Bridgetown Church Podcast

In this special message, Pastor Casey Kendall steps away from the 2 Samuel series to share from Psalm 62 during a season of transition for Bridgetown Church. As the community processes change, grief, and uncertainty, this teaching reminds us that God is our rock, our refuge, and our strength.
Through David’s words, we’re invited to bring our full, honest selves before God. Rather than suppressing emotion, Scripture calls us to trust Him at all times and pour out our hearts before Him. Even in seasons of pain and waiting, we can remain steady because of who God is.
This message is both a pastoral encouragement and a call to deeper trust—anchoring our lives not in circumstances, but in the unchanging character of God.

Psalm 62:5–8
“My soul, wait silently for God alone…
He only is my rock and my salvation…
Trust in Him at all times, you people;
pour out your heart before Him;
God is a refuge for us.”

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Unexpected Scars: Finding Hope When You’ve Been Dropped
Bridgetown Church Podcast | Pastor Casey Kendall
Text: 2 Samuel 4
In this message, Pastor Casey Kendall continues the series through 2 Samuel with a teaching from chapter 4 titled Unexpected Scars: Finding Hope When You’ve Been Dropped.
Centered on the brief but powerful mention of Mephibosheth in 2 Samuel 4:4, Pastor Casey explores what it means to trust God when life takes a turn you never saw coming. Through humor, honesty, and biblical insight, he reminds listeners that some of the deepest pain in life comes from the things we simply did not expect — bad news, broken trust, loss, fear, disappointment, and wounds caused by someone else’s actions.
The message begins with the story of Mephibosheth, a five-year-old boy who was accidentally dropped while being rushed to safety after the deaths of Saul and Jonathan. That fall left him permanently lame. Pastor Casey uses this moment to speak to anyone who feels like life has dropped them, wounded them, or changed their story in ways they never would have chosen.
From there, the sermon walks through the larger events of 2 Samuel 4, including the instability surrounding Ish-bosheth, the violent actions of Baanah and Rechab, and David’s righteous response. Through it all, the message highlights three key truths for navigating the unexpected:
We need an anchor.
When life feels unstable, our peace cannot be built on people, outcomes, or circumstances. Pastor Casey warns against placing our security in human “anchors” that cannot hold us, and instead calls believers to anchor themselves in the character, faithfulness, and promises of God.
We need righteous actions.
Unexpected pain does not justify sinful responses. Even when emotions run high, believers are called to act with obedience, wisdom, and trust in God rather than reacting out of fear, revenge, panic, or self-protection.
We must live with responsibility and anticipation.
Even when our pain was caused by someone else’s decisions, we are still responsible for how we move forward. Pastor Casey encourages listeners not to stop in the middle of their pain, but to keep taking the next faithful step, trusting that God is still writing the story.
A major thread throughout the message is this: 2 Samuel 4 is not the end of Mephibosheth’s story. Pastor Casey points ahead to 2 Samuel 9, where Mephibosheth is brought to the king’s table. What looked like the end was actually setting the stage for grace. In the same way, our scars, setbacks, and sorrows are not beyond the reach of Jesus.

The Elephant in the Room
Bridgetown Church Podcast | Pastor Casey Kendall
In this message, Pastor Casey Kendall explores Galatians 4 and the challenge of addressing “the elephant in the room” — the hard conversations, hidden tensions, and unspoken issues we often avoid. Through the Apostle Paul’s words to the church in Galatia, this teaching calls believers to approach conflict with concern, truth, humility, and a desire for restoration.
Pastor Casey begins by reflecting on waiting — both in an urgent care room and in life — and reminds listeners with simple hope: Jesus is coming. From there, he shares how God has been stirring Bridgetown Church toward a fresh missions vision in 2026: to live as people who are either goers or senders, but never passive. He highlights ongoing outreach efforts, mission opportunities in Japan, Africa, Cambodia, and Pakistan, and the church’s call to keep getting the gospel into the world.
The heart of the sermon then turns to Galatians 4:16:
“Have I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth?”
Using that verse as a foundation, Pastor Casey addresses the way people often avoid difficult conversations in friendships, marriages, families, church life, and culture. He defines “the elephant in the room” as a problem everyone sees but no one wants to talk about, and shows how avoidance does not remove conflict — it only hides it.
Drawing from Paul’s example, Pastor Casey offers a biblical framework for handling hard conversations:
Be concerned for the person

Be willing to suffer with them

Speak the truth

Walk with them until Christ is formed in them

Rather than trying to “win” arguments, believers are called to pursue correction, restoration, and spiritual maturity. This message is a call to stop covering what needs to be addressed and to trust God enough to have honest, loving, truth-filled conversations.

Response to Revenge
2 Samuel 3:31–39 | Guest Speaker: Judah Kuhl
This Sunday, guest speaker Judah Kuhl continued our study through 2 Samuel, walking us through chapter 3 and examining how we respond when we’ve been wronged.
In a world captivated by revenge stories and quick retaliation, Scripture offers a different path. When Abner is murdered, King David’s response is not celebration—but mourning. David grieves publicly, honors his fallen enemy, and ultimately entrusts justice to the Lord.
Through this passage, we see two important truths:
Revenge creates a destructive cycle of bitterness and violence.

Justice belongs to God, not to us.

While David models humility and grief, his failure to fully hold Joab accountable reminds us that even good leaders fall short. David points us to a better King—Jesus—who perfectly balances mercy and justice.
In Matthew 5, Jesus calls us to break the cycle of retaliation by loving our enemies and praying for those who persecute us. This is not easy, but it is the way of Christ.
As we reflect on this message, we are invited to consider:
Where am I tempted to take revenge into my own hands?

What would it look like to trust God with justice?

Who is God asking me to pray for this week?

Because the solution to wrongdoing is not reaction—but prayer.
Listen to the full message on the Bridgetown Church Podcast or at wearebridgetown.com.

On Valentine’s Day weekend, guest speaker Chris Ochoa opens with a reminder: you are not alone—Jesus loves you and is with you. From there, he teaches on fasting as one of Jesus’ core spiritual disciplines (alongside giving and prayer). Chris frames fasting as a practice of spiritual formation—training that leads to transformation—so believers become the kind of people who look like Jesus in both body and spirit.
Using Matthew 6 and Isaiah 58, Chris clears up common confusion: fasting isn’t a Christian “hack,” a detox, or a way to earn God’s favor. Instead, fasting is about intentional communion with God, paired with prayer, that deepens faith and reorders desires. He highlights biblical patterns of fasting (mourning, petition, response), warns against “false fasting” that’s self-centered and produces quarrels, and points to God’s heart for fasting that produces righteousness, justice, and generosity.
Chris closes with practical ways to approach an upcoming church-wide week of fasting, and he connects fasting to communion and the gospel—Jesus’ final meal, His thirst on the cross, and His victory that makes us His redeemed people.