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PRESS ON (May 2012)

May 8, 2012

Last month marked the 25th Anniversary since Calvary Chapel started.  It was remarkable to look back over two and a half decades and realize all that has happened.  As I thought back through the years I had to admit that God has done some really amazing things.  Many of you know I am not much [...]

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Resurrection – Better Resurrection (April 2012)

May 4, 2012

Easter is the time to talk about the resurrection of Jesus Christ.  If Jesus did not rise from the dead then we are a deceived sad people, on par with those in mental institutions who think they are Napoleon or Spiderman.
    1 Corinthians 15:14,16,17,19  … if Christ has not been raised, our preaching is useless [...]

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Evangelism (March 2012)

February 28, 2012

There are some crucial questions that everyone should ask themselves.  Everyone should want to know; ‘Where did I come from?’  And probably one of the most important questions during life is; ‘What happens after I die?‘  As a Christian I know that I came from God.  What I mean is that God created the heavens [...]

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Prayer (Feb 2012 Newsletter)

February 1, 2012

In January we had a church-wide prayer and fast.  Sadly, this has become something almost unheard of in the church of our day in America.  It is impossible to overemphasize the importance of prayer.  In Acts chapter two, the early church was born during a prayer meeting.  Then as you read through Acts you witness [...]

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Impossible

December 7, 2011

         I recently watched a video of a teenage girl from Chicago who decided to do something that most would consider impossible.  But through her determination, her refusal to give up, and her passion for the project, she accomplished something more informed people would have told her she could not do. Unless [...]

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Do you want to grow in your relationship with Jesus?

November 17, 2011

Do you want to grow in your relationship with Jesus?  In John chapter 5 we read of Jesus approaching a crippled man who was lying near a pool of water that was thought to heal any sickness, if only one could get in the pool, when the water was supposedly stirred by an angel.  The [...]

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Oct 11: STOP DATING THE CHURCH

October 4, 2011

The title of this newsletter is the title of a book I am urging our church to read. The subtitle reads “Fall in Love with the Family of God”. The book is written by a young Pastor, Joshua Harris, who has done the church a great service by helping us see the Biblical priority of [...]

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Sept 11: A NEW COMMITMENT

October 1, 2011

A New Commitment
I wonder if I am the only one.  I don’t believe so.  God is doing something very special in our church lately.  The new people I have met recently excite me very much.  I see them fitting in with the rest of us in a way that will help change us for the [...]

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Aug 11: We Need One Another

July 28, 2011

I have thought for years about what causes depression and anxiety, particularly among Christians.  I took a course called “Psychology/Theology Integration” in graduate school.  We discussed the causes of different psychiatric issues and how to solve them.  At the time there were two best selling books that suggested psychotherapy was no better at solving people’s [...]

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July 11: God Bless America

July 1, 2011

I just returned from Siberia and mentioned in my returning sermon how much I had benefited from being out of this great country.  I visited the churches in Ulan-Ude and Horinsk, Siberia.  In Horinsk I felt like a time traveler back to the 1800’s, with a mix of the modern.  There were cars, trucks, and [...]

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