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Good morning, Gateway! Psalm 34:1-6 Pray Intro I remember a car ride home with my mom from church when I was about 12 and I was a real know-it-all. Our church just got a new youth pastor, and my mom was asking me about the service. “How’d it go? What’d you think of the new guy?” “He seems nice, but I…

Signs Of An Idiot Attention Getter: Why the need for Guru’s Jordan Peterson - Male Responsibility; Dave Ramsey - Financial Responsibility; The Entire self -help section. Introduce Topic: People are looking for practical answers to real questions and problems. Scripture: Background: Challenge Audience:…

I. Soliciting Evil 1. Starts with Peer Pressure 10 My son, if sinners entice you, Do not consent. 2. They Appeal to Their Power 11 If they say, “Come with us, Let us lie in wait for blood, Let us ambush the innocent without cause; 12 Let us swallow them alive like Sheol, Even whole, as those who go down…

Genesis 3:14-15 Dec 17, 1927 8 year old S class submarine conducting tests off coast of MA. 2273 Any Hope Of Rescue? Someone has said that if you could convince a man there was no hope, he would curse the day he was born. Hope is an indispensable quality of life. Years ago the S-4 submarine was rammed…

1. God’s Word Must Remain the Guiding Priority in All Things 
2. People left to Themselves Will Always Experience Chaos 
3. God Blesses those who Keep His Word

God dispersed the people for their own good, then later He united the peoples out of His mercy.

Does anyone know what this picture represents? This might be the most amazing data picture you see in a lifetime! It shows the 63,779 cross-references in the Bible. The white bars along the bottom represent each Bible chapter, Gen. 1 - Rev. 22 . The line’s color shows the reference’s distance from the…

Good News. Love Your Enemies. So many of us Christians love the salvation of Christ but not the teachings of Christ. Let’s be honest, his teachings are hard, challenging. We much prefer the idea of salvation from our sin than the command to obey his teachings. Salvation reminds us that Christ died for…

Good morning, Gateway! Scripture: Psalm 31 . Prayer Intro Good morning, again! August 5, 2001 was a beautiful night in Cleveland, Ohio at Jacobs Field, especially if you were a Seattle Mariners fan. The Mariners coming into the game were 80-30, they had won the first two games of the series, and seemed…

Good morning, Gateway! Scripture: Lam 3:21-26 . God of creation. God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. God of the covenant. You are merciful, and gracious, slower to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and sin, but you are also…

Hypocritical love is one of the most disgusting things we will ever see. To fake love or pretend it is real when it isn't, flies in the face of true Christianity. This message explores what love looks like in everyday life.

Necessary because of His Holiness. The wrath of God is His absolute opposition to sin and evil. Because God is pure, He cannot be neutral to sin. He has indignation that is against all that is unholy. Divine wrath must react against all that doesn’t conform to His holiness. God’s wrath is always a moral…

What do you believe about God? What God do you serve?

Turn to and read Proverbs 7:1-5 ; 21-27 . I would like you to remember that in the opening chapters of the book of Proverbs we see a battle that is being fought between wisdom and foolishness. At stake is the simple young man. For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, And beheld among…

Welcome: Wonderful Christmas & New Year! Thanks for all who came and helped take down Christmas decorations! Big Give Offering ___________________ Make plans to be here February 9th for Vision Sunday. Grab your Bibles and turn with me to Proverbs 4:25-27 2019 has passed and 2020 has arrived! Last Decade:…

Last Spring, we studied through the Sermon on the Mount. One of the great themes of Matthew is the coming kingdom. The Book of Revelation speaks of the time when that new kingdom is fully realized. I shared with our Elders a week ago an observation that I gleaned about songs describing Heaven. Historically…

The Dilemma of Belief. Have you ever had those moments when you wondered, “Is this really true?” Maybe life has gotten difficult. Maybe you have come to the Derailment of your hopes and dreams like Joseph, Mary’s husband, when he found out that his betrothed bride was pregnant after all his time and…

Fear is the beginning of wisdom and leads us into balanced lives.

A picture of two women, both extending invitations, one for wisdom and one for folly.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, an introduction.

Today we celebrate our national independence won at tremendous cost over 200 years ago. The pledge to our nation's flag includes the phrase "one nation under God", But is that really true? And if it is or is not, what difference would it make? Let's consider this today in light of God's word and our mission from Him.