Gateway Christian Fellowship ECO Presbyterian

03/13/2026

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People quote a few verses to silence women.
But they ignore the rest of the story.

Verses like 1 Corinthians 14:34–35 and 1 Timothy 2:11–12 are often lifted out of their historical moment and turned into universal commands to keep women quiet in church.

Meanwhile the same people skip over Romans 16, where Phoebe is called a deacon, Junia is named outstanding among the apostles, and Priscilla is recognized as a teacher who helped instruct leaders of the early church.

The same Paul who wrote the verses used to silence women also publicly honored women who led, taught, hosted churches, funded ministry, and carried the gospel.

When we ignore that context, we do real harm.

Women are told their voices are dangerous.
Their callings are dismissed.
Their gifts are buried.

And the church loses half the Spirit’s voice.

Bad interpretation doesn’t just hurt women.
It weakens the whole body of Christ.

If our theology requires silencing the very people God clearly used, it might be time to reexamine our interpretation, not their calling.

09/14/2025

Today’s Message: The Truth Will Set You Free
for Sunday, September 14, 2025
1. There is an evil force in the world trying to divide us.
Satan was thrown out of heaven and into earth. It was after that event that God made mankind in His image. I’ve heard people say, “God left satan here on earth to tempt us, because fighting the devil will make us stronger.” Do I believe this?
No.
I do know that satan uses anger, hate, victimization, lies and deceit, and that none of this is God’s will.
2. I believe God created fallible, forgivable humans to be His forever family, people who would freely love God and want to spend eternity in His presence. I also believe that God gave this planet to “weak” men and women who would defeat satan, using God’s power, in a way that continually frustrates the devil, and that day after day the devil would be sorry he ever tried to take God’s throne away from Him in heaven!
When taking God’s throne away didn’t work out and satan was thrown out of heaven and sent into the earth, he tricked Adam and Eve into handing over their right to rule in the earth. The first people’s sin also stole from them the direct fellowship they had with God. But God sent Jesus, in the form of humankind, and Jesus' sacrifice not only saved mankind from sin. It gave us the right to rule in the earth again. It put us back in our position of authority over satan. Once the people of God learn to keep the devil under our feet, he will have nowhere else to go. He will, quite literally, go to hell.
In the meantime every one of us is born into a war zone.
3. God wants our purpose in life to be bringing people into His kingdom and discipling (teaching) them to follow Jesus wholeheartedly. But satan makes his own disciples. God frees people with truth... so they know who He is, and they know who God has made them to be. The devil blinds and binds people with lies so they don't know God, and they don't realize who they are meant to be. Look around you. Have you ever seen a more mixed up generation, these young people who lack purpose and don't know their own identity?
Enter a young man named Charlie Kirk, who in 2012 at the age of 18 was a co-founder of Turning Point USA, the fastest-growing organization of campus chapters in the nation, for both high school and college. Charlie Kirk, one who knows who he is, knows God and His truth, and has a burning desire to bring other young people into the light. A valiant soldier for God, turning hearts to the truth, he was one of the devil's worst nightmares! But satan had been busy with his deceptions, calling evil good, calling darkness light and bitter sweet. Is it any wonder that he has sown seeds, lies, to the extent that deceived people hear the truth spoken in love, but believe it is hate? They've been stirred to a frenzy, being told to watch out for the haters, because "bigoted" people will hate you for what you really are, all the while satan's deceptive voice keeps them in the dark about who they really are. And this past week a young man, apparently blinded by this deceptive hate in his own soul, took Charlie Kirk out with one bullet. Charlie is being called a martyr for Jesus, and he is. But he's also been called a casualty of war. EVERY martyr has been a casualty of war. Satan takes out truth-tellers every chance he gets. But satan is doomed. He's already lost; we have won through Jesus, our Savior. Yes, we've been left here without Charlie, but the devil is now left with literally millions of Jesus' soldiers standing up to fill the gap and finish the fight. The devil blew it. Know this: God did not orchestrate or even allow this. (WE are supposed to allow or forbid, according to Jesus’ words in Matthew 16:19 - whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.) I do believe God wants His people to do Ephesians 6:18 - “And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.”
The Bible says the devil has come down with great wrath because he knows his time is short. Notice it says HIS time, not our time. WE inherit the earth; the devil doesn't. He has lost; we have won.
If you are angry about Charlie Kirk's death, that's understandable. But don't be angry with the young people who've been deceived into selling their birthright to being the man or woman God made them to be. Be angry with the devil. Be angry enough to tell every person you meet that Jesus has already forgiven every one of their sins . They just need to turn to Jesus and receive Him—to receive His love and let Him heal their broken hearts. Go ahead and be angry, but be angry enough to determine to pray diligently for the complete defeat of satan's agenda, and of satan himself. Be angry at the devil, but love people. Complete your purpose of bringing people into God’s kingdom and teaching them to follow Jesus wholeheartedly.
Ask God to continually open your eyes to what is really going on, and stop listening to people who don't know God try to explain what is going on.
God's true people are pulling together to annihilate the devil and set our planet free. God's truth makes us free.
Related scriptures:
Ezekiel 28:12-19
Isaiah 14:12-15
John 10:10
Genesis 1:26
John 3:17-21
1 John 3:8
2 Corinthians 4:4
Isaiah 5:20
Revelation 12:12
2 Corinthians 5:17-21
Ephesians 6:11-18

