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The Bride Church | Yuba City, CA
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Welcome to the weekly audio podcast for The Bride Church in Yuba City, CA. We love God and we love people, and our hope is that this podcast will encourage you and help you grow closer to Jesus Christ. Visit us at thebridechurch.org.

  1. Oct 25

    Just Show Up

    Key Points Paul longed to see the church so he could impart a spiritual gift to strengthen them. The gifts exist so we can mutually encourage one another’s faith. Every good and perfect gift comes down from the Father of lights. There is no variation or shadow in Him. He is the Giver. To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good. The gift is not for you. It is for the body. The Spirit apportions to each one individually as He wills. The gift is sovereign. He holds it. We minister with it. God arranged the members in the body, each one of them as He chose. You do not get to pick who is next to you. The weaker parts are indispensable. Love is the more excellent way. Without love, even the highest gifts are a noisy gong. All of it must be administered through love. You discover the gift by longing to strengthen someone else and then showing up. The need reveals what He has given you. Discussion Paul said he longed to see them so he could strengthen them. Where do you sense a longing to strengthen someone right now? “To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.” How does that change the way you think about “my gift”? Pastor Bob said the starting place is offering yourself as a living sacrifice. What is one thing you are still holding back from that offering? God arranged the members as He chose. Who in the body has God placed near you that you would not have chosen? “If one member suffers, all suffer together.” Who is suffering right now that the body needs to suffer with? How is “show up and long to strengthen someone” different from waiting until you know what your gift is? 1 Corinthians 13 says without love the gifts are nothing. Where do you need love to catch up with a gift you already have?

  2. Oct 18

    The Multi-Purpose Room

    Key Points God gives many gifts for one purpose. The multi-purpose room only works when different people do different things toward the same end. Gifts are not for display.  We are many members, but one body in Christ, and individually members of one another. Isolation keeps us from ever knowing what we’ve been given. Having gifts that differ according to the grace given to us, let us use them. You’ve received something. You are responsible for it. Someone else needs it. And when you use it, God is glorified. Encouragement is a real gift. You will never know you have it until you open your mouth and encourage someone. Do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith. The primary place these gifts operate is inside the body. Gifts are varied, but they come from the same Spirit. Faith, healing, helps, teaching, mercy, giving — none is better; all are needed. You discover a gift by putting yourself in the middle of the room, looking, listening, and stepping toward a need. Jesus is the only one who had every gift. He is the Gift Giver, and he came first to serve and to save. Discussion In the multi-purpose room, what role are you naturally drawn to? What happens if everyone is drawn to the same thing? Pastor Bob said, “You are a member of the person next to you.” Where does isolation still keep you from living like that? Romans 12 says not to think of yourself more highly than you ought. How does that change the way you hold a gift? Patty encouraged a shy coworker who had never heard she was loved. Who around you needs a simple word of encouragement this week? “You’ve received something. You’re responsible for it. Someone else needs it. God is glorified.” Which of those four is hardest for you right now? How is discovering a gift by stepping toward a need different from waiting until you feel ready? If the household of faith is the primary place these gifts operate, where is one person in this body you can serve this week?

  3. Oct 11

    You've Received a Gift

    Key Points The first and greatest gift is salvation. By grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own doing. We are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. After the resurrection the Spirit was poured out richly on the church to convict of sin, point to the righteousness of Jesus, and empower ordinary people. Every other gift is on loan from the Gift Giver. It is not for you. It is for someone else. Pastors equip the saints for the work of the ministry. They do not do all the ministry. When each part is working properly, the body grows and builds itself up in love. A part sitting out disables the rest. Gifts are discovered organically, not by a test. You see them when you step toward a need. Gifts are not the fruit of the Spirit. Fruit comes from abiding. Gifts are distributed by grace to edify the body. We stir one another up to love and good works, and we do not neglect meeting together, because the day is drawing near. God sees people, not projects, not ministries, not numbers. Discussion Pastor Bob said the only gift that is mainly for you is salvation. How does that change the way you hold every other gift? Where have you been treating a gift as if it belonged to you? Oscar fixed a car in a parking lot and a woman got saved. What ordinary skill or kindness is already in your hands? “When each part is working properly…” Who in the body is missing your part right now? Hebrews 10 says to stir one another up to love and good works. Who has stirred you, and who might you spur this week? If God sees people and not projects, what changes in how you serve?

