Gateway Fellowship

Our source isn't visible, from below. Our Source is invisible, from above. The temptation is to return to slavery for security, instead of staying with freedom which involves so much trusting God with the unknown.

Matthew 6:9-13 Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven,hallowed be your name.Your kingdom come,your will be done,    on earth as it is in heaven.Give us this day our daily bread,and forgive us our debts,    as we also have forgiven our debtors.And lead us not into temptation,    but deliver us from evil."

Philippians 1:7 sparked this thought.

Sunday morning with our dear friend and evangelist, Joel.

Saturday evening with Joel, who is a dear evangelist.

Rusty and Linda unpack insights from Jesus' little brother.

What we think we know keeps us from learning what we need to know. This chat is about the man born blind in John chapter 9.

In John chapter 3 Nicodemus told Jesus that the evidence supports that He's really from God. Jesus, instead of congratulating Nick on his astute observation, he tells him, "You must be born again." Only God reveals God.

1. Is it good because God commands it? OR 2. Does God command it because it's good?

Since its Pentecost, lets have a conversation is about being filled with the Holy Spirit.

What would you expect my answer to be? Did my answer surprise you? Does your experience confirm this, or do you have a better idea?

The apostles claim that they had rational evidence based first person experience as warrant for their claims about Jesus and the Father (1 John 1:1-4). What do you believe and why? How do you know what you think you know? And how do we engage people who don't believe what we do?

Stan shared some scriptures, some exhortations, and a dream he had recently.

Some thoughts about God's incredibly beautiful design of masculine and feminine and our calling to responsibly reign in life with God. Genesis 1:26 and following was the primary bible passage.

This chat is from Exodus 19 and 20.

Acts 9 is where the story happens. Here are some observations. Being sincere doesn’t make us right, and that’s the hardest kind of blindness to discern. God can reach the “unreachable.” Encountering Jesus is the single most transformative reality on planet earth. Jesus is alive and active (independent of our involvement or knowledge). Jesus wants to involve us in what he’s doing. Jesus usually communicates the next step, not the whole plan. Jesus calls people by name. Jesus is interested in conversation. Jesus is humble and willing to respond to our questions, doubts, and concerns. Jesus factors our history, personality, strengths, and weaknesses into His equation. Jesus really listens to our prayers. Jesus sees people’s value when others don't. Jesus has a plan for your life. Not just the generic, “love God and people,” but the specific who, what, when, where and how. Jesus wants to guide us into His plan. Our part is to seek him daily so that He can easily guide us into it, st

God's intention is that we become the sort of people He can grant our heart's desires. That requires a transforming process!

This chat is about the story in Acts 5 where Ananias and Saphira lied to the Holy Spirit and then fell down dead.

God's infinite power is incomprehensibly great, but what we need is not so much a display of brute force, but rather the synaptic connections in our minds to be upgraded so that we think, believe, experience, and understand what we otherwise cannot. This chat is from the great prayer of Ephesians 3.

Don't be so rigid. Just doing it ain't really the point.