Bring the family for a fun GAME NIGHT at LIFEBIRDGE!
Here are the details:
- Sunday, November 24, 2024 from 5:00 – 7:00 PM
- $10 per family
- Concessions available
- ALL DONATIONS WILL GO TOWARD SUMMER 2025 MISSIONS!
See y’all there!
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It’s time to decorate LifeBridge for Christmas!
Sunday, November 24, 2024, following worship.
Everyone is invited and lunch will be provided following!
With many working, it won’t take long, the place will look great, and fun will be had by all!
Join us!
Sunday, November 3, 2024, 12:00 – 3:00 PM
Support missions and get your car washed!
We are starting a new BridgeKidz series with the tagline, “Thankfulness.”
Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name; make known among the nations what he has done.
1 Chronicles 16:8 (NIV)
Synopsis
God wants us to be thankful, and he’s given us a lot of things to be thankful for. In this series kids will learn about the blessings God has given them and how they can show their gratitude to God.
Dates
This series covers the month of November, 2024.
Join us!
What amazing opportunities that God places before us!
“And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: ‘The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens. “ ‘I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name.’ ”
Revelation 3:7-8
As we gaze across the countryside of Sealy you can’t help but notice all the homes which have been built in the last ten years.
Some would call this progress, while others would say it’s regressive because we want Sealy to stay a small town.
Regardless of your attitude on the population growth here, as followers of Christ we must say that this is an opportunity God gives to all Christians living in this area. And at the same time we must remember who has the power to open this opportunity and it’s definitely not us. The power is in our amazing God that through His Son, Jesus, He gives His life as the sacrifice for the forgiveness of our sins. Not only does He give us eternal life through Jesus’ death and resurrection, He also gives us the power to take advantage of the opportunities that He Himself places before us.
Scriptures
- Isaiah 22:20-25
- Revelation 3:7-8
- Matthew 16:13-20
The Advent season offers a message of peace in the face of fear.
The human experience is often marked by anxiety and worry, from childhood fears to adult anxieties. However, the birth of Jesus Christ and the promise of his return bring hope and peace.
The Bible provides numerous passages that address our fears and offer comfort. Through faith in Jesus, we can overcome our anxieties and experience lasting peace.
The Advent season is a time to reflect on this message and find solace in the promise of Christ’s love and grace.
This Advent, come hear and experience how in and through Jesus, “His Gospel is Peace!”
“His Gospel is Peace!” is ©2024 by 1517. All rights reserved. Used by permission. Sermons based on ones written by The Rev. Matt Popovits.
Men, we’re starting a new series on our time together: “God’s Uncommon Man“ with Tony Dunge & James Brown.
Description
Do you ever wonder what it looks like to be a man of faith? In this three-session series, sportscaster James Brown and former NFL coach Tony Dungy will teach us what it means to be an ”uncommon man“—a man who follows God faithfully. Are you ready to take the next step in your life of faith? Learn what it takes in God’s Uncommon Man.
Series Trailer
Participant handouts, leader’s guide, and other resources for the series is available here.
When we’re hurting we usually feel alone. Abandoned. Forsaken. Sometimes we feel we are the only ones who are – or have – ever felt this way. No one cares. No one appreciates. No one understands.
Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, what we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Hebrews 4:16
Of course that isn’t true. We may even know it’s not true, but it certainly feels true.
And when we feel that way, in the moment, hope seems, at best, fleeting.
That’s true not just when we are hurting, but also when we are crushed by our sins. When we have separated ourselves from God’s plan and actions – again. When we have rebelled against the One who loves us beyond comprehension.
And He didn’t just say it, He showed it. In the flesh. On the cross. Through and empty tomb. The sinless One became sin for us.
We know that, but we often think of it more as an abstraction. A truth that’s far away from our reality. A nice narrative to just be believed.
Our text today brings this truth home!
Jesus’ time on earth wasn’t just manifested on the cross and in the tomb. It was also in His living. He came like us; to be weak like us; to be tempted like us. He came to experience our sufferings, to sympathize with our weaknesses, to endure our failures.
And then to overcome them. For us! Forever!
Now, whenever we feel broken, hurt, alone; when we feel unforgiven, abandoned, or lost, we can look to Jesus, who understands. Who truly and fully understands. Who perfectly understands. And who, because of His abiding, enduring love for us, goes to the Father on our behalf, intervening for us and lifting us up out of the mire and muck and walking with us through the hurts and pains.
Jesus came to suffer, die, and rise for our forgiveness and salvation. But He continues even today to intervene when we loose sight of eternity because of our temporality. And His grace and mercy extend both to the there-and-not-yet as well as to the here-and-now!
What an amazing God we have. What a wonderful Savior! What a loving Lord!
Scriptures
- Psalm 119:9-16 [Confession and Absolution]
- Hebrews 4:14-16
We are continuing our journey through the pivotal book of Deuteronomy! Today we are at Deuteronomy 3:23ff.
Let’s go!
LifeBridge will be taking part again in this year’s BOO BASH on MAIN!
This is a FREE FAMILY EVENT!
Thursday, October 31, 2024, from 5:00 – 7:00 PM in downtown Sealy.
- Music
- Candy
- Games
- Costume Contest
- MORE!
There is a lot in Scripture that is difficult to accept; difficult to believe. There is a lot that is at odds with what our reason or what our society says. There is a lot of difference between what God’s heart tells us as shared in His Word and what our own hearts tell us.
Take care, brothers, lest there be in any of you an evil, unbelieving heart, leading you to fall away from the living God.
Hebrews 3:12
As Shakespeare put it, “there’s the rub!”We seem to constantly be comparing the two – God’s way or ours. God’s Word or ours. God’s heart or ours.
And with any seeming “win” we think we have in these situations there is something else which accompanies it – the path toward evil; toward destruction; toward death.Having a heart that believes God in one thing but denies in anther is grossly inconsistent, spiritually dangerous, and disastrously foolish.
Yet we seem comfortable – even desirable – of that dichotomy.
Brothers and sisters, this must not be!
When there is a difference between God and us – our heart and His, His must win! Always! In every area!
It’s ok to feel and know there is tension between the two, but when it comes down to it, God calls on us to have a heart that fully fears, loves, and trusts in Him regardless of how we feel about it. He calls us to follow His will and directions, even when they conflict with what we think it best. He calls us to have a heart that believes in His love and salvation in Jesus over and against anything else that we may believe.
And here’s something beautiful: He knows that we have a hard time with this, so what He demand of our heart, He freely gives! Through the Holy Spirit, our hearts are turned to Him in faith; turned to Jesus in salvation; turned to Him in obedience.
We will continue to have doubting hearts at times. There will continue to be tension at times, and God knows that. But in those times of uncertainly and doubt; those times of a difference in our hearts, look to Jesus on the cross and to the empty tomb and believe! Take the next steps in faith through the Holy Spirit, even in the doubt. Live in the believing heart of faith He gives and strengthens us with constantly!
Acknowledge the tension but move forward with a believing heart in faith. In Jesus’ name, Amen!
Scriptures
- Hebrews 3:12-19
- Mark 10:17-22
We are continuing our journey through the pivotal book of Deuteronomy! Today we are at Deuteronomy 2:26ff.
Let’s go!
