BridgePoint Church Podcast Bridgepoint Church | FL

We believe found people find people, but what does it really mean to be either lost or found? In this message, Tyler takes us back to the creation story to look at the nature of God and man. What we learn is that we're never really lost from God, in terms of Him losing track or misplacing us. Instead, sin creates a gap in us that motivates us to mistrust or doubt God's goodness. It's in the consequence of our sin and shame that we hide from God. We learn that's what it really means to be lost, including lost relationally, lost in relation to God, and lost from our purpose. But what we learn about God is even better than the bad news of our lostness.

Questions for Reflection:
• Is there anything you are hiding from Jesus?
• Why do you think we so often doubt God's goodness and boundaries and choose our own way?

Have you ever placed limitations around who Jesus is and what He is able to do? Today, Travis looks at Mark 2:1-12 to explore the ways God can use community to overcome the limitations that keep us from experiencing the power of Jesus in our lives.

Questions for Reflections:
• What limits you from being able to pursue Jesus and experience His power in your life? How can you takes steps to move past that?
• Are you in community with others who are ‘helping carry’ you through the obstacles of life? What does it take from us to make this a priority?

A message about money and the church. The temptation is always to pass over these, but if God has something to say about how we use money (and it's good!!) then don't we want to know? In this message, Tyler reminds us that one of our values at BridgePoint Church is 'we get to give'. We don't have to, we aren't obligated or coerced, we get to. And in so doing, we unlock a blessing from God that He desires for us. God wants us to have the Kingdom, what a blessing, but where your treasure is your heart will be also.

Questions for Reflection:
• If money is the metric of what our heart's trust, what do you trust the most?
• What are the next steps you can take to laying down the anxiety, and experiencing the peace and blessing from God, as it relates to money?

Why does serving matter? It's easy to give it a flippant response - it helps people! That's true. But for believers, there is SO much more to why it matters that we invest. In this message, Tyler takes us to a familiar passage to allow it to land in a fresh way. Serving people, just because, in our American culture is quite honestly a bit radical. The reason it matters for believers is because we were first served by a Holy God. To do like He did to us, is stepping into the power of bringing a taste of Heaven to earth. We don't invest in people because it makes us feel good, we invest in people because we've been invested in by the Almighty.

Questions for Reflection:
• What or whom might God be calling you to invest in?
• How do we prevent serving people from becoming about something to pat ourselves on the back for?

Today's message will unpack the BridgePoint Church Value: we believe we are better together. This is our value of community. We were created by God for togetherness in healthy relationships, and the book of proverbs actually warns against prolonged isolation. This is a value that most folks would probably support. But practically speaking, how easy is it to end up not valuing it with our time? In this message Tyler helps change our perspective on why we are better together.

Questions for Reflection:
• When you look at where you invest your time, talents and treasure, does it reflect a priority of healthy, godly community?
• What's a next step that God is calling you to take so that your better value healthy community and the benefits therein?

The love of God that enters into the world in Jesus is not a fairy-tale kind of love. Jesus disrupted the worlds understanding of love to point us to the fullness of His. In todays message Travis looks at Jesus’ arrival from Joseph’s perspective. What could have been perceived as an unnecessary disruption was actually part of a much larger “love story” that God wanted to announce to the world in Jesus’ birth.

Questions for Reflection:
• In what ways do you see God’s love in Jesus disrupting the patterns and perspectives of this world? How does it challenge your precious understanding of love?
• What does the fullness of God’s love (as revealed from the manger up to the cross) tell you in the midst of life’s disruptions? What can you hold onto when life feels like it’s been turned upside down?