Westminster Calvary Chapel

Today we enter the last segment of Paul’s Mission in the book of Acts. Paul completed his 3rd Missionary Journey and he’s headed back to Jerusalem to drop off a financial donation from the Gentile Churches. However, along his travel route believers were warning Paul what would happen to him in Jerusalem! Paul was being warned of the difficulty ahead. In this section of verses, we see his arrival i...

The Israelites had been enslaved in Egypt for about 400 years and it seems that they had lost faith in God’s promise to Abraham, Issac, and Jacob. No doubt they believed God existed AND went thru the motions of worshipping. However, they doubted He could, or would, set them free from the difficult circumstances of their lives in Egypt. In the Church Age we read the Gospels and how Jesus came with...

2 Timothy was written by Paul in a jail cell in Rome and was sent to Timothy to help him lead the church. Because his tendency was to be timid when opposition hit. So he encourages him to be strong and to raise up faithful men who can add to the ministry team. Paul then gives three examples to illustrate how Timothy and the church were to move forward in the last days. 

God taught Moses that His Name was sufficient no matter what he faced! We learned this is a spiritual lesson all followers of God go thru. Because God wants us to trust Him. However, with the natural eye, Moses was 80-years old. He had spent the last 40-years of his life as a shepherd, and now God was calling him to go before the head of state – Pharaoh, to demand the immediate release of the coun...

As we continue our study through the book of Acts, we cover the last segment of Paul’s 3rd Missionary journey before he heads to Jerusalem. He leaves some final instructions to the Elder’s leading the Church in Ephesus. Paul begins the discussion by highlighting how he modeled perseverance against the obstacles in ministry, and he gives the key points to church leaders starting in (v. 28). He give...

God had called Moses to take a message to Pharaoh which was to let His people go. But after this demand things immediately got worse for the Israelites. God was moving behind the scene, but on the surface things got worse, and Moses was getting cold feet! Moses needed a right perspective that only God could give. So He speaks to Moses by making His power known. God reveals His name which reveals H...

It was in Ephesus a city of spiritual darkness that the Gospel was having a massive impact! People burned their magic books, their little handmade idols of Diana were being ditched by people, and it was causing an impact upon the economy. Here’s the point… When the Gospel is being advanced by the people of God, light shines into very dark places and breaks people free! We are the distributors of G...

We’ve learned of the expansion of faith is a work of the Spirit and not of man. We’ve seen this demonstrated thru the New Testament. The supernatural work of God’s Holy Spirit is needed in our time just as much as it was 2,000 years ago! Many people in the Church today are suffering from a lack of what Jesus offers because they’re spiritually unhealthy! Jesus has taught us that desperate people ha...

As we’ve read about Moses’ story we see that God had a plan for his entire life. God has repeatedly attempted to connect with Moses and God has been patient with Moses. Chapter 5 opens with the fact that God was on the move! So why did the conditions get worse? Satan loves to sift us as we step out in to trust God. He brings discouragement, pressure and attacks to make us want to give up and go ba...

Going deeper with God can be scary because our human mind often thinks in terms of limitations and not of abundance. This is why anything done for God has to be done by faith in God. As we learn to see the person of God and the power of God we release our self to walking by faith. However, in Exodus 4 we see the hindrances of faith as Moses wrestled with God and gave excuses to not falling God’s l...

Paul’s second ministry journey is coming to a close and we are getting the picture of what’s happening in his ministry as he makes his way back home. This isn’t some modeless journey that he’s on, rather it’s intentional and calculated. Let's look at some practical take-aways that we can apply to our lives today!

God has prepared a man – Moses – for 40-years and the Lord commissions him in this chapter. We can understand, no matter how long you have walked with the Lord He still has work for you to do. No one is too old OR too young to be used by God. The question is will I be ready to listen when you’re called, and will I walk by faith!?! You may struggle to recognize God’s voice at first. But that’s not...

