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As your pastor, each summer I go through what might be considered a sort of annual ritual of trying to determine a series for the season. Some pastors preach the lectionary, using the prescribed readings for that particular Sunday - I often use the prescribed Psalm as our call to worship; other pastors…

Our Scripture passage this morning is Deuteronomy 1:1-5 : These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab. It is eleven days’ journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to Kadesh-barnea.…

Big Idea of the Series: This ten-week series traces the story of the gospel from Genesis to Revelation. God’s plan of redeeming a fallen creation is woven throughout Scripture. Big Idea of the Message : The gospel is the good news of redemption found in the life and work of Jesus for all of God’s creation.…

Welcome Prayer Tonight, we are moving from Tad’s incredibly practical preaching about hurry and busyness to a sermon tonight that is much more foundational and academic - a teaching sermon, not a preaching sermon. (hopefully that doesn’t make everyone groan!) The purpose of tonight's teaching message…

Welcome Good morning everyone and welcome. I’m excited to have you all here this morning because we are starting a new sermon series today since we are at the beginning of a new year. And I gotta be honest with you all, I am both extremely excited and extremely nervous for this series! Now, you’re probably…

God graciously bestows blessing that He may rescind for rebellion.

Intro If we haven’t met... Hear, love, and obey... Connect cards... Helpful tool for us to get to know you, answer questions, and pray for you. Introduce Mike Good morning, Mike! Mike Paterson - one of the missionaries we support, former elder of Gateway... Mike is here to continue our sermon series…

Big Idea of the Message: No matter where you are in life, you are not forgotten by God. “This story takes place in Babylon, where the Jews are living as exiles. In Daniel 1 , the king requests some of the youth of the nobility to be sent to live in the palace. The characters of this story are all part…

There are few things that are both more foundational to our experience as Christians and more difficult to maintain than the act of meeting together with other Christians. Even in a society where Christianity is not met with active persecution, meeting together requires substantial effort. Is it worth it? Why do we bother? What is the purpose of meeting together and why should we prioritise it? Join us as we explore the first of our Church Practices.

Series Introduction Today, we are introducing a new series that we will journey with over the summer. I am grateful for the closing of one series, and as always, I am excited about opening a new series. We will be looking at snapshots of Jesus in the Gospels and breaking them down so we can grasp His…

As human beings, we can do some amazing, mind-blowing things. We can travel to the moon. We can see images of stars and other objects over one billion miles away. We can fly as many as 853 people across the ocean or examine the inside of human cells. Unfortunately, it’s easy for us to lose the wonder…

All Scripture All scripture has something to teach us so we can be good children of God. Recipients of the kingdom of God, the kingdom of Heaven. All scripture is God breathed and useful ( 2Tim3:16-17 ) 16 All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize…

When we begin to talk about the Problem of Evil, we have to put on our thinking caps. As Christians this is an issue that we will have to confront challenges to our faith, because it is a very real stumbling block for those who may have looked at Christianity and wonder what solution there is to the…

Intro Happy Mother’s Day Ladies!! Whether you are a mom now or not yet, today is about you! We have a special service planned for each of you, with an extra something special planned at the end. We are also concluding our BE series as the Sermon on the Mount is coming to an end. I hope that everyone,…

We are reminded that Christ reconciled us to be presented as holy, blameless, and above reproach. We are encouraged to continue stable and steadfast in the faith.

INTRO We are approaching the end of our sermon series, which we have titled “Stories from the King” as we look at the parables of Jesus. Let me encourage you to reflect on this sermon series. All of the parables we have looked at have to do with the Kingdom of God and our role in participating in the…

Intro: Tonight we are continuing with part seven of my end of days sermon series entitled the choice is yours. To provide a quick recap of the series week one was on the literal accuracy of end times prophecy and I used Daniel chapter 9 as an example. Week two my messaged entitled Caught Up examined…

This is week five of our sermon series on the Book of Matthew. We are moving right along. I told you last week we will do a series on the beatitudes this summer. We will completely unwrap each of those and their meanings. So, for today, I want to move to the next section. Many of you have heard many…

The kingdom of God. How do you get in? Are there things that keep you out? This message, we unpack Jesus' teaching about the Narrow Gate, the wolf in sheep's clothing, and those followers that Jesus never knew.

Maybe you have noticed this or perhaps it has escaped your grasp about me. I almost never use the terms Christian or saved and I typically try and stay away from the word believer when I can help it. Now…maybe you grew up in church and in a tradition where those were like sacred and holy words used to…

Introduction Today will conclude our sermon series on the Gospel My purpose in this series is to recalibrate our understanding of the Gospel In our world, the Gospel has been presented as a series of things to affirm and you are a Christian. But, as I saw Jesus present the Gospel, there are a lot of…

Intro: Over recent years we have used the summer series to dive deeper into a topic than we can in the course of a sermon. For example, we spent a whole month on the study of FELLOWSHIP. We mention fellowship, and as we preach on it we have an expectation that you have a biblical understanding of what…

Introduction We are continuing in our series through the book of Jeremiah. For those of you who are linear in your thinking, this sermon may frustrate you. The first and second sermons were on Chapter 1 & 2 and now we move to Chapter 7. As I stated in the introduction of the sermon series, we are not…

We are continuing our series this morning What child is this? This four-week Christmas sermon series looks at Isaiah 9:6 and the titles given to the Christ child Isaiah prophesied would come. Last week we looked Wonderful Counselor and how a child will be born. Given to us. With four names that some…