May 16 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us! (This link will go live on Sunday at 9 AM)
I know of no group that judges themselves harsher than women. I know very few women who act proud. I know of no women who believe they never make mistakes. I know many women who doubt their worth. Yet the Bible is full of examples of women who have made profound contributions into the lives of others.
May 9 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
When we talk about living for God we need to address the fact that we can short-circuit discipleship in our life. We short-circuit discipleship when we put God’s activity into our lives but not His thoughts. We need to think His thoughts after Him. This caring about God’s opinion is the beginning of wisdom.
May 2 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
The Proverbs say that the wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands. How do we do that? We do it by claiming we believe one thing and then regularly doing the opposite. We see this most often in how we use our words.
April 25 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
Matthew 12:35 “The good man brings out of his good treasure what is good; and the evil man brings out of his evil treasure what is evil. 36 “But I tell you that every careless word that people speak, they shall give an accounting for it in the day of judgment.
April 18 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
The resurrection is the pivotal event of the gospel of Jesus. In it we can see the approval of God upon the sacrifice of His Son. In the resurrection we also see a profound power that calls us to respond.
April 11 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
The resurrection is the pivotal event of the gospel of Jesus. In it we can see the approval of God upon the sacrifice of His Son. In the resurrection we also see a profound power that calls us to respond.
April 4 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
We struggle with value. We struggle with valuing ourselves. We struggle with truly valuing others. God doesn’t.
March 28 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
To some, faith is an enigma or an untouchable substance like air. The Scriptures, however, declare that Christian faith can be seen touched and felt. In other words, if you have faith, it should be obvious. Scripture(s): James 2:14-26
March 21 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
When we talk about solutions to specific sins, it is easy to be overwhelmed by sin after sin. However, understanding our sin problem as a whole gives us wisdom in dealing with each individual sin.
Scripture: James 2:8-13
March 14 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
Everyone wants the blessing of God. However, there is a right way and a wrong way to seek that blessing. James identifies a common shortcut that we can be tempted by. He then challenges us to a better way.
Scripture(s): James 2:1-7
March 7 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
In our lives we must make sure that we are truly ready to receive the blessing of God. That preparation is not by making our houses and barns bigger to hold the stuff. The preparation is not by planning what we will do with the blessings when they come. The preparation we need is to make the heart ready to be used by God.
Scripture(s): James 1:19-27
February 28 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
Is our problem that we seek to be happy, or is our problem that we settle for a happiness that will not last? Even though these verses continue to talk about struggles, it is these truths which will truly prepare us to also seek real blessings.
Scripture(s): James 1:12-18
February 21 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
Our sermon this week: Understanding life and its struggles is more that just putting facts together. We have to interpret those facts. Where does that interpretation happen? That interpretation happens in the crucible of our attitude.
Scripture(s): James 1:9-12
February 14 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
Trials are anything which call to us to depend on Jesus to be our true joy rather than a substitute to push back our fears or helplessness. Trials are anything which sand off our self-centered sins and make us more like Jesus. Trials are anything that demand for us to respond in faith in order for our response to please Jesus. Quite a pickle, aren’t they?! The only way to know if we will walk in faith is to walk through them.
Scripture(s): James 1:1-8
February 7 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
January 31 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
This week on the Front Row – The Bible declares to us that all Scripture is inspired by God. This means that the whole Bible gives us what we need to become like Jesus. Each part of the Bible is a different tool for our growth. Do we know what each tool is good for?
January 24 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
This week on the Front Row – The Bible declares to us that all Scripture is inspired by God. This means that the whole Bible gives us what we need to become like Jesus. Each part of the Bible is a different tool for our growth. Do we know what each tool is good for?
January 17 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
This week on the Front Row – The truths we have seen this year in Scripture are the ones that we need in the crucible of life. They aren’t unusual truths. They are just essential ones.
Scripture(s): 1 John 5, 2 Corinthians 1, 4, & 6
January 10 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
This week on the Front Row – Have you ever heard of the Christian walk? This walk is how the Bible describes the commitment of the Christian life. Our special guest, Warren Jernstad shares with us an overview of our Christian walk and the significant choices we make.
Scripture(s): 1 Thessalonians 4
January 3 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
This week on the Front Row – When we say that Jesus is the Son of God, exactly what does that mean? It is more than just that God sees Jesus as special. It is more than that Jesus is a very powerful being. Jesus is God of very God. As we think about the baby in the manger, we must also remember the significance of being the Son of God.
