Calvary Chapel Anne Arundel County Maryland - Sunday Services

Subject: The passage begins by saying that “So Jacob went on his journey”. Jacob's journey, is so much like our journey in this world with high and lows, hopes and dreams, joys and sorrows. Jacob is going to find some of all these in this chapter; but most importantly, God is going to show him himself, so God can do something about the things that need changed in him. God will do the same for all of us. Join Us.

Summary: In our passage today, we read of one of e greatest accounts of grace and Jacob is on the run from his brother Esau for deceiving him and his father Issac regarding the family blessing; yet God shows up and pours grace out upon him.  We don't understand grace and that's the point, for if we could, it wouldn't be grace. We can only stand on the promise of grace, and receive it, though never fully understanding it. Maybe you need some grace, or need to give some grace, join us God pours out His grace.

Summary: In our study we will see Jacob and Rebekah deceive Isaac to pass the spiritual blessing unto Jacon rather than Esau. Each of us can be one of these four, so the question before the study, which one are you, and what can you do about it? Are You:·       Isaac – Who spiritually went from on-fire, to slow-fade, to a vapor?·       Esau – Who chose the things of the world and flesh, over the things of the Spirit?·       Jacob – Who recognized the things of the Spirit, but tried to obtain through the flesh?·       Rebekah – Who went from person of prayer, to I will do it my way?

Summary: Famines in our spiritual lives come from time to time. The question for us is, “where do You go, what do You do when they come?” In our passage today we will see Isaac enter a famine, and God will give us many great spiritual lessons from his life to apply to our lives in our time of need. Join Us! 

Summary: In our passage today, we say goodbye to a dear friend (Abraham). We get to know Isaac his son in a deeper way, and are introduced to Jacob, who will become the Father of Israel. We will also come to know Issac's brother Ishmael in a deeper way and introduced to Jacob's brother Esau. All these men will live life, but not all will live “full satisfying” lives. Join us as we study….. “how to live and have a full and satisfying life”.

Summary: This chapter is the longest chapter in the Book of Genesis, and that is not surprising considering the whole chapter is a picture of God's Bride…… you! Join us as the Lord says to us…… to take a good, long, lingering look at how I feel about you.

Summary: In our chapter today, we will read of the death of Sarah (Abraham's wife), whose name means “princess”. As Abraham weeps, we will see the heart of God who says He catches and keeps all our tears in a bottle. And through all the tears, the passage gives a beautiful picture, and promise, of the resurrection. 

Summary: 2,000 years ago, the greatest three words in the history of mankind were spoken. What do theymean to you, and how do you apply them to your life today. Join us for a special message from the heart ofGod.

Summary: My hope is always hopeful because my God always has an ….”after these things” for me. Always a tomorrow, always a day after, whether after a failure or fault, a mountain high or a valley low, there is always an… “after these things” because there is a cross, a resurrection, by the God who provided all these things, including Himself upon the cross for me. And He is always on the move in my life and your life!

Summary: It is 25-years later, but here is the promise given to Abraham and Sarah fulfilled with the birth of Issac. The child of promise is Issac, and his name means laughter. Surely people laughed at the impossibility of having a child at such an age; but now we will read they laugh with them, in the amazement of what only God can do. He is the same God today…. And people may be laughing at what you say God is going to do in your life, but someday they will be laughing with you in amazement saying ….. He did it!

Summary: In our study Abraham will repeat the same failing of faith that he did almost 25 years prior. We can poke at the Father-of-Faith and ask how could you? But the Lord reminds us that these Old Testament stories were written as examples for us. So here we find several examples “for us”, and in each of them we will explore if we too are repeating the same failings time and time again….. and maybe not even realize that we are.

Summary: Although the focus of the chapter is on Sodom and Gomorrah, the chapter in whole tells a broader story that goes beyond just what the chapter is known for. It speaks of the warning to believers that even the righteous can compromise. But God knew where to find Lot, and us, and He comes, and He speaks to us (any and all who are willing to hear). Join us as we study this story that is both historical, and personally applicable.

