Sunday Bible Study at Calvary Chapel Fort Walton Beach

Arlen Busenitz opens Song of Solomon with God's design for marriage and sex, summarized in one sentence: Covenant love cleaves, delights, and guards. Beginning in Genesis 2, he establishes that marriage is not a social construct or a contract but a covenant — a lifelong commitment where God joins two people together as one flesh. He then unpacks the Song of Solomon's invitation to delight in one a...

Pastor Andy summarizes Ecclesiastes on Father's Day, tracing Solomon's exhaustive exploration of every direction a life could go — pleasure, wealth, achievement, building lasting things — all of which collapse into the same verdict: vanity of vanities, all is vanity. He connects this to the greatest plague in Western society today: nihilism, illustrated starkly by Canada's MAID policy, encouraging...

Guest speaker Pastor Jim Larson, missionary to Tanzania for 15 years, uses the feeding of the 5,000 in Mark 6 to call believers to become self-feeding Christians. After returning from their first ministry assignment exhausted and hungry, the disciples faced a crowd of 15,000 to 20,000 people and responded with their flesh rather than their faith. First, they wanted to send them away. Then, they so...

Pastor Andy concludes the book of Job by examining Job's two responses to God's appearance in the whirlwind. The first response in chapter 40 — "I have said too much already" — is not the comfort it appears to be. Job went from pounding his fist to pouting: ready to serve God, but begrudgingly. God wasn't finished. Chapters 38-39 reveal His wisdom in creation and chapters 40-41 reveal His power ov...

Guest speaker Dr. Vishal Mangalwadi anchors his message in 1 Timothy 2:4 — "God wants all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth" — arguing that American evangelical theology has focused on sin as the central problem while the prophets consistently identify lack of knowledge as the deeper root. From Hosea 4:6 ("my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge") through Isaiah 1...

Disclaimer: We apologize for the partial lost audio for the first question. As you will note, at 0:11:55, Pastor Andy does pass Dr. Vishal the microphone in order to accommodate.

Pastor Andy looks at Job chapter 20, where God later declares that Zophar "did not speak what was right" about Him and dissects the speech line by line to identify what went wrong. Zophar's accusation (that Job's suffering proves he is wicked and hypocritical) reflects a one-dimensional theology that sees God only as a transcendent judge and has no category for the test of faith. The truth from Ex...

Pastor Andy examines Job 19:23-27, calling it perhaps the most important passage in the entire book as Job arrives at a thunderous revelation born out of suffering. "I know that my redeemer lives, and after my skin is destroyed, in my flesh I shall see God." Tracing the progression of Job's thought from, "If a man dies, shall he live again?" to crying out for a mediator to this declaration of resu...

Guest speaker Curt Obrigewitch joins us for Mother's Day! Curt is taking a look at Job 9 where his deepest problem was not his physical pain — it was that God felt completely distant and Job had no way to bridge the gap. As Job wrestles with God's overwhelming power, the confusing silence, and his own sense of total separation, he cries out for something he can barely name. "There is no mediator b...

Pastor Andy walks through Job chapters 1 and 2, introducing this ancient wisdom story as a profound examination of faith, suffering, and the cosmic order. Job is blameless, upright, and blessed in every way... until Satan appears before God and makes his accusation: Job only worships God because God blesses him. Cut off the supply and he will curse God to his face. Pastor Andy shows that this test...

Pastor Andy reads Esther 4:15-17 alongside 1 Peter 2-3, showing how Esther's life is a beautiful picture of godly submission. Up to this point, life simply happened to Esther. She made no decisions and had no agency. But when she chose to submit actively and declare, "If I perish, I perish," everything changed. Laying 1 Peter 2-3 over her story, Pastor Andy reveals four things submission does: it...

Today, Arlen Busenitz examines Nehemiah 8, where after rebuilding Jerusalem's walls in 52 days, the people gathered to hear Ezra read the Book of the Law and then wept under conviction. Nehemiah and Ezra told them to get out of the hallway of regret and into the joy of the Lord. The message presents three keys to spiritual transformation. First, understand the Word together using five tools (medit...

Pastor Andy looks at Nehemiah 2, where Nehemiah calls on the people of Jerusalem to rise up and rebuild the walls. We start in Daniel 9:25 that contains a precise 483-year stopwatch prophecy connecting Nehemiah's commission directly to Palm Sunday, the day Jesus rode into Jerusalem. The walls and gates are not just ancient infrastructure but a picture of self-governance: God gave every person five...

