Gateway Christian Fellowship is a non denominational church lead by Pastor Lance Bane in West Haven, Connecticut. As a Gateway of hope, we are building a healthy, empowered family, supernaturally experiencing and sharing the Presence of God with our region and beyond. Our mission is to help people experience the kindness of God and lead brilliant lives together. Join us weekly for an encouraging message.
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In Acts 16, Paul shows us that Spirit-led leadership isn’t about having a title; it’s about recognizing where God has placed you and responding faithfully. Discover how you can lead wherever you are and leave the people around you closer to Jesus, healthier, stronger, and better because you were there.
Pressure has a way of exposing what's really underneath us, and Acts 16 shows a Spirit-led team who faced it from every direction without losing who they were becoming. This week, we explore what it looks like to stay faithful when following God costs something, and why the pressure you're carrying might be the very place He's forming you.
Pressure has a way of exposing what's really underneath us, and Acts 16 shows a Spirit-led team who faced it from every direction without losing who they were becoming. This week, we explore what it looks like to stay faithful when following God costs something, and why the pressure you're carrying might be the very place He's forming you.
In Acts 16, Paul makes room for Timothy, showing us that Spirit-led leadership is not about building a platform but about recognizing, developing, and releasing people for Kingdom purposes. Thermostats: Part Two challenges us to become the kind of leaders who notice what God is already doing in others and intentionally help them become more like Jesus.
In Acts 16, Paul makes room for Timothy, showing us that Spirit-led leadership is not about building a platform but about recognizing, developing, and releasing people for Kingdom purposes. Thermostats: Part Two challenges us to become the kind of leaders who notice what God is already doing in others and intentionally help them become more like Jesus.
Every follower of Jesus carries God’s presence into ordinary places, with power to change the atmosphere, not just observe it. In this message from Acts 16, we discover how Spirit-led leaders keeps moving forward.
Every follower of Jesus carries God’s presence into ordinary places, with power to change the atmosphere, not just observe it. In this message from Acts 16, we discover how Spirit-led leaders keeps moving forward.
“Now What? Every Jesus follower faces the same question: What will I do with what God has said? This week we discovered that spiritual growth happens when we cultivate a receptive heart toward God and take personal responsibility to respond in faithful obedience, allowing His Word to transform us from the inside out.
“Now What? Every Jesus follower faces the same question: What will I do with what God has said? This week we discovered that spiritual growth happens when we cultivate a receptive heart toward God and take personal responsibility to respond in faithful obedience, allowing His Word to transform us from the inside out.
What if praise is more than singing songs? Join Pastor Lance as we discover how biblical praise reshapes our hearts and renews our minds, drawing us closer to Christ through a life that celebrates God’s goodness every day.
What if praise is more than singing songs? Join Pastor Lance as we discover how biblical praise reshapes our hearts and renews our minds, drawing us closer to Christ through a life that celebrates God’s goodness every day.
In the last part of the series, “The Supremacy of Christ: His Sufficiency for Our Suffering”, Pastor Lance traces the transformation of the apostle Paul to reveal how the supremacy of Christ doesn't remove our suffering but redeems it, redirecting our deepest struggles into something worth giving our lives to.
In the last part of the series, “The Supremacy of Christ: His Sufficiency for Our Suffering”, Pastor Lance traces the transformation of the apostle Paul to reveal how the supremacy of Christ doesn't remove our suffering but redeems it, redirecting our deepest struggles into something worth giving our lives to.
The Supremacy of Christ: His Sufficiency for Our Suffering”, Pastor Lance encourages the church to remember who we are in the face of suffering and live according to the truth of Jesus’ supremacy and our identity.
The Supremacy of Christ: His Sufficiency for Our Suffering”, Pastor Lance encourages the church to remember who we are in the face of suffering and live according to the truth of Jesus’ supremacy and our identity.
In this new series, “The Supremacy of Christ: His Sufficiency for Our Suffering”, Pastor Lance reminds us that Jesus Christ reigns supreme over our suffering, and as we walk in Him, He gives weary hearts hope, strength, and grace.
In this new series, “The Supremacy of Christ: His Sufficiency for Our Suffering”, Pastor Lance reminds us that Jesus Christ reigns supreme over our suffering, and as we walk in Him, He gives weary hearts hope, strength, and grace.
Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad. From 1 Thessalonians 2:11-12, we explore five marks of a father who walks with God and serves his family well, and discover that fathering others flows from first receiving God as Father.
Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad. From 1 Thessalonians 2:11-12, we explore five marks of a father who walks with God and serves his family well, and discover that fathering others flows from first receiving God as Father.
Generosity is about discipleship, not finances, and is rooted in trusting Father God, who gave everything first. Drawing on 2 Corinthians 9:6-11 and 2 Peter 1:4, this message in the BECOMING series calls us to live with open hands and hearts in our finances, time, relationships, and forgiveness, reflecting the Father’s abundant nature.
Dennis Cramer delivers a message about the supernatural nature of God’s Kingdom. Through personal stories, Dennis aims to inspire the church to seek God’s supernatural presence and power in their own lives.
Dennis Cramer shares a helpful message offering the church seven keys to waging war with prophetic promises.
In this message, Pastor Lance reminds Gateway to partner with the Father and His mission by living in the Spirit's power, authority, and sustaining grace. Rooted in Acts 1:8, Acts 2:17-21, and 2 Peter 1:3, this message equips believers to be sent with confidence and clarity.
