Calvary Chapel Anne Arundel - Sunday Services

A special Christmas message

Summary: This week's sermon from Ephesians 1:3-4 explores the incredible truth that we have been chosen by God and blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ. We discover that our identity as saints is not something we earn through our efforts, but rather a position we occupy because of God's perfect love. The sermon challenges us to move from earthly thinking to heaven...

Summary: We can rest in God’s Love…. Because God is resting in His Love for us! Our passage today brings that straight from the heart of God.

Summary: The book of Genesis opens with the magnificent words, "Let there be light." It closes with a coffin in Egypt. From the glory of God's creation to the darkness of death—this is the trajectory of humanity's story after the fall. Yet within this descent lies an incredible thread of hope, woven through generations of imperfect people who clung to an unshakeable promise from God!

Summary: There's something profoundly moving about a father's final words to his children. When Jacob gathered his twelve sons around his deathbed in Egypt, he didn't simply say goodbye. He spoke prophetically over each one, revealing their character, their destiny, and the future of the nation that would spring from their lineage. This moment, recorded in Genesis 49, is far more than an ancient f...

Summary: There's something profoundly beautiful about visiting someone who is sick or struggling. You arrive thinking you're the one bringing comfort, only to discover that you're the one who leaves transformed. This divine paradox appears throughout Scripture, and nowhere is it more evident than in the story of Jacob's final days in Genesis 48.

Summary: Jacob's story is one of transformation. The deceiver became Israel, the prince with God. The schemer became the blesser. His final years in Egypt were marked by faith, maturity, and anticipation of God's promises. Your best chapter is yet to come. God is still working, still refining, still conforming you to the image of His Son. Be confident of this: He who began a good work in you will...

Summary: Life often brings us to crossroads where the path forward seems uncertain. We stand at the border between what we know and what lies ahead, torn between the pull of our hearts and the wisdom of waiting. In these moments, we need more than good intentions—we need divine direction. Jacob (Israel) will be given Divine direction in our passage today as he takes the whole family down to Egypt;...

Summary: In our passage Joseph reveals himself to his brothers who had sold him into slavery some 22-year prior. They are shocked, and of course fearful for their sin has found them out, and they stand before Joseph who has the power to punish them to death if he so choses. But Joseph will say to them, don't be grieved. Don't be troubled. In essence he is saying, I forgive you, I love you, I don't...

Summary: Our passage culminates with the brothers of Joseph have come to the end of their end, and all they have left is to cry out for mercy. Mercy…. ever want it? When you do want it, it will cry from the depth of your heart to receive it, nothing else in life will seem to matter at that moment. Mercy….. ever receive it? When you do receive it, it will be as a kiss of God, for mercy is the heart...

Summary: The Lord continues to break and remake these 10 brothers into the men of God they need to be, as they will be the foundation of the great Nation Israel. God is forging them, and fashioning them, so He may do something great with them and in them. God does the same today, for every one of us, and it is a high calling, but worth it all…… so that God may be glorified! Join us as we study a p...

Summary: For the people, it has been 7 years of plenty, hey let the good times roll, never knowing a famine was coming.  How long into the famine before they realized this is serious.  And little did they know, but it was 20 years prior that God had been preparing for this famine, and raising up Joseph to lead them through it.  I wonder what God is doing today in my life, in your life, that is pre...

Summary: After 13 years of slavery and imprisonment, Joseph will not only be free, but be made second in command of all or Egypt. Joseph was seventeen years old when he was lifted from the pit and taken to Egypt. Now he’s thirty and he’s reached the palace. In between were thirteen long, troubling years. There were many paths God could’ve used to get Joseph from the pit to the palace, but destinat...

Summary: Joseph is in imprisoned, even though he did what was right. Choosing to do what is right doesn’t mean that everything will initially turn out wonderful.  We choose a do what is right because God is holy, and these are the standard that He sets for the people that He sets apart.  We have been bought with a price; living with that mindset, sets us apart from the world, and sets us above the...

Summary: A truly remarkable chapter in the Bible, as we see this young man Joseph give glory to God through his life by being a living sacrifice and witness as he withstands temptations and trials. Join us as we glean strength and lessons for our trials and temptations in life.

Summary: Another strange, but true story that God reveals in the Scriptures for us the story of Judah and Tamar. As strange and as sordid as this story is, God reveals a tapestry of love and forgiveness that weaves all the way to the birth of Jesus; and the story reveals that try as Satan will to destroy the plans of God, his efforts are futile, and that would mean his efforts against you as well....

Summary: The story of Joseph in the book of Genesis is a powerful narrative that encompasses nearly 25% of this foundational text. While only one chapter is devoted to the creation of the universe, God chose to dedicate a significant portion to Joseph's life. This emphasis begs the question: Why? The answer lies in the profound truth that God desires us to know the Creator more than the creation i...

Summary: God puts these words before us, this genealogy of Esau, so we can see that the works of the flesh all end in nothing.  In the end the flesh ends up with nothing, the flesh fades and withers.  Esau's lineage had the kingdom, the power, and the glory.  The three things man in his flesh want, yet in the end, ends with nothing.

Summary: We will be looking at Jacob stopping short of God's will of where he should be, and he will reap the consequences and his whole family as well in one of the most disastrous stories of the Bible with the violation of his daughter, Dinah. But Jacob will use that horrible circumstance to get himself up and get going to where God had called him to go and be, and get things right between him,...

Summary: In Genesis 32, Jacob faces a moment of deep fear and crisis as he prepares to meet his brother Esau, whom he had wronged years earlier. Overwhelmed by anxiety, Jacob prays humbly, acknowledging his unworthiness and pleading for God’s deliverance. That night, alone and desperate, Jacob wrestles with a mysterious man—God Himself in human form. In this struggle, Jacob is physically broken, h...

Summary: It is time, as God has appointed the time for Jacob to move on from his Uncle Laban, and back to the Promised Land, and start God’s work on what will be the Land, and the Messiah to come and provide Himself the sacrifice for sin. Even with a great calling upon his life it appears that Jacob is getting comfortable in his good life, so God has to stir things up to get him moving in the righ...

Subject: The passage begins by saying that “So Jacob went on his journey”. Jacob’s journey, is so much like our journey in this world with high and lows, hopes and dreams, joys and sorrows. Jacob is going to find some of all these in this chapter; but most importantly, God is going to show him himself, so God can do something about the things that need changed in him. God will do the same for all...

Summary: In our passage today, we read of one of e greatest accounts of grace and Jacob is on the run from his brother Esau for deceiving him and his father Issac regarding the family blessing; yet God shows up and pours grace out upon him.  We don’t understand grace and that’s the point, for if we could, it wouldn’t be grace. We can only stand on the promise of grace, and receive it, though never...

Summary: In our study we will see Jacob and Rebekah deceive Isaac to pass the spiritual blessing unto Jacon rather than Esau. Each of us can be one of these four, so the question before the study, which one are you, and what can you do about it? Are You: ·       Isaac – Who spiritually went from on-fire, to slow-fade, to a vapor? ·       Esau – Who chose the things of the world and flesh, over the...

Summary: Famines in our spiritual lives come from time to time. The question for us is, “where do You go, what do You do when they come?” In our passage today we will see Isaac enter a famine, and God will give us many great spiritual lessons from his life to apply to our lives in our time of need. Join Us!