The Spiritual Practice of Friendship
Friendship is a mutual relationship that is vulnerable, supportive, encouraging, accepting, sanctifying, joy-filled and reserved for only a small number of people in your whole life. Spiritual Friendship is not just having an active social life or catching up over coffee once every 6 weeks. Rather as Aelred of Rievaulx wote in his book Spiritual […]
Let’s Talk About Spiritual Formation & Mental Health
Our mental health can affect our spiritual health. When we experience anxiety or depression it can be really difficult to pray or read the Bible and it can impact how we feel about our relationship with God. But thankfully our relationship with God is not dependent on good mental health or doing all the right […]
Let’s Talk About Secure Attachment with God & Others
Our attachment style can impact how we relate to other people. Those with a secure attachment style are able to trust others and not fear abandonment. Our most important attachment is with God, our Father, and when we can rest in that secure attachment, it can transform our faith. Watch the recording of this seminar […]
Toxic Masculinity & Femininity
At The Bridge church, we value Real Relationships. We want to our church to be marked by authenticity and genuine love for one another. During May and June 2024 , we focussed on a season of ‘Wellbeing’ events to help support and foster those kind of relationships. One of those was a seminar on ‘Toxic […]
Emotional & Spiritual Health at Home: Experiencing Growth
When times are tough it’s important to recognize our grief and process things through a lens of grace. But then It’s time to focus on Growth
Emotional & Spiritual Health at Home: Experiencing Grace
The last article in this series provided encouragement on how to maintain emotional and spiritual health during lockdown or isolation. The first step was acknowledging the grief we all experience – next, we are focusing on experiencing grace for yourself and others. Click here to read our Grace article.
Emotional & Spiritual Health at Home: Experiencing Grief
Every time we experience a change we lose something, and every time there’s loss, we experience grief. Click here to read our Grief Article
Why I Believe… by Betsy Rodgers
Thinking through the story of Mary Magdalene and her encounter with the risen Jesus in John 20 has led me to realise… Why I believe article
