Sunday Bible Study at Calvary Chapel Fort Walton Beach

Arlen Busenitz opens Jeremiah 17 by building a Biblical framework for the heart, the control center of a person where thoughts run, desires form, decisions are made, and trust is placed. What rules the heart rules the life. Jeremiah 17 draws the sharpest contrast: The person whose heart trusts in man becomes like a shrub in the desert, parched and unable to see the good even when it comes. The per...

Pastor Andy begins in Jeremiah 1:4-5, where God tells Jeremiah that before he was conceived He knew him, before he was born He set him apart, and before he could speak He ordained him a prophet to the nations. Starting with Jeremiah's reframed definition of success — faithfulness to God, not visible results — Pastor Andy points out those in the Bible whose purpose was established before birth thro...

Pastor Andy guides us through Isaiah 58, a call to repentance addressed to a people performing religious rituals while mistreating everyone around them. Three things were missing: They were fasting to win God's favor (transactional religion), they were mistreating people in their homes and in their society, and they were desecrating the Sabbath. Pastor Andy is direct about what mistreatment looks...

Pastor Andy reads Isaiah 51:1-8, a three-stanza poem written for a people in exile surrounded by ruins, stripped of hope, in a strange place with no way back to normal. Three times the Lord opens each stanza the same way: Listen to Me. He points to Abraham and Sarah, two people dead in their reproductive ability, as proof that God specializes in making something out of nothing. Pastor Andy then dr...

Pastor Andy opens in Isaiah 42, where God draws a clear line between Himself and every other "god", idol, or carved image, saying: I am the Lord and there is no other. The proof is simple. He alone declares the end from the beginning. No idol can do that. No social media influencer, no AI, nothing we hold in our right hand can tell you what's going to happen in advance and then be right. God can....

Pastor Andy focuses on the last line of Isaiah 38:17, "For you have cast all my sins behind your back," and digs into what sin is, what it does, and what God has done about it. Sin is defined two ways: The Greek archery term for missing the target entirely (Romans 3:23), and the force that crouches at the door wanting to control and destroy (Genesis 4:6-7). God's forbearance in the Old Testament —...

Arlen Busenitz gives us a clear picture of Isaiah 31 that frames how believers should respond when their problem is greater than their resources: look, consult, build, and rest. Using King Hezekiah's confrontation with Assyria as the backdrop, he shows that Judah's two core failures were: 1) Trusting Egypt instead of the Lord, and 2) Failing to consult Him before acting. Arlen unpacks each princip...

Pastor Andy chews on Isaiah 22:15-25, calling it a unique cut of meat in the whole book of Isaiah. It's the only personal prophecy of denouncement where God calls out a specific man by name, fires him, and announces his replacement. Shebna was removed for self-aggrandizement: Carving himself a lavish tomb, flaunting his chariots, and using his position for personal gain rather than for the benefit...

Pastor Andy dives into Isaiah 14, openly admitting he doesn't enjoy studying Satan, but submits to the text because the church is reading through the whole Bible. He traces the centuries-long debate over whether the passage is about the king of Babylon, Satan, or both — walking through Hedwig Janau's 1926 taunt song analysis, Jerome's controversial decision to translate "day star" as the proper na...

Pastor Andy reads Isaiah 7:14 in its full historical context, beginning with King Ahaz — one of the worst kings in Judah's history, who sacrificed his son to pagan gods, replaced the temple furniture with Assyrian idols, and coldly rejected the Lord. Into that moment of rebellion and terror, God announces not a military strategy but a birth: a virgin shall conceive and bear a son. His name will be...

Church Elder Mike Everett opens Isaiah 6:1-8 with a question that drives the entire message: How do you see God? Isaiah saw the Lord high and lifted up after King Uzziah's death. It completely changed his perspective. Mike traces the scope of God's unchallengeable authority from Isaiah's vision through Revelation's billions of angels and uncountable human souls, then to Genesis. Against this backd...

Arlen Busenitz opens Song of Solomon with God's design for marriage and sex, summarized in one sentence: Covenant love cleaves, delights, and guards. Beginning in Genesis 2, he establishes that marriage is not a social construct or a contract but a covenant — a lifelong commitment where God joins two people together as one flesh. He then unpacks the Song of Solomon's invitation to delight in one a...

