The Bridge RSM

Ps 23:1-2

What does a life of trust look like? The world around us in madness. Do our lives, as followers of Jesus, reflect our Shepherd's ability to quiet the storms of life? Or do we exude the same panic, coping mechanisms, and rhetoric that anyone without Him would? Pastor Ryan begins a series through Psalm 23 as we choose to look at a loving God and say, "You Are With Me".

Luke 4:1-4

Let's be honest. Not many of us get giddy at the idea of fasting. Whether you fast food, TV, video games, social media, or any other of the countless things that claw for our attention it isn't often a fun notion to give up things that bring us pleasure. The question though, is what are you missing glued to that thing. Even if what you fast is good for you (like food), the choice to set it aside opens us up to everything the Lord wants to do. We make a choice to turn our attention and devotion to the well of Living Water and allow Him to work in us and speak to us as we kick off the year with 21 Days of Prayer and Fasting.

Luke 2:25-35

Your expectation of the future affects how you live today. As followers of Jesus we have a hope that cannot be matched. We have a Biblical expectation for a future where God restores creation to wholeness. How can that hope shape the way you live? How can it affect the way you love? Where does the knowledge of Jesus having come to earth and the hope of His return manifest in your life?

What is the joy of the Lord? How does it look? Where does it really come from? When does it present itself and when is it needed most? Pastor Ryan looks at how Jesus made Joy Incarnate and how He continues to empower us with His joy today.

Pastor Ryan begins a new series on how Jesus incarnated the characteristics of the Advent season; Love, Joy, Hope, and Peace. In Part 1 he looks at the ways Jesus was the embodiment of love on earth and how we, as His followers, can continue to do so through the empowerment of His Holy Spirit.

Pastor Jerry Stott joins us from the missions field to talk about what it looks like to be a blessing in the name of Jesus. He reminds us of who the Bible says that we are as followers of Jesus and what it looks like, practically, to bring Jesus with us into every situation we enter.

What does it look like to be grateful at all times and what does that do to our spirit? Gratitude isn't just about giving thanks for the obvious blessings, but Pastor Sean takes this time before the Thanksgiving Holiday to outline the ways gratitude even in the dark leads us closer to the Light of Jesus.

How do we practically live as the Church God Uses, meeting each other where we are and lifting each other. Pastor Ryan rounds out chapter 14 of the Letter to the Romans with a look at what it means to obey the Law of Love as we relate to one another as followers of Jesus.

What are the issues that unite us? What about the issues we let come between us? Should we let them? Pastor Ryan continues our series on The Church God Uses by looking at the grace we give each other and what it looks like to be a family, accepted by God, united in the blood of the Lamb.

There is coming a day when Jesus returns, coming on the clouds, to establish His kingdom fully on earth as it is in Heaven. The question for the Church that God Uses is, "Are you ready?" How is the knowledge of His imminent return forming the way that you go about your every day life? Are you attentive or have you fallen asleep?