When I take a walk through Acts 2, I marvel at all the ways it describes what it is like when all heaven breaks loose. In short, it is the acts of the Holy Spirit in creating empowered people, with empowered giftings with the empowered results of an empo

Today as we launch our new name, Gateway Grace Fellowship, sbc, the Lord is also calling us to catch a vision to seriously reach out to the unchurched 95% of our population in SW Florida! How? By learning, experiencing and sharing the "empowered godline

For years I have tried to make the week between Christmas and New Year's Day a focused time of asking the Lord about "Where I've Been," and "Where We're Going." While I am at it, I ask Him the same thing about our church family. Let's walk through that

Do you ever find yourself yearning for something? Sometimes when we're waiting for something for a long time, it's easy to get discouraged. However, when we are waiting on Jesus, we can take comfort in knowing that thought it may take a while, He is ALWAY

Pastor Mark Gonzales (12-18-11) It's one to thing feel betrayed by an acquaintance or casual friend. It's a whole other thing and far more painful when it's by someone close, very close to you. When Joseph got blind-sighted by his fiance's seemingly ob

Pastor Mark Gonzales (12-11-11) How does a pregnant teen deal with pending scorn and probable divorce for her unwed pregnancy, and yet the coming miracle of birthing the Lord God of the ages!? With an amazingly humble heart! Here is what it looks like..

Pastor Mark Gonzales (12-4-11) If you think the story of Jesus Christ began in Bethlehem, John 1:1-3 tells us it actually began much further back in time. In fact, it began before time itself and before the creation of the world...in the eternal heart of

Pastor Mark Gonzales (11-27-11) Some of us tend to sum up our conception of God's grace as "sugar and spice and everything nice." But the Lord's "grace upon grace" is deeper, much deeper than that as it sometimes comes packaged as Josephs' vengeful brothe

Pastor Mark Gonzales (11-20-11) Sometimes it's tough, very tough to move on to the next thing in life whether it's because we're pretty cozy where we are, we feel secure in the familiar, we're too crushed and hurt to even move, or we fear the unsure possi

Pastor Mark Gonzales (11-13-11) While we don't want to be as foolish as the Galatians church in trying to work at righteousness with the works of the law, neither do we want to fall to the other extreme of spiritual passivity.  Where's the balance?  On