Hey Bridgetown family, Bethany here.

I wanted to take a moment to invite you to Bridgetown's

eighth annual Holy Spirit conference on January 23rd and 24th

at Portland's Keller Auditorium.

The theme of this year's conference is the healing after the healing.

And we'll be exploring how the miraculous work of the Holy Spirit

is often just the first step

to deeper, slower soul-level healing.

Like the man born blind in John 9, every part of us that God heals only exposes a deeper part of us

awaiting healing from the same God, and the deepest healing is often the slowest kind.

We are so excited to be joined by contributors like Ruth Haley Barton, Kurt Thompson,

Kin Shigamatsu, and Brooke Ligitwood.

Live stream tickets are available now at holy spiritco.me.

I hope you can join us.

Someone in the crowd said to him,

Teacher, my brother, tell my brother to divide the inheritance with me.

Jesus replied, man, who appointed me a judge or an arbiter between you?

Then he said to them, watch out.

Be on your guard against all kinds of greed. Life does not consist in an

abundance of possessions. And he told them this parable. The ground of a certain rich man yielded an

abundant harvest. And he thought to himself, what shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.

Then he said, this is what I'll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones and there will store my surplus grain. And I'll say to myself,

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