Pastor Andy connects Ezra 7 to Easter Sunday by showing how Ezra's life foreshadows Jesus. Ezra was born in captivity, a descendant from the high priestly line, and skilled in Scripture. He had the hand of God upon him and had to make the same costly choice every believer faces: trust God at His Word even when it feels like dying... or live like everyone else. The Israelites faced the same choice...

Pastor Andy outlines Ezra 3:10-13, where the laying of the second temple's foundation produces two simultaneous and polarizing responses — shouts of joy from those who had never seen the first temple, and uncontrollable weeping from old men who had. God responds by sending not one but two prophets: Haggai, who asks, "Is this not in your eyes as nothing?" and then promises "the glory of this latter...

Calvary Chapel Fort Walton Beach hosted a Passover Seder Dinner led by Messianic Jewish Rabbi Eric Tokajer. Walking through the ancient traditions of the Seder—the four cups of wine, the breaking of the matzah, the bitter herbs, the Afikoman, and the Hallel Psalms—Rabbi Eric brought the Passover story to life while revealing how every element points directly to Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah. From the...

Guest speaker Arlen Busenitz examines 2 Chronicles 26 through the life of King Uzziah—a king who feared God, sought God, and did right from the age of 16. He went out to build, innovate, and fight until God marvelously helped him and his fame spread to the border of Egypt. The message traces three stages: the foundation of fearing and seeking God, the rise of going out and building with God's help...

Pastor Andy walks through 2 Chronicles 20, where King Jehoshaphat faces a great multitude coming to destroy Judah. He responds not by self-medicating his fear, but by setting his heart to seek the Lord and gathering the nation to pray boldly. Drawing from Hebrews 4:16, Pastor Andy challenges the wrong view of God as touchy or indifferent, calling us to come boldly to the throne of grace because th...

Pastor Andy examines 2 Chronicles 15:2 where the prophet Azariah tells King Asa, "The Lord is with you while you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you. But if you forsake Him, He will forsake you." Using Asa's life as a case study (a man who started strong but ended weak, relying on Syria and physicians instead of God), Pastor Andy shows that every world religion and every human s...

Giving activates the heart in prayer for the next generation! Today, Pastor Andy connects Old Testament temple giving to New Testament principles of generosity. He covers a diverse set of important giving methods at church, including benevolence funds, missions support, and gospel funding. Pastor Andy also describes the three seasons of adulthood as it relates to money: The earliest season focuses...

Connor Price from Bethel Church in Kingston, Ontario, will be leading us on a 4-part study through the constellations and Psalm 19. Connor Price continues "The Heavens Declare the Glory of God" series this morning, exploring what the Magi (or Wise Men) saw in the stars that led them to Jesus. Connor proposes a few different possibilities for why the Star of Bethlehem moved across the sky. Then he...

Connor Price concludes "The Heavens Declare the Glory of God" series with Session 4. He explores Revelation 21-22 and the structure of the city of heaven before returning to Bethel Church in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Connor points out a slew of mindblowing parallels in the cosmos related to the 12 gates, the city foundations, the street of gold, and the river of life. The current age of Pisces (g...

Connor Price from Bethel Church in Kingston, Ontario, will be leading us on a 4-part study through the constellations and Psalm 19. Today's messages: The Throne of Heaven Slaying the Dragon Connor Price begins "The Heavens Declare the Glory of God" series by exploring the throne of heaven through biblical astronomy. He connects Revelation 4's throne description to the constellations, identifying C...

Pastor Andy examines 1 Chronicles 23:25-26 where King David announces that the Levites shall no longer carry the tabernacle because God picked Mount Moriah as His permanent dwelling place. This required a time of restructuring and, almost surprisingly, David dropped the age requirement from 30 to 20—needing MORE people when the temple was stationary. King David organized the Levites into divisions...

Pastor Andy highlights 1 Chronicles 17 where Nathan tells David to "do all that is in your heart, for God is with you," then gets corrected by God that same night. This exposes the tension between our culture's emphasis on following your heart and Jeremiah 17:9's warning that the heart is deceitful and desperately wicked. For centuries, western culture exalted intellect over heart, which now has c...