Bridgetown Video Podcast

By A Jesus Church

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Located in Portland, Oregon we are a church for the city. We want to see Godâs will done in Portland as it is in Heaven. All teachings are available to stream and download at bridgetownajc.org.

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01.08.2020

Listen to an interview with Pete Scazzero, founder of New Life Fellowship Church in Queens, New York, and founder of Emotionally Healthy Discipleship, a groundbreaking ministry that transform churches through multiplying deeply changed disciples and leaders. He is also the ...

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01.08.2020 A Long Form Interview with Pete Scazzero Listen to an interview with Pete Scazzero, founder of New Life Fellowship Church in Queens, New York, and founder of Emotionally Healthy Discipleship, a groundbreaking ministry that transform churches through multiplying deeply changed disciples and leaders. He is also the ...
09.16.2019 Special Announcement: Building Campaign Update We are over half way into our building campaign and continue to be so encouraged by your generosity. Since the campaign began, our church has given more than ever before. We are confident that God is at work in the ...
02.17.2019 Stop, Rest, Delight, & Worship Part 7 from the series, "Sabbath" as part of Practicing the Way. As we near the end of our Sabbath series, we finally come to Jesus’ relationship with the seventh day. People often misread Jesus’ teachings on the Sabbath as ...
02.10.2019 A Sabbath Meditation Part 6 from the series, "Sabbath" as part of Practicing the Way. As we are learning about Sabbath, this week we create a restful experience in our Sunday gathering. With Psalm 23 as a framework, we explore what it means ...
02.03.2019 Subversive Sabbath Part 5 from the series, "Sabbath" as part of Practicing the Way. We live in a 24/7 culture of endless productivity, workaholism, distraction, burnout, and anxiety--a way of life to which we've sadly grown accustomed. This tired system of "life" ...
01.27.2019 Sabbath & Your Humanity Part 4 from the series, "Sabbath" as part of Practicing the Way. In Sabbath we bring to God our whole selves, believing that he meets us where we are. As we acknowledge our humanity and aches, we create space to ...
01.20.2019 Sabbath as Resistance Part 3 from the series, "Sabbath" as part of Practicing the Way. In a society addicted to the twin drugs of accomplishment and accumulation, the Sabbath is an act of resistance. A way of saying, Enough. Pharaoh and his empire ...
01.13.2019 Sabbath as Rhythm Part 2 from the series, "Sabbath" As part of Practicing the Way. In the Genesis story, God worked for six days, and then he rested on the Sabbath. In doing so, he built a rhythm into the fabric of creation. ...
01.06.2019 Rest For Your Soul Part 1 of the series “Sabbath” as part of Practicing the Way. We begin one of the most important practices of Jesus with a big picture look at the restlessness of the human condition, and how it’s exacerbated by the ...
12.30.2018 The Story We Crave To be human is to have longings. We long for transcendence, for beauty, for love, and for a story in which we belong; and everyone finds a story to satisfy explain the longings and the world we find ourselves in. ...
12.16.2018 Part 10: Self-Denial in an Age of Self-Fulfillment At the center of the way of Jesus is a symbol: the cross. Yet all too often we see it as a sentimental song or piece of jewelry, rather than a way of life. The way to resurrection life has ...
12.09.2018 Part 9: The Way of the World Much of what our generation calls “culture,” Jesus and the writers of the Bible call “the world” – a system of ideas, values, practices and social norms that are institutionalized into a culture that is organized around rebellion against God ...
12.02.2018 Part 8: The Slavery of Freedom: Part 2 From the series, "Fighting the World, the Flesh, & the Devil" as part of Practicing the Way. In this follow up message on the flesh, we dive deep into the fields of psychology, philosophy, and theology, to see how they ...
11.25.2018 Jesus and Women From our annual justice series.
11.18.2018 Special Announcement: Building Campaign A special announcement for those who follow Bridgetown Church.
11.11.2018 Part 7: Footholds vs Faithfulness From the series, "Fighting the World, the Flesh, and the Devil" as part of Practicing the Way. The Devil doesn't overpower or coerce us with his lies, instead he utilizes the seductive allure of influence. The authors of the Scriptures ...