Summary: In our chapter today, the Lord will “dine” with Abraham because He's a God of intimacy and fellowship with His people. God will “delight” Sarah as He tells her of the promise of the child she will have even when she's having a hard time believing.  And thirdly, the Lord “declares” to Abraham what's on His heart because God tells those that care. The question for all of us today, “what can God tell us”?

Summary: When Abram was 99 God appeared to him telling him I am “God Almighty” (Heb. El Shaddai). Shaddai comes from an old word meaning “mountain” and refers to His mighty power that is high and unshakable. And, if Abram wanted to know God's power, he had to walk, that is live, close to the Lord. So too the passage before us speaks the same unto us. How can we do it? Join us for Genesis 17 to for the “how to”.

Summary: Time has a way of erasing the promises of God that He has given us but have yet to come to pass. And Abraham and Sarah have forgotten His promise, so they try to put human logic into the middle of faith, and it just never works out, other than a mess in the flesh. But the story in this chapter comes one of the greatest stories in the Bible as we see that God sees Hagar who is mistreated and cast off and in a place of hurting, and the Lord comes to her an Egyptian bondwoman and reveals Himself in a special way; and so the Lord seeks all the outcast and hurting today for He is the same yesterday today and forever.

Summary: Abram is fearful, a great high moment comes with a new reality that there are things outside his control. In the midst of his fear a beautiful phase appears for the first time in the Bible, “The word of the LORD came to Abram”, and it becomes the foundation not just for his fear, but his faith as well. Whether it is fear or faith, the Lord has a “Word” for you in all your questions. Join us for a “Word” from the very heart of God.

Summary: What a golden nugget of a chapter as we will read that after Abram rescues his nephew Lot who was taking captive; that on his return Abram will meet the King of Salem (whose name is Melchizedek), who very well could have been the appearance of Jesus in the Old Testament. Absolutely an amazing passage as it will speak volumes of not just tying the Old Testament to the New Testament (as we read of Melchizedek again in the Book of Hebrews), but an amazing account about how God meets with each and every one of us.

Summary: Even after Abram's failing of faith down in Egypt, God meets him at the altar he had built in the Promised Land before the failing. God is so gracious, kind, and longsuffering with us; and is always ready to meet us to fellowship and commune together with Him in love. Maybe you need to come back to the altar of His promises today for a fresh reunion and restoration. Join us as we see the heart of God to us even after a failing of faith.

Summary: The title of this study is “nothing”, and when asked what we studied, we will say “nothing”. And the “nothing” that we will study and apply to our lives personally is that Abraham did “nothing” to be chosen and called by God. There was “nothing” in or about Abraham that made him chosen; it was all God's grace to call him. Therefore, as we study the life of Abraham in the chapters to come, and we see time of great faith, along with times of great failings, we can remember that “nothing” can keep us from the love of God, because “nothing” was the reason God called us to Himself except His great love. 

Summary: In our passage at the Tower of Babel, we see a whole world with one language and one speech, and they totally misspend it on self and self-serving purposes, all of which crumbles and goes off into confusion. For us as believers in Christ, we have a chapter filled with great application to abundant life, with clear focus and direction. Join us! 

Summary: Although often skipped over because this chapter seems like a long list of names, this chapter is foundational and critical to understanding prophecies in the Bible, and the root of all false religions, while at the same time it gives every individual follower of Christ the challenge of how they want to be known as disciples of Christ.

Summary: God not only makes a covenant with mankind with words (never to flood the earth again with water), but He gives the rainbow to be the sign to remind us of His covenant. He does the same with the “New Covenant”, that our sins will be forgiven and washed away never to be remembered by Him, and He gives us a sign to remember His promised covenant, and that is the fellowship of Communion with Him and each other. Join us as we walk through this great passage, verse-by-verse.

Summary: God of course never forgot Noah and family, nor will He forget you in the midst of your storm or trial. The word actually means, to “think upon”, and God was continually thinking upon Noah and family, just as He thinks upon you and your family. And this chapter 8, takes us into amazing depths of God's thoughts for us, and the chapter closes with God “sharing His heart” with Noah; amazingly, God shares His heart with us as well. Join us as we see all these things and how they apply to us today.

Summary: For the Lord to tell Noah to “Come into the Ark”, could only mean that the Lord was in the Ark. In our passage we will look into all that meant to Noah and family in the midst of flood; and what it means to each of us in the trials of life we go through.

