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In Portland as it is in Heaven. All teachings are available to stream and download at bridgetown.church.
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1John 20v1-10 with Tyler Staton
The resurrection story comes alive as Jesus meets people in grief, doubt, and shame, restoring their lives from the inside out. Through Mary, Thomas, and Peter, we see that resurrection is not escape from the world, but God mending it and us into something new.
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John 12v24 with Tyler Staton and Bethany Allen
Using the imagery of a seed, Jesus reveals that true life comes through surrender, inviting us to release what we’re holding onto and trust God to bring new life.
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Matthew 27v11-29 with Tyler Staton and Bethany Allen
Jesus’ death on a tree reframes what looks like an ending into the surprising beginning of new life, inviting us to entrust what feels dead to God’s renewal.
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Matthew 19v4-6 with Tyler Staton
This teaching explores what the Bible says about same-sex relationships, walking through key passages and how they’ve been understood across scripture. It frames the conversation within Jesus’ vision of sexuality, rooted in creation and oriented toward love. Alongside conviction, it calls us to hold this teaching with humility, compassion, and a deep awareness of every person’s story.
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Psalm 34v8 with Tyler Staton, Bethany Allen
What shapes the way we understand our desires and sexuality? This teaching explores how scripture frames our bodies not as ends in themselves, but as signs that point beyond to life with God, calling us to form our desires with intention rather than impulse. At the center is a simple question: will we let our desires lead us, or will we learn to direct them toward what truly satisfies?
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Matthew 16v2-3 with Tyler Staton and Bethany Allen
What story is shaping the way we think about sexuality today? This teaching explores the cultural story of the sexual revolution alongside the story Jesus tells about our bodies, inviting us to examine the assumptions shaping our desires, identity, and sense of freedom. At the center is a deeper question: will our understanding of sexuality be formed by the self or by Jesus?
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Revelation 19v6-7 with Tyler Staton
How do our bodies and our sexuality fit into the larger story of God’s redemption? This teaching traces the biblical story from creation to resurrection, showing how our bodies were designed to reveal God’s beauty, how sin distorted that design, and how Jesus restores it. In the way of Jesus, our desires are not something to ignore or indulge, but something to be redeemed and directed toward the deeper love we were made for.
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Philippians 2v5-11 with Tyler Staton
What does it mean to see my body as good when it carries illness, disability, or chronic pain? Looking to Jesus, who chose human limits and willingly suffered with us, we consider how our limitations can become places of deep encounter, where love is formed in us rather than resentment. Together, we hold onto the hope that the God who meets us in our weakness will one day renew our bodies and wipe away every tear.
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Genesis 1v27-28, Revelation 22v1-5 with Tyler Staton
From Genesis to Revelation, the biblical story reveals that we are created in God’s image to rule by working and keeping his world for the flourishing of others. Yet when work becomes a way to prove our worth or secure our identity apart from God, it turns into anxious toil instead of a blessing. This teaching invites us to rediscover our everyday work as participation in God’s renewal, shifting from success to service and learning to labor at the pleasure of the true King.
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Ash Wednesday invites us to reflect on our mortality not as fear, but as formation. This teaching explores Lent as a voluntary journey into the wilderness, where we learn dependance on God, patient trust in his deliverance, and a deeper understanding of him as our true refuge.
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John 6v47-58 with Christian Dawson
Gluttony is not simply about excess. This teaching invites us to consider how our habits with food and drink shape our desires and form our lives as disciples. As we examine everyday patterns of consumption, we are invited into a different way of eating and drinking that leads to gratitude, self-control, and deeper trust in God.
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1 Corinthians 6v19-20 with Tyler Staton and Bethany Allen
Vanity often goes unnamed, but this teaching reveals it as a quiet, shame-driven attempt to secure identity and control through the body. Rather than managing appearance for worth or safety, we are invited into a gentler way of life - receiving our bodies as good, limited, and deeply loved. This teaching offers an honest look at how vanity forms us and points toward freedom through presence, community, and trust in God’s care.