Today we’ll see the up’s and down’s of ministry. Here in Acts 18, God provided Paul with other ministry partners while he was waiting for Silas and Timothy. There’s a simple principle here… always do ministry two-by-two.

In light of the global challenges regarding Israel, I want to give you and overview of how to understand what the Bible calls “The End Times” and prophecy that speak to those times. We will spend most of our focus in Matthew 24, and as we read through we must understand that Jesus, who is a Jew, is talking to other Jews (the Disciples). This is known as the “Olivet Discourse.” These disciples were...

God sends out his work and it accomplishes what He desires. That’s important to remember as we discuss what effective ministry look like. Because some will respond in faith and others reject placing faith in Christ. In today’s text, we’ll see both! Paul continue on his second missionary journey taking the gospel to different regions and cities and we can learn a few things about what a truly effec...

Last week as we started Exodus, we learned how God’s redemption story moves out of (Genesis) and into the next phase. We learned that 70-people (Israel) turned into roughly 2-million people. And today, we’re getting more details about the man God will us next – Moses. The conditions surrounding his birth were very difficult as there was a national forced birth control because Pharaoh ordered that...

As we continue through Acts 16 the growth of Paul’s ministry team is being chronicled. At the start of Acts 16 Paul went into Macedonia (Philippi, Thessalonica, & Berea). From there he moved south into Athens & Corinth before circling back east to Ephesus and finally went south into Jerusalem. Why does this journey matter to you as a Christian? Because it’s a picture of the expansion of ministry,...

The theme of Exodus is Deliverance, which is defined as the action of being rescued OR set free. In the experience of the Israelites Exodus shows us how God delivered Israel from oppression of the Egyptian Government, how God gave Israel freedom to serve Him, and how this freedom was to result in their worshiping of Him. 

Psalm 46 has been a go-to Psalm for me because God has used it over-and-over in my life! Specifically v.10. There’s some questions about who wrote this Psalm. Some say it came from David & his battles in 2 Samuel. Others attach the setting to King Hezekiah and God’s intervention against Sennacherib. No matter who wrote it, we have a special Psalm of help that God has preserved for us in His word.

Tonight we conclude the final three-chapters in Genesis by looking at the truths woven into these chapters. When we live out biblical truths, church doctrines should impact our nations values. When we neglect or reject the truths of God, each person conducts their lives with a subjective right & wrong. As followers of Jesus we’re to instill faith into our children. Genesis closes with the death of...

In these verses the Holy Spirit was forbidding Paul and the team to preach the word. This is an important topic to discuss with growing believers because we need to recognize the value of open & closed doors. Think about your life and discover where God is leading you. Look around and see where God is forbidding you.  When we try to push through a closed door, it results in frustration, irritation...

Jacob’s family (Israel) is on the move & headed to Egypt. This first chapter communicates to us the family-line of Israel which came out of Jacob and thru his four wives. Chapters 29, 30, 35, and 46 explain these details. Jacob is a man who wrestled with fear most of his adult life and is on the move again at 130-years old. Now, he’s is forced to leave home again because of the devastation of the...

As we come in Acts 15 Paul & Barnabas had returned to Antioch of Syria from their first missionary trip with excitement & celebration of what God had done. The Church was onboard and things were looking good, but then a crack in the unity erupted. A group of people, some pharisees, wanted to manage the work of God by placing rules around the moving of God’s Spirit. While there’s much to learn in t...

The story line is tapering down in Genesis, but healing is still needed in the family among the Patriarchs before the next sequence of history surfaces. Famine is happening, Josephs brothers come to Egypt for food & return home. But Simeon is held in prison until the youngest brother Benjamin is brought back. Their father, Jacob, still back at home is mad at his sons.

As we come to (Acts 14) Paul & Barnabas continue to take the Gospel into remote areas where both Jew & Gentiles lived. But, they kept getting run out of town. Literally each town they visited had some people come to faith, but many others rejected them & stirred up riots which forced Paul & Barnabas out of town. They were forced out of Antioch of Pisidia. Then down to Iconium, and further south an...