On Pentecost Sunday, we explored who the Holy Spirit is - a person who is creative, protective, and intimately present; and we traced His movement from Genesis 1:2 through the birth of modern Pentecostalism and the Charismatic renewal.
The purposes every follower of Jesus carries aren't dependent on our circumstances or calendar. In this message, we explore three directions every believer is called to live: Godward, Outward, and Inward.
Our purpose is not discovered; it is prepared by God and received by us. In this message, we explore what it means to live from divine purpose.
In this powerful message, discover how worship opens the door to encountering God’s loving-kindness, revealing the beautiful complexity of His character, and experiencing a God who is both passionately jealous for His people and tenderly loving in all His ways.
Pastor Rick McKinnis unpacks the bold prayer of Jabez from 1 Chronicles 4:9-10, showing how a man whose name meant “pain” trusted God to rewrite his story and turn his curse into a blessing.
Pastor Lance explores how healthy relationships are built on enduring trust, quick forgiveness, and flexible boundaries, all rooted in the character of Christ.
In this message, guest speaker Rob Morris reminds us of the God who sees all people and challenges us to do the same and that God’s love can heal lives.
On Resurrection Sunday, Pastor Lance explores the universal human experience of ache and longing, tracing their origins to our broken relationship with God and to how the resurrection of Jesus answers both. Through four practical steps: admit, believe, repent, and follow, listeners are invited to be saved from spiritual death into new life and the great renewal God is bringing to all things.
From the first garden to Golgotha, the cross is not a patch, it's a cure. Join us as we trace the story of how Jesus steps into the curse humanity brought on itself and reverses it, restoring what was lost and inviting us to the life He died to make possible.
Our family history and peer group taught us how to win arguments, defend our positions, and prepare our responses, but rarely how to genuinely connect with another person’s experience. In Week 12 of Becoming, we explore the ancient practice of listening as an act of love and uncover what loving, honest communication truly looks like.
Have you let disappointment quietly become your normal? In this message from Acts 3, Len Ballenger explores how faith fosters expectation, and how expectation has the courage to see a gate where others see a wall, reach out and touch what needs to change, and welcome the transformation only God can bring.
Most of us know our relationships matter more than almost anything else in our lives, but what we often don't know is what to do when they're under strain. In this message, we explore two diagnostic questions every person in a relationship is quietly asking: Are we connected? and Are we loving each other?
What if the health of our relationships is something we can actually grow into? In week 10 of Becoming, we explore why our most important relationships keep hitting the same walls, and how the grace of God transforms us from the inside out, into people who can connect, repair, and love well.
In our Becoming: Growing in Godliness in Every Season message, we conclude our focus on character by discovering that true transformation begins with belovedness, is shaped through formation, and results in lasting fruitfulness. Spiritual maturity is not instant behavior change, but a lifelong journey of becoming who God already declares us to be.
Part of our ongoing series Becoming, this message Growing in Godliness in Every Season, lays the foundation for transformation by starting where every spiritual journey must begin: belovedness. Before we grow, strive, or step into purpose, we learn to live anchored in the Father’s love, because who we are in Him shapes everything we are becoming.
As we continue our Becoming series, we walk through Romans 4 to uncover the foundation beneath Paul’s “Therefore” in Romans 5:1 - how Abraham’s faith secures our justification and anchors us in grace. When we know we are standing in grace, we can rejoice even in suffering, trusting that perseverance forms character and character produces unshakable hope.
In this message, Pastor Lance shares a word about God inviting our church to relate to Him not only as Father, but also as King, calling us into reverence, repentance, and trust. We are reminded that letting go of what weighs us down leads us into greater freedom, joy, and life with Jesus.
In this message, we explore how God fortifies our identity through the process of breaking, reminding us that His declarations are true and secure in Christ.
Ministry in the Spirit begins not with striving, but with beholding—turning unveiled hearts toward the Father in Christ. As we learn to behold the Lord in silence, prayer, and thanksgiving, the Spirit uses the Word to help us become who He says we are, a people no longer motivated by earning.
Continuing in the series, BECOMING, Pastor Lance helps recognize the importance of our God-given identity and three common enemies that resist who God says we are.
Following Peter’s call to make every effort, this second message in the series explores the last three gifts in 2 Peter 1:3-5 that the Father invites us to actively cultivate as we grow in Christ.
Following Peter’s call to make every effort, this first message in the series explores the first two gifts in 2 Peter 1:1-2 that the Father invites us to actively cultivate as we grow in Christ.
In this end-of-the-year message, join us for a guided prayer to release your burdens and cares to Jesus, inspired by Matthew 11:28-30. Surrender what weighs you down, receive His rest, and rejoice in God’s faithfulness.
On Christmas Eve, we are reminded that the deepest wounds we carry cannot be healed from afar. Therefore, God came close to us. “The Needed Nearness of God” proclaims the hope of Emmanuel - God with us.
In this Christmas season, Lynn Lincoln pulls from the story of Mary, mother of Jesus and reminds us that our “yes” to God is powerful, just like Mary.
In a world that often pulls us inward, leading to despair, apathy, and distraction, Advent calls us to embrace an upward longing as we anticipate Christ’s return. This sermon delves into how the four themes of Advent—Hope, Peace, Joy, and Love—guide us from self-centeredness to Kingdom living between Christ’s first and second coming.
In this timely and much-needed message from Scott Tavolacci, he reminds us that God is a healer and is always willing to heal people because there is always more goodness from God. He emphasizes that we all need healing, and Jesus is the same.