Bridgewater Montrose’s Podcast

#struggles: Authenticity

How has social media affected you? If you say it hasn’t, there is a good chance you are wrong. One of the areas of impact is the “Authentic you”. Being “Authentic you” is a rarity on social media and the pressure to be someone you are not is overwhelming. Instead of presenting the authentic you, we post the me we want to be.

Speaker: Bob Kadlecik

#struggles

Series: As you scroll through your day, does it feel like everyone else has it all together?  Someone always has the best job, cutest kid, or happiest relationship.  We're pressured to measure up to other people's social media status updates and left with more #struggles.  This four-week series studies what it's like to live a Christ-focused life in a selfie-centered world.

Sermon: We all want to know the secrets to life, the secret of getting fit, rich, liked, or the secret to falling in love.  But what about the secret of contentment, the secret of knowing how to have a heart that is fully satisfied?  It could change your life!

Scripture Passage: Philippians 4:11-13

Speaker: Bob Kadlecik

Stranger Stories: Humility over Pride

Sermon: It is the most destructive evil known to humanity, and it lurks within every human heart.  Discover how to spot and overcome the sin that corrupted the mightiest of angels.

Scripture Passages: Obadiah 1:11-14

Speaker: Bob Kadlecik

Stranger Stories: Dealing with Despair

Sermon: Sadness says life is terrible, but despair says life is terrible...and it will never get better.  How do I deal with despair - or help someone I love out of it?

Scripture Passage: Habakkuk 1:2,4

Speaker: Bob Kadlecik

Stranger Stories: Courage over Complacency

Sermon: What do you do when you seem to stand alone for God?  Instead of mediocrity, Amos chooses to be strangely courageous.

Scripture Passage: Amos 6:1

Speaker: Bob Kadlecik

Stranger Stories: Dealing with Disaster

Series: How do you respond to tragedy, loneliness, despair and arrogance?  Join us as we explore truth from 4 unfamiliar books of the Bible that will help you thrive when life tries to take you under.

Sermon: What do you do when your world turns upside down?  Joel's strange response shows us how to thrive even in disaster.

Scripture Passage: Joel 1:2-3

Speaker: Bob Kadlecik

The Good Book: Is It Relevant?

Sermon: Even if the Bible is the Word of God how can a book that is so old have any relevancy in my life?  How does ancient text from a culture that is so far gone impact my life?  These are excellent questions and now here are the answers!

Scripture Passage: 2 Timothy 3:14-17

Speaker: Josh Jones

The Good Book: Is it Reliable?

Series: Over the years the Bible has been affectionately known as "The Good Book".  People believed it to be the Word of God.  Over the recent decades this idea has eroded away.  Each year fewer and fewer people read it, believe it to be true or have any relevancy for life.  Now, more than ever, is the time to stop and ask a simple question, "Is the Good Book God's Book and how does it relate to me?

Sermon: In life we are faced with so many things that are not reliable; work, family, friends, etc.  At some point almost everyone and everything has let us down.  How can we look at the Bible and think that it is anything different?  Is it really the Word of God?  Can I count on it?  Where will it lead me?

Scripture Passage: 2 Peter 1:12-13, 19-21

Speaker: Bob Kadlecik

The Movement

Sermon: Terrorism. Shootings. Hatred. Intolerance.  The world is not getting better.  What on earth is God doing?  And what part does God want me to play?

Scripture Passage: Genesis 1:28

Speaker: Brian Loshbaugh & Bob Kadlecik

New You Resolution: The Art of Selling Your Soul

Whatever your sense of morality is, the frightening truth is that we all fail to live up to it. Why and how do you keep coming up short? Surprisingly, compromise never starts with the big stuff. It's way more subtle than that. 

Speaker: Bob Kadlecik