Bridgetown Audio Podcast

Compromise

From the series Life In Exile: On Becoming A Creative Minority as part of the Year Of Biblical Literacy.

Intro: A Creative Minority

From the series Life In Exile: On Becoming A Creative Minority as part of the Year Of Biblical Literacy.

Song Of Songs: The Sex Talk

From the series The Sage: On The Problem Of Evil And Good as part of the Year Of Biblical Literacy.

Ecclesiastes: More than Mist

From the series The Sage: On The Problem Of Evil And Good as part of the Year Of Biblical Literacy.

The Way Life Works

From the series The Sage: On The Problem Of Evil And Good as part of the Year Of Biblical Literacy.

Man’s Search for Meaning

From the series The Sage: On The Problem Of Evil And Good as part of the Year Of Biblical Literacy.

Prayer Training

From a Midweek Lecture as part of the Year Of Biblical Literacy. 

Listen along to a prayer training with Mike Pilavachi as discusses how to create space to hear from the Spirit and respond. 

Why?

From the series The Sage: On The Problem Of Evil And Good as part of the Year Of Biblical Literacy.

Theodicy is how you square the reality of a God who created the world out of love with the heinous, gut-wrenching evil we read in the news every single day. Every theodicy has holes in it; this is an area of wide disagreement in the global, historic church. But with humility, we beat up on one popular theodicy and propose a better way forward.

Job: The Curtain Behind The Universe

From the series The Sage: On The Problem Of Evil And Good as part of the Year Of Biblical Literacy.

In a fascinating walk through the book of Job, we see that the starting place for a conversation around the problem of evil is this: there are no easy answers. But there is a place for lament. And the invitation is to trust God no matter what kind of evil we face.

Disappearing Church

From a Midweek Lecture as part of the Year Of Biblical Literacy.

Weaving together art, history, and theology, pastor and cultural observer Mark Sayers reminds us that real growth happens when the church embraces its countercultural witness, not when it blends in. It’s like Jesus said long ago, “If the salt loses its saltiness, it is no longer good for anything…”