Scripture(s): Isaiah 41, 44, 48, Revelation 1, 21, 22
December 27 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
This week on the Front Row – Calvary’s Family Christmas Service! This service is one in which the members of Calvary Baptist Church share a favorite song, Christmas reading, or Christmas memory. May you be blessed with us as we share together.
December 20 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
This week on the Front Row It is something for God to give us a goal to shoot for. It is quite another for God to come and live that goal for us. This is Jesus. In the name, Immanuel, we discover what that goal is and how to live in it.
December 13 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
This week on the Front Row – We are used to hearing the name “Son of David” in the New Testament referring to Jesus. It is the name Branch that tells us what that means. May we rejoice that our King has come.
December 6 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
This week on the Front Row – Jesus told us to build our life on His word by doing it, not just knowing it. This is the commitment of a heart that genuinely wants to work in our midst. Such a commitment is preparing us for revival. (part 2)
Scripture(s): Joel 1-2, Amos 5
November 29 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
This week on the Front Row – Jesus told us to build our life on His word by doing it, not just knowing it. This is the commitment of a heart that genuinely wants to work in our midst. Such a commitment is preparing us for revival. (part 1)
Scripture(s): Joel 1-2, Amos 5
November 22 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
This week on the Front Row – In a world that gives God little any real thought, Christians must be salt and light all that more clearly. We must prepare carefully to be that salt and light. We prepare by first understanding what we are facing in such a world. The second way we prepare is by embracing revival!
November 15 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
This week on the Front Row – What does God expect of His people when they are in the minority? How do we prepare for a time when there is NOT a genuine revival and spiritual awakening in our culture?
November 8 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
We sometimes think that our leaders want us to be good workers. Paul reveals that the heart of a Godly pastor want his people to be something rather than to just do something.
November 1 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
When we think of leaders we correctly speak of their character. However, Paul reveals that there is more than one way to be a Godly leader. These different ways that Paul speaks of are determined by the type of people those Godly leaders serve.
October 25 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
This week on the Front Row – Why do Christians have difficulty growing through struggles? First, such growth is a miraculous act of God, and we have stopped looking for miracles. Second, growing through struggling requires making Jesus our strength and joy, and we hate the weakness that demands.
October 18 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
This week on the Front Row – Why do Christians have difficulty growing through struggles? First, such growth is a miraculous act of God, and we have stopped looking for those. Second, growing through struggling requires making Jesus our strength and joy, and we hate the weakness that demands.
October 11 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
This week on the Front Row – Again, we can’t make people listen to us. However, there are things that we can appeal to that will encourage those we love to listen to our counsel. This is especially true when it is their soul we want to see saved!
October 4 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
This week on the Front Row – We can’t make people listen to us. However, there are things that we can appeal to that will encourage those we love to listen to our counsel. This is especially true when it is their soul we want to see saved!
Scripture focus: 2 Corinthians 11-12
September 27 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
This week on the Front Row – As we think about how we act when we have disagreements, we must identify how the flesh tempts us to compromise our convictions to win the argument. When we know the temptation we can see the signs and choose a different path.
Scripture focus: 2 Corinthians 10:7-18
September 20 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
This week on the Front Row – It is easy to miss God’s caution in the area of arguing. When strong emotions get involved, it becomes easy to justify our actions. Yet, God reveals that how we fight and why we fight is what really matters to Him. Even in our tensest moments, Jesus urges us to be like Him.
Scripture focus: 2 Corinthians 10:1-6
September 13 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
This week on the Front Row – How can you tell if you really understand something? We show that we understand salvation by following God’s directions for living it.
Scripture focus: Philippians 2:1-5
September 6 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
This week on the Front Row – Giving is wonderful. Being a giving person doesn’t happen by accident. Paul shares with us how to become that person who gives like God does.
August 30 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
Whenever preachers talk about giving, the average church member can wonder about the reason. We ask questions like, “Is giving down?” or “Are we starting a new project?” or “Does the church need money?” Would it surprise us to discover that God has an agenda regarding giving? He uses giving to draw us to Himself!
August 23 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
The Bible speaks of our use of money as an investment in our future and as a way to care for the needs of today. However, the Bible asks us to take our understanding one step further. God asks us to keep changing how we see both of those areas until, through them, we live out God’s grace.
August 16 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
Today’s passage concludes Paul’s specific encouragement to us to mature in our walk with Jesus together. Today he tells us what great blessings happen when we respond well to God’s correction.
August 9 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
This week on the Front Row – There is a right way and a wrong way to receive God’s course corrections. We are talking about more than accepting or rejecting them. We are talking about receiving them in the spirit in which they are given: to help us grow!