Summary: Even in the midst of the flood to come, God's grace abounds and extends and reaches to any and all who will receive it. God's heart grieves because of the flood to come, yet His grieved heart comes with compassion as He provides a way out for any willing to get on the Ark.

Summary: Here we have the family album, that all of us are descendants of and from, and we will be blessed tremendously as we read not of boring genealogy, but God's amazing grace, all the way from Adam to you and me.

Summary: In our passage today, we study the story of Cain and Abel; and the whole matter was based on and began with Cain's wrong attitude and understanding of what God requires of a sacrifice/offering. This passage is vital to our understanding of sacrifices and offerings made unto the Lord, because in Romans 12:1-2, we are called to be “Living Sacrifices/Offerings”. Genesis 4 will lay the foundation for us so that we might be a pleasing sacrifice/offering unto the Lord.

Summary: Nothing will make sense in this whole world and in our whole lives personally, apart from understanding chapters 1, 2 and 3 Genesis. But when we look and understand chapters 1, 2 and 3 of Genesis, then everything in life will make sense even in so much senselessness that we see in the world today. 

Summary: The Lord's rests in chapter 2, and speaks a message to us that we too can rest, in all things as we rest in Him; whether that be work, ministry, marriage, or singleness…. We can rest in Him.

We start a new Book, and it is the book of beginnings. The word for “created” in the original Hebrew language is “bara”, and it means “to create out of nothing”. The first verse is vital in so many ways as the foundation of the whole Word of God (Bible); but equally as well this word “bara” (out of nothing) as God declares to us, He is the “Bara God” and take what seems to be nothing there in our lives personally, and create something beautiful and wonderful out of it.

Summary: Today we finish the Book of Revelation, and what a finish it is. But the whole Book leads to the main point for every person…… how will you finish? Will stand before Him in glory, or be separated from Him for all eternity in hell? God invites you to Himself, He says….Come!

Summary: We are going to heaven, together! Join us as we come in to our final studies in the final chapter of the Book of Revelation. The Water of Life, the Tree of Life, His Name written on our foreheads; only Heaven could declare such things.

Summary: As we finish chapter 21, and look at the New Jerusalem coming down, we will see that it is not the city, that makes it amazing, but it's inhabitants….. all of us who call Him Lord, and He has made His Bride.

Summary: A new heaven, and a new earth, God will dwell among His people, and wipe away every tear, no more death, no more sorrow, no more pain! And in verse 5, God tells John to make sure you write these things down, because the Lord wants His people to hear it, and not forget what is to come (all the more when living in hard times today). Join us, for something God wants to make sure we hear.

Summary: Our passage today is the “Day of Judgment”, also called the “Great White Throne Judgment”; At that Throne, on that Day, we read that books will be open that recorded our “works”, and that will determine the judgement of God upon each person. When that Day comes, and those books are opened, will you pass, The Good Person Test? Join us to be sure that you are sure.

Summary: The Millennial Kingdom, as spoken of in Revelation 20, is a 1,000 year period that begins right after the Tribulation Period. We will live here on earth with Jesus for 1,000 years. Wow, a thousand years, that is a long time. What will we be doing, what will the earth be like, who else will be here? We will look into these questions and more, and most importantly the question, how should this affect my life today as a follower of Jesus Christ.

Summary: Chapter 20 begins a new section of the Book of Revelation as the 7-year Tribulation Period has ended, and now Jesus will establish His Kingdom on earth. The first thing He does is bind the Devil and cast him into the bottomless pit (the Abousso).  We will look at the who, the what, the when, the where, the why….and most importantly, the “how – does this affect my spiritual walk”.

Summary: Hollywood has made scores of movies, making millions of dollars, regarding “Armageddon”; but in our study today we will see God's account how things will really be…… and most importantly, WHY they shall be. Join us for a difficult bible passage made clear.

Summary: In our passage today Jesus is Coming back on a white horse and we are riding with Him! Are you ready? We will read that His name is called “The Word of God”, and in this passage He will open His life-changing Word to us, which is the Treasure of Heaven. Join Us!

