Calvary Palisades Podcast

This week is all about the Kingdom. To start the series, I want to establish a working definition of the Kingdom, and help people think about it correctly, since the whole series is built on the idea. Secondly, I’ll establish the idea of parables, and what the use of parables teach us about the Kingdom of God - namely that it is both hidden and accessible.

This week Pastor Justin remembered the anniversary of the fires and their impact on our community with a message from 2 Corinthians.

Pastor Justin teaches on the New Testament's teachings regarding giving.

Christmas eve service at Calvary Palisades

The final week of Advent brings us to the theme of Love. It was because of God’s deep love for his creation that he sent his son to become a child, who would grow into the man who died on our behalf. Come hear about God’s great love for you this Sunday at 10AM at Calvary Church.

The search for joy is universal. We pursue it constantly; it’s embedded in the fabric of our country’s founding, and every company is selling it to us, promising that their product or service will finally bring us the joy we lack. The Bible describes a divine ideal that is joyful, and yet incomplete because of sin. So what is joy? Is it different from happiness? How do we attain it? How do we keep...

This week our new Director of Discipleship, Kyle Osland speaks on Psalm 29. The longing for peace implies a world that is at war. Conflict is an inevitable part of a world steeped in sin. Peace is what we were made for but so rarely experience. The question is, what kind of peace were we made for (simply the absence of conflict?) and how do we go about finding it here on Earth? This passage begins...

This sermon will kick off the series and establish the theme of Longing. I’ll connect longing to Hope in Psalm 42 verse 5. David is mourning his situation and asks his soul, “Why are you downcast?” and implores his soul to hope in God. God, ultimately, is our source of hope. Our circumstances will change, jobs, homes, and people will come and go, but God is constant.

Everyone wants justice for wrongdoing, nobody likes the idea of judgment - for themselves. This is the fundamental contradiction when it comes to justice. How can we have genuine and comprehensive justice in the world when we constantly try to avoid it for ourselves? This is the question that Pastor Justin will answer this week at 10AM at Calvary Church.

Evil and Suffering are two elements of the human experience that no one denies. We have all, to a person, experienced pain and loss, and have struggled to make sense of it. We question God's role in all of it and try to square the Bible's description of an all-powerful and loving God with the evil we see around us.

There may be no more debated topic in our culture for the last 50 years than sexuality. This week, pastor Justin gives us a full and beautiful vision for sexuality, straight from Genesis chapter 2.

This week Pastor Justin tackled the difficult and culturally charged subject of gender. Did God make us Man and Woman? Is gender immutable, or is it subject to the feelings of the individual? We tackle these questions and more.

This week pastor Justin talks through God's example and design for biblical rest.

God gave us work before the fall, which means that it was part of his sinless creation. But is this how we think about our work? Do we have a vision for the creational and redemptive nature of our work? Is that what drives us to our office every morning?

This week in our series through the book of Genesis, Pastor Justin covered Chapter 1 verses 26 and 27. In this episode Justin speaks on the implications of the "Imago Dei" and what it means for every person's inherent worth as image bearers of God.

Genesis 1:3-26 - Science October 6, 2025 • Justin Anderson • Series:  Genesis: Rooted in Reality This week, Pastor Justin continued our Genesis series covering Chapter 1 verses 3-26. In this episode the text sheds light on many of the hard questions surrounding Christianity and Science.

This week we began our Genesis series Rooted in Reality. Over the next several weeks Justin will be taking key passages from this foundational book and answering some of life's most important questions.

This week, pastor Justin tackled a pressing question: How do we serve the common good when the world can’t even agree on what “good” is? Jesus calls His people to be salt and light—not retreating from culture, but blessing our neighbors with truth, grace, and courage.

This week Pastor Justin continues the vision series, "The King, the Kingdom & the Common Good". In this episode he answers the question "What does it mean to seek the kingdom over and above all other rival kingdoms?". What would It look like to embody the kingdom in every part of our lives? Come and listen!

This week Pastor Justin kicked off our new vision series, "The King, the Kingdom & the Common Good" and it was our first Sunday back on campus! This series will be the backbone of everything we do at Calvary. So, what does it mean to love the Lord your God with all of your heart, mind, soul, and strength? Let's find out together.

Pastor Justin explores Romans 3:27 –31. Gospel fruit should produce humility, not arrogance.

How can we be made right with God? Pastor Justin explores one of the most powerful passages in Scripture: Romans 3:21 –26. Though we all fall short, God offers righteousness through faith in Jesus. Join us to learn about the hope and freedom found in His sacrificial love.

Paul lays out a pretty bleak view of humanity, one that flies in the face of the way most Angelenos think of themselves. Pastor Justin Anderson explains why this view of the world not only makes the most sense of history but can also comfort us more deeply than any other.

Elder Chad Martin teaches from Romans 2:25–3:8.

Pastor Markel Croston unpacks Romans 2, where Paul argues that all people—whether they've heard the gospel or not—are accountable before God and in need of His grace, revealing our universal, desperate need for Jesus.