Gateway Fellowship

Despair and defeated thinking can eat our lunch. But it doesn't have to.

Is Christianity livable? Is it true? Is it beautiful?

For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come. (2 Tim 4:6)

At my first defense, no one came to my support, but everyone deserted me. May it not be held against them. But the Lord stood at my side and gave me strength... (2 Tim 4:16-17)

3 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 4 and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. (2 Tim 4:3-4)

Be vulnerable, don't attack. Don't use allness language. Return to shared joy. *Correction - The concept of unconditional positive regard was developed in the 1950's in the context of client-centered therapy by Carl Rogers, not the brilliant Carl Jung.

"Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching." (2 Tim 4:2)

John 6:44-45 and 2 Corinthians 4:4

"Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season." (2 Tim 4:2)

This chat is from 2 Timothy 3 and 4.

Some thoughts on the relationship between the old and new covenants.

This meditation is based on Titus 1:2 and 2 Corinthians 5:1-5.

This chat is from Acts 1 and 2.

"having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people." (2 Tim 3:5) "the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus." (2 Tim 3:15)

If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go into hell, where the fire never goes out. And if your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two feet and be thrown into hell. And if your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell, where “‘the worms that eat them do not die, and the fire is not quenched.’ (Mark 9:43-48)

2 Tim 2:14 Remind them of these things, and charge them before God not to quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers.

Stir up the gift (2 Tim 1:6) A Worker Approved by God (2 Tim 2:15ff) Run Away, Run After (2 Tim 2:22-23)

This wide-ranging talk about the Bible and money, marriage and money, compulsive spending, saving, being poor, being rich, how money affects happiness, how money beliefs affect our sense of status, and lots of other stuff. We ended by taking a quiz together to see where we may be out of balance in our attitudes about money.

This talk is from 2 Tim 3 - Culture or Scripture?

On the Holy Spirit