Pursuing Life

Welcome our new Pastor of Global Ministries, David Harrop! David joined our staff in December 2021, and he and his wife, Mary, come to us with years of missions and ministry experience both overseas and stateside. Today we have the opportunity to get to know David and hear a snippet of how prayer has impacted his life! Tune in on Sunday morning, February 13, at 9:30 or 11 am at calvarychurch.org t...

In our first episode of 2022, Phil Morrison joins us to talk about his journey with Lament. Phil and his wife, Jan, are Global Partners with Calvary Church, and after serving overseas for several years, they have moved back stateside where Phil now works in the area of child safety. When he started working in this position, the weight of all he was learning in the area of child safety was a lot fo...

Today we are wrapping up our Advent series with the theme of peace. When we think of peace, we often think about the absence of conflict. But the peace we are going to talk about has less to do with conflict and more to do with completeness. When Jesus came to earth, he came to restore us, to make our relationship with God complete. That’s the reason why we call Him our Prince of Peace! Sandy Robi...

Today, we are shifting our focus to the theme of joy, and as we continue our series on the four themes of Advent, we are going to start to see some connections being made. Biblical joy is based on hope - the same hope we looked at during the first week of Advent! Joy comes when we find our hope in the living, eternal hope of Jesus. Before joining the staff at Calvary, Alex Vocature (High School Di...

This week we shift our focus to the second theme of Advent: love. When most of us think of love, we think of a feeling. But the kind of love that we set our eyes on as followers of Jesus is one of action and sacrifice. We know that Jesus demonstrated his love for us by laying down his life (1 John 3:16). In turn, the way that we love others should reflect this same kind of selflessness and sacrifi...

What is hope? Where does it come from, and how do we find it? During the first week of Advent, we focus in on hope to remind ourselves that is a person and His name is Jesus. When we find our hope in the person of Christ, who came as Emmanuel - God with us - we find something to cling to that will never disappear, and will never fail. Today, Tyler Noel (Worship Associate at Calvary Church) and his...

All throughout the month of December, I’m sitting down with some of our staff to hear stories surrounding the four themes of Advent – Hope, Love, Joy and Peace. Advent literally means, “the coming or arrival of something or someone that is important or worthy of note.” At Christmastime, we remember the “advent” or “arrival” of Christ, the Son of God, born human, who came to be the ultimate sacrifi...