  4. Oct 4

    We Serve Because He First Served Us

    Key Points This series is not a push to fill ministry slots. Serving is the fruit of a heart Jesus has already washed. We are not saved by works. Works express the salvation we have already received by grace through faith. Selfishness is what keeps us from serving. Even while someone is hurting, we are often already forming a reply about ourselves. James and John asked for the seats of glory right after Jesus told them he was going to be mocked, flogged, and killed. Greatness in the kingdom is upside down. Whoever would be great must be a servant, and whoever would be first must be slave of all. We serve not to be recognized and not to make it about ourselves, but we serve because he first served us.  Foot washing is received before it is given. If we will not let Jesus wash us, we have no share with him, and our serving stays outside-in. We love because he first loved us. We serve because he first served us. The mind of Christ counts the other person more significant. Humility shows up when “it was me” replaces “it was them.” A towel becomes holy when love for Jesus is the motive. Ministry is a towel, not a title. Discussion Pastor Bob said this series is not a checklist to please God. Where are you still tempted to treat serving like a way to earn something? James and John asked for glory while Jesus was talking about the cross. Where do you catch yourself making someone else’s pain about you? Peter said, “You shall never wash my feet.” What is hard for you about letting Jesus serve you before you serve anyone else? “We serve because he first served us.” How does that change the motive under an ordinary act of help? Philippians 2 says to count others more significant than yourself. Who is one person you have been treating as less significant than you? The three couples said the change was “me,” not them. Where is the Holy Spirit asking you to own that sentence? If ministry is a towel and not a title, what is one towel you can pick up this week at home before you pick one up anywhere else?

  5. Sep 27

    Shake Salt / Shine Light

    Key Points Jesus does not say we will become salt and light. He says we are. That is our identity in Him. Every person already has influence. The question is whether that influence points people to the Father or to ourselves. Salt belongs in covenant, worship, and offering. Our first calling is to present ourselves to God as a living sacrifice. Salt left in the shaker is good for nothing. Light hidden under a basket cannot help a dark house. Jesus is the Light of the world. We shine only because His light lives in us. Speech seasoned with salt is gracious, wise, and aimed at outsiders — not sharp, dismissive, or self-promoting. Good works are meant to make people glorify the Father, not us. If helping others always points back to you, it has stopped being light. The first mission field is the home. If salt and light are missing there, they will not travel far outside it. A Beatitude life — poor in spirit, merciful, peacemaking, hungry for righteousness — is what salt and light look like in ordinary places. Don’t waste the salt and light God has already put in you. Surrender, receive fresh mercy, and shake it out. Discussion Pastor Bob said Jesus did not say “you will become” salt and light. He said “you are.” How does that change the way you see your life? Where are you most tempted to leave salt in the shaker or hide the light? The woman at the golf course said the people there were “carrying something genuine.” What makes Christian influence feel real instead of fake? Romans 12 says influence starts with offering yourself to God. What does intimacy with Him look like in your actual week? Colossians 4 calls us to speech seasoned with salt toward outsiders. Who is one “outsider” you will see this week, and what would gracious speech sound like? Pastor Bob warned helpers not to point people to themselves. How do you know when care has become about you instead of Jesus? Your greatest mission field is the home. What is one way you can shake salt and shine light there first this week?

