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In Portland as it is in Heaven. All teachings are available to stream and download at bridgetown.church.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Bridgetown turns close biblical interpretation into clear, practical teaching about trust, love, human vocation, and restoration.
Bridgetown Audio Podcast begins with scripture and builds outward, turning biblical passages into sustained church teaching. Genesis receives close attention, from creation and human vocation to temptation and broken trust, while the "God is Love" teachings connect Christian…
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A steady sermon on shame, rescue, and a father who meets the son first.
This review treats the father-and-son story with enough patience to let the shame do its work. It starts with an early memory prompt, then moves into Jesus' story and the old Kezzazah ceremony to explain why the father's run to the edge of the property matters so much.
A genealogy that becomes a meditation on likeness, death, and the hope voiced by Lamech.
Genesis 5 reads less like a record of names than a meditation on likeness, inheritance, and death. It follows Adam to Seth and onward, keeping the shared image of God in view while never letting mortality fade from sight.
A sermon about love that stays concrete.
This sermon takes 1 John 4 at face value: love is not a slogan, but a sign of a life touched by God, and Teresa gives that idea a human shape.
Genesis 2 is treated as a theology of fittingness, work, and repair.
Genesis 2 is read as a sermon about creation, work, and companionship. It moves from dust and breath into Eden's rivers, trees, and the charge to work and keep the garden, and it gives real weight to the way the chapter fits land, water, and human life together.
A sermon that links God's love with trust, sacrifice, and image-bearing.
Bridgetown Audio Podcast treats the familiar claim that God is love as more than a comforting slogan. It reads it as a serious account of trust, power, and what kind of God can make sense of the world, moving from 1 John into Genesis to place love, atoning sacrifice, and…
Genesis 3 becomes a wider study of mistrust, idolatry, and the habit of taking and hiding.
Genesis 3 is read as the first turn in a pattern the sermon keeps returning to: see, take, give, hide. Its strongest move is slowing that sequence down until desire feels less like a feeling than a habit that warps trust.
A sermon on seeing love, bodies, and the revelation they are said to carry.
The sermon starts with sight and keeps returning to the gap between looking and really seeing, especially around how to see the love of God when God is invisible.
Cain and Abel becomes a study of sin, exile, and rescue.
Bridgetown treats Cain and Abel less like a crime story than a study of sin. It moves from the first fratricide into church history, where Christians have named sin as power, guilt, and law-breaking, and it keeps the discussion anchored in Genesis instead of wandering off into…
Two Bible translators unpack Scripture's hardest passages, from Revelation's 666 to the Witch of Endor.
Live sermons with Easter-shaped urgency.
This episode promotes Bridgetown's Holy Spirit Conference on healing and contrasts it with Anthony Bourdain's perspective on happiness and work.
This episode explores the biblical story of King Nebuchadnezzar's dream about a great tree being cut down, interpreted by Daniel as a warning against pride.
This episode explores the biblical story of Jonah's anger toward God's compassion and uses it to discuss the nature and consequences of anger as one of the seven deadly sins.
This episode promotes Bridgetown's 8th Annual Holy Spirit Conference in Portland, focusing on the theme of deeper healing after initial miraculous experiences.
A personal story about a friend's motorcycle accident and the community's compassionate prayers for his recovery.
This episode promotes Bridgetown's Holy Spirit Conference while exploring themes of spiritual healing and patience in parenting.
This episode explores Genesis 9, focusing on God's covenant with Noah and all living creatures after the flood, symbolized by the rainbow, and touches on Noah's sons including Ham as the father of Canaan.
The host invites listeners to a Holy Spirit conference focused on deeper healing through prayer, shares a biblical passage about devotion, and reflects on personal prayer habits.
This episode explores the story of Noah from Genesis 8, focusing on God's covenant after the flood and how it relates to trusting God.
This episode explores the connection between human sexuality and the Jesus story through a biblical passage and an anecdote about a couple in a church garden, prompting reflection on spiritual meaning.
This episode explores how Ash Wednesday and the practice of observing death, inspired by hospice worker Kathleen Dowling-Singh's writings, teaches us to live life more fully.
This episode promotes Bridgetown's Holy Spirit Conference while exploring prayer through Jesus' teachings on loving God and neighbor, illustrated by the Good Samaritan parable.
This episode explores how sung prayer helps Christians become more like Jesus by addressing the soul's longing in modern life.
This episode recounts the biblical Nativity story from Luke's Gospel, focusing on Jesus' birth in Bethlehem and the angel's announcement to shepherds, while briefly connecting it to the modern film 'Love Actually'.
This episode explores Thea Rosenberg's spiritual journey and how her Christian faith intersected with the onset of chronic arthritis that impacted her ability to play worship music.
This episode explores the theology of the body, discussing how human bodies, especially through gender and marriage, reveal God's love and the difference between looking and seeing.
This episode explores the biblical concept of greed through Jesus' parable about a rich man who stores up possessions, warning that life isn't about abundance but spiritual healing.
A pastor discusses the tension and biblical interpretation surrounding the church's stance on homosexuality, based on Matthew 19:4-6.
This episode explores the meaning and significance of Andrei Rublev's Trinity icon, explaining how it serves as a prayerful depiction of divine hospitality and biblical narrative rather than just a work of art.
