Bridgewater Montrose’s Podcast

The Way in a Manger: The Way of Love

Love doesn’t win championships, build corporate empires, or conquer armies – strength, strategy, fear and influence seem far more powerful. But what if love was actually greater than them all? What if love wasn’t just a virtue, but a person born in a manger? This Christmas, we remember the day Love came to not just to change your life, but to transform our world.

Passage: 1 John 4:9-11

Speaker: Bob Kadlecik

The Way in a Manger: The Only Way

Christmas celebrates more than a birth. It celebrates the arrival of The Way: the only way to God. This may sound exclusive, but it is just the opposite. We are rescued from eternal death not by a religion or rulebook but by a person. Christmas isn’t just about a birth, it’s about an invitation given to everyone.

Passage: John 14:1, 6

Speaker: Bob Kadlecik

The Way in a Manger: Prepare the Way

How do you get ready for Christmas? It’s not by completing your shopping list, filling your schedule with events or even driving out to see family. You get ready for Christmas by getting ready for Jesus. Let’s learn from a man who spent his entire life preparing the way.

Passage: Luke 3:2-16

Speaker: Bob Kadlecik 

The Way in a Manger: The Wrong Way

We often talk about our lives using directional terms. “I lost my way... I went the wrong way... I turned my life around.” The Bible uses the same kind of language. But what if “the way” we need to go is more than a direction? Join us this Christmas season as we remember what Christmas is all about: the arrival of The Way in a Manger 

Have you ever gotten lost during the Christmas season? We rarely know when we go from “I know my way” to “I’ve lost my way.” By the time we realize we’re lost, we’ve been lost for some time. How do you know if you’ve lost your way in life? How do you know what way is the right way?

Passage: Proverbs 14:12

Speaker: Bob Kadlecik

Flip the Script: You

You’ve heard the stories of how God has moved in other people’s lives. Now what are you going to do about it? Jesus didn’t come just for you to think that He’s a good person; He came and died so that you could live. He didn’t just come to change your Sunday morning, but to change your entire life. He didn’t die to make bad people good; He came to make dead people alive. Are you going to live in His Truth?

Passage: James 1:22-27

Speaker: Kevin Stiles

Flip the Script: Paul

Paul went from being “eager to kill the Lord’s followers” to perhaps being the greatest ambassador for Christ who has ever lived. It all started with an interruption of his routine; a challenge to everything that he knew and held dear. Without Jesus interrupting Paul’s status quo, Paul would have never flipped the script in his life from enemy to ambassador. What if God wants to use that inconvenient or life-shattering interruption in your life to change everything?

Passage: Acts 9:1-31

Speaker: Bob Kadlecik

Flip the Script: Rahab

Flip the Script: Rahab

Unlike Moses, we don’t get much of Rahab’s backstory. She is introduced merely as a prostitute. In a foreign city. Far from God’s plan, and far from hope. And yet by the time God is done with her story, she ends up playing a vital role in the ancestry of Israel’s kings, most notably of Jesus Himself. Your past does not determine your future, but it may put you in the right position for something amazing. God has made you and shaped you differently than everyone else around you. Will you use those differences to make a difference?

Passage: Hebrews 11:30-31; Matthew 1:5-6a

Speaker: Kevin Ozolins

Flip the Script: Moses

Sometimes it feels like our life story has already been written, like it’s too late to change the ending because of what you’ve done or what’s been done to you. But what if it wasn’t too late? What if God is giving you an opportunity to Flip The Script - to change how your story ends? Through this series, we’ll look at lives that were turned upside down - in the best way possible - when they encountered the author of the greatest story ever told.

As a young man, Moses took justice into his own hands and paid the price for it. After 40 years in exile, he trusted God’s plan for justice over his own, and God used that to free an entire nation. No matter how reckless your past may have been or how unqualified you may feel, keep your eyes on the One who is invisible and He will use your past to redeem your future.

Passage: Hebrews 11:23-29

Speaker: Bob Kadlecik

Where Did it Go? — Mission

Money is always talking, whispering that we don’t have enough, pushing us to chase more, or shaming us for falling behind. Whether we’re rich or broke, it can easily become our master. But Jesus calls us to something greater: to store up treasures in heaven, where our giving directs our hearts toward what lasts forever. When we put money on mission, as Paul describes in 2 Corinthians 9, our generosity not only meets needs but multiplies gratitude to God and transforms us as givers. The question we each must answer is this: Does money have me, or does God?

Passage: Matthew 6:19-24; 2 Corinthians 9:6-11

Speaker: Bob Kadlecik

Where Did it Go? — Priority

We often put ourselves first—spending, paying debt, taxes, and saving—leaving God with whatever is left. In the Old Testament, God commanded His people to tithe as a reminder to trust Him with their first and best, and Jesus raised the bar in the New Testament by teaching that where our treasure goes, our hearts will follow. The widow who gave all she had showed that true generosity comes from faith and surrender, not surplus. We are challenged to “flip the list” by making God our priority with our finances, starting somewhere, and giving out of trust, because God gave first by sending His Son for us.

Speaker: Bob Kadlecik