BridgePoint Church Podcast

Have you ever wondered where temptation comes from and if it's possible for us to overcome our sinful desires? In today's message, Pastor Travis suggests that temptation is less about the objects that tempt us and more about the desires within us. If we want to resist temptation, we must examine our hearts desires, and surrender control to the power and presence of God.

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The Father's love is enough, Jesus sacrifice paid the price, and the Holy Spirit's power is all we need working in and through us. Jesus has won the victory, but there is also an enemy who wants to defeat us and sometimes it is good for us to study the strategy of the enemy.
This series will examine the devil's age-old schemes, and how we as believers need to be on guard against his desire to destroy us.
This first message in the series, Clickbait, Tyler teaches that the enemy lies to us, but there is a way to we can do battle against them and step out into freedom.

Questions for Reflection:
• How do you view the devil? Cartoon character or real threat?
• Often we know the enemy is going to lie to us, but we rarely acknowledge the lies. Is there a lie you need to acknowledge?
• Practically speaking, how can you build your life on God’s truth instead of the enemy’s lies? Hint: It starts with spending time in God's word 😉

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As you are reading this, preparing to watch a message, there is a war going on in your mind. Thoughts may race through your head or you are distracted as you start to click the play button. In this message, Pastor Bryan talks about this war and that in the midst of it all Jesus has provided a table for you. Everything that you need is there, including Jesus.

Questions for Reflection:
• Do you recognize that you are in a spiritual battle?
If you answered Yes:
• How have you seen God's provision in the past? Do you believe he will provide for you again in your present situation?
• What are you worried, afraid, depressed, or (fill in the blank) about? Can you take time now to pray for God's provision in that area? If not what is holding you back?
If you answered No:
• Is it possible that your enemy has you distracted? If so with what?

Have you ever wondered what you are supposed to say when you pray? Does prayer even matter if God is already in control? In this message, Pastor Travis looks at Matthew 6:9-13 to see what Jesus says about the content of our prayers. Instead of praying, “my kingdom come and my will be done” we are to pray for God’s. And in doing so, we are able to see the bigger picture and recognize who is on the throne.

Questions for Reflection:
• Prayer is not always easy, how can you make sure you pray daily?
• What is it you pray for regularly?
• Are your prayers "thy" will be done or "my" will be done?
• How can you make sure your prayers are aligned with the will of God?

Ever wonder if you are saying the right things when you pray? Or do you worry that your words are understandable or “good enough”? We are certainly not the only ones questioning how to pray. Jesus's disciples could tell there was something different about His prayers and they finally had to ask Jesus to show them how He prayed. Jesus did so by teaching them a model prayer that today we call The Lord’s Prayer.
In this first message of the series, When You Pray, Tyler unpacks the opening of The Lord's Prayer and teaches that it’s not about what we say, but more about who we are praying to.

Questions for Reflection:
• Take a minute and access your prayer life. One a scale of 1-5, how satisfied with it are you?
• Take focus time and remember WHO you are praying to….who He is.

In this message, the last in our Instamacy series, Tyler explains how Moses seems to really understand the power of intimacy. What if we had the same, almost stubborn, commitment to getting close to God? Could our souls literally find the satisfaction that seems so often to elude us in our fast paced culture?

Questions for Reflection:
• What hard thing are you going through that you need to go to God about?
• How would you rate your level of intimacy with God right now? (Scale of 1-5) What steps can you take towards God in this moment?
• Do you ever think, there's no way can God love me because of (fill in your situation)? If so, know that Almighty God already knows your name and loves you so much. Knowing that, what will it take for you to let that go and embrace the love of God?

We live in a world where personal gain and instant gratification can be the focus. People will go to great lengths in order to achieve it, even going as far as pretending to be someone or something other than who God created us to be. In this message, Pastor Travis looks to the story of Jacob to address the consequences this type of ‘Identity Theft’ can have on our relationship with God and our relationships with the people around us. In order for us to have real intimacy in our relationships, we have to humbly and honesty acknowledge our true identity. In doing so, God is able to take the undesirable stories from our past and turn it into something entirely different for our future.

Questions for Reflection:
• As you go through life, who are you portraying yourself to be?
• Are you tethered to God or something else?
• Are you living your life how God made you to be?
• Have you acknowledged your true self to God?

God gave us the gift of intimacy, but with it came a set of instructions to help us best experience that closeness we all crave. In this message, Tyler unpacks how those around us help us fully use or misuse God's gift to us, and teaches that when we invest in relationships God's way we'll never regret that investment.

Questions for Reflection:
• How do your relationships affect you?
• How are you walking with the wise?
• What can you do to invest God's way?

We all have a desire to be loved and to be understood. In this fast paced world, we tend to want intimacy just as fast as we want our coffee or our food. In this first message of the series Instamacy, Tyler teaches that to find intimacy we must begin with who God made us to be.

Questions for Reflection:

You were created in the image of Almighty God.
• How does that knowledge make you feel?
• Does that define your understanding of your worth or purpose? If not, what does?

God will not bless our pursuit of a life that was not His creation for us.
• Are you living the life God assigned to you or do you feel enslaved by the labels of this world?

We are made to love but in such a divisive culture that can be hard to do. So how does a Jesus follower respond to the division all around us? In this last message in the series, Tyler teaches that we need to take off our cone shaped perspective and begin to see a broader perspective to love others well.

Questions for Reflection:
• Are you living in a cone? If so how can you start to take it off?
• How are you a helping person? If you don’t think you are, what steps can you take to start?