BridgePoint Church Podcast

Do you ever wish you could hear directly from God about something related to your life? Ever asked the question, what is the Bible and why should I read it? Today's message aims to move us from seeing the Bible as "just a book", to an understanding that it is the living and active word of a God who wants to speak to you and I today.

Questions for Reflection:
• What area of your life are you wanting to hear from God about?
• What's the difference between viewing the Bible as content to consume verses connection to a relationship with Almighty God?

Do you consider yourself to be a “good” leader? What is good leadership and how do we identify good leadership in our lives and people around us? In today’s message, Pastor Travis suggests that good leadership is leadership that reflects the goodness of God and pursues the goodness of others.

Questions for Reflection:
• How do you use your God-given gifts to reflect the goodness of God?
• How are you using your gifts to produce goodness in the world and the lives of people and teams you influence?

So many people in our culture seem to live unfulfilled lives, which begs the question: what kind of life are they leading? In today's message, Tyler looks to Paul's wisdom about how to fully discover God's purpose for you. In light of Jesus' death and resurrection, Paul suggests the key to finding our purpose is to present our lives back to God because of what Jesus has done for us. The danger of not renewing our minds? Living someone else's purpose for our lives, which will never satisfy.

Questions for Reflection:
• Have you and do you regularly present your life to God as a "living sacrifice"?
• Where do you turn to "renew" your mind?

The message for today comes through an interview. In this interview with Tom and Joyce about their journeys through loss and grief. It feels weird to say it, let alone believe, that Jesus would say "blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted". How in the depths of mourning and grief does one feel comfort. Today's message unpacks exactly how, in the midst of some of life's most heartbreaking moments, Tom and Joyce and others can feel comfort in the pain.

Questions for Reflection:
• As you reflect on your journey, have you experienced seasons of grief and loss? If so, as you reflect, can you see any moments where God comforted you?
• What stood out to you most about Tom's or Joyce's story? Why?

One thing we know for sure is that things won’t always go our way. We can tell a lot about ourselves by the way we respond to something in the moment. In this message Tyler teaches about a promise from God that gives us hope in this broken world. The promise that God will work all things together for good. The reality is the closer we get to God, the more we will experience His goodness.

Questions for Reflection
• What would it change about how you live your life for God to be both good enough and God enough to work all things together for our good?
• Have you seen moments in your life where God has taken less than desirable circumstances and worked them together for something that was even better than expected? Does that help you trust Him more or less now?

Faithfulness comes from a place of trust and loyalty. As a Christian, it is important to be faithful to God. But does experiencing God’s faithfulness in our lives require something from us? In today’s message, Travis teaches about God’s faithfulness and how we can experience the fullness of it.

Questions for Reflection:
• How have you experienced God’s faithfulness in your life?
• What area of your life do you need to open up to God and trust his faithfulness more?

Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on all the doing? How often does it seem like the constant state in our fast-paced culture is 'tired'? Moreover, what if the problem is deeper than just pausing to experience our go-to rest activities? In this message, Tyler unpacks not only why we all so regularly feel so tired, but also a promise from Jesus that could very well breath some energy back into our souls. He promises the type of rest we need deep down inside our souls.

Questions for Reflection:
• Where do you go when you're tired to find rest?
• Tyler mentioned the quote, "Time off won't heal you when your problem is how you spend your time on." Are you spending your time "on" in ways that are unhealthy?

Have you ever wondered where God was during a bad situation? Perhaps when a job was lost or a family member was ill or you fill in the blank. We all have circumstances we need God's help in.
In this message, Tyler unpacks God's promise from to meet our needs. Tyler asks an important question: what do we do when it feels like God did NOT meet our needs? The full understanding of this promise is NOT found when we add this promise to our "tool belt", as if we can pull out this promise we want God to do something for us.
Instead, Tyler teaches that in the midst of life’s circumstances, there is a perspective we need to develop and challenges us to not squeeze this promise into our lives, but instead orient our lives around God's provision. A powerful challenge to help all of us trust God more.

Questions for Reflection:
• How often do you take God's promise to mean that God will give us what we want? In what ways?
• What scares you the most about growing in trust of God to provide your deepest need?

Have you ever felt like God doesn’t hear you or answer your prayers? In today’s message, Gabe walks through Matthew 26 as a guide to how we can pray & trust God despite the outcome.

Questions for Reflection:
•How has God answered the impossible in your life?
•How have you been encouraged or discouraged by God’s response to a prayer?

Have you ever questioned Gods love for you? Have you ever wondered if your circumstances meant that God was no longer with your or for you? In todays message, Pastor Travis points to Romans 8 to remind us of the un-ending love of God is is offered to us IN Jesus Christ…today!