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Trumix.com listings available of Gateway Fellowship Sacramento Podcasts Build your own playlists with this podcast. We Are Atoned Once again, we couldn't adjust the maximum volume on this recording. But if you turn it down yourself, it should be fine. This message is the third one in the series "CSI: Who Are You". Having established that humans are free-choosing creations of God and that all of us have a conscience that is enough for us to be moral agents, now we have to figure out what can be done when our free choice messes us up and our consciences won't stop reminding us that we are in trouble. Here is t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Seventy Times Seven Relationships (for Men) Pastor Ray Van Gilst shares with the Men's Ministry  of Gateway Fellowship at this summer barbecue. He shares the truth found in Matthew 19 and the story of forgiveness ... both forgiveness offered and received. This message is for more than just men...but it is given to men because God calls men to lead the way in spiritual skills. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Moral Agents July 13 2008 One of the twentieth century's most influential atheists stated that his primary criticism of the church is that it assumes that only believers in God have moral values. He claimed that everyone has basic moral values. Perhaps he thought he was being original, but actually the book of Romans says exactly the same thing. In this second message in the series on "Who Are We" we explore the nature of all human beings as moral agents.NOTE: We apologize for the quality problems on this ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Who Are We Humans - July 6 2008 CSI always starts with Roger Daughtry singing "Who are You". That's how we start this sermon series: "Who are you?" This message is the first in the series where we focus on who we are as human beings. Basic, simple understanding is often hard to come by...so this is where we start. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Spur One Another On Two and a half years ago, Gateway Fellowship planted a new church in Roseville which is affectionately referred to as G2; (they actually refer to us affectionately as G1). The pastor of that church, Mike Marczak delivers this message as he speaks from Hebrews 10. This is part sermon and part testimony to what God has done in G2. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Spicy Creating What do Jimi Hendrix, shadow boxes, vintage 57 Chevys and Field of Dreams have in common? They all point to one of God's most exciting attributes: He is the Creator. In this final message in the series "Spicy Living" we explore what it would mean to see creative miracles, creative changes, creative words cascading through our world instead of decay and destruction. You can be part of this creating. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Salting the Generations Teaching is only one way that we pass on information from one generation to the next. Being salt on this earth means we should become craftsmen in the art of passing good things along. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Second Chance Lovers Second chances in life can be very confusing. Who deserves a second chance? When should it be given or not given? We will learn in this message that Second Chances can be one of life's greatest teaching opportunities if practiced with care and expertise. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Comfortable? We go out of our way to make visitors to our home comfortable. We want them to know they are welcome to be part of our lives and to share, however briefly, in the best our lives have to offer. But the ones who need comfort are often far from us emotionally. They hurt, grieve, and feel the pain of loss. This message speaks of the Spice of Comfort. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Spicy Joy Joy and  happiness are not the same thing at all. But they are often mistaken for each other. In this message, we explore how it is possible, and even necessary, to exhibit and experience Joy consistently in our lives. Even in the midst of pain. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | What's In A Name - May 18, 2008 The Patriarch Jacob was named 'Deceiver' and it defined his life until one incredible encounter with God changed all that.  God redefined him with a new name and God wants to give you a new name.  Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Crossing Boundaries 5-11-08 There are many kinds of relational boundaries in this world: Gender, age, race, religion, gang affiliation, language, ... so many boundaries creating so many difficulties in our world. But in this passage we study this morning, there will be a perspective given to us from a Mother where we see what can happen when we cross boundaries the way that God directs. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Patience Is Not Waiting - 04-27--08 We are so afraid to ask God to give us patience. This is because we're afraid that he will dump the worst junk into our lives and then tell us to just be patient with it all. But what if that was not patience? In this message we will look at how to be "aggressively kind" and "actively patient". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Out of Your League (04-20-08) This second message in the "Spicy Living" sermon series focuses on the Spice of Caring. God gives a privilege to the Righteous Ones to care for His needs as they are found in elements of society that others have neglected. In the end, this spice is to be delivered by pinches, not by handfuls. