Bridgewater Conklin’s Podcast

Breakthrough: Know Your Enemy

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: Jeff Schrecengost 

Breakthrough: No Evil

Sermon: We have a choice before us when we experience the brokenness of this world in our lives first-hand.  We can choose to be just like the broken or we can choose to be who we are in Jesus.  Suffering in this world leads us to one of two responses; sinning or serving; which will you choose?

Scripture Passage: 1 Peter 3:9-15

Speaker: Jeff Schrecengost

Breakthrough: Chosen People for a Chosen Time

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: Joel Garrison

Breakthrough: Finding Your Breakthrough

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: Joel Garrison

Breakthrough: Finding Victory in a Defeated World

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: Joel Garrison

Breathing Room: Finding Professional Breathing Room

Sermon: The key to professional breathing room is focus.  We should learn to work towards what we're good at, which means improving on our strengths, and delegating our weaknesses.

Scripture Passage: Exodus 18:13-24

Speaker: Jeff Schrecengost

Breathing Room: Less is More

Ever feel like you can’t catch your breath? Our culture encourages us to fill up our schedules and empty our bank accounts. Living on the line creates too much stress and tension but God has a better way. Our Heavenly Father wants to lead you to a life with breathing room.

In our attempt to get the most out of life, our schedules spin out of control. Our time is limited, and someone has to decide how we spend the time we have left. When we surrender our time to our Heavenly Father, He will lead us to breathing room.

 

Speaker: Jeff Schrecengost

Expect the Unexpected: An Unexpected Plan

Sermon: Jesus' plan was the most unexpected of all.  People expected Jesus to save those like them; He came to save everyone.  People expected a king to rule and make everything right-right now; He came to die.

Scripture Passage: Luke 2:25-35

Speaker: Jeff Schrecengost

Expect the Unexpected: An Unexpected Family Tree

Assumptions often blind us to reality. When I assume something won’t happen or can’t happen, but then it does happen - it’s unexpected. Jesus not only comes in an unexpected way, he wants to do the unexpected in our lives.

 

If God can use these spiritual rejects, God can use you!

 

Speaker: Jeff Schrecengost

Killing it: To be a Known Survivor

Sermon: We all want to be recognized, admired, sought after, and envied.  We hunger for approval.  We want to be known.  But what do you do when there is no amount of "known" that will satisfy your appetite?

Scripture Passage: John 1

Speaker: Bob Kadlecik