by Sam Evans | Aug 16, 2018 | Church Life, General Teaching
A huge privilege of the work I do for Gateway church is meeting with lots of you, getting to know you and talking about some really deep things. I love it! Sometimes I’m really amazed by the way in church we can so quickly trust others to tell them our struggles...
by Sam Evans | Apr 12, 2018 | General Teaching
Reading the Bible: The Interpretative Journey (Part 1) can be found here. I want you to imagine a large map, with (1) an ancient village on the left, (2) a river in the middle, (3) a bridge over the river, (4) a signpost just past the bridge and (5) a modern village...
by Sam Evans | Apr 5, 2018 | General Teaching
I don’t know about you, but sometimes reading the bible can feel really difficult. In fact, it can seem not abnormally difficult: reading a passage and instantly forgetting what it was about. Why is this? After years of thinking that ‘I should’ read it or pushing...
by Sam Evans | Feb 15, 2018 | General Teaching, Worship
Have you ever come to church on a Sunday and felt like you’ve not connected with God? Have you ever gathered with the congregation to sing and pray and just gone away feeling like you didn’t receive? Have you ever finished a service and just wondered: what was that...
by Sam Evans | Jun 11, 2017 | Church Life, Community, Family
In January, when we announced to our leaders that we were taking the step of going to two ‘gatherings’ Hannah, my wife, spotted that this was 9 months away. She felt that God was saying that taking this step as a church was going to be like a pregnancy. So it was...