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | We Are Salt In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus asks a question for which he expects no answer: "What can salt do if it isn't salty any more?" The reason he doesn't expect an answer is that salt never becomes non-salty. In the same respect, the believer in Jesus Christ, by virtue of their presence in this world is the salt of the earth. If we aren't, then why are we here? This message is the first in a ten-part series celebrating what kind of a difference we can make in  this world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | We're all Building This Boat Today's Christian thinks of themselves in terms of their individual growth and happiness. That is not primarily how the Church was originally designed to run. This message focuses on how the Body of Christ can really build itself up and see growth that lasts and maturity that amazes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Voice from the Afterlife One smart aleck college student asked: "I'm not interested in life after death; I'm interested in life before life after death". That statement represents some of the population. But a much higher percentage of the population want to know what will happen after we die. In this message we start with the words of The Princess Bride and end with 22 people surrendering their lives to Christ. This service is full of salvation.And Remember these words of Correction:  Energizer Bunn ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Cleaning out the Temple On what we call Palm Sunday, Jesus came to the Temple in Jerusalem and turned everything upside down - both literally and figuratively. The Bible also tells us that God does not live in temples made by hands. The temple of God now is the believer in God. He lives in us. This message focuses on how God can clean up those things that stand in the way of others finding God. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Trust (March 9, 2008) The tension between wanting to trust someone and not knowing who we can trust can cause many problems. But in this drive to change and be agents of change, there must at least be a faith/trust in God that endures. In this message, we explore why that is hard, and how to make it more straightforward. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reinforcements (3-02-08) The road to change is sometimes smooth, but most often it faces opposition at many stages. The greatest reinforcement we have is the Holy Spirit. This message focuses on the help the Spirit gives us as we pray for change and make the initial steps to change. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Engaging (2-24-08) The time has come to discuss how we are going to take the real changes that God has placed in our life and engage with the evil we find all around us: Including our own family trees. This message will take up the cause of engaging the evil in this world through strategically assessing the situation and prayerfully acting. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Reconnaisance (2-18-08) Once God begins to communicate his burden to you (as in "My yoke is easy and my burden is light), it is then time to take it out into real life. In order to make us successful in the fulfillment of His calling, God helps us with the Burdens by giving us guideposts along the way, insights into the mysteries we are called to understand. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Gambling on Missions This message was part of a week-long emphasis of the church focusing on God's mission around the world. This particular message was given by Cheryl Phenecie, a missionary to the Muslim world. The message focuses on how we can see what is unseen instead of always looking at what our senses can pull in. Please note: due to the sensitive nature of Cheryl's ministry, and because of legal difficulties in ministering in the muslim world, all references to her place of ministry have been cut out o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Coded Orders Coded orders are given to a military unit because they are for their eyes only. In the Kingdom of God, it is not so much that God wants to keep secrets as much as He wants every person to concentrate on the particular assignments He gives them and not everyone else's. As we consider the kind of changes that God wants to make in our personal world, we would be well advised to learn how to interpret God's coded orders to each of us. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Obedience (1-20-08) The secret is not so hard to understand. The secret is not that difficult to put into practice...occasionally. The secret to making permanent changes in your life isn't just obvious, it is workable. But so few people really make it work that it acts like a huge "secret". What is the secret? Listen closely to this message. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Intelligence (1-13-08) Our goal is to see changes happen in our lives. God's goal goes deeper than that. Not only does God want to see change, but He wants it to be exactly the right change that our lives need right now. Only God has that kind of intelligence to understand what we need. We don't even possess it. Just as the Army needs the right intel to make the proper military moves, so we need God's intelligence in the process of becoming the Army of God that makes a difference in this world. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Change Commander (1-08-08) This message begins a brand-new sermon series, exploring and explaining the foundation of Gateway Fellowship's viewpoint on personal change as a Christian and the role that Intercessory Prayer plays with that. The series is called "The Delta Force" and this first message explains the role of the commander of the Delta Force. The Delta symbol in scientific circles represents the measurement of change in a given experiment or series of observations. Come experience what it can mean ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Holy Holy Holy (12-30-07) Pastor Rick Gall of Gateway Fellowship explores the meaning behind Isaiah chapter 6. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Stories of Christmas This message focuses on the Government of Jesus as He comes to make his Presence felt in the world. We also have two readings from a collection of stories that were never published about God's miracle working power at Christmas. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Angels Teach us to Party Angels are messengers sent by God to announce the mighty works of God. They have been in that capacity since they were created. And they know how to party. In this final message on "The Jesus Party" we look at what the angels get excited about and what they have to teach us by example in this world in the throes of anxiety and depression. The angels know how to party and they are willing to teach us by example. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jesus Brings the Wine - 12-16-07 When Jesus performed his first miracle at a wedding in Galilee, the Gospel writer John mentions that this was a sign. The word "sign" means something of importance which has deeper meaning. This miracle, performed at a party, tells us so much about how the Kingdom of God is for blessings and delights. At this party, Jesus brings the wine. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Party Animals or Party Poopers (12-9-07) In this second message in the series titled "The Jesus Party" we explore the parable of the Prodigal Son. In this instance, we look not at the return home of the wayward one but rather the celebratory reaction of the father and the poopish reaction of the older brother. In seeing their contrasting emotions we are confronted with our own choices: Do we really love seeing other people changed by God's power? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Baptismal Testimonies During this regular service of Gateway Fellowship, the entire second half of the service was devoted to the stories of people whose lives were changed by God and wanted to reflect that by being baptized. After these testimonies, Pastor Mike gave a invitation to receive Christ and 15 people responded by surrendering their lives and being forgiven of their sins. Enjoy these wonderful stories. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Two Parties - 12-2-07 From the beginning of time, God has thrown a party for His people. But at the very time when God began to offer the party to us, another party began. This party was unlike God's party. It promised more than it could deliver...in fact, all it delivers is thievery, murder and mayhem. But the God party delivers as much blessing and joy as you can imagine. You have to choose between the two parties...every day. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Principles of a Healthy Mind (11-18-07) The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is given the task of investigating and cleaning up areas of toxic waste and poison to the environment. But that only applies to the physical world. Who will clean up the toxic attitudes that infest our workplaces, homes and entertainment? In this message, the prelude the Thanksgiving week, we embark on an epic journey. From the teaching of Jesus, we will learn what it looks like to live free of toxins in our attitudes and walk in victory through thr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Detours and Delays In our lives, we make decisions and we live by those decisions, but even with the most well-prayed and well-thought out plans, there are delays and detours that cannot be avoided. Some of these delays are from God and some of the detours are not. But there is a process we can enter through regardless of where the changes in plans come from. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Decisive Living Those who have made their living with bold decisions will always tell you that living boldly is the way to go. Those who have thrived with caution and careful planning will tell you that caution is a virtue. But when we look at what it means to live decisively, it actually turns out to be an amazing mixture of boldness and caution. The Bible points out, in the pivotal moment of Jesus' life, what really made him a decisive man. This message explores that moment. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Difficulties Life is full of difficult decisions: Relationship decisions, health decisions, location, vocation and legal decisions. Many times we think we are making the best decisions only to have them turn out as disasters. In this three-part series we will look at the primary biblical principles involved with making difficult decisions Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Continuing to Keep a Clean Soul Builders of new homes in America cannot allow mold to exist in any quantity or form, or else they face the threat of lawsuit. Mold is a greater problem than almost anything else facing a homeowner because it is a living organism, and if left to flourish, it can totally destroy the house. This is very much like sin. In this final message in the series on "The Proper Care and Feeding of Your Soul" we will look at how the soul can be scrubbed clean regularly so that the "moldy&q ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Transfer of Authority One complaint of many church-goers is that some in leadership in churches use their authority to control or manipulate others. But the alternative to that is to have a church where there is no authority. In this message we will examine the spiritual implications to authority and how God has designed a unique balancing principle to help prevent spiritual abuse of authority Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Your Soul, the Warrior Do you feel like there are days that you fight an internal battle you just aren't winning? Perhaps the battle isn't against any particular sin or temptation, but ideas, emotions and attitudes that just won't quit and are fighting against the peace we want to maintain. In this series, we have talked about achieving a state of peace, joy and freedom. This message will help with the difficult task of staying there. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Worship is Also for the Soul Though John 4 does tell us that God is seeking those who will worship in "spirit and in truth", this does not mean that worship leaves out the soul. In actuality, the soul reaps many benefits from worship. Come explore Psalm 103 and see how worship can take an old dilapidated bird and turn it back into a soaring sentinel of the sky. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Connecting to the Anchor for the Soul Back in 2000, one of the most well-read magazines in the country published their annual issue of the 50 most Popular people in the world. On that list were at least 20 people who would not make the list five years later. Popularity is like that; and so are people. One thing that this world teaches us is that everything changes over time. The one exception will be carefully laid out in this message. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Finding Good Soul Food Chris Webber, formerly a basketball player for the Sacramento Kings, once commented that the only thing he didn't like about Sacramento is its dearth of good soul food restaurants. That's a problem most of us face as well. Where does one go to find good food for the soul? We'll be looking into this intriguing subject as we study Psalm 1. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Sabbath for the Sake of Your Soul Church fights have been precipitated on the issue of the Sabbath. The dividing line between denominations has swirled around the Sabbath. Many of Jesus' most heated discussions with Jewish leaders had to do with the Sabbath. Maybe God's idea of one day in Seven is not such a good one? Or maybe we have a tendency to buck all of God's best plans. The "day", "month" and "year" all have astronomical significance, but the week is the only calendar designation that i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Times of Refreshing For Your Soul There are two kinds of boredom. There is the boredom where there really is nothing to do. That can easily be relieved unless you're in Algebra at 8 a.m. or your radio receiver can only get the All-Polka station. But the other kind of boredom is actually a sign that God is up to something. And when we respond to this kind of boredom properly, times of refreshing can come to us from the Lord. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Enjoyable Obligations of the Soul Not only do people have things for us to do, they have things for us to care about. During the first Gulf War, people were watching CNN 18-20 hours a day, and found they lost jobs, marriages and peace of  mind following the burden of war around the clock. The burdens of other people, the burdens we weren't meant to carry, can get desperately heavy. There is an answer to this, and it is to get rid of the unwarranted burdens and to take the yoke of Jesus upon ourselves. Then it becomes e ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Sleep - Where Your Soul is Renewed Pastor Jack Hayford of "Church on the Way" in Van Nuys has said that much debilitating spiritual warfare could be reduced or eliminated if God's people learned to get a good night's sleep. Noted sleep researcher, William Dement has said that 33% of all car accidents, 40% of sports injuries and almost 50% of illnesses have a sleep deprivation element. The Bible clearly shows that sleep is a gift from God and should be protected as one of our most valuable commodities. Yet, most of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Contentment is the Off-Switch for Your Soul Imagine that our desires are like the bull in the field with all the cows. How do you get him to want to leave such a desirable place when he seems made for the occasion? Or your television has so many program offerings and only 24 hours in the day to watch. How do you tell your soul it can't have any more when even continuous watching would not be enough? We won't even talk about buffets: Or will we? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Hope is Gatorade for the Soul Hopelessness is a cancer to the soul. It feeds off of every good thing in the soul and makes a mockery of it all. But the person who is caught up in the web of this hopelessness usually has no strength left to fight it off. That is exactly why God created a type of Gatorade for the soul. It is called HOPE and it is readily available for anyone. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Having a Meet and Greet With Your Own Soul We have hundreds of home testing kits to let us know what is happening with our bodies. But where are the tests for our souls? The soul is that amazing bridge between the physical and spirit realms. The soul is the central core of our being, the part that separates us from others more completely than any other part. In this first message in the series "The Proper Care and Feeding of Your Soul" we go through the basic understanding of the soul, and how to tell if you have a healthy ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Why Love Can Be So Difficult A young girl wrote an online advice columnist complaining her parents were opposed to her seeing her much older boyfriend she had met online. "But I get knots in my stomach when we're together. He makes me feel dizzy and I sometimes even feel faint after we kiss" she proclaimed. "It must be love" was her conclusion. Actually that sounds more like the flu. Or malaria.But that kind of love is easy compared to the real love that God wants us to show. The real love is sacrif ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Even Love Has Its Battle Line The Sixties culture told us there were only two alternatives: Make Love, Not War. So is it either love or fight? It is possible to make love and war at the same time...but it's not what you think. We don't often associate love with conflict, and for the most part, that is true. But there is a place where love must have a battle line. When one love in our life meets another love in our life, only one of them is going to win. With that in mind, this message explores one of the most intriguing ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Living Out Of Your Glory In this Father's Day message, Pastor Larry Yurk gives us a biblical perspective on the creation of Man and the glory of God Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Darkness of Fickle Loves This message is not contained in its entirety on this recording...but almost. We are missing a few minutes at the beginning and a two-minute stretch in the middle. We thought about filling it with light elevator music or maybe something from Flogging Molly, but we were talked out of it. It is almost entirely there however. This third message in the series on "Who Wrote the Book of Love" - studies in First John, deals with the difference between the fickle nature of human love and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Pornography Answers This seminar was run on Monday June 4 at Gateway Fellowship Church in Sacramento. It is one in a series of messages this year on sexual issues for men. Several illustrations were cut out of the final tape because of privacy issues and an inability to obtain permission from people involved. You may notice a few "continuity" issues with the message because of this. In addition, we use some very graphic descriptions of pornography and sexual addiction, even though there is no profani ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Baptismal Service and Gospel Presentation In this very special service from Gateway Fellowship, we feature four of our teenagers who are giving their lives to Jesus in Baptism. Pastor Rick Gall gives the message from John 3 as he explains the simplicity of believing in God. Also during this message we have the testimony of the four teens. At the end of the baptism, Pastor Rick gives an opportunity to receive Christ. At the service, ten people responded, giving their lives to Jesus. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Is it Mental Illness or True Love Science has determined that many of the same chemical changes which happen when a person falls in love correspond to the changes found in sufferers with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Schizophrenia. When all of our emotional connections to people can be explained by chemical phenomena, it is difficult to see the moral significance of our actions. That is why the Bible introduces a new kind of love, a love that cannot be explained by any chemical reactions or human emotions. This kind of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The People of Love Revealed There are many groups of people with whom we may feel some level of affinity and friendship. We certainly may feel very close to those we share a disaster with for instance. People in the same college course may often spend time together, and even fans at a basketball game can feel close to one another as long as they are close enough to the arena. But there is something about the people of God that goes way beyond all of this. The affinity we have is based upon a person and a changed life ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Challenges Women Have Always Faced At Gateway Fellowship, we have always celebrated all the women in our church on Mother's Day and not just the mothers. In this message, we look at the very first mother in this world (and very first woman for that matter) to determine the challenges she faced when sin came into the world. What we discover is that those challenges are essentially no different than what most women face today. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Four People Who Heard God The second fastest selling book on Amazon right now is "The Most Dangerous Book for Boys". Essentially, it is a book that explains how to teach boys basic dangerous skills such as climbing a tree, making a go-kart, playing with a Jackknife and talking to girls. Each of these skills is best learned by one-on-one mentoring. In the same way, God gives us many hands-on exercises and examples of how He taught people to hear His voice. In this final message in the series on Hearing God ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | I Wouldn't Want You to Miss Anything So many times we are asking ourselves, "would things have gone differently for me if I had heard from God before making that decision." In the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus spent his last night on earth asking his Father about the events ahead of him. He tried to get his disciples to join him in digging in to the mind of the Lord before the momentous events. They chose sleep instead. This message focuses on how not to fall asleep when God is trying to help us with input.If you want ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Stop Abusing the Bible When Billy Graham used to say "The Bible Says...." you could be fairly sure that he was was going to make a clear presentation of what the Bible said. But many people today are not as clear or careful with how the Bible is represented. In this message, we look at how many people misuse their own Bibles. In essence, because they do this, they miss out on what might say to them through the Bible. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Call the Police: My Bible is Alive According to Hebrews chapter four, your Bible is Alive and it is energetic. In one sense, it is like the holographic doctor on Star Trek Voyager...but then again, you may not be a trekkie. You'll just have to listen to the message in order to figure it out. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | No Wife and No Bones Every year around Easter, today's media likes to produce special magazines, movies and documentaries trying to reinvent Jesus. After "Da Vinci Code" and the "Lost Tomb of Jesus" people just want to hear the truth instead. This message deals with the implications of the resurrection instead of trying to disprove sensational and stupid theories. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Peeps in a Microwave - the Meaning of Easter? Here is the video that preceded this morning message. An original video produced by Mike Phillips and his wife Kathy "Vanna White". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | How Faith Helps Us Hear God This is a picture of my dad at age 18. The photo was pretty much destroyed, but through the instrumentality of some great graphics programs (particularly GIMP), it was able to be restored somewhat. This message talks about how much we fear getting it wrong when it comes to hearing God. The primary focus is looking at a man like Enoch who both pleased God and followed hard after God. With his example we can see how to hear God in a way that will change our life and the lives of others. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Waking Up The Sleepy Soul Within the Family of God, there are some who feel left out. They do not hear God's voice, or feel his presence, or read the Bible with any real sense of freedom. There are real reasons why this is so, and the Bible gives us a clear answer to the problem of a sleepy soul. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Why We Still Have Missionaries Some estimates are that the church outside of North America is one of the smaller manifestations of the church around this world. The Church in China may be five to ten times larger than the church in America. The church in Vietnam has conquered territory that the American military could not hold. The Korean nation now has over 50% professing Christians. The same is true of Nigeria. So with all this explosive growth overseas, do we still need to be sending missionaries? Dr. David Constance, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | If I Can't Have World Peace, Can I At Least Have Peace As much as we get excited about all the new possibilities connected with hearing the voice of God, the real fear that many Christians face is this question: "How do I know that I'm really hearing God?" In this message, we begin to address this question. God has given us a gift that helps to referee the doubts we have about God's voice...it is called "Peace". Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Knowing Things In Your "Knower" There are some who hear God through dreams and visions, others through emotions and others through straightforward thought patterns. But many people experience God's leading in a completely different way. In this message, we look at a woman who comes up for healing from Jesus but doesn't want to reveal her need to anyone. She receives the healing, but in the process, both her and Jesus hear God through their Intuitive sense. We will learn through their example what to do when we begin to he ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | God Speaks Through Multicolored Emotions Are emotions helpful in any way? Can we trust them for anything? In this seventh message in the series on Hearing God's Voice, we explore the ways that the inner voice of God can be translated into our emotions. And this way of hearing will impact some people more than any other way of hearing God. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Seeing is Believing is Doing  God not only speaks to us through thought patterns but also through seeing visions, dreams and pictures. But not only does God show us pictures, but also gives us the ability to interpret and apply the truths He shows.Just as a way of reminder, if you are wanting to listen to this on an MP3 player other than Ipod, then go below to the "direct download " link on this entry, right click and "save target as". Then your browser will save this file so you can listen to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | God Speaks Into Our Minds In this fifth message in the series on Hearing God's Voice, we look at the first of the most practical ways that God speaks - directly into our minds. We learn from the Old Testament prophets how they went about hearing God and the real reason God agreed to show them what He needed them to know.Just as a way of reminder, if you are wanting to listen to this on an MP3 player other than Ipod, then go below to the "direct download " link on this entry, right click and "save targ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Recognizing Spiritual Hearburn In our series on "Hearing God's Voice" we finally come to the practicalities of listening to God. How do you know God is saying something at that moment? And what are the clues that God is trying to convey something of great importance?Just as a way of reminder, if you are wanting to listen to this on an MP3 player other than Ipod, then go below to the "direct download " link on this entry, right click and "save target as". Then your browser will save this file ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Spirit of the Mystery A mystery in our english language means something strange, unknown and peculiar. However, in the Greek language, a mystery is something that can only be known by Revelation. In this message on hearing God's voice, we explore the spirit of man and how God begins His process of communicating with us by speaking mysteries to our spirits. If this seems like a strange way of saying it, we challenge you to listen to this message and grow in your understanding of how God communicates. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | My Sheep Hear My Voice - Part 1 This is the first message in the series on "Hearing God's Voice". In this sermon, we look at what it really means to have an intimate relationship with Father God and to hear what He has to say. We learn that everyone can hear God, and everyone hears in unique ways. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Communion and Healing Message This is the communion and healing message from the January 7 service at Gateway Fellowship. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Value of a Well-Chosen Vow "It was just a little promise" you might say. But the power of a promise - both the promise we keep and the ones we don't - can magnify many times its original size. In this final message in the series on How to Bring God's Presence into Your Home, we will look a the value of a vow when it is well-chosen by God, and the dangers of a vow that has been left untended. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Value of Changed Plans Mary and Joseph are just some of the people who have had their plans changed. Often when God changes our plans, it is not to make us angry or to deliberately inconvenience us, but rather to bring blessings to our lives that cannot come any other way. We don't often see it that way, but God is determined to show us his blessings. Our response needs to be one of submission; God's response to submission is to supply whatever we need to fulfill God's plan. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Value of Peace in Your Home There are many people who look back at their Christmases from childhood with great fondness and joy. There are others who regret so many of their Christmas memories that this season of the year is not all that welcome. No matter which a person has experienced, there is always a way to bring the Peace of Christ into the place where you live. And the peace of Christ can make all the difference in anyone's life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Value of Feasting Job is not considered the chief party animal among biblical characters. But the beginning of his book shows us a picture of his life and family that goes against the standard picture of his suffering and misery. Though it would be stretching it to call Job a "party animal" perhaps, he does exemplify one of the primary principles of how to live in the presence of God in our families. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Real Churches Contain Real People Some people have an ideal in their head that churches should live up to. In one sense, it is an ideal that they themselves do not live up to. Others have given way to cynicism and do not believe that the Church can ever recover the place of respect they once had for it. In this message, we explore the value of Spiritual Fathers in a church and what can happen if we allow those Spiritual Fathers to have expectations of us. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Law and Order Asks the Question As a special bonus for subscribers to this Podcast, we are offering five classic messages from Mike Phillips on the subject of "The Bible Answers the Questions Posed by Today's Culture". These are all re-broadcasts of the most popular sermon series that Mike has ever done. Each one addresses a theme question presented by a popular Television series.In this final message in the series, the crime drama, "Law and Order" asks the Bible a fascinating question. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Survivor Asks the Question As a special bonus for subscribers to this Podcast, we are offering five classic messages from Mike Phillips on the subject of "The Bible Answers the Questions Posed by Today's Culture". These are all re-broadcasts of the most popular sermon series that Mike has ever done. Each one addresses a theme question presented by a popular Television series.The immensely popular Television series, "Survivor" asks this sermon's question: What will it take to survive this life? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | SportsCenter Asks the Question As a special bonus for subscribers to this Podcast, we are offering five classic messages from Mike Phillips on the subject of "The Bible Answers the Questions Posed by Today's Culture". These are all re-broadcasts of the most popular sermon series that Mike has ever done. Each one addresses a theme question presented by a popular Television series.This message addresses the sports world hero worship and wonders aloud, "What really makes a winner?" The Bible has some ans ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Seventh Heaven Asks the Question As a special bonus for subscribers to this Podcast, we are offering five classic messages from Mike Phillips on the subject of "The Bible Answers the Questions Posed by Today's Culture". These are all re-broadcasts of the most popular sermon series that Mike has ever done. Each one addresses a theme question presented by a popular Television series.This second in the series is based on the popular series called "Seventh Heaven" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Seinfeld Asks the Question As a special bonus for subscribers to this Podcast, we are offering five classic messages from Mike Phillips on the subject of "The Bible Answers the Questions Posed by Today's Culture". These are all re-broadcasts of the most popular sermon series that Mike has ever done. Each one addresses a theme question presented by a popular Television series.This particular message, the first, explores the question asked by Seinfeld: "Is Life Really about Nothing?" Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Don't Waste your Sadness All of us have moments, or even seasons, of sadness. This situation is critical depending on how we handle it. Most people waste times of sadness and do not realize how incredibly loud God can be during sadness. In this message, we explore how you can make every time of sadness a time of discovery and growth. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Congregational Meeting October 20 2006 On October 20, 2006, the congregation of Gateway Fellowship in Sacramento met to discuss the beginning of our new vision of Gateway 3.0. This vision is of a new way of doing church - Open Source Christianity. Just as Open Source software prepares the original computer code and then encourages others to add to it and improve it, so Gateway 3.0 proposes the basic idea of where God wants us to go, but it is up to every member of our church to improve it and work upon it. Listen to this 45 minu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | People We Should Keep Away From One young girl told a pastor that she would be willing to sleep with a guy if it meant he would come to Jesus and go to heaven. On the other end of that spectrum, there are bible teachers who claim that God doesn't want us to have anything to do with unbelievers or to have anything to do with Christians who have anything to do with unbelievers. Somewhere between the two of them is a balanced approach. There are people with whom we should have no deep relationship. In this message, we discov ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Obstacles People Lay Before Us Our lives would be so much easier if people were not involved in them. Whether it is pastoring, psychiatry, teaching or working in an office, any job would be a piece of cake if people weren't central to what we have to do. In this message, we explore how others put obstacles in our way, and how we can act in the opposite spirit to not only hurdle the obstacles but represent God well in the process. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Looking Behind the Veil of Legalism Legalism is not a love or rules or a critical spirit or a cultural habit. There is a much different answer completely that may surprise you. When you see what the real reason behind legalism is, you'll realize that any of us can enter into it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | How Do You Smell To Others Just as there are physical senses which keep us in touch with the physical realm, so too are there spiritual senses which help us identify spiritual things and truths. There is a spiritual sense of smell and even the person who doesn't believe in God has it. In this message, we will look at how a Christian smells like to another Christian and to those who don't believe. The real point of this is seeing what we need to do about the noxious fumes that emanate from us to others. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Stop Being Outwitted by the Enemy We tend to minimize life to sets of rules to guide us. But how do we determine the rules about relationships? If we were thorough, we would need about 1,000 chapters in the "Book of Love"...and that is just to cover Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. This message looks at how to avoid the problems that the Enemy causes in relationships, and what God wants to do to help us avoid them. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Two Secrets to Have More Successful Conflict 80% of the people in this country use Avoidance as their primary means of dealing with conflict. This may be because they have rarely seen conflict done properly. This message contains two key ingredients from the teachings in 2 Corinthians that show us how conflict not only can be done effectively but can actually make good relationships great Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Hero For Those Who Need a Champion Do you know of someone who can't solve their problem...it is just too much? That is the point where not only they, but all of their friends, despair. But in this message, we will see how several friends found a way, and thereby set us an example of how to get a friend in need into a place where they can get major help Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Hero for the Overworked and Underutilized Are you overworked? At the same time, are you bored? They are actually flip sides of the same coin. In this message, we will see someone who comes up with an idea that is heroic and majestic...and downright simple. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Hero for Those Who Can't Find the Road If there is a perfect plan for each of our lives, it is unlikely most of us have walked it completely. But we try. However, some seem to lose the path completely. The hero we talk about in this message is skilled at helping others find that path again. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Portrait of a Non-Hero Often, we learn a principle by seeing the opposite in action. In this encounter between Jesus and some fuzzy thinkers, the clear differentiation between Jesus the Hero and all non-heroes is clear. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Hero of the Calculated Risk We are taught often that risk-taking is only for venture-capitalists or fools. But the Bible is full of examples of people who found risk-taking (when properly managed) is much more fulfilling and rewarding than hiding behind propriety. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Hero For Small Beginnings People often confuse small with insignificant. But not this kind of hero. This hero is looking for those tiny moments and unforeseen opportunities that have the potential to explode once they hit the tipping point. This hero is often the one who tips it over into real importance. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Hero Defends The Innocent and the Guilty It isn't easy to come to the defense of someone who is innocent. You may end up getting hurt. But can anyone imagine defending someone who is guilty and knowing that they won't credit you anything for it. This is what one hero did...and it is the right thing to do sometimes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Ushers and Greeters Training This is the training audio for the Gateway Fellowship Ushers and Greeters Ministry. After listening to this, email me at my main email and let me know you have finished it. Listen as many times as you need to. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | A Hero is the One Out Front This is the first message in a new Sermon Series during the summer titled "Ordinary Heroes". In this first message, we will explore the life of Lydia, a wealthy woman who uses her influence to begin something that very few others would have dreamed of. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Affecting the Place you Love If you could change the place you love - your home, church, town, business, school, nation - would you? Is there a way to pray that is much more effective than what we normally do? (i.e. Throw the prayers up against the wall to see which ones stick). This final message in the series "The Parallel Universe" focuses on how Daniel's prayer touched the spirit realm and then touched his world, and the place he loved, for the better. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Sanity is Not Hereditary: You Get it From Perspective Sanity is not primarily a mental condition as much as it is spiritual. This is part of the series on "The Parallel Universe" from the Book of Daniel. In this message we encounter someone who loses their mind and gains it back. Why he did each of these is the point of teaching and life we will explore in detail. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Overcoming in the Rat Race Our job can seem unfair; our church may seem unfair; our families certainly seem unfair at times. Daniel was a man who faced a lifetime of service in a job he never wanted, in a place he abhored living in, with a people he felt alien to. But he did his job with excellence and becomes the shining example for all of us how to win in the rat race of life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Overcoming Future Shock The spirit realm and the physical realm are both real and parallel to one another, in the sense that they both affect many parts of our lives. One very real area that the spirit realm differs is that it dwells outside the normal rules of time and space. Because of this, God is able to give us glimpses into the future to ready us for the way we live in the present. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Transforming Power of God's Love Love is not just a feeling or a decision...it is an entity and a force. Moreso than politics or philosophy, love can make change in the lives of people faster than any other movement or force. The changes that love brings are usually permanent and certainly never forgotten. This message focuses on the way that love is meant to change us and how we can get ready for it. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Entering Into His Rest With so much going on most Christians don't rest very well.  And yet God has called us to rest in him.  In this sermon you can gain some insight into the problem of unrest and the solution God offers you.  Thousands of years ago God reserved his rest for you.  Find out what that means and how to enter that rest!  Message given by Rick Gall at Gateway. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Allowing a Lamb to Lead When asked, very few people consider themselves to be leaders. But from experience, we find there are several times each week when our actions and decisions affect the lives of so many other people. At the very least, we lead in what we decide and what we do. From there, our leadership abilities and responsibilities increase. In this message, we contrast the leadership styles of Caiaphas and Jesus and see a simple truth: the alternative leadership style works better. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Consider the Possibilities If We Learn to Live in Peace To most peace activists, the definition of peace includes the idea of ending war. To take the Iraq war as an example, we might ask: Did they have peace before the war started? Have they had peace during the war? Is there peace after the war? So maybe peace is not contingent upon ending war. In this message, we will explore how the average person can have peace and what really gets in the way of having peace permanently. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Consider the Possibilities If We Learn to Live in Love For the majority of people, living a life of love either means becoming a "romeo" or a sex goddess...or being an idealistic dreamer who lives on the ideal plain. But the type of love God wants to give us as a tool is eminently practical and can be lived hour by hour. In fact, this message will show that this is the best way to live in love: Hour by hour. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Consider the Possibilities When We Minister with His Power This series of messages is all about adding new tools to our spiritual toolbelt. If we can learn to use them, the additional strength and power that flows out of our life will open up windows of opportunity and allow the flow of God to be constant through us. Listen | Listen in your iPhone |