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03/01/2025

Shared from a friend and neighbor's page:
The pastor says they sit front and center. The gay boys. Sometimes they hold hands. And some folks have said he should address the issue. But the pastor tells me he doesn’t know what to say.
There is the couple who are pregnant and not married. Walks in shame as her father a “Man of God”, physically slaps her legs while she is having morning sickness and the Boyfriend who is not wanting to marry her. But the pastor tells me he doesn’t know what to say.
And then there’s the man who sneaks in the back door. Fresh off the street. After the service starts. And leaves before altar call. The people sitting close complain about how bad he smells. Of beer and smoke and sweat. But the pastor tells me he doesn’t know what to say.
And then there’s the young mama who wears dirty clothes and lets her four children come in and eat all the donuts and drink all the watered-down juice. Some church staff say they “…eat like little pigs. Like they haven’t eaten in weeks.” While the Mama just stands there and lets them. And the elders say something must be done and said. But the pastor tells me he doesn’t know what to say.
And there’s the w***e sitting among the faithful. And everybody knows her. She sits with a painted-up face, cheap perfume, and a broken heart. And those who sit close, well, they all treat her for what they think she is. And at the last staff meeting, her name came up. Something must be done about her. But the pastor tells me he doesn’t know what to say.
The pastor is a good man. Holy and just. And he wants to do the “right and loving” thing. And he wants to “look like Jesus”. And he asks me if I have any thoughts on anything he could say.
Yes, sweet Pastor. I do. Start with this and say it Louder than any other words:
“Welcome to Church. This is a place of love and hope and safety and forgiveness. There will be food for the hungry. Living water for the thirsty. We are so glad you are here. You are invited. You are loved. Come on in—we’ve been waiting on you. Welcome here. We are the church.”
Say that. To the called and to the called-out. To the leaders and the greeters. To the dirty and the clean. We are all the same. We are.
May we blow the dust of religion out of our souls and choose affection instead. May our words and actions and reactions be a sanctuary for all.
Jesus broke many laws to love. So, Jesus, be our voice. Be the only words we should ever speak.I believe this with all my heart. Years ago we were kinder. Everybody looked out for one another. We need to go back to that. It takes us all. We gotta do better at looking out for each other instead of breaking each other down.

10/11/2024

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07/30/2024

Gateway Christian Fellowship (501 Idaho Street, Kooskia, ID) will host the "Healing Summit" live stream event on Friday, August 30. The service, which is being aired live from Middletown, Ohio, will begin at 4 PM. Prepare to be blessed as we join in worship with their music team and then hear the word of God preached. Prayer for any needs will be offered at our church at the conclusion of their event.
You are invited to this event by Living Waters Healing Rooms in Kooskia.

03/19/2023

What is the most important aspect of our Christian lives?
It MUST be love.
Love God with all our hearts.
Love one another, and all those who come to us asking for God's help.
And accept the love that God is pouring out on us, because it's from the overflow of God's love that we will have plenty of love to give.
He's been preparing us to be PEOPLE of LOVE.

06/18/2022

As Jesus is God in human form, we can look to Jesus and see what God our Father is really like.
John 14:1-14
Hebrews 1:1-3
Jesus came to reveal a loving and GOOD Father.
Good means good, even in Hebrew and Greek.
Jesus Christ is perfect theology. (Anything you believe about the Father that you don’t see in the Son is not true!) Jesus saves everyone who calls on His name.
He did not not deny or turn away anyone who came for healing.
He says to ask anything in His name and it will be done.

04/20/2022

...He has given us His precious and wonderful promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature...
2 Peter 1:4
We are not just Christians waiting to go to heaven.
We have been given the nature of our King, the Lion of Judah.

