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The gospel was never meant to stop with you. It was meant to move through you.

In the conclusion of the Run Your Mouth series, Pastor Tim Riddick challenges us to consider what happens when the church possesses the most powerful message in history but keeps it trapped inside four walls. The death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus are not private treasures to protect. They are good news to proclaim.

Jesus did not suggest that we go, He commanded it: “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel” (Mark 16:15). That mission does not belong only to pastors and missionaries. It belongs to every person who has been changed by Christ.

But before the gospel can pour through us, it must continue filling us. Colossians 1:22–23 reminds us that through Jesus, we have been reconciled and presented holy and blameless before God. We share from that settled place not from guilt, pressure, or the need to save anyone ourselves.

You are not the Savior. You are the witness.

Preach the gospel to yourself every morning. Share it with the person God has placed before you. The world does not need a polished performance it needs believers willing to open their mouths and tell the truth about Jesus.

God’s heart is for the one and He is calling us to go after them.

In week two of Run Your Mouth, Pastor Tim Riddick confronts the way Christians can treat evangelism like extra credit: important in theory, but optional in practice. Jesus never approached lost people that way. He crossed the distance, entered their world, and came “to seek and to save the lost” (Luke 19:10).

The lost sheep in Luke 15 was not worthless or hopeless it simply wasn’t home yet. So the shepherd refused to remain comfortable with ninety-nine while one was still wandering. That same pursuit shaped Paul, who laid down his preferences and became “all things to all people” for the sake of the gospel (1 Corinthians 9:19–23).

Who is your one? The friend, relative, coworker, or classmate God keeps placing on your heart?

They are not a project. They are a person loved by God and worth pursuing. Evangelism is not about waiting for someone to wander into church. It means going where they are, entering uncomfortable conversations, and building bridges without compromising the truth.

Identify your one. Take a step this week. Go after them because the gospel is worth it, and so are they.

What if the thing you believe disqualifies you is the very place where God wants to display His power?

In this kickoff to the Run Your Mouth series, Pastor Tim Riddick challenges us to stop waiting for a smarter, cleaner, more confident version of ourselves before telling people about Jesus. Paul didn’t enter Corinth hiding his weakness or performing for the crowd. He came “in weakness and in fear and much trembling,” determined to proclaim Christ crucified so that their faith would rest on God’s power—not human wisdom (1 Corinthians 2:1–5).

Your questions don’t disqualify you. Your messy testimony doesn’t silence you. God’s grace is sufficient, and His power is made perfect in weakness (2 Corinthians 12:9).

You are not responsible for saving anyone; that belongs to Jesus. Your responsibility is to go, open your mouth, and trust the Holy Spirit with the words (Luke 21:14–15).

God is not waiting for you to feel ready. He is calling you to go as you are.

Some sermons are theory. This one cost something.

In this episode of Subtext, Pastor Tim gets unusually personal sharing about the shelf he’d been walking past for twenty-five years. A name he never called. A wound he convinced himself he’d dealt with because he’d survived it. And what happened when he finally picked up the phone before he finished writing a sermon about forgiveness.

We’re in Matthew 6 — the Lord’s Prayer — and Jesus puts forgiveness in the same breath as daily bread. Not as an occasional spiritual exercise. As a rhythm. As essential as eating. And in Matthew 6:14, he says something that’s hard to sit with: the way you hold forgiveness from others directly affects how you receive it yourself.

This episode is for anyone carrying a name. A face. A season. A wrong that was real and undeserved and that you’ve been dragging behind you longer than you should have to.

Because God forgave you, you can forgive them.

Subtext is the teaching podcast of BridgePoint Young Adults at BridgePoint Church in St. Petersburg, FL.

What are you using to manage your soul?

In Episode 57 of Subtext, Pastor Tim opens up the spiritual discipline of prayer and fasting — not as a religious performance, not as a guilt trip, but as the practice that creates the kind of space in your life that God actually fills. We’re going to Ezra 8, Luke 4, and Matthew 6 — and we’re going to talk about why Jesus fasted before his entire public ministry, what fasting actually does to your soul, and why comfort might be the most spiritually dangerous thing our city offers us.

This is week four of the Spiritual Disciplines series.

Subtext is the teaching podcast of BridgePoint Young Adults in St. Petersburg, FL.

You’ll spend four hours researching something you enjoy without even noticing.

So why is five minutes in the Bible so hard?

In Episode 56 of Subtext, Pastor Tim opens the spiritual discipline of studying God’s Word, not reading it at a glance, not consuming Bible content from someone else’s study, but actually going in. We’re going to Hebrews 4, 2 Timothy 2, and Joshua 1 and we’re going to talk about what it means to rightly handle the Word, what it means to meditate on it the way the ancient Hebrews meant, and why the spiritual dryness so many of us feel might be a Word problem more than anything else.

This is week three of the Spiritual Disciplines series.

Subtext is the teaching podcast of BridgePoint Young Adults in St. Petersburg, FL.

What are you hiding?

In Episode 55 of Subtext, Pastor Tim opens up the spiritual discipline of confession — not as a mechanism for guilt, but as the practice that unlocks the healing most of us are desperate for and too afraid to access. We’re going to Proverbs 28, 1 John 1, and James 5 — and we’re going to talk honestly about why unconfessed sin doesn’t stay the same size, what it actually costs us to keep managing instead of confessing, and why the right person hearing the worst about you and staying is one of the closest pictures of the gospel that exists.

This is week two of the Spiritual Disciplines series.

Subtext is the teaching podcast of BridgePoint Young Adults in St. Petersburg, FL.

When’s the last time you were actually quiet?

Not asleep. Not scrolling. Not podcasting through the commute. Actually, intentionally, uncomfortably still.

In Episode 54 of Subtext, Pastor Tim opens a five-week series on spiritual disciplines with the one that might be the most countercultural practice in St. Pete right now: silence and solitude. We’re going to Ecclesiastes, Psalm 46, and Psalm 62 and we’re going to find out why the Hebrew word for “be still” means something closer to let go than most of us realized. And why waiting on God in silence isn’t passive at all — it’s the most active posture of the soul.

This is episode one of five in the Disciplines series.

Subtext is the teaching podcast of BridgePoint Young Adults in St. Petersburg, FL.

What if you’ve been really busy doing nothing?

In Episode 53, Pastor Tim opens Romans 15, where Paul’s letter to Rome stops being about doctrine and starts being about direction. What is your life actually for? Paul had ambition, enormous ambition, but he aimed it somewhere most of us would never point it. Away from platforms and audiences and toward the people nobody was reaching yet.

In a city obsessed with image, vibe, and experience, this episode asks the uncomfortable question: Are you building a brand, or are you building a life?

And it points toward something better than both.

You can be right. And still lose your brother.

In Episode 52, Pastor Tim opens Romans 14 Paul’s urgent, uncomfortable word to a church that was letting secondary disagreements eat through the fabric of real community. We’re talking about theological contempt, the weaponization of correctness, what it actually means to hold conviction and carry people at the same time, and why the kingdom of God is not a matter of winning.

If you’ve ever been pushed out for asking questions, or if you’ve been the one doing the pushing, this episode is for you.

Subtext is the teaching podcast of BridgePoint Young Adults in St. Petersburg, FL.