Hello, family, Tyler here. I wanted to take a moment to invite you to Bridgetown's

8th annual Holy Spirit Conference, January 23rd and 24th at Portland's Keller Auditorium.

The theme of this year's conference is going to be the healing after the healing. We'll be exploring

how the miraculous work of the Holy Spirit

is often just the first step to the deeper, slower, soul-level healing. Like the Man

Born Blind in John 9, each part of us 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're so excited to be joined by contributors like Ruth Haley Barton, Kurt Thompson, Ken Shigamatsu,

and Brooke Lichertwood.

Tickets are available now at Bridgetown.

.church slash Holy Spirit.

I hope you can join us.

Genesis 11, starting in verse 1. Now the whole world had one language and a common speech.

As men moved eastward, they found a plain in Shinar and settled there.

They said to each other, come, let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly.

They used brick instead of stone and tar for mortar.

Then they said, come let us build ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the

heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of the whole earth.

But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the men were building. The Lord said,

if as one people speaking in the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they

planned to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language, so they will not

understand each other. So the Lord scattered them from there all over the earth, and they stopped

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