Gateway Fellowship

Here we recapped God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, and Scripture, and then moved on to briefly address creation and humanity. It's important to distinguish between what Christians hold in the closed hand (must believe) and what we hold in the open hand (may believe). In the closed hand are that God made all things visible and invisibe, that he is Lord over all things, and that humans are made in God&#3...

Sunday morning chat from Stan.

This is a chat about...oh, you know, the universe.

In which we briefly discuss... God Jesus Holy Spirit Scripture

This talk is about growing up spiritually.

"Let all the peoples praise you" part 2.

2 Cor 2:14  But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere.  15  For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. 

This is based on Psalm 67's invitation to all the people's of the earth to worship God, but mainly the global vision of redemption present within Scripture and the kingdom from beginning to end. You're on a ball in space. Zoom out.

This chat is about the names Joseph chose for his two sons born in Egypt.

“Because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold.” — Matthew 24:12

Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob contributed something fascinating to the Bible: their story. Story is significant. You are hidden in God's story, and he's hidden in yours. Listen to your life.

Part 1 - how sins are different Part 2 - how sins are alike

For many believers, the cross has been explained as Jesus dying to pay God a debt we owed for our sins. Is this explanation how the early church fathers understood the cross?

“Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God’s wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.” (Phil 4:6-7 MSG)

God is typically more interested in the inward journey than any outward performances.

A friend came to me recently with all kinds of questions and about the Bible.

This one is about gratitude.

A conversation about being and becoming.

"Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord." (Romans 12:11)

“You have taken off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy.” (Psalm 30:11)

"As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them." (Luke 24:15)

God establishes physical altars in the world, but a spiritual altar in each heart where we bring things and give them up as worship to God.

David's plea for deliverance in Psalm 30:9 appeals to a glorious presumption: how much God would lose if he lost him. "God, if you let this thing take me, you're gonna miss me." It's this bedrock certainty of God's love that he brings with him out of the pit, out of sheol, and into the redemption that ensues.

I made a case that our attachment style affects all our relationship, including our relationship to God. And we can change. And that Scriptural prayers model some very healthy convictions regarding attachment. We started with Psalm 5. Secure, anxious, avoidant, disorganized...

Grounded in God in the midst of troubles...