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The Gateway Church
by The Gateway Church
A weekly podcast featuring sermons and special events from The Gateway Church in downtown Des Moines, Iowa.
Episodes
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Hope (Psalm 130)
Closing out the summer series in the Psalms, Pastor Dominic Jackson turns to Psalm 130, a Song of Ascents sung by pilgrims on the way to Jerusalem. He explores what the Bible means by hope. Too often we treat hope as little more than a wish, which offers little strength when life becomes…
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Justice (Psalm 82)
Matt Crummy explores Psalm 82, one of the more unusual and challenging passages in the Psalter, in which God stands in a heavenly assembly and judges other "gods" for their injustice. Drawing on the view that God created spiritual beings who share in his rule, Matt considers what this strange…
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Mortality (Psalm 90)
Pastor Dominic Jackson turns to Psalm 90, the only psalm attributed to Moses, to explore its central prayer: "Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom." Moses holds life and death side by side. The God who formed the mountains is the same God who returns us to dust. Dominic...
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Confession (Psalm 32)
Most of what we associate with confession is negative: getting caught, being sentenced, carrying shame. Yet Psalm 32 opens by calling the forgiven person "blessed." Pastor Dominic Jackson follows David from the crushing weight of silence to the relief of being covered by God. Along the way he...
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Shepherd (Psalm 23)
In this guest sermon, Pastor Patrick Joslyn opens one of the most familiar passages in Scripture and asks whether it's actually possible to live a Psalm 23 life: without lack, without fear, and from a place of rest. Drawing on his own long seasons of loneliness, chronic illness, and a cancer...
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Deconstruction (Psalm 73)
In part two of a two-week look at doubt, Pastor Dominic Jackson takes on one of the most loaded words in the church today: deconstruction. He names five common reasons people deconstruct, drawing on the painful story of his own friend group of future pastors and missionaries, most of whom have...
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Doubt (Psalm 77)
Pastor Dominic Jackson opens Psalm 77, often called the "dark night of the soul" psalm, to explore what happens when we look for God the way we always have and can't find him. Drawing on the story of St. John of the Cross, who wrote Dark Night of the Soul after months of imprisonment and…
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Refuge (Psalm 46)
In this sermon, Matt Crummy opens Psalm 46 by starting where the psalm starts: with God. Drawing on Rabbi Abraham Heschel's idea that faith is "the integration of the known with the unknown," Matt shows how the psalmists bring their fears of an uncertain future to the God they know. He traces the...
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Thanksgiving (Psalm 100)
Pastor Dominic Jackson opens Psalm 100—a communal song of thanksgiving sung by God's people as they entered the temple together—to ask what happens when Sunday worship starts to feel like just another Sunday. Moving through the psalm line by line, Dominic explores the difference between happiness...
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Forsaken (Psalm 22)
Pastor Dominic Jackson returns to the Psalms by way of Good Friday, asking one of the hardest questions in the gospel story: why did Jesus cry out, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" After working through five common explanations for the cry of dereliction, Dominic opens Psalm 22 to show...
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Joy (Psalm 126)
In this guest sermon, Pastor Carlos Sims opens Psalm 126 to explore one of the most countercultural invitations in scripture: the path to joy runs directly through lament. Drawing from the Israelites' cry for restoration and the hope of the gospel, Carlos makes the case that bringing our tears...
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Contentment (Psalm 49)
The week the world got its first trillionaire, Psalm 49 has something to say. Written by the Sons of Korah—descendants of a man who had everything and reached for more—this ancient wisdom song cuts through the noise with a bluntness that feels almost rude: people, despite their wealth, do not...
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Blessed (Psalm 1)
What if the secret to happiness isn't what most of us are chasing? Opening a summer series in the Psalms, Dominic Jackson starts where the collection does—Psalm 1—and the question it puts on the table: what does it actually mean to be blessed? Along the way, the sermon moves from that question…
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Build Up
Paul's instruction to build up one another turns out to be less about mentorship and more about the everyday texture of how we talk to each other—and whether we actually listen. Working through Ephesians 4:29–32, Dominic Jackson looks at what "unwholesome talk" actually costs: the person…
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Restoration
How do you confront someone you love without losing them? In this message, Pastor Dominic works through Galatians 6:1–2 and Matthew 18:15–20 to build a practical, honest guide to spiritual restoration—one that takes both courage and humility. Before you send that text or schedule that coffee…
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Do Not Judge
When researchers asked a thousand people to describe Christians in three words, the top answer wasn't loving or faithful. It was judgmental. Working through Matthew 7:1–6, Dominic Jackson takes one of Jesus' most familiar — and most misused — teachings and asks what he actually meant. Why are we...