03/05/2022

God is not waiting to do something for me.
He is waiting on me to believe He has already done everything at the cross.

01/10/2022

Helping the Unhealed Receive Healing from Christ - an outstanding teaching by Roger Sapp

I have seen about 35,000 people healed in more than 300 churches in the past 3 decades. I believe that this is a conservative estimation and I do believe that hype is nothing more than a lie.

The success that I have had is largely helping unhealed Christians come to faith in Christ by dealing with doubts that they often did not know that they had. In fact, many of them declared to me that they had faith and are not healed. I tend to ignore this since discussing it is not helpful in helping them receive healing. However, I will discuss it here.

"Doubt" is translated from a Greek word that is most often translated as "judge." Certain wrong ideas cause people to doubt; to judge themselves outside the grace of God. They "disqualify" themselves and others for a variety of incorrect reasons. These doubting ideas are always wrong and the best way to deal with them is to show that Christ taught or demonstrated exactly the opposite when He was healing people.

People are deep pools of often mixed and conflicting thoughts and feelings about God. The same person who declares their faith may have significant doubts affecting them and preventing them from receiving a healing.

Doubt cancels out faith. For example, In the event of the cursing of the fig tree.... Christ says this to His amazed disciples:

Jesus answered and said to them, "Truly I say to you, if you have faith, and do not doubt, you shall not only do what was done to the fig tree, but even if you say to this mountain, 'Be taken up and cast into the sea,' it shall happen. And all things you ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive." (Matthew 21:21-22)

Note that Christ says, "have faith" and "do not doubt" as both being components of being able to do the supernatural. To use the meaning of doubt here and rephrase this idea and make it specific to healing. Christ is saying...

"If you have faith and don't disqualify yourself (doubt) for any reason, you will be healed."

In preaching, I qualify the hearers to receive healing on the basis of the completed work of Christ, and through revealing to them that Christ perfectly expressed the will of the Father. This means that the behavior and words of Christ express the perfect will of God and that in turn this destroys specific doubts.

I point to the fact that everyone that came to Christ was qualified to receive healing, even the most unrighteous person. I point to the fact of Christ never turning away anyone who needed healing. In turn, the people hearing the Good News, and my revealing of common doubts and how Christ shows these doubts to be untrue, respond to the Good News in faith and healing happens consistently in these meetings. In other words, the Good News preached in a way that destroys common doubts about healing has a profound effect on the hearers.

I think that those who travel with me would verify that 85% or better receive an "easy healing" in this atmosphere of faith that is created by the divine message of the Good News and dealing with their doubts. Often those who are still having trouble receiving a healing at first often do receive after hearing the Good News two or three times over a weekend. Some require more. I suspect that I could get a few healed without preaching the Good News and killing doubt, but it would be likely to be less than 10%.

I am in no way suggesting in this post that only the person receiving should believe. I, as a preacher, must believe what I am preaching and then believe when I am praying for people. It is just so much easier if those who need healing have heard the Good News and have captured their doubts so that they can actively believe without being held back by doubts.

Christ wanted people to believe for themselves as He ministered to them. He said, "Your faith as healed you" eighteen times in healing situations, and He included other statements about faith when He healed people. What Christ says in these healing situations is highly significant and should not be ignored or glossed over because we are afraid that it will hurt the feelings of the unhealed. We may be "protecting" them from the truth that will set them free.

The Gospels record the reason why Christ couldn't heal many in own hometown.... unbelief... on the part of those people. These things are undeniably in the inspired word of God. We do need to take it to heart and not be afraid that saying what the New Testament says will somehow be bad for people. Quite the opposite is true.

Christ didn't say, "My faith has healed you" to anyone. He made their believing important as He ministered healing to them. Believing is entirely possible for the vast majority of those who need healing and is what Christ wanted. Those who believe for themselves will retain healing much better and will have fewer problems in receiving healing in future situations.

There are two sides to the healing equation. The person who prays should believe and the person receiving should believe (if possible.) When the person praying believes and the one hearing believes, healing flows very easily. It is like plugging into the completed work of Christ. Nevertheless, believers can receive healing on their own without anyone praying for them and many do. This has probably increased in our day because there are many ways to hear the Good News, such as online.

As for our evaluations of people whether or not they have faith, I don't go there. I have to believe that God is faithful to heal when someone has true faith in Christ as Healer. Therefore, I cannot assume anything else but that they are still struggling with faith in Christ as Healer if they are still unhealed even after hearing them say that they believe. I know that we all live too close to the trees to see the forest. We are often unaware of our doubts and perhaps would never know that they are there until someone reveals them in preaching and teaching.

