The Bridge: Recent Episodes
Melrose Baptist Church
When and where today did you feel most alive in God's presence? When and where today did you feel distanced from God's presence?
Do you ever ask yourself if you have earned rest? You may be asking the wrong question.
The commandment to observe sabbath is often turned into issues of whether or not a business is open on a Sunday or which day of the week is intended as the Sabbath – Saturday or Sunday. However, these issues get in the way of the fundamental reality of this commandment: we need rest. We need to choose rest.
There are people that we find in our circle of relationships that sometimes surprise others and maybe even surprise us.
Who's that person who, at a turning point in your life, was the one encouraging you to take the right path? That's your Jethro!
Is there a difference between a true friend and a best friend? Jonathan was a true friend to David. Who's your Jonathan?
An editor is someone who helps us to be the best that we can be and helps to focus on what we need to think about. When thinking about your life- who are the editors in your life? Who is that person that gets under your skin? Who is that person that can be radically honest, if not sometimes hurtful?
Who is in your story? Everyday we see everyone's story on social media and it seems that everyones if different in one way or another. In Mark 3 we learn that Jesus chose 12 apostles to help Him in his ministry. This is considered the first step of His ministry. Why do you think He chose 12 to join Him? Does He really need their help? When you think about your story, who is in it that is essential to the work that God does within you?
John 3:16 has become one of the most popular scriptures in the entire Bible. So much emphasis has been placed on it that we have missed the importance in the following verse, John 3:17. In this episode, Pastor Mark explains the importance of that scripture and how vital it is for us to remember to be vulnerable with God.
Think about a moment or time of grief and loss that you have experienced in your life. Maybe it was not the loss of a loved one but the loss of a job, a dream, a relationship...how did you feel? When we are not feeling okay why do we feel the need to act okay?
Do you feel tired and broken down? Have you taken time to rest? Feel like there is just not enough hours in the day? God understands that we can't do it all and that we need rest. Rest is not only essential to our bodies but our minds and spirits. Listen now to how Pastor Mark explains the importance of rest and how we can find that rest in very small, simple ways.
In this week's episode Pastor Mark asks us to consider the following questions- what is it that belongs to me? What is it that belongs to others? What is it that belongs to God? Listen to hear what Pastor Mark tells us about how important these questions are and how knowing the answers will help us in the long in our relationship with Christ.
In Psalm 42, David expresses feelings of great sorrow, perhaps even depression. We all have times when we feel like we are having to cry out from the very depths of our soul. So how do we find that place of hope when deep is calling to deep?
When was the last time you took time to breath? In out, in out, in out- with purpose? Pastor Mark talks in this first episode about the important of taking time to breath and how that can help us "reset" our souls.