11.04.2018 Part 6: God of Evil From the series, "Fighting the World, the Flesh, and the Devil" as part of Practicing the Way. Our lives and the world around us are often riddled with all kinds of evil, injustice, and suffering. Is God ever to blame, ...
10.28.2018 Part 5: The Man Who Silenced Satan From the series, "Fighting the World, the Flesh and the Devil" as part of Practicing the Way. Guest speaker, Sarah Deutscher from Red Church in Melbourne, unpacks the humanity of Jesus, the devil's tactics and how we can follow Jesus ...
10.21.2018 Part 4: The Devil's Disinformation Campaign From the series, "Fighting the World, the Flesh and the Devil" as part of Practicing the Way. In this teaching, guest speaker Mark Sayers joins us from Red Church in Melbourne, Australia to unpack what the Scriptures mean by "Elemental ...
10.14.2018 Part 3: God, the “gods”, and the Spiritual Backdrop of the Bible - Interview with Dr. Tim Mackie From the series, "Fighting the World, the Flesh, and the Devil" as part of Practicing the Way. This audio is taken from a video interview with Dr. Tim Mackie on God, the “gods”, and the spiritual backdrop of the Bible.
10.07.2018 The Truth About Lies: Part 2 From the series, "Fighting the World, the Flesh and the Devil" as part of Practicing the Way. For Jesus, the devil’s primary strategy to ruin the soul and society isn’t what most of us expect. It’s lies. More specifically, it’s ...
09.30.2018 The Truth About Lies: Part 1 From the series, "Fighting the World, the Flesh and the Devil" as part of Practicing the Way. The modern, secular world laughs off the idea of the devil as a relic from the pre-scientific age. "Now we know better" is ...
09.23.2018 Vision Series 2018: Part 3: On Earth as it is in Heaven From the series, Vision Series 2018. In this teaching we put forward our vision of practicing the way of Jesus, together, in Portland at Bridgetown Church.
09.16.2018 Vision Series 2018: Part 2: Life of an Apprentice From our 2018 Vision Series. Practicing the way of Jesus is all about creating space for love. Making room to be with Jesus, become like Jesus, and do what he did. In this vision Sunday teaching, we lay out a ...
09.16.2018 Part 2: Life of an Apprentice From our 2018 Vision Series. Practicing the way of Jesus is all about creating space for love. Making room to be with Jesus, become like Jesus, and do what he did. In this vision Sunday teaching, we lay out a ...
09.09.2018 Vision Series 2018: Part 1: Alpha Sunday From the 2018 Vision Series. Guest speaker, Jason Ballard of Alpha Canada casts vision for how the church can partner together to host those who are seeking. Alpha is structured around an open and informal dialogue about faith, the person ...
09.02.2018 A Problem With Tradition From the series, "Gospel of Matthew." As Jesus continues his work, he stirs up controversy with religious leaders by doing good at the expense of formal rule-keeping. And in normal fashion, Jesus is constantly challenging our desire for a black ...
08.26.2018 Part 8: The Altar and the Table From the series, "Eating & Drinking" as part of Practicing the Way. In the last teaching on the practice of eating and drinking, we go back to the Hebrew ideas of animal sacrifice and covenant meals to better understand God's ...
08.19.2018 Part 7: How the Meal Became the Mass From the series, "Eating & Drinking" as part of Practicing the Way. The Lord’s supper, communion, the eucharist – whatever you call eating and drinking with God, this practice is at the very center of the church. And yet it’s ...
08.12.2018 Part 6: Dining Room Table Christianity From the series, "Eating & Drinking" as part of Practicing the Way. We near the end of our practice of eating and drinking with the third dimension: eating and drinking with God. The Lord’s supper was originally exactly what it ...
08.05.2018 The Secret of the Easy Yoke From the series, "Gospel of Matthew." As apprentices of Jesus, we are just as capable of following Jesus in some aspects of our lives as we are to completely reject him in others. What does it mean to fully accept ...
07.29.2018 We’re All Thomas Now From the series, "Gospel of Matthew." In a secular society, doubt is the new normal. But doubt is nothing new; we see it in John the Baptizer, a prophet that Jesus called the greatest man to ever live. And in ...
07.22.2018 Dying to Live From the series, "Gospel of Matthew." Jesus warns and encourages his disciples about what will come as they live into his Kingdom mission. What would it look like to live as a disciple, free of all fear, fully alive to ...
