
When God Builds the House: From Broken Families to Flourishing Cities
What if the key to transforming a city starts at home? In this blog post, Pastor Hazen reveals how Psalm 127 calls us to believe for God-built families, faith-filled churches, and flourishing communities, all beginning with prayer.

From Dirt to Gardens: The Faith to Sow Seeds
In this blog, Hazen explores how a simple image of dirt and seeds reveals a powerful spiritual truth: transformation starts with faith to sow. Whether you're deeply rooted in faith or just beginning to wonder, your life carries seeds—stories, prayers, acts of love—that God can use to grow something beautiful. Even the hardest hearts can become gardens. One seed, one step of faith, can change everything. Will you sow today?

Having Spiritual Conversations: Three Keys to Transformative Gospel Discussions
In a world full of noise, how do we have spiritual conversations that actually transform? In this blog post Pastor Hazen explores three simple yet powerful keys to sowing gospel truth with clarity, love, and authenticity—reminding us that every seed we plant can lead to life-changing growth in someone’s heart.
The Power of Holy Conversation
Your words are shaping someone’s reality—whether you realize it or not. The way you speak to your spouse, kids, coworkers, or friends is forming something deep in their hearts. In The Power of Holy Conversation, Hannah Stevens explores how everyday conversations carry spiritual weight and eternal impact. Discover how to speak life, reflect Jesus, and invite the presence of God into your daily dialogue.

The DNA of Discipleship: Four Dimensions of Extraordinary Love
This past Sunday, Pastor Dennis Rouse delivered more than a message—he gave us a prophetic charge rooted in decades of discipleship. He reminded us: we’re not called to just attend church, but to become disciples who love the least, the lost, cross-culturally, and even our enemies. This is the heart of our mission at GateCity.

Left Behind or Stepping Up? The Importance of Understanding Biblical End Times
Have you been taught to fear being "left behind" or being raptured? Well maybe we've been fearing the wrong thing. Jesus warned the end times will come like a snare—not with Hollywood drama, but with real deception and crisis. This isn’t about escaping trouble; it’s about being spiritually prepared to endure it. The question isn’t if you’ll be raptured—it’s if you’ll be ready when the testing comes.

FROM KNOWING TO DOING: THE BLESSING OF THE DOER
True faith moves us beyond knowing God’s Word to doing it. In this blog, we explore how obedience brings blessing—not just for us, but for others. It’s not about perfection, but positioning our hearts to respond. Step into the joy of living what you believe.

The Power of Presence: Finding Strength in Stillness
In a chaotic world, true strength isn’t found in doing more but in being still. Psalm 16:8 reminds us to set God continually before us, anchoring ourselves in His presence for clarity, confidence, and courage. Through simple practices like morning prayers and midday pauses, we can stay grounded in God, becoming unshakable no matter life’s storms.

What is the Church?
Scandals. Abuses. Moral failures. For many, the modern Church feels less like a sanctuary and more like a source of pain or confusion. In this season of reckoning, a deeper question emerges: What even is the Church? Is it just a crumbling institution, or is there something sacred still worth holding onto? Drawing from the voices of early Church fathers, modern theologians, and Scripture itself, this blog explores what the Church was always meant to be—and how we can rebuild trust in it by returning to its true foundation: Jesus Christ.

Transformed at the Table: Washed, Fed, and Blessed
In this blog, let’s step into the Upper Room—the night before everything changed. In this sacred moment, Jesus washed feet, shared bread and wine, and prayed blessings that still reach us today. This blog invites you to come close, to remember, and to be transformed. Bring your weary heart and hungry soul. There’s a place for you at the Table.

Transfomed Part 2: Building on Generations of Gospel Faithfulness

Transformed Part 1: Born Again to See the Kingdom

Kairos Moment
A Kairos moment is a God-ordained time of transformation, acceleration, and opportunity. Unlike Chronos time, which follows a linear path, Kairos moments require discernment and bold action—like the disciples who dropped everything to follow Jesus or Bartimaeus, who refused to let his moment pass. Will you recognize and seize your Kairos moment, or will fear hold you back? Now is the time to step forward in faith and embrace what God has for you.