Gateway Fellowship

Jay is a fervent member of the Wednesday Club.

Mark walks with a light step and an ease in his spirit. He serves as our overseer.

This Wednesday conversation was about Isaiah 55.

"No one takes my life from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down , and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father ." (John 10:18)

5 I was circumcised when I was eight days old. I am a pure-blooded citizen of Israel and a member of the tribe of Benjamin—a real Hebrew if there ever was one! I was a member of the Pharisees, who demand the strictest obedience to the Jewish law. 6 I was so zealous that I harshly persecuted the church. And as for righteousness, I obeyed the law without fault. 7 I once thought these things were val...

This is based on the gospel of John.

Don't stuff your tears. Don't dump your tears. Sow your tears.

This is a NO condemnation gospel.

In the midst of our pain, God doesn't merely send answers. He sends love in the flesh to be with us. This chat is about embodied pain, love, and spirituality centering on the meaning of the incarnation and the cross.

If we are a home in which Christ comfortably dwells, it will impact every sphere of our lives like the waves from a drop in concentric circles. What does it mean to "dwell well" in Christ so that we bear good fruit?

This is a guided meditation on loss and the restoration of hope based on Ezekiel 37.

God's grace is creative, bringing order and light out of darkness and chaos. A mature Jesus-follower helps others get out of sin instead of throwing them away (Gal 6), extends creative welcome to outsiders (Acts 10), and experiences God creating a new heart and cleansing of their own sins as well (Ps 51).

At the core of our faith is forgiveness, with a view to restoring true heart to heart intimacy with God.

Here are some books that shaped my faith in Christ and why I find them helpful.

In a disposable world where we discard and replace, the gospel brings us a Father who is willing to put in the work to restore us because of our value. So what's the measure of your worth? The cross. You are worth the blood of Jesus.

Tim had the honor of baptizing Jay last night.

Stan had the honor of baptizing Garrett Biggs last night.

Sometimes anger is the first response when hope is rebooting to come back online. This is about 2 Kings chapter 4.

"God in his wisdom saw to it that the world would never know him through human wisdom." (1 Corinthians 1:21)

When we pray God does something he wouldn't have done if we hadn't prayed. In Amos 7 we see that the prophet changed God's mind. What do we need to get started? 1. A time 2. A place 3. Words We ended the talk with a great story of an unlikely answer to prayer.

There's something so special about the fact that God has chosen to pour out His Spirit upon his people, and loves to give more of Himself when we ask (Luke 11). That was the agenda tonight.

Stop Look Listen Write

2 Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

My friend Wayne once told me that most of us live our whole Christian life in the wilderness after we're rescued out of Egypt. We don't cross over the Jordan and enter in to the promised land. This sermon is about crossing over and entering in.

Is faith certainty or is it more like walking a path of surrender in response to the call of the beckoning mystery encoded into life itself?