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No Small Acts
On his last night of freedom, Jesus didn't perform a miracle. He did a chore — the lowest, most menial one imaginable. Working through John 13 and Galatians 5:13–14, Dominic Jackson takes the foot-washing story and looks at it from angles that are easy to miss after twenty readings: that Jesus...
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Love of the Stranger
The New Testament is full of instructions for how the church should treat itself — unity, love, humility. But in 1 Peter 4, written during one of the bloodiest periods in church history, Peter reaches for a word that isn't about the church at all. Not philadelphia — love of brothers and sisters —...
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Counter-Formation
Worship doesn't just express what you love — it trains you to love it more. In part two of a two-week look at Romans 12, Matt Crummy picks up where last week left off and explores what worship actually does over time. Drawing on the Drake Relays, a failed high school track career, two British...
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The Work of the People
What if worship is less about thinking correctly about God and more about being formed by him — body, habit, and desire? Romans 12 opens with a "therefore" that hinges on everything Paul has just argued about the mercy of God, and Matt Crummy uses that hinge to explore what worship actually is....
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Planted, Not Buried
What does Jesus actually mean when he says to deny yourself, take up your cross, and follow him? Working through Matthew 16:24–26, Dominic Jackson takes three instructions that are easy to flatten into one vague call to try harder — and pulls them apart. Denying yourself isn't self-loathing.…
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Come and See
The same empty tomb. Two groups of people running in opposite directions with completely different stories to tell. Working through Matthew 28, Dominic Jackson opens with a simple observation — that how we look at something often matters more than what we're actually looking at — and carries it…
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Follow Me
Peter is a fisherman, an ordinary man who walked on water and then sank, who declared he would never deny Jesus and then did it three times before sunrise. Working through snapshots of Peter's life across the gospels, Dominic Jackson traces the story of someone who keeps failing and keeps getting...
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The Way of the Sword
When Jesus is arrested in the garden, he already knows exactly what is coming—and he surrenders anyway. Working through John 18, Dominic Jackson traces the arrest of Jesus and holds up two contrasting ways of moving through the world. Jesus humbles himself while others seek power. Jesus protects...
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The Lonely Place
What does it look like to actually be alone with your thoughts—and why do most of us avoid it? In Luke 5, at the height of his popularity, Jesus doesn't lean into the momentum. He withdraws. Dominic Jackson looks at the practice of silence and solitude in the life of Jesus and asks what it might...
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Elvis, Amy Grant, and the Devil
What does Christian art have to do with how followers of Jesus should relate to the world? Dominic Jackson opens with the question he wrestled with as a young film student—why is so much Christian art so bad—and uses it as a doorway into a bigger one: how should Christians actually see the world...
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Feasting and Fasting
What does it look like to follow Jesus when what you really want is what he can give you — security, community, meaning, answers? In John 6, Jesus calls out a crowd still thinking about yesterday's free meal and declares himself the bread of life. The people want a sign. They want bread from the...
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Wholeness
Dominic Jackson explores Jesus’ command to “be perfect” and confronts the quiet pressure many feel to measure their spiritual lives through performance, comparison, and self-evaluation. Drawing from the Sermon on the Mount and the story of the rich young ruler, he reframes perfection not as...
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Formation
As the Movement series continues, Dominic Jackson turns to the theme of formation—the lifelong process of becoming like Jesus. Rooted in Matthew 28, this sermon looks at the Great Commission as an ongoing invitation to apprenticeship. To follow Jesus is to be continually shaped: receiving and...
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Renewal
In a moment marked by anger, division, and confusion, Dominic Jackson turns to the words of Jesus in Matthew 5 and asks a deeper question: what if the problem isn’t just what’s happening around us—but something beneath it? Through a striking contrast between the “way of the kingdom” and the “way…
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Presence
Continuing the Movement series, Dominic Jackson explores what it means to be a people of presence—with God, with one another, and in our own lives. Anchored in Matthew 28, he reframes the Great Commission not just as a call to go, but as a call to be with: a God who draws near to us, a community...
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Authority
In this opening sermon of the Movement series, Matt Crummy explores a word that many of us instinctively distrust: authority. Drawing from Matthew 28 and the famous image of The Treachery of Images, he invites us to consider how easily we confuse distorted images of authority—coercion, control,...
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Hospitality
As Gateway steps into a new year, Dominic Jackson invites the church to reflect on a simple but searching question: what kind of community are we becoming? Through two contrasting stories—one of radical welcome and one of painful rejection—he explores how the church can either embody the heart of...
