Calvary Chapel Bremerton - Sunday Service

Pastor Rick Beaudry expounds Philippians 2:12-18, calling us to work out our salvation with fear and trembling because God is at work in us to will and to do of his good pleasure. He outlines six byproducts of living for God pleasure: joyous progress, joyous power, joyous peace, joyous purity, joyous preaching, and the privilege of sacrificial service. Using biblical examples from Joseph to Peter...

Pastor Rick Beaudry reads Philippians 2:5–11 and unpacks Christ’s humility and exaltation, explaining the kenosis as Jesus emptying himself to become the God‑man, obedient even to death on the cross. He contrasts the way down that leads to true exaltation with the prosperity gospel, political add‑ons to the gospel, and other false teachings that mislead and compromise truth. Tracing Jesus’ temptat...

Pastor Rick Beaudry reads Philippians 2:1–4 and calls us to unity, humility, and other centered living as the foundation of Christian joy. He emphasizes the consolation of the Holy Spirit, the need to take every thought captive and be transformed by the renewing of the mind, and warns against pride, self promotion, and conformity to worldly values. Through personal anecdotes and biblical examples...

Guest speaker Wayne Dekorte of Calvary Bremerton draws on Hebrews 12 to urge endurance, explaining God’s loving discipline and calling us to fix our eyes on Jesus. He uses personal object lessons from boot camp and a long Pacific Northwest Trail hike with his son to illustrate spiritual preparation: water as the Holy Spirit, the word as nourishment, and worship as daily refreshment. Dekorte warns...

Guest speaker Kevin Lea examines Psalms 2:1,12 to ask what the disciples should have said and done when Jesus repeatedly predicted his suffering, death, and resurrection. He challenges doubts about the Bible, recommends Walt Brown's Hydroplate Theory and related apologetics resources to defend the historicity of events like Noah's flood. Walking through Psalm 2, Psalm 22, Isaiah 53 and multiple Go...

Guest speaker Mark Dinsmore reads Genesis 7:1,12 and challenges us to ask whether the flood waters came from above or from subterranean fountains. Drawing on Walt Brown’s hydroplate theory and his own creation science background, he explains how rupturing underground seas, supercritical water, and a global crustal rupture could have produced rain, ejected debris that became comets and asteroids, a...

Pastor Rick Beaudry expounds Philippians 1:27,30, challenging the church to stand firm and united rather than succumb to division or political compromise. He outlines three essentials for the joy of victory: unity of purpose, an unshakable presence under pressure, and embracing the privilege of suffering for Christ. Drawing on Paul, church history, and the Roman triumph image, he contrasts sufferi...

Pastor Rick Beaudry expounds Philippians 1:19–26, showing how Paul, even in prison, rejoices that Christ will be magnified through his life or death and declares "for me to live is Christ and to die is gain." He unpacks Paul’s confident expectation that deliverance may come through the prayers of the church and the supply of the Spirit, while honestly wrestling with the tension between departing t...

Pastor Rick Beaudry unpacks Philippians 1:12,18 by pointing to Paul’s imprisonment as proof that adverse circumstances can further the gospel rather than derail it. He urges us to surrender daily, accept trials as ordained of God, and see suffering as an opportunity for God to expose Himself, encourage bold witness in others, and even use rivalry and envy to spread Christ. Drawing on biblical exam...

Pastor Rick Beaudry unpacks Philippians 1:7,11, teaching on the "Fruits of Righteousness" as he shares Paul’s affection and prayer that the Philippians' love would abound in knowledge and judgment. He lays out a threefold petition: abounding love informed by truth, authenticity as “sincere without wax,” and an abundance of goodness, and warns against hypocrisy, false teaching, and the seduction of...

Pastor Rick Beaudry unfolds Philippians 1:1–6, arguing that the source of our joy is confidence in Jesus: confidence drawn from God’s faithfulness in the past, sustaining us now, and securing our future completion at the day of Christ. Drawing from Paul’s imprisonment and memories of the Philippian church (Lydia, the freed slave girl, the jailer, and Epaphroditus), he shows how suffering and provi...

Pastor Rick Beaudry expounds Ephesians 6:21,24 with a defense of expository preaching and a call for men to lead faithfully while not quenching the zeal God raises in women when men fail. He identifies Tychicus as the messenger of love who brings Paul's letter, news, and comfort, and highlights the message of love as peace, faith, and reconciliation grounded in Scripture. The measure of love is de...

