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Serving as Pastor Is a calling, privilege, opportunity, blessing and block of history that I have had opportunity to work out in several locations. Rainier, Oregon, my home congregation: Where I was brought up since age 9 through Sunday School and Youth Class, taught by Clyde Wemmer, Orville Harrison,…

You Are A New Person As the text for the last regular Sunday of the Lenten season, this will be heard by Christians preparing to join the Palm Sunday crowd in their shouts of welcome and praise, but only to experience a few short days later how shouts of praise are drowned out by cries of “Crucify him!”…

It looks like we all survived Thanksgiving. Is anyone still hungry? I am pretty sure that what I did to the steaks, Cornish Hens, and Ham were a sin. I spent the last few days repenting. Now we are going into Christmas, how many of you already have your decorations up? In our family we exchange gifts…

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…

Introduction Antique Road show El Albanil by Diego Rivera Hanging behind a door in a Corpus Christi home. Between $800,000 - $1,000,000!! How many times was that painting looked at and there was no idea of the value! This is what the Gospel does! When we are rejected, devalued, and forgotten. The Gospel…

Setting of the Admonition James has been speaking about how we need to be careful about our desires and feelings. He had contrasted worldly and godly wisdom, then illustrating it with how to deal with conflict in a Biblical fashion. As you will remember, true conflict comes from within - my heart. As…

Blowing your money This time next week, the NRL season will be about to begin, with two games coming from Las Vegas. It’s the same city in which countless people from around the world tuned in to watch the Superbowl. It’s also the city which has a reputation for the big casinos. The place where the rich,…

Intro: The title of this morning’s message is very short and to the point… Don’t be Lazy! Here are a few things said about lazy people: “He always does an honest day’s work—of course, it usually takes him a week to do it.” “He’s so lazy they named a shoe after him—the loafer.” “He’s so lazy, if he woke…

Introduction Good Morning we will be in 1 Peter 3:8-9 . So two verses this morning. I was going to do more, but felt led as I have for much of 1 Peter to slow down, cover less text but be more in depth. Football fans have do you remember a quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts named Andrew Luck? He…

There’s a dog breeder in East LIverpool, “Yeager’s Poodles and Doodles.” It is owned by Dana and Rich Wright, and it happens to be the place where my dog “Beau” was bred. Dana and Rich have had this business since around 2004 if I understand things correctly, and they are nearing retirement age and are…

Renewal I chose this slide for our sermon this morning because I was thinking about snow. Most of us have had the experience of standing outdoors after a new snowfall. No matter how dingy the streets looked, how sparse the foliage may have been, everything takes on a new freshness and light. Even in…

Introduction Opening Illustration - Everything in our world is fixated on having stuff - ex: every store has pot load of candy, pop, gum at counter to entice you that you “need” it. Posession oriented. The world appeals to our greed, to our wantings, etc. 99% of all commercials are adds for stuff (deals,…

How’s your life with God. Just believe, The Retiring Carpenter – A Story About the Life We Build for Ourselves September 23, 2011 in Inspirational Stories An elderly carpenter was due to retire. He told his employer of his plans to leave the business and start a life of leisure with his wife and extended…

Toil and Joy This morning we are going to talk about something that everyone just loves to talk about. Work. It’s a natural thing in our world. We have to work. And sometimes we love our work. Sometimes we hate our work. Often we can’t wait for our work week to end so that we can take a break from work.…

Good morning, Gateway Chapel! Scripture Prayer Find places to give caveats and empathy. It’s been said that the two hardest things to talk about in church are sex and money. And sex is way easier. So today we’re talking about money! Why is that? Why is it so hard to talk about money? Money is powerful.…

What am I to do with my life? This is an almost universal question asked by all throughout their whole. Kids talk about what they want to do when they grow up. Teens talk about what to study in college. College students ask this in regards to employment. Parents who now have children. The person looking…

Good morning! Thank Rayce…at the end? I can’t help but hear that passage and think of Finding Nemo. You guys seen Finding Nemo? It’s the movie where they try to find Nemo. They find him. At one point in the story, Nemo the fish ends up in a small fish tank at a dentist’s office. And in this fish tank…

Be a salty Christian: Radically commited to follow Jesus.

Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit”— yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes. Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord…

There is a term used in popular culture today called adulting. This term applies to any responsibility of being an adult. Things like laundry, taking out the trash, getting the oil changed in your car, and paying bills. When I was a substitute teacher, I always asked the juniors and seniors in high school…

Psalm 136:1 (ESV) Give thanks to the Lord , for he is good, FOR HIS STEADFAST LOVE ENDURES FOREVER. Psalm 136:2 (ESV) Give thanks to the God of gods, FOR HIS STEADFAST LOVE ENDURES FOREVER. Psalm 136:3 (ESV) Give thanks to the Lord of lords, FOR HIS STEADFAST LOVE ENDURES FOREVER. Psalm 136:4 (ESV) to…

Introduction: Welcome/Prayer (Image) A quick glance of the headlines and current news stories along with what’s trending on Twitter and one might think we are living in the Twilight Zone. With the many problems of America today there seem to be just as many people offering solutions… a common thread…

Joshua’s Part In the Story of God’s People Joshua Is the One Character Without Major Flaws Joshua Becomes the Leader of Israel Joshua Is the Conquering General of Canaan Joshua Is the Transition Between Moses and the Judges In order to Joshua Encounters God’s General 13 When Joshua was near Jericho,…

What a year it has been. Today is a special day. It is New Year’s Day, and the fact that it falls on a Sunday this year makes it even more special. When Christmas comes, we celebrate the birth of Christ, but then there is a week of anticipation as the end of one year brings the beginning of the next.…

Good morning, Gateway Chapel! If we haven’t met... Connect Card by the Coffee Machine Normally we do announcements at the end, but I wanted to end with Jesus today and not a reminder of the stuff you have to do, so we’re going to do this stuff in the middle. Is that okay? Maui Relief Fund Membership…