Gateway Church - MO

If the cross is where redemption is accomplished, the resurrection is where the new creation breaks into the old. Jesus does not merely survive death; He defeats it. Paul calls Him the first fruits, pointing toward a future in which what happened to Jesus becomes the beginning of what God intends for all creation. The resurrection means forgiveness is not the end of the Gospel—life is. Sin, suffer...

At the cross, pieces that have been appearing throughout Scripture suddenly come together: sacrifice, Passover, deliverance, covenant, the suffering servant, and the promised King. Jesus does not die because God’s plan has failed; the cross is where the rescue is accomplished. His declaration, “It is finished,” announces that what sin created and what human effort could never repair has been decis...

We want a King who can put things right—but what happens when His way challenges our own? God’s promise to David creates an expectation of a coming King whose kingdom will endure. Peter recognizes Jesus as that Messiah, but cannot imagine a King who suffers and dies. Jesus fulfills the promise in an unexpected way: He lays down His life for His people and calls His followers to walk the same path....

After rescuing Israel, God tells His people to build a sanctuary so that He may dwell among them. The tabernacle reveals something essential about God’s heart: He desires to be present with His people. John deliberately uses that same imagery when he says the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. In Jesus, God’s presence is no longer located in a tent or temple; God Himself walks into ordinary hom...

The Exodus becomes the defining rescue story of the Old Testament: enslaved people who cannot free themselves are delivered because God acts on their behalf. The Passover lamb, the escape from Egypt, and the crossing of the sea all become pieces that help us understand what Jesus ultimately comes to do. Jesus describes His own mission as giving His life as a ransom for many. God’s answer to bondag...

When God calls Abraham, His promise is bigger than one man, one family, or one nation. God intends to bless all peoples through him. That promise becomes one of the major pieces of Scripture’s redemptive picture and ultimately finds its fulfillment in Jesus. In encounters like the one with Zacchaeus, we see Jesus carrying God’s grace across the boundaries people create and bringing salvation to th...

The beauty of creation does not take long to fracture. Genesis 3 shows humanity distrusting God, choosing its own way, and introducing sin, shame, separation, and death into the picture. But even in the middle of the fracture, God begins pointing toward redemption. When Jesus arrives announcing that the Kingdom of God has come near, He is not simply offering better religious behavior—He is announc...

There are moments when life can feel like a collection of disconnected pieces—some beautiful, some painful, and some we have no idea what to do with. We wonder if there is a larger picture, whether our lives really have purpose, and where God fits into any of it. What if the pieces aren’t random? What if we were created intentionally, and even the brokenness we experience isn’t enough to make God...

Sometimes we wonder if we're making any difference in our world. We feel like maybe we're in the wrong place or doing the wrong things. We want to be world changers, but our lives feel mundane and ordinary. How can an ordinary mom or someone who's “just” an office worker really make a difference? But what if God has placed you where you are on purpose? What if simply standing firm in the place whe...

The book of Jonah does not end with Nineveh’s repentance, but with Jonah’s resentment. The prophet who received mercy struggles to rejoice when that same mercy is shown to his enemies. In the final week of Waves of Mercy, we will confront the uncomfortable question Jonah leaves behind: can we really claim to love God’s mercy if we resent the people God gives it to?

When Jonah finally goes to Nineveh, the unthinkable happens: the people Jonah wanted to avoid become the people God chooses to forgive. Their repentance confronts us with one of the most uncomfortable truths in Scripture—God’s mercy is not limited to the people we like, understand, approve of, or would have chosen. This week, we will wrestle with the wideness of God’s compassion and the challenge...

Jonah’s rebellion leads him into the depths, but even there, he is not beyond the reach of God’s mercy. From inside the fish, Jonah cries out to the Lord and discovers that the God he tried to flee is still the God who saves. This week, we will see that God’s mercy does more than rescue us from trouble; it is meant to reshape our hearts and soften us toward the mercy He wants to show others.

Jonah begins with a prophet on the run. God calls Jonah to go to Nineveh, but Jonah heads in the opposite direction, trying to escape both God’s command and God’s compassion. But the mercy of God is not easily avoided. In this opening week of Waves of Mercy, we will see that even when we run, resist, or rebel, God’s mercy still pursues us—not to destroy us, but to bring us back.

Failure can feel final. It can make us believe we have ruined our usefulness, lost our calling, or disqualified ourselves from what God wanted to do through us. Peter must have felt that way after denying Jesus three times. But in John 21, the risen Jesus meets Peter on the shore, shares a meal with him, restores him with grace, and sends him forward with purpose. This final waterside encounter re...

We have all found ourselves in situations where we felt like we were in over our heads. Sometimes we get there because of our own choices. Sometimes we are caught in circumstances we did not create. And sometimes, like the disciples, we end up in the storm because we were obeying Jesus in the first place. But Matthew 14 reminds us that the waves which terrify us are still beneath Him. Jesus comes...

When life hurts, most of us just want the pain to stop. We want relief. We want comfort. We want things to feel better. But in John 5, Jesus meets a man who has spent thirty-eight years beside a pool, waiting for life to change. Then Jesus asks him a question that cuts through the surface: “Do you want to get well?” Jesus was not simply offering a better moment. He was inviting the man into a diff...

Desperate times may call for desperate measures, but sometimes the hardest measure is humility. In 2 Kings 5, Naaman is powerful, successful, respected — and completely unable to heal himself. When he comes to the prophet Elisha looking for a miracle, he nearly misses the grace of God because the instructions feel too simple, too ordinary, and too beneath him. But the muddy water of the Jordan bec...

Most of us are wired for action. One of the mantras of our modern, frantic culture is, “Don’t just stand there. Do something.” But what if our addiction to action actually feeds our fear and weakens our faith? In Exodus 14, Israel finds themselves trapped between Pharaoh’s army and the Red Sea. Their instinct is panic, complaint, and retreat. But God’s word through Moses is clear: “The Lord will f...

Have you ever been in a place where you felt alone, helpless, or forgotten? Have you ever wondered if God had stepped away just when life was coming apart? In Exodus 1–2, Moses’ mother places him in the Nile — the very river that had become a symbol of death and danger for Hebrew children. But what looked like desperation became the beginning of deliverance. Even when chaos seems to have the final...

Many of us pray, “God, what do You want me to do?” when maybe the deeper prayer should be, “God, who do You want me to become?” In Romans, Paul reminds us that the will of God is not merely a path to discover, but a person to become. Because of God’s mercy, we are invited to offer ourselves fully to Him, be transformed by the renewing of our minds, and become the kind of people who can discern and...

Listen in on the culmination of this two-week series about what type of church God calls us to be.

Between the three archetypes of churches, these two are not what you are wanting to be! Listen in this week as Pastor Scott W. clues us in on how to identify if we are either caretakers or undertakers and how to avoid their fate!

Have you ever been given a job to do, but you didn’t have the strength to do it? At work, at school, in life in general that’s a tough reality to face. But it’s not new. In the book of Acts, we see that Jesus gave His followers a mission they could never fulfill in their own strength. But, before He sent them out, He promised them power through the Holy Spirit. Pentecost is the moment that promise...

Tune in as Pastor Lisa imparts wisdom on the significance of humility in prayer and the ultimate goal of repentance. Through our actions, we have the opportunity to set an example for the world and inspire them to follow Christ.

When Jesus rose from the grave, He didn’t just give His followers hope to hold onto — He gave them a mission to carry. In the final message of our Collision series, we’ll look at the resurrected Jesus’ command to “go and make disciples” and discover that the church was never meant to be a place where people simply gather and consume. We are a people sent under the authority of Jesus to pour His gr...