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Keep up to date with what’s on at The Gateway Church on your iPhone or iPad 1) Browse to our mobile friendly website thegatewaychurch.info in the Safari browser 2) Tap on the middle icon – the box with an upward arrow coming out of it – that’s the share icon, which will bring up this […]
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Preachers often use the widow’s offering in sermons on giving to make the point that the rich often give in percentage terms very little, whereas the poor widow gave everything. It’s a true point. But not the point Jesus was getting at. In the paragraph before He had pointed out the religious leaders who were […]
| By Andy Moyle | 3 mins 19 secs | 0 Comments
I’m doing the epilogue at our international cafe this evening, where we gather people whose first language is Polish, Tamil, Mandarin, Lithuanian, Brazilian Portugese and American English! The cafe builds friendships, teaches English informally and has a speaker on a topic about UK life. This week, it’s the UK political system. For my epilogue I […]
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In 2 Samuel 5:20, David experiences breakthrough against the Philistines “Then David inquired of the LORD, saying, “Shall I go up against the Philistines? Will You give them into my hand?” And the LORD said to David, “Go up, for I will certainly give the Philistines into your hand.” So David came to Baal-perazim and defeated […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 3 secs | 0 Comments
Jesus paints a picture of persistence in prayer with a dad being miffed to being woken up at midnight by a friend! As Tom Wright puts it “there are all sorts of ways God isn’t like a sleepy friend, but Jesus is foccusing on one point of comparison only: he is encouraging a kind of […]
| By Andy Moyle | 40 secs | 0 Comments
To do the work of the kingdom – preaching, healing and deliverance, we need two things power and authority Luke 9v1. In Luke 9 Jesus gave power and authority to the twelve. In Luke 10 the 72 others come back having exercised the same power and authority v17, so Jesus must have given it to […]
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We are taking a group to Newday this year again – please book in at newdaygeneration.org. If you’d like to sponsor a young person to go, you can give online on our BT My donate Newday page
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 17 secs | 0 Comments
It’s a common expression “their ceiling is our floor” – we use it in Christian circles to talk about the fact that we stand on the shoulders of those who went before us. We want to press in and go past where the previous generation got to. In Luke 7 John the Baptist, who is […]
| By Andy Moyle | 2 mins 6 secs | 0 Comments
Luke shows a couple of fights Jesus had over the Sabbath. Jesus was often criticised for breaking the Sabbath but as Michael Eaton writes “There is not the slightest hint anywhere in the gospels that he ever disobeyed anything that was required by the Mosaic legislation.” Jesus kept the law, but no more than He […]