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Matthew 25v14-30 with Bethany Allen
Jesus’ parable of the talents exposes how sloth takes root through comfort, delay, and quiet disengagement from the life God entrusts to us. This teaching invites disciples to resist spiritual apathy and practice faithful participation shaped by trust, courage, and love.
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Daniel 4v4-9, 22-34 with Ken Shigematsu
Through the rise, fall, and restoration of King Nebuchadnezzar, humility is revealed as acknowledging God as the true source of power and life. The story shows how pride unravels us from the inside out, and how recognizing God’s rule restores what was lost.
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Luke 12v13-34 with Tyler Staton
Jesus names greed as rooted in a mindset of scarcity and invites his disciples into a radically different imagination: a life shaped by God’s abundance. As part of our series on the seven deadly sins, this week explores the psychology, sociology, and spirituality of greed.
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Jonah 4v1-9 with Christine Caine
Anger has become normalized in our world, quietly fracturing our relationships, health, and life with God. Through the story of Jonah, we’re invited to notice how unresolved anger grows, distorts our priorities, and blinds us to God’s compassion. By sitting with God’s question, Is it right for you to be angry? we’re pointed toward a better way where anger is faced honestly, healed at the root, and no longer allowed to rule us.
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Romans 7v7-12 with Tyler Staton.
This teaching begins a new series on the seven deadly sins by examining envy and the disordered desires beneath it. We explore how comparison and coveting shape our inner life and why confession in community is central to healing.
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Luke 2v4-7 with Tyler Staton
At Christmas, we reflect on the birth of Jesus and what it reveals about God’s love. From Abraham to the manger, this teaching invites us to consider belief as a personal response to a God who comes near and makes his home with us
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Luke 1v26-38 with Tyler Staton
Centered on Mary’s encounter with the angel in Luke 1, the story of the Annunciation shows grace interrupting darkness and God’s promises taking root in ordinary lives. It invites a posture of waiting, trust, and openness to receive what God is forming within us.
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Luke 2v1–12 with Tyler Staton
In the third week of Advent, we return to the story of Jesus’ birth and consider the difference between sentiment and the joy announced by the angels. Walking through Luke 2, this teaching explores how joy enters real human chaos through costly hospitality and invites us to make room for Jesus and for one another right where we are.
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🙌🏾 thank you Bridgetown :)
Tyler mentions that baptism was for Gentiles, but in Acts 2, it's assumed that the 3000 would have been Jews as well as most examples within the first few chapters (until around Chapter 10) when the Kingdom was opened to the Gentiles (although it was God's plan all along).
well done. thank you
Wow, John Mark Comer! That is, in my opinion, the best sermon I've heard on this topic! 😊 Praise be to God! My love and prayers are with the Church of America and Bridgetown Church in particular as you seek to live out what it means to belong to Jesus' kingdom at this time. I live in Australia, and have listened to your podcasts throughout this year, and it has helped me so much in my walk with Christ. Thank you so much for making this available! 😊 ❤️
thank you so much for the candid love filled interview with pastor probasco. wow talk about a man filled with love and compassion and a reflection of the love of Jesus. what a rich community you live in Bridgetown!. thank you for blessing me today with such an encouraging interview. keep up the good work JM
thank you for your reflections on recent events. I find it so sad and very upsetting to view the violent video and so many angry people. it is a timely reminder that this is my society and being quiet as an older white guy IS saying something that is not constructive in these times. lord be merciful to me a sinner. help me Jesus to show love to people around me at all times.
wow he's good
it stops at the 16 minute mark. I think something is wrong with it.
Brought here as a fan of John Mark Comer and instantly enjoyed the rest of the wonderful leaders as well! I track with Bridgetown every week, in addition to Anthem Church Ventura where I am rooted locally. Very solid sermons that acknowledge our secular world without going off the deep end trying to be catchy and using pop culture, which has made me literally cringe sometimes at other church services.
I've been really blessed by this series so far but I think sometimes we can go too far with cultural references. I think the one used at the beginning of this sermon is one such example; unnecessary to make the point while being potentially off putting or even offensive.