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Joy
Matt Crummy reflects on joy through the story of the Magi in Matthew 2:1-12. Beginning with Edward Hopper’s painting Nighthawks and the idea of liminal, in-between spaces, he explores how Advent situates us between Christ’s first coming and his promised return. The Magi become a picture of people...
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Peace
Dominic Jackson reflects on what it means to let “the peace of Christ rule in your hearts” (Colossians 3:15) in a world that feels anything but peaceful. He begins by examining anxiety and invites us to see that peace is not simply calmness or the absence of conflict, but shalom—wholeness,...
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Hope
Dominic Jackson explores Advent as a season of hope in the waiting—rooted in God’s promises, centered on the coming King, and forming us into a redeemed people. He reflects on the tension we all feel between fear and expectation and invites us to distinguish between hope and optimism: hope is not...
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Mystery
Dominic Jackson wraps up our series on beauty by inviting us to rediscover mystery as a way God draws us into wonder, trust, and a deeper relationship. Through Elijah’s encounter with God in 1 Kings 19—where God is not in the wind, earthquake, or fire, but in a gentle whisper—we learn that God...
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Suffering
Dominic Jackson explores the hard, honest question of suffering through John 16 and Romans 8. Jesus does not hide the reality of trouble, but he does promise his presence and his victory. This sermon invites us to name pain without minimizing it, to rediscover lament as a faithful practice, and…
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Creation
In week 3 of Beauty: See Again What God Calls Good, Matt Crummy turns to the created world as a living witness to God’s presence and love. Drawing especially from Psalm 104, this sermon reminds us that responding to creation with praise is not extra or peripheral, but a sign that we’re seeing a...
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Identity
In week 2 of Beauty: See Again What God Calls Good, Dominic Jackson explores how our identity is formed and healed in Christ. Starting with Jesus’ command to “love your neighbor as yourself” (Mark 12:30–31), this sermon reframes self-love as learning to see ourselves as God sees us—so we can love...
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Devotion
Dominic Jackson opens our series by asking a foundational question: What does God think is beautiful? Centered on Matthew 26 (with parallels in Mark 14), this sermon reflects on the woman who anoints Jesus with costly perfume and how her devotion looks like waste to some but is called beautiful…
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Love Over Fear
Dominic Jackson closes 1 John by arguing that Scripture frames the true opposite of love not as hate but fear—“perfect love casts out fear” (1 John 4). He traces how fear is instilled in us through advertising, news, and social media, then shows how our anger and hatred often mask deeper fears—of...
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False Teaching, Part 2
John warns his churches, “Don’t believe every spirit—test the spirits” (1 John 2:26–27; 4:1). In this sermon, Dominic Jackson names how half-true “American gospels” can sound biblical yet quietly edit the good news. This week he focuses on two influential versions—Christian nationalism and the...
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False Teaching, Part 1
Dominic Jackson explores the theme of false teaching, drawing from the biblical text of 1 John 4:1-3. He begins by contextualizing the New Testament's warnings against false teachers, noting that unlike Old Testament warnings about external threats, these were about dangers arising from within…
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Assurance
Exploring 1 John 3, Matt Crummy challenges us to imagine love not only as sentiment but as embodied action. “Let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth,” John writes—and Matt walks us through what it looks like to hold love and truth together without collapsing one into the other.…
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Transformed by Hope
In this sermon on 1 John 3, Matt Crummy explores the astonishing truth that we are called children of God—not metaphorically or aspirationally, but as a present and permanent identity rooted in God’s initiating love. This identity, given not earned, shapes how we see ourselves, how we respond to...
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Hold Fast
Dominic Jackson teaches from 1 John 2, where John draws a sharp contrast between love for the world and love for the Father. In a culture shaped by craving, self-promotion, and fleeting promises, John warns that the desires of the flesh, the eyes, and pride are all passing away. Instead, those…
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Love and Hatred
Dominic Jackson continues our journey through 1 John by exploring what it means to live in the light through the command to love. Though John calls it both an “old” and “new” command, the heart of it is simple: love one another. But this love is not a vague sentiment or shallow tolerance; it’s a...
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Walk in the Light
Dominic Jackson opens our series on 1 John by reflecting on how the Christian faith begins not with ideas or inspiration, but with a person—Jesus Christ—whom John and the apostles heard, saw, and touched. The letter begins with eyewitness testimony and a call to deeper fellowship: not just with...
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The Mustard Seed
Dominic Jackson teaches on the parable of the mustard seed from Matthew 13, where Jesus compares the kingdom of heaven to something small, hidden, and slow-growing. The seed’s size hides its true power; it becomes a tree that offers rest, hospitality, and shelter. In an era that prizes instant...
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A weekly podcast featuring sermons and special events from The Gateway Church in downtown Des Moines, Iowa.
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