  6. Sep 20

    Two Builders

    Key Points This parable is the ending of the Sermon on the Mount. Jesus is not giving a building story. He is calling hearers to become doers. Not everyone who says “Lord, Lord” will enter the kingdom, but the one who does the will of the Father. Both builders heard the same words. Both built. Both faced the same storm. The difference was obedience. The wise builder puts his hope in Christ and actually does what Jesus says. The foolish builder hears and does not do. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Reverence and awe of a holy God give us insight to obey. Grace does not cancel obedience. Jesus upheld the Father’s will perfectly and now empowers us by the Spirit to walk it out. Working out our salvation with fear and trembling is not earning salvation. It is responding to the gift we have already received. Blessed are those who hear the Word of God and keep it. Little yeses add up into a house that stands. Discussion Justin told Pastor Bob, “I hear it, but I have not done it.” Where does that sentence land on you? Jesus said some will say “Lord, Lord” and still hear, “I never knew you.” How is knowing Jesus different from being around church activity? Both houses faced the same storm. What storm is testing the foundation of your life right now? Pastor Bob said the fear of the Lord is reverence and awe, not panic. What would it look like for you to recover a holy fear of God this week? Where have you been hearing Jesus clearly but still choosing your own way? “Little by little, little yeses instead of no.” What is one small obedience the Holy Spirit is asking you to practice this week? If your house is not on the Rock yet, what would it mean today to stop striving, confess Jesus, and start building on Him?

  7. Sep 13

    The Parable of Law and Grace

    Key Points. The story does not begin with a man in the ditch. It begins with a lawyer testing Jesus: “What shall I do to inherit eternal life?” The law is clear: love God with everything, and love your neighbor as yourself. Do this and you will live. The lawyer wanted to justify himself and limit the command. Jesus would not let him shrink “neighbor.” The priest and the Levite show what the law cannot do. It can diagnose the dying man; it cannot save him. The Samaritan is a picture of Jesus: He sees us, has compassion, binds the wounds, bears the burden, pays the price, and promises to come back. There is no “ding” button that makes us right with God. We all fall short of the glory of God. God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do: He sent His Son. The one who says, “God, be merciful to me, a sinner,” goes home justified. The one who trusts in himself does not. Grace does not leave us in the ditch. Those who rest in mercy rise up to give mercy away. Discussion Pastor Bob said this parable is less “be a nicer neighbor” and more law and grace. How did that change the way you heard a story you thought you already knew? Where are you still trying to hit the “ding” button and justify yourself before God? If the wounded man is us and the Samaritan is Jesus, what part of His care do you most need to receive right now? In Luke 18, two men prayed. One trusted in himself; one asked for mercy. Which prayer sounds more like yours this week? Resting in grace should make us more merciful, not less. Who around you is “on the side of the road,” and what would compassion look like this week? What is one way you can preach this gospel to yourself daily so you stop striving and start living from what Jesus has already done?

  8. Sep 6

    The Denarius and the Talent

    Key Points Parables open a window into the heart of God and hold up a mirror to our need for Him. With man, salvation is impossible. With God, it is possible. In the vineyard, every worker received the same denarius. Eternal life is a gift of grace, not a wage we earn. The early workers grumbled at the Giver, not because they were cheated, but because they compared themselves and felt entitled. The Master keeps going out all day. His heart beats with mercy, calling people into the Kingdom from the first hour to the last. Grace does not end the story. Jesus is coming back, and we must be ready. The talent is the precious gift we have already received — the gospel, the Spirit, forgiveness, time, and influence. Works do not justify us, but works prove that we have been justified. Burying the gift is consumer Christianity. Good stewardship is taking what grace gave us and pouring it onto others. Don’t get caught with a shovel in your hand when the Master returns. Discussion Pastor Bob said these two parables seem opposed, but they head in the same direction. How do grace and responsibility belong together in your own walk with Jesus? The workers who started early grumbled because the last received the same gift. Where are you tempted to compare, keep score, or feel entitled before God? The thief on the cross came in with “five minutes left.” How does that picture of grace affect the way you view latecomers — or yourself? What “talent” has God entrusted to you that you are most likely to bury rather than invest? Pastor Bob said works should come from the inside out, not the outside in. What does that difference look like in everyday life? Who around you right now needs mercy, presence, or a simple act of stewardship — and what would it look like to give what you have received? If Jesus returned this week, would He find you living from grace or standing with a shovel? What is one change the Holy Spirit is asking you to make?

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Welcome to the weekly audio podcast for The Bride Church in Yuba City, CA. We love God and we love people, and our hope is that this podcast will encourage you and help you grow closer to Jesus Christ. Visit us at thebridechurch.org.

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    The Bride Church | Yuba City, CA
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
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