August 2 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
This week on the Front Row – Even though all sin should be gradually defeated in the life of the church, there is one category of sin that is especially hurtful. It isn’t hurtful because of its shocking force. It is especially hurtful because it hides behind smiles, pious words, and self-righteousness. These sins are the sins of pettiness.
July 26 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
This week on the Front Row – There are two halves to the Christian message… an eternal destination AND a transformed way of thinking about living today. We really do need to receive both or us calls to us to respond.
July 19 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
This week on the Front Row – As we think about why Jesus came to die, we acknowledge our need. Yet, our need is not all that is involved. We also marvel at His willingness to meet our need. His willingness to die for us calls to us to respond.
July 12 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
This week on the Front Row – There is nothing wrong with knowing how blessed we will be in Heaven and especially in the new Earth. However, the perspective that the gospel gives us changes our present life as well. It changes how we understand the life we live everyday precisely because we know that Heaven is on the way.
July 5 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
This week on The Front Row – It is hard to get our minds around how different living and thinking like Jesus is. Sure, we know about giving up sin, but thinking like Jesus is much more. God is inviting us through Paul to see how much better it is to see life as Jesus sees it.
June 28 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
This week on The Front Row – Jesus saw His disciples after the resurrection. These men were hurting. They were confused. Some were waiting for marching orders, but were also ready to quit and go back home. They sound like us.
June 21 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
This week on The Front Row we will be thinking deeply about the fact that the good news of Jesus is designed to be an earthquake in our lives. This good news is supposed to change everything important. If it hasn’t, then perhaps we should look deeper.
June 14 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
This week on The Front Row we will be thinking deeply about how the Bible describes the gospel as glorious. If the gospel is so glorious and we know it, then how do we show it? What does the glory of the gospel call us to do?
June 7 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
This week on The Front Row we will be thinking deeply about boldness. The ability and willingness to live by God’s standards is called boldness in the New Testament. Where does this boldness come from?
May 31 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
This week on The Front Row we will think deeply about how we might feel small or scarred or imperfect. We may be those things, but God uses people just like us everyday.
May 24 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
This week on The Front Row we will think deeply about forgiveness. It may not be easy, but it is essential. Forgiveness is the path to life.
May 17 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
This week on The Front Row we will be thinking deeply about forgiveness. It may not be easy, but it is essential. Forgiveness is the path to life.
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May 10 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
This week on The Front Row we will be thinking about what it means when someone says something? It tells us about the person’s attitude, personality, and character. It tells us what they care about. What does it mean when God says something? Don’t we learn the same types of things?
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May 3, 2020 – Click here to go to our YouTube page to worship with us!
This week at The Front Row we will be thinking about how important it is to be a good mirror. The same is true of those who want to follow Christ. We reflect Jesus to others. We can either do it well or do it poorly. When we do it well, that reflection is one that people trust when the hard times come.
April 26, 2020 – Click here to go to our Youtube page to worship with us!
This week at The Front Row we will be thinking about how our struggles can give us tunnel vision. We only see what is in front of us. Struggles can also affect another sensation – our feeling of the passing of time. We can come to think that suffering is forever. How can we know that it is not forever?
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April 19, 2020 – Click here to go to our Youtube page to worship with us!
This week on the Front Row we will be worshiping together with singing, prayer, and opening up the word together. Our subject this week is suffering. The reason we struggle with suffering and how to handle it is because we don’t understand it. Why do we have to suffer? Saying that it is just the product of a fallen world is not good enough. We want to know: What is God doing with our suffering?!
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April 12 – Resurrection Sunday – Click here to go to our Youtube page
This week on the Front Row we will discover anew the resurrection of Jesus: We see how the resurrection shifted the way the early disciples saw their universe. It changed them. So, if we embrace what the resurrection means then it will surely change us.
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April 5, 2020 – Click here to go to our Youtube page to worship with us!
We invite you to worship with us! The Front Row is our online service. This week, we are singing God’s praise, praying for one another, and thinking deeply about God’s Word.
March 29, 2020 – Click here to go to our Youtube page to worship with us!
Join us on the Front Row at Calvary Baptist Church. Through song, Bible study, prayer and even a children’s moment; you will be invited to join in and worship together.
March 22, 2020 – Click here to go to our Youtube page to worship with us!
This is “The Front Row” at Calvary Baptist Church. This is a new worship opportunity for our community. In this time when we cannot get together, this is a way for us to worship together and be encouraged.
