Calvary Chapel Bremerton - Sunday Service

Pastor Rick Beaudry expounds Ephesians 6:21,24 with a defense of expository preaching and a call for men to lead faithfully while not quenching the zeal God raises in women when men fail. He identifies Tychicus as the messenger of love who brings Paul's letter, news, and comfort, and highlights the message of love as peace, faith, and reconciliation grounded in Scripture. The measure of love is de...

Pastor Rick Beaudry expounds Ephesians 6:19–20, using Paul’s prayer for an open door as a model for praying that God give us boldness to speak the gospel even while chained or persecuted. He draws sharp parallels between Paul’s trials and modern pressures: COVID church shutdowns, Bill C‑9 and Pastor Arthur Pawlowski’s legal battles, rising hate‑speech laws, biometric surveillance and the normaliza...

Pastor Rick Beaudry, preaching from Ephesians 6:18, urges us to embrace total dependence on God through persistent, Spirit‑led prayer, unpacking six aspects: frequency, form, fellowship, fight, fervency, and family. Drawing on biblical examples (David, Daniel, Peter, Paul, and Jesus) and personal anecdotes, he emphasizes direct access to the Father through Christ, the necessity of praying without...

Pastor Rick Beaudry unpacks Ephesians 6:16–17, explaining the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit as the believer’s armor in a world of spiritual warfare. He urges us to persevere through trials, guard our minds with assurance of salvation, and wield Scripture as both defense and offense against deception. Drawing on biblical examples and contemporary concerns abo...

Pastor Rick Beaudry unpacks Ephesians 6:14–15, urging us to wear the belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, and boots shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace as spiritual armor. He warns of intense deception in the last days - media manipulation, contested narratives about 9/11 and COVID, pharmaceutical and globalist influences, and the church’s drift into compromise - and urges...

Pastor Rick Beaudry reads Ephesians 6:10–13 and frames the Christian life as a battleground, calling us to be strong in the Lord, put on the whole armor of God, and rely on the Holy Spirit rather than self. He draws on Scripture to outline four essentials: reliance, readiness, reconnaissance, and resistance, showing how prayer, discernment, and public testimony equip us to withstand the devil’s sc...

Pastor Rick Beaudry preaches from Ephesians 6:5-9, urging servants to serve with humility, wholeheartedness, honor, and hope; doing all work as unto the Lord and following Jesus’ example of servant leadership. He contrasts first-century Roman slavery with modern abuses, warns against pride and quitting, and exhorts us to be faithful in small things so God can open doors. Masters are called to be f...

Pastor Rick Beaudry preaches from Ephesians 6:4, calling fathers to not provoke their children but to raise them "in the nurture and admonition of the Lord," seeing fatherhood as both a priceless privilege and a sober responsibility. He outlines four fatherly duties: use restraint (be fair, avoid provoking or breaking a child’s spirit), use your riches (time, talent and provision to nourish body a...

Pastor Rick Beaudry examines Ephesians 6:1–3, urging children to obey and honor their parents as an outworking of relationship with God, the right moral response, and a command with a promised blessing. He emphasizes the necessity of being "being filled with the Holy Spirit" so families (husbands, wives, fathers and children) can model Christ, resist cultural confusion and spiritual deception, and...

Pastor Rick Beaudry expounds Ephesians 5:25–33, calling husbands to love their wives as Christ loved the church and urging Spirit‑filled marriages that reflect Christ and the bride. He unpacks agape love with four characteristics: costly (sacrificial), cleansing (sanctifying by the Word), caring (nourishing and cherishing), and cleaving (lifelong oneness). Beaudry uses personal anecdotes about his...

Pastor Rick Beaudry reads Ephesians 5:22–24 and teaches that spirit-filled wives submit to their husbands out of reverence for the Lord, enabled by the Holy Spirit. He outlines three reasons for this submission: reverence for Christ, a wife’s relationship with Christ (with the husband pictured as head as Christ is head of the church), and her responsibility before the Lord, while emphasizing mutua...

Pastor Rick Beaudry exhorts continual, daily filling of the Holy Spirit as the antidote to living "after the flesh," contrasting Spirit-led life with drunkenness and worldly coping. He highlights practical fruit of being Spirit-filled: a celebrating heart (psalms, hymns, worship), a conquering heart that gives thanks amid trials, and a controlled heart that practices mutual submission, especially...

Pastor Rick Beaudry preaches from Ephesians 5:15–17, urging us to "walk circumspectly" by living orderly, opportunistically (redeeming the kairos), and obediently to God's will amid pervasive deception and cultural chaos. He warns of modern snares - from media and AI to globalist control and moral compromise - calling the church to sober discernment, repentance, and a fear-of-God wisdom grounded i...

