Earthquake. Prison walls crumble, chains fall, doors open. Paul and Silas are free! But they stayed. They stayed because of the jailor. They were aware that their actions would affect his life. And they chose to offer love and grace despite his cruelty toward them. Radical love is counter intuitive, and it has power.

Message by Mike Van Rees

Scripture referenced: Acts16:16–34

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It doesn't seem like many people would turn down a direct line to God. If we needed to make a big decision in life, we could just call or text and receive an answer right back! While God at times has spoken in a direct manner over specific circumstances, more often than not it is through other less obvious means.

Join BTS host Will Herron and Ridge Lead Pastor Mike Van Rees as they explore how God speaks to us today and how we can know his guiding voice in every aspect of our lives.

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Content: It doesn't seem like many people would turn down a direct line to God. If we needed to make a big decision in life, we could just call or text and receive an answer right back! While God at times has spoken in a direct manner over specific circumstances, more often than not it is through other less obvious means.

Join BTS host Will Herron and Ridge Lead Pastor Mike Van Rees as they explore how God speaks to us today and how we can know his guiding voice in every aspect of our lives.

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Description: Life hands us an endless string of decisions. Many of us want to follow God, but how do we know what He wants for us? Recognize that God isn’t trying to hide His will. He wants us to know His will. But to know that, we must know Him.

Message by Mike Van Rees

Scripture referenced: Acts16:6–10

A couple of times a year we take the opportunity as a church to hear stories of how God is working in and through people in our community. We call these, Encounter Sundays. This week on the podcast host Will Herron welcomes Ridge Production Director Jacob Clark to share of how God has used some difficult experiences in his life for good.

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It's Encounter Sunday, a day when we take a pause from our normal routine to hear from everyday people who - like the woman at the well - have been transformed by an encounter with Jesus. Stories feature Jacob Clark and Carole Harding.

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People respond to the gospel in different ways. Some are at first resistant (Apostle Paul). Others feel they have no need of a Savior and can earn their way to God through religious practice (the Pharisees). How then do we go about leading people like Paul and the Pharisees to Jesus?

Join Ridge Lead Pastor Mike Van Rees and BTS host Will Herron as they discuss ways in which we can be part of people's journey toward relationship with Jesus.

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Rivals compete for our allegiance every day. McDonalds and Burger King. JIF and Skippy. Sometimes we swap brands. Acts calls it conversion. In chapter 16 we see the stories of four conversions. All had different stories. But what ultimately led them to move from secularism or some form of polytheism or Judaism to Jesus? And as His followers, what is our role in that process?

Message by Mike Van Rees

Scripture referenced: Acts 16:1–15

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If we are doing life with others, conflict is inevitable. At some point we'll have a disagreement on what is best/right. So how do we go about navigating these kinds of conflict? What does the Bible have to say about resolving relational tension?

Join Ridge Lead Pastor Mike Van Rees and BTS host Will Herron as they seek answers to these questions in the disagreement of Paul and Barnabas in Acts 15.

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Description: In Acts 15, Barnabas wanted to bring John Mark along. Paul adamantly did not. Who was right? Who was wrong? The Bible doesn’t clearly tell us. But maybe that’s the point. Maybe there is something better than winning and being right.

Message by Mike Van Rees

Scripture referenced: Acts15:36–41

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