Calvary Church Podcast

Is Pastor Willy a good gift-giver, why the virgin birth matters, and a good memory verse for a 5-year-old. The Promise of a Child (Full Sermon) Christmas event information Support the show Find us at! Calvary.us <- Website 💻 Calvary.us <- Instagram 📱 CalvaryChurchCLW <- Youtube 📹

We all know the power of a promise. It can inspire hope. We also know the power of a promise broken. Promises can be powerful things. Christmas is the story of a promise. A promise made, a promise kept, and a promise still waiting to be kept. Christian hope. Hope is not a wish, but a joyful expectation rooted in a trustworthy promise. Our joy is rooted to our hope. Our hope is rooted in the promis...

Christmas at the Rice house, and how you can stay intentional during such a busy season. Christmas Eve and Christmas Night of Worship Info Christmas Blessings Support the show Find us at! Calvary.us <- Website 💻 Calvary.us <- Instagram 📱 CalvaryChurchCLW <- Youtube 📹

Paul writes in 2 Timothy,  Make every effort to come to me soon…Make every effort to come before winter.  2 Timothy 4:9,21 (CSB). He realized life is brief and opportunities are limited. Are you seizing every day to its fullest. Support the show Find us at! Calvary.us <- Website 💻 Calvary.us <- Instagram 📱 CalvaryChurchCLW <- Youtube 📹

As we approach a season of Thanksgiving some of us are finding it hard to be thankful. Fear cripples, anxiety paralyzes, many people are looking at an uncertain future with foreboding and dread. Many of us are afraid. Afraid of what is happening in government, afraid for our health and the health of our loved ones, and afraid of the economics. What will the future bring? Is there a reason to be th...

In this episode, we discuss the best Thanksgiving side dish, desserts, and give tips on how to best approach what could be a difficult Holiday season. For more information or to join our virtual GriefShare, contact Group Leader  Paul Robart . Support the show Find us at! Calvary.us <- Website 💻 Calvary.us <- Instagram 📱 CalvaryChurchCLW <- Youtube 📹

The Bible calls us ambassadors. Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians that we are ambassadors for Christ. Our home is here, but it is also there. Our mission is here, but our orders come from another place. We have a mission and a purpose. We are ambassadors for Christ and His kingdom. Support the show Find us at! Calvary.us <- Website 💻 Calvary.us <- Instagram 📱 CalvaryChurchCLW <- Youtube 📹

In this episode, we discuss the weather, and we re-evaluate the mission of x150 in light of recent events. calvary.us/missionsmonth Support the show Find us at! Calvary.us <- Website 💻 Calvary.us <- Instagram 📱 CalvaryChurchCLW <- Youtube 📹

An ambassador has been defined as someone who lives in one country while representing another. Their real home and citizenship are elsewhere, but task calls them to live abroad representing a different government. The Bible calls us ambassadors. Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians that we are ambassadors for Christ. Our home is here, but it is also there. Our mission is here, but our orders come from anot...

In this episode, we react to yesterday's election, the as-of-this-moment unannounced election results, and the Christian's role in their community. calvary.us/missionsmonth Support the show Find us at! Calvary.us <- Website 💻 Calvary.us <- Instagram 📱 CalvaryChurchCLW <- Youtube 📹

We are living in unsettled times. We are living through the most extraordinary of years, facing difficulties and challenges many of us never dreamed we would face. We stand 2 days away from an election, which we all sense will shape our future in some meaningful ways. All elections are filled with fervor and passion, and yet the volume has never been louder and many, on both sides of the aisle, vi...

In this episode, we discuss the Rays World Series loss, the election next week, and the unchanged mission of the Christ-follower. Support the show Find us at! Calvary.us <- Website 💻 Calvary.us <- Instagram 📱 CalvaryChurchCLW <- Youtube 📹

The writer C.S. Lewis observed,  “Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance, the only thing it cannot be is moderately important.” (C.S. Lewis). And yet that is exactly what many people in our culture think about Jesus, that it is somewhat important.  As we come to final church in our “Flickering Lamps” series, we read about a church that is perilously descri...

In this episode, we discuss how God does big things with people and churches the world would see as "small" as well as some tips to get the most out of Halloween. Support the show Find us at! Calvary.us <- Website 💻 Calvary.us <- Instagram 📱 CalvaryChurchCLW <- Youtube 📹

The church in Philadelphia was a small church. They didn’t possess inordinate size or powerful influence in cultural circles. They probably didn’t have a lot of financial resources. Jesus describes them as a church with “little power. This is not a criticism of their lack of spiritual vitality. Quite the opposite, Philadelphia is one of only 2 churches that Jesus does not offer a specific word of...

In this episode we discuss what Pastor Willy has been up to and tips on how to read and study the Bible. SWORD Bible Study Method - https://vimeo.com/419660113 Support the show Find us at! Calvary.us <- Website 💻 Calvary.us <- Instagram 📱 CalvaryChurchCLW <- Youtube 📹

We don’t know much about the Church of Sardis itself.. Who led it or who it’s members were. Unlike the church of Ephesus we don’t have a letter written to them, or hear of the church in the book of Acts. One thing we do know is of a man named Melito of Sardis, an elder of the Church but he lived about a century later from when this letter would be given to Sardis.. Though we will come back to Meli...

We are living in a time of moral revolution. Al Mohler has outlined the three stages to a moral revolution. In stage one what was once condemned is now celebrated. In stage two, what was celebrated is now condemned. In the final stage any who refuses to celebrate is condemned.  The idea of moral revolution against God’s truth is not new, and the ideas revolutions propagate are not new. In the Gard...

In this episode, we discuss this glorious moment for Tampa Bay sports and the first presidential debate. Support the show Find us at! Calvary.us <- Website 💻 Calvary.us <- Instagram 📱 CalvaryChurchCLW <- Youtube 📹

The early church faced many challenges. Of course many of those came from outside forces. Religious authorities sought to suppress their message. Political powers sought to limit their influence and even used imprisonment and execution. Economic forces and social pressure were used to harass the church. When the gospel message threatened the economic order, those who had become enriched lashed out...

In this episode, we discuss the #cancelNetlix trend and tips on how to operate as one who is in the world, but not of the world. Support the show Find us at! Calvary.us <- Website 💻 Calvary.us <- Instagram 📱 CalvaryChurchCLW <- Youtube 📹

Support the show Find us at! Calvary.us <- Website 💻 Calvary.us <- Instagram 📱 CalvaryChurchCLW <- Youtube 📹

In a very special edition of the RiceCast we talk with Cheryl Rice about everything from 2020 to quarantine activities to mental health and the Women's Night of Worship and the Word. Click here for more information on Women's Night of Worship and the Word. Support the show Find us at! Calvary.us <- Website 💻 Calvary.us <- Instagram 📱 CalvaryChurchCLW <- Youtube 📹

The Jesus movement that we call Christianity was only a few decades old, nearing the end of the first century when the old, a probably last remaining of the original disciples, John saw a vision of Jesus and a vision of things to come. Exiled on the island of Patmos John saw a vision of the glorified Jesus. He fell at His feet as thought dead. At some point though Jesus began to speak. He had some...

The book of Lamentations is a story of what happened and what one man felt when the darkness fell upon the Jewish people in 586 BC.  This final chapter, this final lament is more chaotic than all the others. While it has 22 verses, one for each letter of the Hebrew alphabet, unlike the other 4 chapters there is no acrostic, no order to the verses. Some speculate that this is a picture of the chaos...