A speaker shares a personal reflection on finding peace through faith in Christ, referencing Colossians chapter three and expressing gratitude for their community.
This episode explores Genesis 2, framing God as a creative artist and discussing how humans, made in His image, can live creatively through self-forgetfulness, trust, and participation in God's work.
The speaker shares his personal journey with the Holy Spirit, from initial fears of God's disappointment to discovering that God's core nature is love.
This episode explores the biblical claim 'God is love' by contrasting it with modern pluralistic views, arguing that true love is personified exclusively in Jesus as part of the Trinity.
This episode explores Genesis 1:1-2:3, using Jurassic Park as an analogy to uncover deeper meanings beyond surface-level creation details.
Sin is crouching.
Rescue starts with memory.
This episode critiques traditional views of God's wrath, arguing that the cross demonstrates God's self-giving love rather than punishment.
This episode explores Genesis 3, framing the fall as the enemy's playbook with three tactics: questioning God's character, tempting desires, and causing brokenness.
This episode explores Genesis chapter 5's genealogy, showing how it affirms humanity's image of God, contrasts with ancient worldviews, and points to redemption through figures like Seth and Noah.
This episode explores the genealogies in Genesis 4, contrasting the lines of Cain and Seth to discuss how evil matures and multiplies versus how God's mercy breaks generational curses.
This episode concludes the 'God is Love' series by exploring 1 John 4, emphasizing that experiencing God's agape love must come before expressing it to others.
This episode promotes Bridgetown's Holy Spirit Conference while reading and discussing the genealogical account from Genesis 11-12 about Shem's family line after the flood.
A conversation about the deep friendship and spiritual kinship between the host and guest Kevan Chandler, focusing on his personal faith journey and meeting Jesus.
This episode explores the biblical perspective on work through readings from Genesis and Revelation, connecting creation to eternal service.
This episode explores the connection between prayer, scripture, and gratitude through a biblical passage about truth and freedom, and a historical example of the Nikesni people's ritual burn ceremony.
This episode discusses the biblical story of the Tower of Babel from Genesis 11, exploring themes of human ambition and divine intervention, while also promoting a Holy Spirit conference focused on spiritual healing.
This episode explores prayer as being with Jesus through the lens of his baptism and wilderness experience in Mark 1, connecting it to spiritual formation and personal retreat practices.
This episode explores Jesus' prayer in Gethsemane from Matthew 26, focusing on his sorrow and submission to God's will, with a connection to Mary Oliver's poetry.
A father reflects on his traumatic experience with chemotherapy and how it revealed his struggles with vanity and control over his body, framed within a spiritual context.
This episode recounts the biblical story of Elizabeth and Zechariah naming their son John, followed by a personal anecdote about modern parenting experiences at parent-teacher conferences.
This episode explores the biblical concept of gluttony through a reading and interpretation of John 6:47-58, focusing on Jesus as the bread of life and the spiritual nourishment required for eternal life.
This episode explores the concept of envy through biblical scripture, personal insecurity examples, and historical anecdotes about wealth and contentment.
This episode explores the sin of sloth through a biblical parable about servants entrusted with gold, contrasting faithful productivity with lazy inaction.
This episode explores Brad's personal journey of reconciling his sexuality with his Christian faith while pursuing a theater career in New York.
This Christmas Eve episode reflects on the biblical story of Jesus' birth in Bethlehem and shares personal holiday memories.
This episode invites listeners to Bridgetown Church's 8th Annual Holy Spirit Conference in Portland, focusing on the theme of deeper healing after initial miraculous experiences.
This episode focuses on the Advent season, beginning with a reading from Luke 1:26-38 about Mary and the angel Gabriel, emphasizing themes of waiting, redemption, and God's promise.
This episode explores a biblical story from 2 Samuel 6 about reverence and God's presence, focusing on Uzzah's death and the ark's blessing on Obed-Edom's household.
This episode explores the biblical story of Noah's Ark, examining themes of divine judgment, human corruption, and Noah's righteousness as God commands the construction of the ark to destroy humanity.
This episode recounts the biblical story of angels appearing to shepherds to announce the birth of Jesus during Advent, focusing on themes of hope and divine revelation.
A pastor reads scripture in Mien and English and preaches on the theme of love for Pentecost Sunday.
A sermon reflecting on the resurrection of Jesus and his encounter with disciples on the road to Emmaus.
A sermon exploring Jesus' teaching about a seed dying to produce life, connecting it to the resurrection and how believers can follow him.
A reading and teaching on the biblical account of Jesus before Pilate and the crowd's choice to release Barabbas.
A guest preacher delivers a sermon on the love of Christ and leads a prayer, sharing personal connections to the host church.
A sermon on the resurrection of Jesus from the Gospel of Matthew, followed by a personal story of spiritual awakening.
A reading and exposition of Jesus' parable of the great banquet from the Gospel of Luke.
A sermon-style reading and explanation of the Parable of the Talents from the Bible.
A narration and teaching on the biblical story of Ruth and Boaz from the Book of Ruth.
A sermon on the biblical story of Ruth, focusing on her loyalty to Naomi and her encounter with Boaz.