The Gathering Windsor Podcast

When situations arise that are so fierce, so ominous, that our faith feels like its suffocating along with us, we can begin to doubt Jesus’ authority and especially when faith is challenged by fear. Fear leads us to wonder whether the God that has demonstrated his sovereignty over physical creation has any rival among the metaphysical. Jesus is sovereign over the natural, but is he any match for t...

Pastor Phil examines this popular story and explains that we must trust Him to forgive us since Jesus has the authority to forgive sins. Subscribe to our channel to see more moments from the Gathering Church! — To support our ministry and help us continue to change lives through the power of the Gospel, click here: https://www.tgcw.org/give — Follow our church at: Facebook: https://www.facebook.co...

When situations arise that are so fierce, so ominous, that our faith feels like its suffocating along with us, we can begin to doubt Jesus’ authority and especially when faith is challenged by fear. Fear leads us to wonder whether the God that has demonstrated his sovereignty over physical creation has any rival among the metaphysical. Jesus is sovereign over the natural, but is he any match for t...

“Have you underestimated the cost of something only to realize after that you might have bit off more than we can chew? When it comes to discipleship, Jesus doesn’t want us to be surprised. How do you count the cost when you don’t know what’s coming in your life?” The answer is that Jesus requires, upfront, a commitment to the highest possible cost.”

  Hebrews 11:1-7 is the passage and I understand the title of the presentation is “Genesis: Missing Piece of the Puzzle.” The write up could be something like, “Calvin Smith from Answers in Genesis visited The Gathering to provide an update on the work of this ministry and encourage the believers to trust God’s Word against all opposition.  

The Kings kindness to outcasts

While worry, fear, and anxiety were a huge struggle even before COVID craziness of a few years ago, they are enormous struggles right now. How will we enter the New Year? For some, they’ll be fighting anxiety as the clock counts down. Yet, as the people of God, we can be assured that our Sovereign is in control even when we’re overwhelmed with fear and anxiety. 

We look everywhere and try seemingly everything in order to have a better Christmas.  We must remember that in order to have a better Christmas, we need to worship the better king. 

Christmas isn’t about us or even our happiness. It’s about the man in the name – a man who is so much better. How does this better Adam give us a better understanding of ourselves, a better Savior, and a better hope for the future? If we are to have a better Christmas, we must receive the Better Adam

As the Apostle Paul concludes the letter to the Colossians, he encourages the believers to not forget the gospel but to focus on displaying it everywhere, all the time.

 Who sees all of the excellent work every day? God does. As Christians, we should pursue excellence in our work not because we want to impress the boss, or to get a raise, we work first for Christ. He sees even when no one else does. 

For many of us, there’s an underwritten rule: what happens at home stays at home and nobody on the inside is really going to snitch, exposing me for being earthly or sinful. Work is another area of our life where it’s easy to let our pursuit of Christ-likeness hide. Why not, right? If we can’t tell people about Jesus at work, why bother living like Christ either. But if we are committed Christ fol...

Jesus is incomparable. He alone is sufficient to save us and keep us and because of this, if we are Christians, then Jesus must be your life; not just Savior, but also Lord. It makes no sense that after having been made clean to then go back and live a sinful life.

False teachers had crept into the church in Colossae and were distorting the gospel with all kinds of legalistic ideas that offered spiritual growth.  Pastor Phil explains that in order to progress towards the goal of becoming more like Christ, we must resist legalism and focus on Christ.

We have tendency, really a natural propensity to supplement salvation by adding in a little bit of us. Yet, salvation is a sovereign work of God – it does not need to be seasoned by us. That’s why God gets the Glory Alone.

When it comes to your salvation and mine, it’s not just faith alone in any old thing – it’s certainly not the amount of faith, but who you place your faith in. The  Protestant Reformers didn’t fight for people to have faith; they insisted on what the Bible insists on: that salvation depends on Christ alone!

How do people receive the salvation that God offers?  Pastor Phil explains the crucial teaching of Sola Fide: that people receive salvation in Jesus Christ through faith alone.

The Roman Catholic Church teaches that a sinner can be made right with God, not by the complete and fully pleasing sacrifice of Jesus on the cross, but that grace requires additional merit. Today we find out whether Rome was right, or whether the Reformers, armed with the Bible, were correct in proclaiming salvation by Grace Alone.  

If Satan can diminish the confidence that we have in the reliability, ability, authority and the profitability of the Scriptures, then Christianity is reduced to religion. The danger that the church has always faced and continues to face will define us and will either give us the confidence we need or will leave us as we slowly sink in the shifting sands of true today and wrong tomorrow.

While our prayer may seem so small next to the vastness of all that God will inevitably do, we must decide whether I pray or not. We wonder what difference our prayers might really make. Jesus models pray for us that reminds us that we need to pray more than we will know.

If our Savior is truly incomparable, then our lives must look vastly different. In this text, God gives us 2 commands for how to do just that, through the writings of Paul.

God’s Word intends to provide the kind of reassurance that we need. He wants us to never wander too far from Him, but to depend on him – not just when we face the impossible, but also when we’re confident that what we face is very possible for us to handle on our own

God has entrusted us with the privilege and the responsibility to serve the real Jesus by helping each other to become the people who are confident in their faith and spiritually mature. Yet, we can be deceived into embracing a false identity.

Many people say they believe in Jesus.  But what do they believe about Jesus or, which Jesus do they believe in?  Pastor Phil preaches through Colossians 1:15-20 and explains that believers in Jesus must believe the truth about Jesus.