Beyond this, those who declare that they believe in Christ as Healer but are unhealed are often confusing many things with faith in Christ. They are confusing the belief that God heals, with personal faith in Christ as Healer. They are very different. They are confusing hope with faith, they are confusing desperation with faith in Christ. As long as they (and others) declare their faith, they may remain resistant to actually doing what is needed to obtain the faith that will enable them to receive a healing.

Sometimes someone will declare that an unhealed person does have faith. As far as judging unhealed people to have faith in Christ as Healer, I don't really think that it is possible to know this. It is an assumption at best and is often wrong. Faith is a matter of the heart and only God sees the heart. No human being knows what is in their own heart, much less in the heart of others. The Bible says this:

"…for Thou alone dost know the hearts of all the sons of men..." (1 Kings 8:39)

"…whose heart Thou knowest for Thou alone dost know the hearts of the sons of men..." (2 Chronicles 6:30)

We are forbidden in Christ's teaching to judge others and this does include judging someone in the positive by declaring that they have faith when it is only possible for God to see their heart.

Declaring someone else's faith has a way of backfiring as it assumes that nothing is needed on the part of the person who is unhealed and that the problem is with God in some way. This idea undermines faith in Christ. After all, it is not possible to have real faith in an unpredictable and unreliable God. If He is unpredictable and unreliable in the arena of healing, then He is also unfaithful to His promises and the example and teaching of His Son. No! Christ the Healer is faithful to heal those who believe in the same way that He is faithful to save those that believe.

In my experience, I have had a number of unhealed people presented to me that others were declaring as having faith in Christ as Healer. In other words, they declared to me that a particular person has faith but has not been healed. I do not believe that this is possible because God is always faithful. If there is a problem in receiving healing, it will always be on the human side of the equation. God is always faithful. It is important to know this if a person is going to have genuine faith. How can you have real faith in Christ as Healer if you believe that you can have faith in Christ as Healer and not be healed? Seems to me that to believe this would be a wrecking ball of doubt to any faith in Christ as Healer.

I believe that Christ is always faithful and that there is probably unseen doubt at work when someone declares that they believe and are not healed. So in interviewing "the unhealed person who has faith" I ask certain questions like, "Why do you think that you aren't healed?"

Often, the initial answer is, "I don't know." but if I wait without saying anything to them, the Holy Spirit will begin to reveal their unseen doubts by their answers. They will express them like, "Well, maybe God is doing something good for my character through my sickness" or "Maybe the will of God is different for me" or "I really don't deserve healing" or “maybe I am an exception.”

I will point them to Christ as never delaying a healing and other truths such as healing all who came to Him and no one being an exception who came to Him for help. The bottom line is that these people who were declared by others and perhaps themselves to have faith, did have significant doubts mixed with their faith that was preventing them from receiving healing.

After hearing them express their doubts and dealing with each doubt by pointing to what Christ revealed about those matters, I would then ask them if there is anything else that is bothering them. I have had numerous people begin to express concerns over sin in their distant past and possibly the sickness being a punishment.

These disqualifying ideas – doubts - are keeping them from being healed. They need to qualify themselves by capturing these doubts, by seeing what Christ revealed about them. I would then help them reaffirm the forgiveness of sin. When there was no other doubts coming up in them, I would then minister healing to them successfully. This has happened dozens of times over the past three decades.

Doubt is very common in those that do believe that Christ died for their sins and sicknesses. Doubt makes us feel "unqualified" to receive healing. Hearing the Good News preached correctly should make us feel "qualified" to receive on the right basis - the completed work of Christ.

Christ is already your Healer. The work is done for you. Father is saying "yes" and has been saying "yes" to the whole world from the moment Christ declared, "It is finished!"

