The Bridge RSM

The Bridge RSM

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The Bridge RSM episodes

  • When the King Comes

    Isaiah 6:1–8


    How do you feel about your relationship with God? In Isaiah 6 we see Isaiah come face to face with his own inadequacy, but when he names it something radical happens. He's met with grace! A burning coal purifies him and gives him the right to stand before the King. In response he declares his willingness to be a representative of that call to the nations. What will your response be to the mercy and justice of a loving God?

    45 min
  • The Time for Repentance

    Luke 15:11–32


    Pastor Ryan begins a series of one-off sermons leading up to his time away and the Christmas season with a look at the invitation of the Lord to come back to him time and time again.

    49 min
  • Part 4: Reflection

    Jonah 4


    Pastor Ryan concludes our journey through the book of Jonah with a call to Reflection. Both a call to reflect on our lives and the state of our hearts, but also a call to reflect God's Heart of Mercy to the world around us. The truth is, we've all been Jonah. We've all wished someone would get what they deserved instead of mercy. And yet, God still has mercy on US as well. And in turn we learn to love as He first loved us. We learn to shine with His light and reflect His goodness and compassion to a lost and dying world.

    42 min
  • Part 3: Repentance

    Jonah 3:1—4:2


    The book of Jonah continues with Jonah's repentance and obedience to God's instruction. But what exactly does it mean to repent? Repentance requires three parts: humble contrition, desperate dependence, and a change of course. True repentance requires us to not only acknowledge our faults, but also to turn away from them. True repentance is our part to play in salvation. God does the rest. So how long has it been since you truly repented; truly cried out before God and turned away from your sins? He's right there waiting for you, and His love for you never changes.

    50 min
  • Part 2: Rescue

    Jonah 1:17—2:10


    Have you ever felt lost in a mess of your own creation, unworthy of rescue? We all mess things up time and again, and it can be easy to feel like we deserve what we're getting. We recite platitudes like "I made this bed and now I must lie in it." But when we look at the second movement of Jonah, we get a different picture. Jonah had landed himself in the belly of a great fish. While the pagan sailors were praying to their gods in the storm, Jonah didn't even pray once. And yet, when he does finally turn to the Lord, reflecting on His Heart of Mercy, we see the Lord deliver Jonah even though he didn't deserve it. The fish spits Jonah onto dry land and he is Rescued.

    44 min
  • Part 1: Running

    Jonah 1:1–16


    The book of Jonah opens on a prophet of God being called to preach to a people that he hates. And Jonah, knowing that God has a Heart of Mercy, runs the other way! How often have you looked down on those less holy than you? How often have you thought yourself better than another? How often have you settled for a heart of wrath, unaligned with the heart of God? The call of God is to stop running, and instead settle in and pray for a lost and hurting world.

    44 min
  • Part 3: Vital

    Deuteronomy 6:1–19


    What is important to you? That's a good question, but there is a bigger one. What do you NEED? What is it that is vital to your life? What about to the lives of our children? What about to our communities, nations, and world? We MUST impart faith to those coming up behind us. The consequences of not doing this is dire, but God will always preserve a remnant. He will always draw people back to Him. We get to choose if the road there is marked by the fruit of the Spirit or the works of human malice and selfishness. As Moses says in Deuteronomy, life and death are set before you. Choose life.

    43 min
  • Part 1: Intentional

    Deuteronomy 6:6–9


    How are you going to impart faith to the generations coming after you? We might believe that we should take a hands-off approach to raising young people to follow Jesus, but the Scriptures tell a different story. Pastor Ryan starts off a series about how we send our Faith Forward to those to follow by being Intentional about the impartation of our faith. We look at Deuteronomy 6 and the command to Israel to make their faith in and relationship with God a part of their home and family lives and to tell the next generation about their story.

    41 min
  • Part 3: Conversation at the Table

    Have you ever been at dinner with someone who didn't know Jesus, but you just didn't know how to talk about it? It can be overwhelming and intimidating to share our faith. It feels like the pressure is on to have all the answers and say all the right things. But the good news is that we just don't have too! Pastor Ryan concludes our series on engaging those who don't know Jesus with a look at healthy Conversation at the Table. What are we responsible for? And what can we trust to God?

    43 min
  • Part 2: Care at the Table

    How do we offer hospitality? What does it even mean to show hospitality in the Way of Jesus? Pastor Ryan takes us through the story of Simon the Pharisee in Luke 7 and what Jesus has to say about showing Care at the Table and the attitude necessary to make it happen.

    50 min

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Every part of Scripture is God-breathed and useful one way or another—showing us truth, exposing our rebellion, correcting our mistakes, training us to live God’s way. Through the Word we are put…