Category: Pastor Cheryl’s Blog

Speaking of the Holy Spirit can conjure up images of emotional worship services, supernatural encounters with God, and mystical gifts given to Christians. But when the bible talks about the Holy Spirit it talks about God’s power being exercised in order and the profound witness the Holy Spirit gives in…

This is Mission’s Month at Calvary Church! This week’s we will be hearing from the ministry of Adult and Teen Challenge. Adult and Teen Challenge is the only Christian group that I know that freely offers a community of support while someone seeks freedom from drug addiction. Most drug rehabilitation…

Have you ever tried to walk in windstorm? Not an easy task! Amy Grant wrote a song called “Raining on the Inside” that talks about trying to walk in the midst of a personal storm where she says, “It’s hard to walk in shifting sand.” As Christians, we walk in…

What a relief it is to sit down after a task is completed. We often let out a sigh of relief as we lean back and quietly celebrate our accomplishment of completing a task that we might have dreaded. The book of Hebrews talks about Jesus sitting down at the…

Why didn’t Christ raise immediately after He died? Why did He have to lay three days in a tomb before He rose again? God’s plan for us often involves some time waiting. The first church waited without expectation. No one knew what was going to happen. The disciples were hiding…

This Wednesday night we will be examining the scripture where Jesus surrenders His spirit to God in John 19:30. Jesus had finished the task that God gave Him to do, now He was ready to surrender to God everything that only the Father could do. Resurrection was just around the…

Life has surprises for us that require us to adjust. Even pleasant surprises may call upon us to make changes that inconvenience us. It must have been the joy of lifetime for the Israelites to see the promise land for the first time. But this site was also the fear…

Ash Wednesday is a unique time where we contemplate our mortality while without fear. Most of the time when we think of our lives ending, we sense the anxiety of illness and pain. But in Ash Wednesday, we contemplate God’s grace that aids us when this mortal life fails us.…

The psalmist tells us that God’s mercies are new every morning. God gives us is grace and love to share with this world. We are loved to pass that love on. Mercy is not always valued in our culture. We live in a world that demands “me first”. But God…

God uses mere people to bring about miraculous events. That is the unfolding story of the bible. In the Old and New Testament, we read stories of flawed people carrying out God’s will. This is best illustrated in the Christmas Story. Please listen to my talk on “Contemplating Christmas: Why…