01/10/2022

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12/22/2021

December 22, 2021

By Dutch Sheets, Dec 22, 2021

A Fun Christmas Memory
“In the same region, there were some shepherds staying out in the fields and keeping watch over their flock at night. And an angel of the Lord suddenly stood near them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them; and they were terribly frightened. And so the angel said to them, ‘Do not be afraid; for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be for all the people; for today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. And this will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.’ And suddenly there appeared with the angel a multitude of the heavenly army of angels praising God and saying, ‘Glory to God in the highest, And on earth peace among people with whom He is pleased.’” Luke 2:8-14 (NASB)
“Great joy…for all people,” are some of the words spoken by the angel on the night of Christ’s birth. And could the world ever use a dose of that!
We live in precarious and perilous times, punctuated by evil dictators, lying and fear-mongering governments, power-crazed politicians, woke educators, God-haters, and a worldwide pandemic.
In the midst of evil and chaos, let me remind you that joy is of the spirit, not the emotions, and therefore is not based on circumstances. Happiness is based on circumstances; joy, however, is a fruit of the spirit and therefore flows from Holy Spirit in you (Galatians 5:22). In the angel’s announcement above, great is the Greek word megas, from which we get the English word “mega.” Megas is over and above, above and beyond, more than enough. And as my grandkids would say, ginormous.
I felt today to encourage you to think of a joyful Christmas memory. It could be from when you were a kid, or as a parent or grandparent enjoying a kid/s. Perhaps it’s from a gift you gave, or one you were given. Maybe it’s a sleigh ride, a ski trip, a family trip, the Nutcracker with mom or a bowl game with dad. Think of something and let it unlock some joy.
Laughter is good. God said it’s like a medicine (Proverbs 17:22). Think of something from a Christmas past that’ll make you laugh. Maybe I can help.
We once had a dog named Mercedes. Sadie, as we called her, was a Boxer. God used Mercedes greatly in my life. She taught me patience, humility, poop-scooping, and the price of dog ACL surgery. I didn’t actually mind the poop-scooping in and of itself, it was the mocking laughter I could see in her eyes as I did it that bothered me.
We bought Mercedes - yes, I paid for these lessons - because we moved to an area where there were coyotes and foxes, which we knew would endanger our two other small dogs - they needed a bodyguard. Besides, everyone needs THREE dogs. But it backfired. Mercedes took over. Ceci and the girls actually went to obedience school with her a few times. That helped - she learned to sit. She came home and asserted her dominance by sitting on my chest. Seriously. I was stretched out on the floor watching a football game, nice fire going, when she proudly looked over at the girls and sat on my chest. “Good girl. Good sit,” they said.
Then there was the time she TP’d (toilet papered) the backyard. Yep, she did. We had a fenced backyard, so when leaving we at times left the back door open a foot or so to allow the dogs some freedom. We came home one day and there was a trail of toilet paper from the powder room (for all you guys that’s the half-bath you keep clean for guests) leading through the family room, out the back door, and into the back yard. Once in the backyard, it seems that Sadie’s creative side kicked in. She went over, under, around and through. She made circles, figure 8’s and squares. Then she did her business while I cleaned up the toilet paper. And if you don’t see the cruel irony of that then you’re pretty slow. I swear she was laughing.
But perhaps the most humiliating experience with Mercedes was when I had to chase her around on the roof of our two-story house. I was hanging Christmas lights - you thought I had gotten off the subject of Christmas, didn’t you - and with the house layout, it was a simple step onto our daughter’s bedroom window seat, then out the window and onto the garage roof. From there I could walk to the remainder of the roof, even the higher parts.
I was on all fours, carefully placing hooks for the lights on the gutters when suddenly I heard a noise behind me. I turned, and there was Mercedes - she had joined me! I panicked. If she fell off and hurt herself, Ceci and the girls would never forgive me. My tone of voice and panicked attempt to grab her scared her. She began running and wouldn’t come to me. So I chased her, which caused her to run more…Kevin Costner became known to the Native Americans as “man who dances with wolves.” I became known in our neighborhood as “man who dances with dog on roof.” True story.
Remember something today that makes you laugh. If you can’t think of anything, picture me with a 70 pound, well-trained, obedience school graduating Boxer sitting on my chest. The Message version of Proverbs 17:22 says, “A cheerful disposition is good for your health; gloom and doom leave you bone-tired.” Laugh. It’ll do you good.
Pray with me:
Father, in these precarious and perilous times, punctuated by evil dictators, lying and fear-mongering governments, power-crazed politicians, woke educators, God-haters and a worldwide pandemic, we can still have joy. Cause the spirit of joy to rise up in Your people today. Even those in difficult circumstances or that have suffered loss, let the strength that comes from joy arise in them. Temper their grief with moments of joy. If it needs to be a supernatural impartation, please do that.
And we thank You for Jesus. He brought us mega joy. “Joy to the world, the Lord has come.” Because of Him we can rejoice. Remind us to remain focused on Him this Christmas season.
And even on a day in which we speak of laughter and joy, we still remember the babies. A reversal of Roe would be the greatest gift we could receive this coming year. Do whatever is necessary to give us 5 or more Justices who will find the moral strength to reverse it. In Christ’s name, we pray, amen.
Our decree:
We decree that joy unspeakable is ours today through Christ.
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