Calvary Church Podcast

Title : Hated Without a Cause Speaker : Nate Holdridge Overview: In this week's teaching at Calvary Church, Pastor Nate Holdridge walks through Psalm 35, David's raw prayer as a man attacked, betrayed, and taunted for no reason at all. We trace the psalm's three laments and their shared pattern of pain, honest request, and rising hope, showing how David's cry for vindication points forward to Jesu...

Title : A Prayer for When You Aren't Quite Yourself Speaker : Nate Holdridge Overview: You're not yourself when you're afraid—but God is himself despite your fears. In this week's message from our summer Psalms series, Pastor Nate Holdridge walks through Psalm 34, a prayer David wrote from one of the lowest points of his life, after fear had driven him to feign madness before a pagan king. What Da...

Title : Trust Jesus All the Way Speaker : Nate Holdridge Overview: In this message from our series The Promised King and His Good Kingdom , Pastor Nate Holdridge walks through Matthew 10:26–42, where Jesus calls his disciples away from the universal craving for safety and comfort and toward a life of danger and reward. Working through three movements—Jesus stood for us, so we stand for him (Matthe...

Title : How We Collide Speaker : Nate Holdridge Overview: In this Sunday message from Matthew 10:16-25, Pastor Nate Holdridge examines what it means for Christ's people to collide with darkness as they carry his life and light into dead and dark places. Jesus sends his disciples out as sheep among wolves, calling them to an intentional vulnerability marked by the wisdom of serpents and the innocen...

Title : Commissioned to Collide Speaker : Nate Holdridge Overview: In this Sunday message, Pastor Nate Holdridge walks through Matthew 9:35–10:15, where the compassionate King who has been colliding with darkness begins to multiply that work through ordinary people. Jesus looks out over crowds that are harassed and helpless—sheep without a shepherd—and is moved with a gut-level compassion that bec...

Title : The Good Contagion Speaker : Nate Holdridge Overview: In this Sunday sermon at Calvary, Pastor Nate Holdridge preaches through Matthew 9:18–34, where Jesus collides with a world polluted by death, shame, blindness, and spiritual captivity. Three remarkable encounters reveal the good contagion of the King: a synagogue ruler whose daughter has died, a woman whose twelve-year affliction has l...

Title : What the King Does for Sinners Speaker : Manny Collazo Link to Sermon Notes

Teaching at our Women's Gathering with Chesli Manzo on the Samaritan woman in John 4.

Title : The Making of a Disciple Speaker : Nate Holdridge Overview: In this Sunday sermon from Matthew 8:18-34, Pastor Nate Holdridge walks through three encounters that reveal both what Jesus looks for in his followers and who Jesus actually is. The invitation is clear: surrender your comforts and competing loyalties, trust him in the loudest storms, and welcome him to rearrange your life today,...

Title : When Jesus Draws Near Speaker : Matt Kehler Link to Discussion Questions

Title : Upside Down Response Speaker : Nate Holdridge Overview: In this Sunday sermon from Calvary Monterey, Pastor Nate Holdridge brings the Sermon on the Mount to its climactic conclusion in Matthew 7:13–29. Jesus does not end his kingdom curriculum with a tidy takeaway but with a choice—presenting four sharp contrasts that confront every hearer: two ways, two trees, two confessions, and two bui...

Title : Upside Down Dependency Speaker : Nate Holdridge Overview: In this week's message from our Upside Down Kingdom series through the Sermon on the Mount, Pastor Nate Holdridge opens Matthew 7:7–12 and asks the question every honest disciple eventually arrives at: How can I possibly live the kingdom life Jesus has described? As Jesus winds down his longest recorded sermon, he turns from demand...

Title : Upside Down Judgment Speaker : Nate Holdridge Overview: In this Sunday sermon from Matthew 7:1–6, Pastor Nate Holdridge continues the Upside Down Kingdom series at Calvary Monterey by confronting one of the most misused verses in all of Scripture: "Judge not." Pastor Nate shows how Jesus is not forbidding discernment but warning against a hyper-critical spirit that overlooks personal flaws...

Title :An Admirable Church: A Brief Study of the Ephesian Church Speaker : Nate Holdridge Link to Sermon Notes: https://jesusfamous.com/blog/an-admirable-church-a-brief-study-of-the-ephesian-church/ Link to Discussion Questions

Title : Living Hope Speaker : Nate Holdridge Scripture: 1 Peter 1:3-5 Link to Sermon Notes: https://jesusfamous.com/blog/easter-2026/ Link to Discussion Questions: https://www.calvary.com/s/LG-Discussion-Questions-SP26_April2-5.pdf

Title : Upside Down Worry Speaker : Nate Holdridge Overview: In this week's sermon from the Sermon on the Mount series, Pastor Nate Holdridge walks through Matthew 6:25–34—one of Jesus' most famous and most challenged teachings on anxiety. Jesus commands His followers not to worry about food, clothing, or tomorrow, and supports that command with four vivid arguments drawn from birds, wildflowers,...

Title : The Upside Down Treasure Speaker : Nate Holdridge Overview: In this sermon from Matthew 6:19–24, Pastor Nate Holdridge walks through three powerful metaphors Jesus uses to expose the deepest allegiances of the human heart: treasure, eyesight, and slavery. Jesus moves beyond external behavior and religious practice to confront what we actually value, how we envision the good life, and who—o...

Teaching today at our Women's Gathering is Leanne Tuggle on the topic of Mary and Martha.

Title : Loving Your Bible More Speaker : Geoff Buck Scripture: Psalm 119 Link to Geoff’s Website strengtheningthechurches.com

Title : The Upside Down Spiritual Life Speaker : Nate Holdridge Overview: In this week's Sunday sermon from Matthew 6:7–15, Pastor Nate Holdridge walks through one of the most familiar passages in all of Scripture—the Lord's Prayer. Rather than treating it as a rote recitation, we’ll unpack it as a template for a rich, structured prayer life: compact enough to pray in a minute, expansive enough to...

Title : The Upside Down Spiritual Life Speaker : Nate Holdridge Overview: In this sermon from Matthew 6:1-18, Pastor Nate Holdridge walks through Jesus' warning against performative religion — the danger of doing the right things for the wrong audience. Jesus gives three illustrations of this temptation: giving to the poor with a trumpet blast, praying on street corners for maximum visibility, and...

Title : Upside Down Interior Life Speaker : Nate Holdridge Overview: In this week's sermon from Calvary Monterey's ongoing series through the Gospel of Matthew, Nate Holdridge walks through the final three of Jesus' six antitheses in Matthew 5:33–48 — the passage on oaths, retaliation, and enemy love. Under the title "The Upside Down Life With Others," Nate shows how Jesus was not abolishing the O...

Title : Upside Down Strength Speaker : Si Leuenberger Scripture: Matthew 5:33-48

Title : Upside Down Interior Life Speaker : Nate Holdridge Overview: In this teaching from the Sermon on the Mount, Pastor Nate Holdridge explores Matthew 5:21-32, where Jesus begins to reveal the radical, internal transformation He desires for His people. By addressing the root issues of anger, lust, and marital unfaithfulness, Nate shows how Jesus moves beyond external religious checklists to cl...

Title : The Upside Down Bible Speaker : Nate Holdridge Overview: In this sermon from Matthew 5:17–20, Pastor Nate Holdridge examines one of Jesus' most striking claims: that He came not to abolish the Law and the Prophets, but to fulfill them. Walking through each verse, we’ll consider how Jesus is the destination of the entire biblical story—the One every sacrifice, prophecy, and promise was poin...