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Paul Stewart
Des Moines
I'm the lead pastor of The Gateway Church, a brand new faith community forming downtown Des Moines.
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What is an Ordinary Christian?
Over the weekend Dr. Anthony Bradley wrote an article over at World Magazine entitled “The New Legalism” in which he asserts that the recent push to be ‘radical’ and ‘missional’ discourages ordinary people in ordinary places from doing ordinary things... Continue reading
Posted May 6, 2013 at Paul Stewart
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Real Beauty
This is such an incredible (advertisement???). Not sure what this has to do with soap, but the message is full of truth and beauty. The more time you spend studying your reflection in the mirror, the less self-aware you become.... Continue reading
Posted Apr 16, 2013 at Paul Stewart
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Books for Singles
Posted Apr 16, 2013 at Paul Stewart
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Resurrection: You Have To See This!
For the most part, the early Christians did not engage in public preaching. It was too dangerous. There were no mega-church, celebrity pastors. In fact, there are only a handful of evangelists or missionaries whose names we even know (Paul,... Continue reading
Posted Mar 26, 2013 at Paul Stewart
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The Book of Job and the Problem of Evil
The problem of evil is if God is all good and God is all powerful, why is the world full of evil? Why is their pain and suffering in a world created and ruled by a loving and good God?... Continue reading
Posted Feb 21, 2013 at Paul Stewart
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Not Yet: Lent 2013
Posted Feb 12, 2013 at Paul Stewart
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Craving Change
Posted Nov 1, 2012 at Paul Stewart
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A Flourishing Life
John 10v10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. Inside your soul there is a battle. A battle between life and death. A battle between abundance... Continue reading
Posted Oct 31, 2012 at Paul Stewart
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The Power of Habit
On Sunday we began a new series at Gateway based on some of the research in the book The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg. The book insists, I think correctly, that while most of the choices we make each... Continue reading
Posted Oct 16, 2012 at Paul Stewart
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Gateway 2.0
Posted Oct 12, 2012 at Paul Stewart
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Everything You Need to Know about our Big Move
Our own Jeremy Harder provides a guided tour of Gateway's new meeting space at Central Campus. Continue reading
Posted Sep 13, 2012 at Paul Stewart
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The Big Move
Posted Jul 30, 2012 at Paul Stewart
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The New Rebel
Posted Jul 26, 2012 at Paul Stewart
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The Power of Pentecost
Posted Jun 14, 2012 at Paul Stewart
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The Sustantivo (Partnership) Trailer
In March a team of eleven people from Gateway traveled to Anemona, El Salvador to begin an unlikely partnership between two churches. The team worked with ENLACE to help this impoverished community build tilapia fish tanks and home gardens to... Continue reading
Posted May 1, 2012 at Paul Stewart
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Art Has Its Own Validity
"Handel with his Messiah, Bach with his Matthew Passion, Rembrandt with his Denial of St. Peter, and the architects of those Cistercian churches were not evangelizing, nor making tools for evangelism; they worked to the glory of God. They did... Continue reading
Posted Apr 25, 2012 at Paul Stewart
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Eggs, Eggs Everywhere!
Posted Mar 29, 2012 at Paul Stewart
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Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.
This is the last in a series of posts on the Lord's Prayer based on a message I preached at Gateway a couple of weeks ago. You can listen to my message here. You can’t pray like this every day,... Continue reading
Posted Mar 8, 2012 at Paul Stewart
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Fight Through The Gap
Ira Glass on Storytelling from David Shiyang Liu on Vimeo. Continue reading
Posted Mar 7, 2012 at Paul Stewart
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Forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
What does this mean? Are we are forgiven only as we forgive? Interestingly this is the only part of the prayer that Jesus feels compelled to amplify upon. Matthew 6v14 For if you forgive other people when they sin against... Continue reading
Posted Mar 7, 2012 at Paul Stewart
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Give Us This Day
Last week I started writing a series of posts on the Lord's Prayer from a message I preached at Gateway a couple of weeks ago. You can listen to my message here. This prayer is the foundation of all Christian... Continue reading
Posted Mar 6, 2012 at Paul Stewart
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Your Kingdom Come, Your Will Be Done
This week I am writing a series of posts on the Lord's Prayer from a message I preached at Gateway last weekend. You can listen to my message here. When we pray for God's Kingdom to come we are aligning... Continue reading
Posted Mar 2, 2012 at Paul Stewart
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Hallowed Be Your Name
Yesterday I began a series on the Lord's Prayer from a message I preached at Gateway last weekend. You can listen to my message here. We are to pray that God's name is “hallowed” in the world. This is to... Continue reading
Posted Mar 1, 2012 at Paul Stewart
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Our Father in Heaven
Yesterday I began a series on the Lord's Prayer from a message I preached at Gateway last weekend. You can listen to my message here. This first time in the Scriptures that a Jewish person cried out to God as... Continue reading
Posted Feb 29, 2012 at Paul Stewart
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The Lord's Prayer
“Prayer is an expression of who we are... We are living incompleteness. We are a gap, an emptiness that calls for fulfillment.” - Thomas Merton This weekend at Gateway we explored Jesus' instruction on prayer. In one sense, prayer is... Continue reading
Posted Feb 28, 2012 at Paul Stewart
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