Sunday Bible Study at Calvary Chapel Fort Walton Beach

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...

This week, Pastor Andy examines 1 Chronicles 12:32's unique mention of Issachar, who had an "understanding of the times" to know what Israel ought to do. They gained this wisdom by being close to the land and combining study of creation with the study of God's Word, making them scholars of the law alongside Levi. He traces rhythms God built into creation: winter's hidden growth, spring's new life,...

God brought judgment on Jerusalem because of the innocent blood that Manasseh had shed, which the Lord would not pardon. Pastor Andy analyzes: How could God save Jerusalem from Assyria less than 100 years earlier yet now bring complete destruction through Babylon? He shares how God's judgments are announced in advance in multiple ways (declared 800 years earlier in Deuteronomy, preached by prophet...

Pastor Andy walks through 2 Kings 18-19, showing how King Hezekiah—a 25-year-old who did what was right in the sight of the Lord—faced one of the greatest trials of his life when the undefeated Assyrian empire threatened to annihilate Jerusalem with 185,000 soldiers. They sent a mocking letter, taunting: "Your God can't save you—this is inevitable." Pastor Andy examines the temptations Hezekiah fa...

Pastor Joe Aldrete of Calvary Chapel Foley examines why Israel demanded kings in the first place (1 Samuel 8)—they rejected God's direct leadership and wanted to be "like all the nations." He walks through thirteen kings from 2 Kings 10-16 and the key phrases: "he did what was right in the sight of the Lord" or "he did not do what was right in the sight of the Lord." Bad kings faltered via disobed...

Pastor Andy Falleur examines 2 Kings 5 through the lens of Elisha's scrutinizing question to his servant Gehazi: "Is it time to receive money and clothing, olive groves and vineyards, sheep and oxen, male and female servants?" The chapter presents three types of people: Naaman, the Syrian with leprosy, who experienced the miracle of "wash and be clean" by coming to God's prophet; Gehazi who had a...

We're living in a moment of massive cultural change—U.S. cabinet members openly proclaiming the gospel, AI becoming part of daily life, the economy shifting, and society transforming before our eyes. Pastor Andy Falleur examines the story of Obadiah in 1 Kings 18—a man who feared the Lord from his youth but spent decades working as second-in-command under the wickedly evil King Ahab and Queen Jeze...

Pastor Ryan Miller traces Solomon's tragic fall in 1 Kings 11-12, showing how the wisest man who ever lived—blessed with wealth, wisdom, and two face-to-face encounters with God—let lust become the gateway that turned his heart toward foreign gods through 700 wives and building altars to detestable deities. If Solomon with all his wisdom couldn't fully follow God without being empowered by God and...

Pastor Andy unpacks the profound promise God made to Solomon in 1 Kings 9:3—that His name, eyes, and heart would be on the Temple Mount forever and perpetually—and reveals that this promise is still active today, making it the most valuable and disputed piece of real estate in the world. Through a fascinating journey across the history of Solomon's Temple, its destruction by the Babylonians, the s...

David is a fantastic example of turning the other cheek in the face of adversity, as Jesus told us. Oftentimes today, we fear the Lord is only watching us to punish us. David lives in a reality that God is watching and looking for ways to bless us. How can we live in a way that opens up the door for God to move? Because we want to see the Lord at work! Fix your eyes on Him. Exact Scripture Referen...

Whoa, talk about a holy hot mess turned masterpiece – Jon ruby spills his guts on a 14-year booze-fueled tornado that yanked him from missionary kid paradise in Indonesia to Ottawa jail cells, baby-mama heartaches, and a psychosis hell where billboards barked and the only exit looked like not waking up, but bam, God's sober whisper hits: "As you were hurt and abused as a child, that's what you're...

Man, picture this: Saul's empire's crumbling, Philistines are stacking up at Shunem, God's gone radio silent – no dreams, no Urim lots, no prophets – so in panic mode, he flips his own script, hunts down a banned medium at Endor for a shady night séance to summon dead Samuel, and boom, she freaks 'cause it's the real prophet, not some demon hack, dropping divine mic-drop on Saul's doom: kingdom ri...