Summary: In our passage today the glorious “Marriage Supper of the Lamb”, where we celebrate being the Bride of Christ, chosen and beloved and cherished and never will we part.  And, at the same time we get to be guests and celebrate each other's call of being chosen as the Bride of Christ; only in God's economy could that happen and it is a beautiful celebration and we don't have to wait until we're there to celebrate, for it is already done because of what Christ has done for us on the Cross. So join us as we celebrate a wonderful passage.

Summary: In 1 hour, the world's economic system that man had placed all their trust in will be destroyed. Although the last days is when this happens, God gives us a clear calling today of what and where to place our treasures. Join us for a fascinating chapter of the Bible.

Summary: In the last days, as seen in the Book of Revelation, there will be a unified one world religion. The Last Days world will not be without religion, but without Christ. We see the shades of the attempt of that today before our eyes. Join this study and see how this one-world religion will grow and come together in the Last Days, and then how it will be brought down in a moment by our Lord Jesus Christ.

Summary: We are now coming to the sweeping final climax of the Tribulation Period as these bowls are poured out. Yet in every bowl then, God has a message for His church today, that can bring us into a place of victorious Christian living.

Summary: Chapter 15 tells us what is going on in heaven, while all that is going on here on earth during the Tribulation Period. This chapter also clearly declares “why” there is a Tribulation Period.

Summary: Even in the Tribulation Period, God still offers grace to a lost and dying world; so much so that it is shouted from heaven by an angel to every person on earth… the EVERLASTING GOSPEL. We will also study the great witness of the 144,00 that are sealed and kept of God, and how we too can have a great witness for God right now in our lives as well. 

Summary: The Antichrist (our last study), gets the front and center attention; but what is often missed is the power of this man “The False Prophet”. He will be a charismatic “religious” leader, who will lead the way for the rise and power and worship of the Antichrist. In our study today we will look at “5 Powers” associated with him, and what they mean to our walk with the Lord today.

Summary: The Bible predicts that a political, charismatic world leader will come onto the world scene known in Scripture as “The Antichrist” (1 John), or “The Beast” (Rev), or “The Man of Sin” (2 Thess. 2).  He will unite the world under his influential leadership with a temporary peace plan, only to break it and demand that everyone worship him as God  In our study today we will look at “5 Powers” associated with him, and what they mean to our walk with the Lord today.

Summary: You and I are in a war whether we want to be or not and we need to accept and realize that, embrace it and lean into it, because the war is over you the war is over me and the war was over that person to your left and to your right who drove with you to church today who lives in the house with you friends, family, and relationships that is what the war is over. Now we have to ask ourselves what is worth fighting for, we have to ask ourselves are they worth fighting for because we're in this fight regardless how you feel about it. Although this is not a message on spiritual warfare as the classical approach often is we're going to study Revelation and we're going to see amazing details regarding the last days and why things are the way they are, and for the double blessing, we will see our adversary the devil and how to defeat him on this soil we live called earth.

Summary: You and I are in a war whether we want to be or not and we need to accept and realize that, embrace it and lean into it, because the war is over you the war is over me and the war was over that person to your left and to your right who drove with you to church today who lives in the house with you friends, family, and relationships that is what the war is over. Now we have to ask ourselves what is worth fighting for, we have to ask ourselves are they worth fighting for because we're in this fight regardless how you feel about it. Although this is not a message on spiritual warfare as the classical approach often is we're going to study Revelation and we're going to see amazing details regarding the last days and why things are the way they are, and for the double blessing, we will see our adversary the devil and how to defeat him on this soil we live called earth.

Summary: In our passage God opens up and invites us into the Temple and Throne of God in heaven. In this invite God will show us the “Ark of the Covenant”. It is His “Covenant” with man, with you. What does His covenant say to us presently and yet future. What does the Ark of the Covenant speak to us about His mercy and grace? In our study we will let God “reveal” the depth of these things, and we will see His Glory from heaven unto us.

Summary: In our passage today, the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdom of our Lord; six thousand years in the making, will come to its full fruition. There cannot be the right kingdom until you have the right king, we will study King Jesus taking full possession of the earth. Then we will ask, has Hetaken full possession of your heart?