overcome the pain of that rejection. He became the model of restorative grace that p...

How great is our God? Pastor Mike delivers his penultimate message before retirement in which he begins a two-part survey of Psalm 145. Here he keys in on the first seven verses and explores the praises heaped upon God as the psalmist wonders at the magnitude and incomprehensibility of God while calling the community of His people to praise through the word of their testimony.

You can tell someone all day about your faith, about what is right and wrong, and about your ethics. It won't carry much weight unless you actually live it out. As you lead and mentor, you have to exemplify what it is you want to see grow in those you're leading. This is true of children, students, mentees, etc. There is no "do as I say, not as I do". The only effective leadership that leads to he...

Calling over career. As followers of Jesus we're called to love God first. This means following Him before worrying about your job, your income, your public image, any of it. Then you trust Him to handle the rest as He sees fit. We also seek to establish a culture of calling focus in our Homes that seeks first the Kingdom of God and lives to hear "well done, good and faithful servant."

Prayer has an impact. Know it. Believe it. God has invited us to partner with Him in ruling over His creation and one way that we participate in heavenly realms is by praying. As such, we have a responsibility to those we care about to cover them in prayer.

Occasionally we find ourselves taking a passive approach to our spirituality. We treat God as an addendum to our lives and, as a result, allow things outside of God's Word and Spirit to shape the way we see the world. To be a Healthy Home in the Kingdom of God however, means that we actively pursue practices that shape in us a view of our world and circumstances that reflect the view of God.

No matter what you're home looks like, who lives there, or how old they (or you) are we're called to share the stories of God's work in our lives with the next generation. Spiritual conversations are one rhythm that, when fostered, lead to a healthy home. It's not too late. You can start discussing God, His Word, and His work with those closest to you today!

Jesus is King of the valley and of the mountain top. Julia Schmaltz leads us through a look at the Triumphal Entry to Jerusalem of Jesus Christ on Palm Sunday and the ways that He is faithful in every season.

In life we have identities spoken over us often. There is only one Person, however, who has the right to declare our identity. That Person is the one and only God Most High and He calls us beloved, clean, righteous, empowered, and blessing. As we begin to take hold of the identity that God speaks over us we begin to live into that identity and it transforms the way we live and the confidence we ha...

It's for freedom that Christ has set us free. But we can have some pretty twisted ideas of what freedom is. Usually, in our 21st-century, enlightenment context, we think of freedom as the right to do as we please. This is not what Jesus or the Biblical authors had in mind. Pastor Ryan finishes our series on our identities as followers of Jesus as he unpacks what it means to be free in Christ.

What does it mean to be adopted into God's family? How does it impact the way we treat others to see them as a part of that family? To see all people as desired by God, worthy of adoption? We often believe things about ourselves based on the messages we receive from a fallen world. These messages, regardless of their intentions, fall short of the identity that God has spoken and is speaking over u...

Pastor Cami takes us through the life of Moses as we ask what it means to be known by God. Where is our identity derived? Is it in what we've done? Our profession? Where we've been? Our likes and dislikes? or is it rooted in I AM? As we get to know our God, our identity as His son or daughter comes into focus because the frame isn't our own, but who He is.

Pastor Ryan begins a new series that not only explores our identities as followers of Jesus and Brothers and Sisters in Christ, but the identities of all persons as Image Bearers of God.

What does it look like for you to represent Jesus to people in the storm? What does it mean to be a Person of Peace? Paul gave us an example of a follower of Jesus bringing the peace and encouragement of his Savior to people who didn't know the Lord. This was only possible because of his immense trust in God. Where does your trust lie today, and how can you reflect trust in God as you endure storm...

Why do we doubt? What are the things that distract us from the presence of Jesus. Sometimes the storms of life don't stop when we call out to God. It's in those moments that we have Jesus, with us in the storm, walking on the waves and beckoning us to do as He does.

Pastor Ryan shares the heartbeat of The Bridge as we look forward to 2022.

When the seas of life toss and churn, who is with you in the boat? Do you have the Presence and Promise of Jesus Christ? If you do, know that He is able to do more and greater than you can possibly imagine. And furthermore, don't just know it, but believe it as we open a new series looking at stories of how Jesus is With Me In The Storm.

We live as exiles on earth because our citizenry is in Heaven. The promise is this: I will dwell in the House of the Lord forever. Forever basking in the joy, splendor, and magnificence of God. Forever worshiping. Forever receiving and giving love. As followers of Jesus we, like David who wrote those words so long ago, will dwell in the House of the Lord forever. That is our promise and the realit...