Bridgetown Audio Podcast

First Love (Discipleship in Our Cultural Moment)

January 31, 2022 08:06 - 37 minutes - 69.7 MB

From "Holy Spirit Conference 2022." Pete Hughes teaches from Revelation 2v1-7 on discipleship in our cultural moment.

Session 3: Presence and Power of God

January 30, 2022 01:13 - 39 minutes - 74.3 MB

From "Holy Spirit Conference 2022." Katia Adams teaches the final session on receiving the Holy Spirit and leading the church into the power and presence of God.

Session 2: Prophecy in the Local Church

January 29, 2022 17:11 - 52 minutes - 97.1 MB

From "Holy Spirit Conference 2022." Katia Adams, founder of Frequentsee, teaches on the expression of prophecy in the local church.

Session 1: Weapon of Praise

January 29, 2022 01:09 - 46 minutes - 85.9 MB

From "Holy Spirit Conference 2022." Pete Hughes, of KXC London, teaches on the weapon for praise.

Part 4: On Earth as It Is in Heaven (Intercession)

January 24, 2022 06:00 - 54 minutes - 101 MB

From the series "Teach Us to Pray." Intercession means praying for other people, an act of love that enlists the power of heaven. Intercessory prayer is the exercise of Jesus’ victory through recovered authority.

Part 3: Hallowed Be Your Name (Adoration)

January 17, 2022 06:00 - 51 minutes - 95.7 MB

From the series "Teach Us to Pray." Jesus teaches that the first words we speak in prayer should be adoration. But what if adoration is more for us than it is for God? What if adoration is the necessary inner work we need to pray with wide-eyed faith?

Part 2: Be Still and Know

January 10, 2022 06:00 - 43 minutes - 81.6 MB

From the series "Teach Us to Pray." Contrary to popular belief, prayer doesn’t start with speaking. It starts with seeing. Stillness is the posture from which spoken prayer effortlessly flows.

Part 1: Pray As You Can

January 03, 2022 06:00 - 45 minutes - 83.5 MB

From the series "Teach Us to Pray." Together as a church family we are going to spend the next 10 weeks on the mystery and invitation of prayer. Join us as we start this week with a simple invitation to pray as you can.

God Made Known

December 20, 2021 06:00 - 44 minutes - 82.8 MB

From the series "Advent." "The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth." —John 1v14

Born of God

December 13, 2021 07:19 - 39 minutes - 72.9 MB

From the series "Advent." The Gospel is an invitation to join the new world offered in the birth of Christ. And the only way for this new world to advance is through its citizens.

Witness / Rejection

December 06, 2021 06:00 - 44 minutes - 82.8 MB

From the series "Advent." "There was a man sent from God whose name was John. He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light. The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him." —John 1v6-11

Witness | Rejection

December 06, 2021 06:00 - 44 minutes - 82.8 MB

From the series "Advent." "There was a man sent from God whose name was John. He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all might believe. He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light. The true light that gives light to everyone was coming into the world. He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him." —John 1v6-11

Creation | New Creation

November 29, 2021 06:00 - 37 minutes - 69.7 MB

From the series "Advent." As we begin the season of Advent, we look at creation through the word and the Kingdom of God; the now and not yet. Jesus has come; darkness could not and still cannot stop Him in the world at large, our city, our church family, and in our individual lives.

Creation / New Creation

November 29, 2021 06:00 - 37 minutes - 69.7 MB

From the series "Advent." As we begin the season of Advent, we look at creation through the word and the Kingdom of God; the now and not yet. Jesus has come; darkness could not and still cannot stop Him in the world at large, our city, our church family, and in our individual lives.

Part 9: The Land of Inheritance

November 22, 2021 06:00 - 49 minutes - 92.9 MB

From the series "Demonstrating the Gospel." As we end Practicing the Way we look back at the miracle of deliverance in the past decade of Bridgetown Church, and look forward to the miracle of inheritance.

Deliverance: Interview with Jon Thompson

November 18, 2021 20:05 - 59 minutes - 81.6 MB

From the series "Demonstrating the Gospel." A follow up conversation with Tyler Staton and Jon Thompson on deliverance.

Deliverance: Session 2 with Q&R

November 18, 2021 06:01 - 55 minutes - 103 MB

From the series "Demonstrating the Gospel." What is the role of spiritual gifts in deliverance ministry?

Deliverance: Session 1 with Q&R

November 18, 2021 06:00 - 49 minutes - 92.9 MB

From the series "Demonstrating the Gospel." What is spiritual conflict and can we be demonized as Christians?

Part 8: The Subtle Tragedy of Nicodemus

November 15, 2021 06:00 - 58 minutes - 109 MB

From the series "Demonstrating the Gospel." The subtle tragedy of Nicodemus is that in scene after scene, Jesus was awakening something in his heart, but he didn't drop his robes so he could know true life.

Part 7: Healing

November 08, 2021 06:29 - 43 minutes - 81.6 MB

From the series "Demonstrating the Gospel." Healing is complex and each one of us comes to it with different experiences and expectations. At times, it's awe-inducing and often breathtakingly personal. And sometimes it's gut-wrenching and feels hopeless. But still, God invites us to ask for healing. In the Scriptures and through the life of Jesus, we see that healing feels like hoping, confronting, waiting, and laughing. We simply get to ask and watch how God responds.

