A clear sermon on spiritual gifts serving the church only when governed by agape love.
Bridgepoint teaching pastor Jared turns this Gifted installment toward a plain but searching question: what are spiritual gifts worth without love?

Warm sermons for shared Christian life.
BridgePointe Christian Church is a sermon feed shaped by pastoral explanation, practical analogies, and repeated invitations toward spiritual formation. Recent messages focus on spiritual gifts, love, unity in the body of Christ, prayer, and God’s nearness in seasons of joy or grief.
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BridgePointe Christian Church is a sermon feed with the feel of a room full of people being gently gathered back to the same central question: what does faithful life with Jesus look like right now? The teaching is calm. It does not rush for novelty or dramatic effect. Recent episodes spend extended time on spiritual gifts, especially the idea that believers are given by the Holy Spirit for the good of others and the building up of the church. That theme gives the show a practical pressure. Faith is not described only as private belief, but as participation in a body where each person’s gift matters. Jared, the teaching pastor, often opens by welcoming the room and online listeners, then moves into a careful explanation that keeps checking its own clarity. Questions guide the pace. What keeps someone from seeing a spiritual gift? What happens when a gift is used without love? How does a person live for eternity while still managing getting kids to school, work, finances, and a busy calendar? The answers are biblical, but the imagery stays close to daily life. Spiritual gifts are compared to superpowers. The church is compared to a body where even overlooked parts are necessary. Love is explained through the difference between saying love for pizza and love for a wife, before the sermon turns toward agape as selfless, sacrificial commitment. The show also makes room for ache. In the Christmas material, longing for cousins, missing people who have died, travel distance, and strained relationships all become a way to talk about God’s desire to be near. Nelson’s message brings a slightly more playful energy through superhero examples, but the same emphasis remains: unity, diversity, humility, and shared service. Prayer closes many of these messages with the same priorities the teaching has named, asking for love, wisdom, discernment, and the Spirit’s work in the church. The result is not slick religious content. It is practical Sunday preaching for listeners who value warmth, repetition, scripture, and a clear call to serve one another.
Made for: Suited to Christians who want accessible Sunday teaching rooted in scripture and aimed at everyday discipleship. It especially fits listeners drawn to church life, spiritual gifts, prayer, and pastoral encouragement.
What sets it apart: The show’s strength is its patient, relational teaching style: biblical claims are repeated, illustrated, and applied until they feel usable. It treats service, love, and unity as concrete habits rather than abstract church language.
Messages from BridgePointe Christian Church's Sunday gatherings. Visit https://bridgepointechristian.com for more information.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Jared turns biblical teaching into concrete guidance for prayer, service, spiritual gifts, and life within a Christian community.
BridgePointe Christian Church records Jared's Sunday teaching with the room still audible around it: greetings, congregational cues, sermon-series context, and a closing prayer. His method is practical biblical teaching shaped for church life.
Jared gets from spiritual gifts to the awkward question: what happens when you use yours without love?
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A clear sermon on spiritual gifts serving the church only when governed by agape love.
Bridgepoint teaching pastor Jared turns this Gifted installment toward a plain but searching question: what are spiritual gifts worth without love?
A church teaching measures spiritual gifts by the selfless love behind them.
Bridgepoint frames love as the real test for spiritual gifts in this church teaching. Jared, the teaching pastor, walks through how gifts meant to strengthen the church can become harmful when they are separated from care for the people receiving them.
A pastoral sermon frames spiritual gifts as shared responsibility, with discovery rooted in attentiveness to the Holy Spirit.
Spiritual gifts are treated here as a matter of participation, not private achievement. Jared, the teaching pastor at Bridgepoint, continues the Gifted series by presenting the Holy Spirit as the source of each believer's gifts and placing those gifts in service of the church,…
A sermon on beginning the search for the spiritual gift God has entrusted to each believer.
Jared frames spiritual gifts as part of the church's shared life, not as private markers of status. At Bridgepoint, he places them inside a larger vision of belief, surrender, and the Holy Spirit's work: presence, peace, power, and at least one gift given to each believer for…
A body analogy gives overlooked gifts a place in the life of the church.
The episode frames the human body as a living picture of church life, asking what happens when a community forgets that every part has work to do.
A pastoral case for prayer as heaven's nearness in the middle of daily chaos.
Prayer is presented as the place where a chaotic earthly life meets the presence of God. Jared opens a new series after Ecclesiastes by carrying forward its concern with fleeting life and eternity, then turns to Jesus and Hebrews 4 to show why believers can approach God with…
A scripture-led Christmas sermon on Emmanuel, God’s promises, and the hope of his presence.
Jared frames God’s promises as the line running through Bridgepoint’s Christmas close, moving from Matthew 1 and 2 to Isaiah’s promise of Emmanuel, God with us.

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Jared, the teaching pastor at BridgePointe Christian Church, concludes a Christmas series on God's presence.
Pastor Jared launches a new series on living for eternity in everyday life, explaining that Jesus' kingdom is present now.
Jared says the Holy Spirit gives spiritual gifts "for the common good" at Bridgepoint Christian Church, and he anchors the message in `1 Corinthians 12`, `Romans 12`, and `Ephesians 4`.
“If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong.”
["Jared, the teaching pastor at Bridgepoint, says 1 Corinthians 13 is not mainly about weddings but about how spiritual gifts work in the church.", "He uses Paul's examples of tongues, prophecy, knowledge, faith, generosity, and hardship to argue that gifts without love can become noise, pride, control, or resentment.", "The sermon leans on agape love, John 13:34-35, and an orchestra analogy from East Providence High School to show how the Holy Spirit turns many gifts into harmony.", "Jared ends by saying prophecies, tongues, and knowledge will pass away when completeness comes, but faith, hope, and love remain, with love as the greatest."]
Bridgepoint's "Look What I Got" sermon asks how believers discover spiritual gifts from 1 Corinthians 12, Romans 12, and Ephesians 4.
Bridgepoint’s "Everybody Needs Everybody" uses 1 Corinthians 12 to argue that the church works like one body with many parts.
A pastor delivers a Christmas sermon about the desire for closeness in relationships and with God.
A pastor delivers a Christmas-themed sermon about the human desire for closeness with loved ones and with God.
A teaching pastor welcomes the congregation and introduces a new sermon series on living for eternity in everyday life, based on the book of Ecclesiastes.
A sermon introducing a new series on living for eternity in everyday life, based on the book of Ecclesiastes and Jesus' teachings on the kingdom of God.