Pastor Rick Beaudry expounds 1 Peter 1:3–9, centering on the resurrection as a "living hope" that sustains believers through trial and transforms fear of death into rejoicing. He reviews the eyewitness resurrection appearances and prophetic fulfillment as grounds for confident, active faith, contrasting a risen Savior with other dead promises and modern pretenders. Beaudry outlines three blessings...

Pastor Rick Beaudry preaches from Ephesians 5:8,14 on Palm Sunday, urging us to choose the light over darkness and to "walk as children of light," with no neutrality permitted. He outlines three marks of that walk—spiritual ripening and growth, reproving and exposing unfruitful works of darkness, and reflecting God's glory—calling us to abide in Christ, confess sin, and bear fruit in goodness, rig...

Pastor Rick Beaudry exposits Ephesians 5:1–7, urging us to be followers of God who imitate Christ and “walk in love” as he loved us, offering ourselves as living sacrifices. He contrasts children of light with children of darkness, calling believers to holiness (rejecting fornication, uncleanness, covetousness, filthiness, foolish talk and jesting) and to a life marked by forgiveness, obedience an...

Pastor Rick Beaudry expounds Ephesians 4:25–32, urging us to respond to God's kindness by putting off five sins (lying, uncontrolled anger, stealing, corrupt speech, and bitterness) and by being kind, tender‑hearted, and forgiving as God forgave us. He weaves personal stories (a family camp song from Twin Peaks) with biblical examples (Joseph, Jesus cleansing the temple, Stephen) and practical cou...

Pastor Rick Beaudry preaches from Ephesians 4:17–24, using the image of new clothes to urge us to put off the old man and its garments of depravity, darkness, death, and degeneracy. He contrasts worldly emptiness, secular philosophies and church compromise with the life-changing power of Christ, calling us into a real relationship, repentance, renewal of mind, and recreation as a new creation clot...

Pastor Rick Beaudry continues the "Filled Up" series with an in-depth study of Ephesians 4:11-16, explaining how Christ gifts us with apostles, prophets, evangelists, and pastor-teachers to equip us for the work of ministry. We are called to move from looking up for our gifts to actively building up one another, growing into mature believers who speak truth in love rather than remaining as childre...

Pastor Rick Beaudry unpacks Ephesians 4:7–10 (Part One of his “Filled Up” series), urging us to be filled with the Holy Spirit and to exercise the unique gifts God has given each of us so the body of Christ can grow into the fullness of Christ. He explains the variety of spiritual gifts, the stewardship responsibility illustrated by the talents, and the call to “look up, ask, seek, knock” as we di...

Pastor Rick Beaudry reads Ephesians 4:1-6 and urges us to walk worthy of our calling, stressing lowliness, meekness, long-suffering, love, and the unity of the Spirit. He contrasts faithful waiting and sacrificial worship with worldly conformity, warns against false prophets and narcissistic leaders, and insists Jesus must remain central to our lives and church. Personal anecdotes and pastoral pra...

Pastor Rick Beaudry expounds Ephesians 3:14–21, presenting Paul’s prayer as a plea for the Holy Spirit’s dunamis (power to love) so that belief moves from head knowledge into agape that builds and edifies. He walks through Paul’s posture (kneeling), petition (strength, stability, comprehension, and saturation of Christ’s love), and praise, illustrating humility and dependence on God with biblical...

Pastor Rick Beaudry reads and expounds Ephesians 3:1–13, unpacking Paul’s identity as the “prisoner of Jesus Christ” and the dispensation of God’s grace. He defines grace as God’s unmerited favor, explains the revealed mystery that Gentiles and Jews are now fellow heirs in one body, and recounts Paul’s calling to preach the unsearchable riches of Christ. Beaudry stresses perspective amid suffering...

Pastor Rick Beaudry unpacks Ephesians 2:11–22, contrasting the Gentiles’ former state, with the new reality “in Christ” where the blood of Jesus breaks down the dividing wall between Jew and Gentile. He emphasizes the church as one new man, built on the apostles and prophets with Jesus as the cornerstone, giving both Jews and Gentiles access to God by one Spirit and assurance of salvation. The mes...

Pastor Rick Beaudry expounds Ephesians 2:7–10, unpacking grace, salvation as a gift received by faith, and the believer as God’s poiēma; His workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works ordained beforehand. He contrasts our sinful past with the present blessing and future restoration, describes sanctification as the potter’s shaping through Scripture, prayer and suffering, and warns that wor...