Part 6: Prophecy

November 01, 2021 05:00 - 43 minutes - 80.5 MB

From the series "Demonstrating the Gospel." Deep down each of us long for a God who is not only wise or powerful but a God who is deeply personal. We long for a God who speaks. The God of the Bible is radical not only in how He meets the personal longing of every soul, but that He chooses to speak to people in a surprising way.

Part 5: Do Justice, Love Mercy, Walk Humbly

October 25, 2021 05:00 - 55 minutes - 104 MB

From the series "Demonstrating the Gospel." The Spirit of God empowers us to be sent out to who Jesus calls "the least of these." Through this we demonstrate the Gospel and reap the same harvest that Jesus did.

Part 4: Power: Dove

October 18, 2021 05:00 - 48 minutes - 89.4 MB

From the series "Demonstrating the Gospel." You have been anointed with the same Spirit as Jesus to continue the full ministry of Jesus. What gets in the way of the experience of that astounding promise?

Part 3: Person: Breath

October 11, 2021 05:00 - 45 minutes - 85.5 MB

From the series "Demonstrating the Gospel." When God created people, He filled them with His Spirit to go on creating in His image. When God redeems people, He refills us with His Spirit to go on creating in His image. This teaching explores the Spirit’s role in the Church through the words we speak.

Part 2: Presence: Water

October 04, 2021 05:00 - 47 minutes - 88.6 MB

From the series "Demonstrating the Gospel." Scripture introduces us to the person of the Holy Spirit through metaphor. Looking at the Spirit through the metaphor of water we see a real and gritty honesty about the suffering in the world, but also an unwavering and joyful hope that breaks into the world.

Part 1: A Familiar Stranger

September 27, 2021 05:00 - 51 minutes - 96.9 MB

From the series "Demonstrating the Gospel." The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity, and yet, for many in the Modern West, the Spirit is a familiar stranger. How do we know the Holy Spirit, not as a force to be captured but as a person to know and be known by?

Practicing the Way of Jesus Together in Portland

September 20, 2021 05:00 - 53 minutes - 99.3 MB

From "Vision Series 2021."

Be With Jesus. Become Like Jesus. Do What Jesus Did.

September 13, 2021 05:00 - 47 minutes - 88 MB

From "Vision Series 2021." A brief look at the vision and future of Bridgetown Church, and leaning into the idea of first century discipleship that Jesus called us to.

Part 8: Preaching a Disruptive Gospel

September 06, 2021 05:00 - 54 minutes - 101 MB

From the series "Preaching The Gospel."

Part 7: Live in a Way That Begs the Question

August 30, 2021 05:00 - 50 minutes - 94 MB

From the series "Preaching The Gospel." Our fifth and final best practice for preaching the gospel is to simply bear witness: to live in a way that begs the question. Most of “evangelism” in the early church was simply people living a radically different and deeply good life, and scores of people being drawn into the beauty of the gospel. Millions found Jesus so compelling they were willing to die for him. Do we?

Part 6: Doing The Stuff

August 23, 2021 05:00 - 56 minutes - 106 MB

From the series "Preaching The Gospel." In John, Jesus talks about us accomplishing even greater works than He did. But demonstrating the Kingdom of God is often more ordinary, and every day, than we expect.

Part 5: Methods & Context

August 16, 2021 05:00 - 47 minutes - 88.5 MB

From the series "Preaching The Gospel." When our methods are old and do not meet the current cultural context, how do we effectively preach the Gospel in Portland?

Part 4: Recognizing Where God is Already Working and Joining In

August 09, 2021 05:00 - 49 minutes - 91.6 MB

From the series "Preaching The Gospel." Hesitation toward evangelism is rooted in the fallacy, “God shows up when I show up,” which couldn’t be further from the truth. In this week’s teaching, we learn how to join the pursuing work of God in the lives of the lost.

Part 3: Practice Hospitality

August 02, 2021 05:00 - 46 minutes - 86.9 MB

From the series "Preaching The Gospel." Jesus “came eating and drinking.” If he had a “method of evangelism,” that was it: eat a meal with people far from God. And all through the New Testament, apprentices of Jesus are commanded to follow his example through the practice of hospitality. Something as radically ordinary and setting a table can create space for people far from God to experience the Father’s warm welcome into his family.

Part 2: The Four American Gospels

July 26, 2021 05:00 - 52 minutes - 98.5 MB

From the series "Preaching The Gospel." The word “gospel” means different things to different people in the American church, and many of them are misunderstandings of the gospel of Jesus. At their worst, these misunderstandings are obstacles to a life of discipleship. In this teaching we compare and contrast the four American gospels with Jesus’ gospel.

Part 1: What is the Gospel?

July 19, 2021 05:00 - 53 minutes - 100 MB

From the series "Preaching The Gospel." We kick off our practice of Preaching the Gospel with an honest conversation about why our generation is emotionally triggered by the idea of “evangelism,” as well as the possibility that part of the reason is because we’ve misunderstood what the gospel even is.

Blessing the Nations

July 12, 2021 05:00 - 46 minutes - 86.1 MB

From the series "Gospel of Matthew." God’s plan has always been to bless all the peoples of the earth.

Come and See

July 05, 2021 05:00 - 51 minutes - 95.9 MB

From the series "Gospel of Matthew." God’s people spent centuries living under the oppression of empires, waiting for Him to rescue them and set the world straight. Finally, God seems to begin that work. Jesus arrives proclaiming that God’s Kingdom is finally coming through Him and people are convinced. They put their hope in Jesus but then Rome kills Him. Days later, two stories begin to circulate. Some of those in power say that Jesus’ corpse had been stolen, but a woman claims that she sa...