Pastor Andy summarizes Ecclesiastes on Father's Day, tracing Solomon's exhaustive exploration of every direction a life could go — pleasure, wealth, achievement, building lasting things — all of which collapse into the same verdict: vanity of vanities, all is vanity. He connects this to the greatest plague in Western society today: nihilism, illustrated starkly by Canada's MAID policy, encouraging...

Guest speaker Pastor Jim Larson, missionary to Tanzania for 15 years, uses the feeding of the 5,000 in Mark 6 to call believers to become self-feeding Christians. After returning from their first ministry assignment exhausted and hungry, the disciples faced a crowd of 15,000 to 20,000 people and responded with their flesh rather than their faith. First, they wanted to send them away. Then, they so...

Pastor Andy concludes the book of Job by examining Job's two responses to God's appearance in the whirlwind. The first response in chapter 40 — "I have said too much already" — is not the comfort it appears to be. Job went from pounding his fist to pouting: ready to serve God, but begrudgingly. God wasn't finished. Chapters 38-39 reveal His wisdom in creation and chapters 40-41 reveal His power ov...

Guest speaker Dr. Vishal Mangalwadi anchors his message in 1 Timothy 2:4 — "God wants all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth" — arguing that American evangelical theology has focused on sin as the central problem while the prophets consistently identify lack of knowledge as the deeper root. From Hosea 4:6 ("my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge") through Isaiah 1...

Disclaimer: We apologize for the partial lost audio for the first question. As you will note, at 0:11:55, Pastor Andy does pass Dr. Vishal the microphone in order to accommodate.

Pastor Andy looks at Job chapter 20, where God later declares that Zophar "did not speak what was right" about Him and dissects the speech line by line to identify what went wrong. Zophar's accusation (that Job's suffering proves he is wicked and hypocritical) reflects a one-dimensional theology that sees God only as a transcendent judge and has no category for the test of faith. The truth from Ex...

Pastor Andy examines Job 19:23-27, calling it perhaps the most important passage in the entire book as Job arrives at a thunderous revelation born out of suffering. "I know that my redeemer lives, and after my skin is destroyed, in my flesh I shall see God." Tracing the progression of Job's thought from, "If a man dies, shall he live again?" to crying out for a mediator to this declaration of resu...

Guest speaker Curt Obrigewitch joins us for Mother's Day! Curt is taking a look at Job 9 where his deepest problem was not his physical pain — it was that God felt completely distant and Job had no way to bridge the gap. As Job wrestles with God's overwhelming power, the confusing silence, and his own sense of total separation, he cries out for something he can barely name. "There is no mediator b...

Pastor Andy walks through Job chapters 1 and 2, introducing this ancient wisdom story as a profound examination of faith, suffering, and the cosmic order. Job is blameless, upright, and blessed in every way... until Satan appears before God and makes his accusation: Job only worships God because God blesses him. Cut off the supply and he will curse God to his face. Pastor Andy shows that this test...

Pastor Andy reads Esther 4:15-17 alongside 1 Peter 2-3, showing how Esther's life is a beautiful picture of godly submission. Up to this point, life simply happened to Esther. She made no decisions and had no agency. But when she chose to submit actively and declare, "If I perish, I perish," everything changed. Laying 1 Peter 2-3 over her story, Pastor Andy reveals four things submission does: it...

Today, Arlen Busenitz examines Nehemiah 8, where after rebuilding Jerusalem's walls in 52 days, the people gathered to hear Ezra read the Book of the Law and then wept under conviction. Nehemiah and Ezra told them to get out of the hallway of regret and into the joy of the Lord. The message presents three keys to spiritual transformation. First, understand the Word together using five tools (medit...

Pastor Andy looks at Nehemiah 2, where Nehemiah calls on the people of Jerusalem to rise up and rebuild the walls. We start in Daniel 9:25 that contains a precise 483-year stopwatch prophecy connecting Nehemiah's commission directly to Palm Sunday, the day Jesus rode into Jerusalem. The walls and gates are not just ancient infrastructure but a picture of self-governance: God gave every person five...