Bridgewater Montrose’s Podcast

Series: The happiest and greatest moments of your life happen through relationships.  The worst and hardest moments of your life happen through... relationships!  Join us as we discover the "rules" to build better, lasting relationships.

Sermon: Rule #1: Your goal in conflict cannot be to win the conflict or avoid the conflict.  Your goal must be to please God.  Remember: Sinful people tend to respond sinfully when sinned against.

Scripture Passage: Romans 12:18

Speaker: Bob Kadlecik

Sermon: Although the world lives with the end in mind, with Jesus our story is not a story of ends.  Regardless of what you have done in the past, Jesus wants to turn your grave into a garden.  Jesus isn't finished with you.  He's just getting started.

Scripture Passage: John 21

Speaker: Bob Kadlecik

We have been marked by Jesus to leave a mark! One of the last acts of Jesus’ earthly ministry was to serve His disciples and to challenge them to leave a mark of service.

Scripture Passage: John 13:1-5

Speaker: Bob Kadlecik

Sermon: We have been marked by Jesus to leave a mark!  Possibly the defining mark of a follower of Jesus is love.  What does it look like for us to love where we live?

Scripture Passage: Matthew 22:34-40

Speaker: Bob Kadlecik

Sermon: We have been marked by Jesus to leave a mark!  Few things can change and influence people like forgiveness.  As we learn to forgive, we live out what we have been marked to do!

Scripture Passage: Luke 23:32

Speaker: Ethan Morrison

Series: What's the thing that defines you?  When people think of you what is the thing they first associate with you?  What if when someone thought of you they quickly thought of Jesus?  What if you lived in such a way that it was obvious you have been marked by the power, forgiveness, love and mind of Christ?  In this series, we will discover what it looks like to bear the marks of Jesus.

Sermon: If you are a follower of Jesus, you have been marked for a mission.  Jesus has set you apart and called you but you may have to learn to take care of the donkeys before you see your name in lights.

Scripture Passage: Ephesians 4:1

Speaker: Bob Kadlecik

Too often we miss who our battle is truly against in this world. We miss our “Breakthrough” because we are fighting the wrong things and/or the wrong people. You and I have an enemy and the sole purpose of his existence is to chew God’s people up and spit them out. If we desire to proclaim victory in this world, if we want to thrive and not just survive, then we need to identify our true enemy and build a battle plan to stand against him.

 

Speaker: Bob Kadlecik

Sermon: Everything God does is by design and done for His purposes, but too often we live completely opposite of that truth; especially in the middle of suffering and pain.  We come to believe that everything just happens around us and to us without thinking of a divine purpose.  What if there was a plan.  What if God has revealed His plan and we just missed it.  Once we see with clarity that God does everything on purpose for a purpose, we are able to understand that we have been chosen right here, right now, for such a time as this.  Each and everyone of us has a purpose and it is far greater than ourselves!

Scripture Passage: 1 Peter 2:4-10

Speaker: Bob Kadlecik

Finding our breakthrough starts with our minds. How we think determines how we live, simply because thinking always precedes doing. It is when we are alert and fully sober minded we are able to live differently- and when we live differently than the broken world around us we find our victory over it.

 

Speaker: Bob Kadlecik

This world is not one we were meant to just survive; we are meant to thrive. As we read through scripture, we come to the same conclusion over and over again that we can find victory in a defeated world- but how we do that will surprise many of us. A breakthrough in life is a life of busting free from the brokenness of the world and taking a hold of a life that is truly life through God’s grace!

The realities of the broken world in many ways, for many of us, overshadow the greatness of God’s glory through the gift of life by His son. We forget who we are, we forget what He has already done and we get lost because we think we have lost. There is victory in Jesu and victory over this defeated world.

 

Speaker: Josh Jones