07.15.2018 Part 5: How to Become the Happiest Person Alive From the series, "Eating and Drinking" as part of Practicing the Way. Jesus was the happiest person alive, and he prayed that his apprentices would have “the full measure of my joy within them.” Joy is more than just an ...
07.08.2018 Part 4: Church Around a Table From the series, "Eating and Drinking" as part of Practicing the Way. Long before followers of Jesus ever built cathedrals, they met in homes, around a table, eating and drinking as brothers and sisters. As family. This is a very ...
07.01.2018 Postures for Our Time and Place From the series, "Gospel of Matthew." In a post-Christian world, followers of Jesus are not the majority. If we are to reach a world like ours, what posture are we to take? In our time and place, Jesus invites us ...
06.24.2018 Make Room for the New Thing From the series, "Gospel of Matthew." Jesus is proclaiming a gospel where the foundation is on the glory of what God has done, not the righteous effort of man. A religious spirit has no place in his kingdom, he is ...
06.17.2018 Following Jesus and Eating With Sinners From the series, "Gospel of Matthew." In this teaching we learn Matthew's origin story and meet the Pharisees at a lively dinner party.
06.10.2018 Part 3: Food: Justice and Injustice From the series, "Eating and Drinking" as part of Practicing the Way. One dimension of the ancient art of hospitality is using food to do justice. Though Jesus’s ambition was to use the dinner table as a tool to do ...
06.03.2018 Part 2: Neighboring From the series, "Eating and Drinking" as part of Practicing the Way. Jesus said we are to “love your neighbor as yourself.” What if he meant our actual neighbors? What if we were to reimagine our homes not as a ...
05.27.2018 Part 1: Radically Ordinary Hospitality From the series, "Eating & Drinking" as part of Practicing the Way. Jesus “came eating and drinking.” If he had a “method of evangelism,” that was it: eat a meal with people far from God. And all through the New ...
05.27.2018 Eating and Drinking Part 1: Radically Ordinary Hospitality From the series, "Eating and Drinking" as part of Practicing the Way. Jesus “came eating and drinking.” If he had a “method of evangelism,” that was it: eat a meal with people far from God. And all through the New ...
05.20.2018 Dreams: God’s Night Parables Does God still use dreams to speak to us? As strange and bizarre as they seem at times? The bible is full of examples where God has used dreams to speak to his people. Guest speaker Jeannine Rodriguez uses these ...
04.22.2018 Receiving the Kingdom, Giving the Kingdom From the series, "Gospel of Matthew." What does it look like to have heaven invade earth? How do we receive the kingdom and how do we give it to others? Jesus shows us what this looks like when he confronts ...
04.16.2018 A Haunting Way to End a Sermon From the series, "Gospel of Matthew." Jesus ends his manifesto of life in the kingdom of the heavens, not with a pep talk or feel-good story, but with a warning about what happens when we don’t put his teachings into ...
04.08.2018 Here Comes the Wolf Pack From the series, "Gospel of Matthew." The modern world is a terribly confusing place to call home. We need luminaries to speak on behalf of reality and point the way to the good life. First century Jews called these luminaries ...
03.25.2018 Part 4: The How-To of Reconciliation From the series, "Forgiving As We Have Been Forgiven" as part of Practicing the way. In our final teaching, we flip it around from forgiving people who have hurt us, to reconciling with people we have hurt. In a cultural ...
03.18.2018 Part 3: The How-To of Forgiveness From the series "Forgiving As We Have Been Forgiven" as part of Practicing the Way. One of, if not the greatest, gifts we receive as apprentices of Jesus is forgiveness. But to Jesus, this is a gift we are to ...
02.25.2018 Two Ways From the series, "Gospel of Matthew." If we're going to practice the way of Jesus, we must recognize that the way of our city and the way of Jesus are not the same. In a culture where the mantra is, ...
02.11.2018 Cosmic Collision Guest teacher Chris Wienand explores Matthew 4 with a specific focus on the tactics of satan. Understanding the way our enemy operates can help us to press further in to the protection of our community and our Savior, Jesus.

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