The Bridge Church Sermons

Worry is a pandemic of the human heart. As much as we wish it was easy to simply stop worrying, it often feels impossible. Is that where you are now? We have to depend on God wholeheartedly, if we have any hope to overcome our own anxiety. We have to seek Him first, trust Him and His love that promises to provide. Where is the root of our worry, and how do we actually go about killing it? Support the show

Pride is more of a virtue in our culture than humility. What is glorified in the world are self-accomplishments, and we thrive on showing the world our best sides and hiding the rest. Unfortunately, this makes its way even into our faith, and even when we're following the way of Jesus, the motive is all wrong. We're all guilty of it because we long to be noticed for the good we do. The challenge is to determine which reward we want: the in-the-moment reward of the approval of others, or the long-term reward of being noticed by our Father for what we do in private. Our need to be noticed is harming us, and we sometimes don't even know it. How do we combat it? Support the show

"Love your enemies." Some of the most applauded words in history, and also some of the most evaded. Following the way of Jesus never promises to be easy, but this command sometimes seems especially hard, don't you think? What did Jesus really mean by it? And how do we become people who live it out rather than run from it? It's an especially important question to ask in the day and age we live in, where information and opinions are shared left and right, and division feels ever present. To support this ministry and help us continue our God given mission, click here: http://bit.ly/2NZkdrC Support the show

Sin discussions are hard. Let’s just call it like it is. Matthew 5 can be one of the difficult sections of Scripture to read because it addresses the hard truths of sin, and Jesus has some instruction for us that doesn’t feel easy or convenient. But Jesus was never out to teach the easy way—He taught the Kingdom way. And the Kingdom way looks beyond the surface and beyond simply behavior modification. It gets to the heart of the issue, and it attacks it. Issues of sin are issues of the heart, but there is hope for us all. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________To support this ministry and help us continue our God given mission, click here: http://bit.ly/2NZkdrC Support the show

Culture is not unchangeable. Hearts are not immovable. But it doesn't happen on accident.The world can experience the transformative power of Jesus when Christians move from merely existing in the world to engaging in culture. It is the privilege and responsibility we have as children of God to bring the love of Christ into the dark places of our culture and our cities. The world is not looking for more of the same. We won't hear people asking for more gossipers, slanderers, thieves, and liars.Let's engage. Let's be cities on a hill that the world cannot ignore, as it reads in Matthew 5:14.Support the show

Each of us could come up with our own definition of a "blessed life." When you think of what your life would look like as "blessed," what do you think of first? Money? Status? Family? Charisma? The way Jesus talks about being blessed is so counter to what we feel or even believe. Even though we might know with our heads what Jesus says about blessings, our hearts have to grapple with it. Much like the early disciples, it's not what we always expect. How does the "blessed life" actually look? Support the show

The people who Jesus calls "blessed" in the Sermon on the Mount may surprise us. It's the poor in spirit. The mourning and the meek. Those who long for righteousness. Our culture defines blessedness in a lot of ways, but Jesus came to define His kingdom, which is upside down from everything we know of this world. So, who is really blessed? Support the show

The people who Jesus calls "blessed" in the Sermon on the Mount may surprise us. It's the poor in spirit. The mourning and the meek. Those who long for righteousness. Our culture defines blessedness in a lot of ways, but Jesus came to define His kingdom, which is upside down from everything we know of this world. So, who is really blessed? Support the show

In Matthew 28, Jesus gives a mission to all His followers—then and now—for how to live in the world, called The Great Commission. Do you know what that mission is?In 2017, a research group called Barna asked that question to churchgoers, and the results were startling: 82% of churchgoers responded that they either didn't know or were unsure in their knowledge of The Great Commission.If we are truly following the way of Jesus, then it requires doing everything that Jesus commanded, and it's this: "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” (Matthew 28:18-20)It's living on mission, in our day-to-day going. It's taking interruptions as opportunities to make the love of God visible. It's stopping to pray, listen, and serve those far from God. It's sharing what He's doing in our lives right now.And we do this for the sake of the world, because we're blessed to be a blessing to others.Support the show

We're all disciples of someone or something. The question is not "if" we're being discipled, it's if we know what we're being discipled by. And this is important to know because who we're becoming is important.Becoming more like Jesus isn't something we stumble into—it requires daily intentional abiding with God and with gospel community. Trying to run the race of faith without training will not lead to real transformation. Yet, transformation through Christ is possible.How do we become an apprentice of Jesus in a way that leads to real transformation? How do we become like Christ?Support the show