Pastor Rick Beaudry expounds Ephesians 6:19–20, using Paul’s prayer for an open door as a model for praying that God give us boldness to speak the gospel even while chained or persecuted. He draws sharp parallels between Paul’s trials and modern pressures: COVID church shutdowns, Bill C‑9 and Pastor Arthur Pawlowski’s legal battles, rising hate‑speech laws, biometric surveillance and the normaliza...

Pastor Rick Beaudry, preaching from Ephesians 6:18, urges us to embrace total dependence on God through persistent, Spirit‑led prayer, unpacking six aspects: frequency, form, fellowship, fight, fervency, and family. Drawing on biblical examples (David, Daniel, Peter, Paul, and Jesus) and personal anecdotes, he emphasizes direct access to the Father through Christ, the necessity of praying without...

Pastor Rick Beaudry unpacks Ephesians 6:16–17, explaining the shield of faith, the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit as the believer’s armor in a world of spiritual warfare. He urges us to persevere through trials, guard our minds with assurance of salvation, and wield Scripture as both defense and offense against deception. Drawing on biblical examples and contemporary concerns abo...

Pastor Rick Beaudry unpacks Ephesians 6:14–15, urging us to wear the belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, and boots shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace as spiritual armor. He warns of intense deception in the last days - media manipulation, contested narratives about 9/11 and COVID, pharmaceutical and globalist influences, and the church’s drift into compromise - and urges...

Pastor Rick Beaudry reads Ephesians 6:10–13 and frames the Christian life as a battleground, calling us to be strong in the Lord, put on the whole armor of God, and rely on the Holy Spirit rather than self. He draws on Scripture to outline four essentials: reliance, readiness, reconnaissance, and resistance, showing how prayer, discernment, and public testimony equip us to withstand the devil’s sc...

Pastor Rick Beaudry preaches from Ephesians 6:5-9, urging servants to serve with humility, wholeheartedness, honor, and hope; doing all work as unto the Lord and following Jesus’ example of servant leadership. He contrasts first-century Roman slavery with modern abuses, warns against pride and quitting, and exhorts us to be faithful in small things so God can open doors. Masters are called to be f...

Pastor Rick Beaudry preaches from Ephesians 6:4, calling fathers to not provoke their children but to raise them "in the nurture and admonition of the Lord," seeing fatherhood as both a priceless privilege and a sober responsibility. He outlines four fatherly duties: use restraint (be fair, avoid provoking or breaking a child’s spirit), use your riches (time, talent and provision to nourish body a...

Pastor Rick Beaudry examines Ephesians 6:1–3, urging children to obey and honor their parents as an outworking of relationship with God, the right moral response, and a command with a promised blessing. He emphasizes the necessity of being "being filled with the Holy Spirit" so families (husbands, wives, fathers and children) can model Christ, resist cultural confusion and spiritual deception, and...

Pastor Rick Beaudry expounds Ephesians 5:25–33, calling husbands to love their wives as Christ loved the church and urging Spirit‑filled marriages that reflect Christ and the bride. He unpacks agape love with four characteristics: costly (sacrificial), cleansing (sanctifying by the Word), caring (nourishing and cherishing), and cleaving (lifelong oneness). Beaudry uses personal anecdotes about his...

Pastor Rick Beaudry reads Ephesians 5:22–24 and teaches that spirit-filled wives submit to their husbands out of reverence for the Lord, enabled by the Holy Spirit. He outlines three reasons for this submission: reverence for Christ, a wife’s relationship with Christ (with the husband pictured as head as Christ is head of the church), and her responsibility before the Lord, while emphasizing mutua...

Pastor Rick Beaudry exhorts continual, daily filling of the Holy Spirit as the antidote to living "after the flesh," contrasting Spirit-led life with drunkenness and worldly coping. He highlights practical fruit of being Spirit-filled: a celebrating heart (psalms, hymns, worship), a conquering heart that gives thanks amid trials, and a controlled heart that practices mutual submission, especially...

Pastor Rick Beaudry preaches from Ephesians 5:15–17, urging us to "walk circumspectly" by living orderly, opportunistically (redeeming the kairos), and obediently to God's will amid pervasive deception and cultural chaos. He warns of modern snares - from media and AI to globalist control and moral compromise - calling the church to sober discernment, repentance, and a fear-of-God wisdom grounded i...

Pastor Rick Beaudry expounds 1 Peter 1:3–9, centering on the resurrection as a "living hope" that sustains believers through trial and transforms fear of death into rejoicing. He reviews the eyewitness resurrection appearances and prophetic fulfillment as grounds for confident, active faith, contrasting a risen Savior with other dead promises and modern pretenders. Beaudry outlines three blessings...