Calvary Presbyterian Church

Public worship is God-directed and corporately aware. God commands and directs our worship. Everything we do when we gather should be respectful and orderly.

Jesus removes walls that divide Christians and gives us unity with each other... because his sacrifice first gives us unity with God.

The coming of Jesus began a new era of history where the message of salvation is now explicitly for all nations and languages. The church's mission is to continue proclaiming that message until Jesus returns.

Love is necessary, permanent, supreme; and it is revealed to us in the character and actions of God in the person of Jesus Christ.

God has designed his church to be a community of individuals—distinct and different, but united and interdependent.

God gives gifts to his church to unite them in celebrating and proclaiming that Jesus is Lord.

Christians are to gather in unity to celebrate and proclaim what Jesus has done. The sacrament of the Lord's Supper is our opportunity to display not just our understanding of Jesus' sacrifice but our trust in it.

God created men and women equal in dignity and worth as bearers of his image. But he gave them certain different roles in worship and marriage to highlight different aspects of his character and glory.

The magnificence and importance of the gospel allows us to willingly set aside the right to do things our way, for the greater reward of following Jesus together.

The most important two-word phrase in the history of human speech is “But God...” We were dead, but God made us alive because of his grace.

Good Friday, 4/18/25

The most important question in the world is: Will you believe what Jesus says about himself?

Our joy is the greatest when Jesus is the greatest.

God's love leads us to the Light of eternal life.

This is the truth: “Unless one is born again, he cannot see the Kingdom of God.”

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”

Only Jesus can clean up our lives and make us fit for God's exclusive use.

John Hanna is the New Jersey Capitol Minister for Ministry to State, an effort of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) to care for those serving in government through prayer, discipleship, and evangelism. He lives with his wife, Nevine, in Ramsey, NJ and has five children

We search in many places, but only Jesus satisfies our thirst for joy.

Jesus is the one who connects heaven and earth. When he finds us, we find the one we've always been seeking.

Jesus is the answer to what we are seeking. Our greatest joy will only be experienced when we are living with him.

Here is the Christian message in one sentence: Jesus is the “Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world.”

The early Christian church was characterized by certain core principles and practices that help shape our vision for Calvary today.

Knowing God and knowing yourself are inseparably linked. The starting point for knowing Jesus is first knowing you're not him.

“God became a man to dwell among his people in order to display the grace and truth of his glory.”

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.

Bob Orner has served as the Lead Pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church (PCA) in Cherry Hill, NJ since 2014. Raised in East Africa, Bob has served churches in North America for over 30 years as a youth minister, church planter, and seminary instructor. He also currently leads Gospel First, a ministry training churches to share the gospel.  Bob and his wife, Chris, were married in 1986 and have one adult son, Taylor, who is married to Nicole.

The announcement of the birth of Jesus is the hope to our shattered expectations and there is only one correct response.  But it's not an easy one.

The Lord announces the most amazing event in history to a humble young woman who responds in faith.

When prayers seem unanswered for a long time, belief in God's promises can grow weak. But God breaks the silence with good news of a promise he intends to keep

Drew Grigg is the Pastor of Youth and Families at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Cherry Hill, NJ where he lives with his wife Meghan and their three children.  Originally from Richmond, VA, Drew has been serving at Covenant Church since 2015, following his graduation from Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis.

As God promised, judgement would come on God's people (Judah) and God's city (Jerusalem). But God's plan of salvation wasn't done. He will bring salvation by faith in the eternal King.

In our moments of uncertainty and pain, God's eternal covenant to rescue and restore his people stands firm. There is no ultimate despair for a Christian because Jesus is the promised king and the perfect priest who keeps God's promises.

Earthly kingdoms and nations rise and fall, but our greatest need is a covenant relationship with the God who made the world and everything in it. God gives us the promise that such a relationship is possible and shows us how to obtain it.

When God's people live in a hostile land, God commands them to love and seek the peace of their enemies. And he provides the example and the resources to do that because he did the same for us. 

When God's people live in a hostile land, God commands them to love and seek the peace of their enemies. And he provides the example and the resources to do that because he did the same for us. 

God's wrath is described as a cup of bitter wine that is terrible and deserved by all. But Jesus drinks this cup and offers a new one to everyone who trusts in him.

Submitting to the sovereign hand of “the Potter” leads to lasting hope and freedom because Jesus willingly became clay and was smashed on the stone for us.

God welcomes our honest questions about suffering, but calls us to trust in his character and his work… even when we don't understand the details of his plan.

Worshiping anything other than God is dumb and won't make you happy. When you have Jesus, you have all you need.

A church can believe and do all the right things and still be far from God. Jesus desires a revival of passionate love among us.

It is possible to find false comfort in religious practice. But outward observance by itself won't change the untransformed heart. We need a Temple that will actually save us.

God exposes the sin in our lives as being not just simply a broken rule, but as an adulterous affair.  And yet, it's in the image of a marriage that we truly see how much he loves us.

God gives us a message to proclaim to our times. Sin has serious consequences, but there is hope for the broken.

In a world of conflict and suffering, the flame of hope may appear to be just a ‘flicker' that may fade. But because God rules history, it is a ‘glimmer' that will grow.

Meditation from Calvary's 70th Anniversary Celebration on August 25, 2024

In a dangerous and hostile world, God invites us to remember who he is and what he does.

Santo Garofalo and his wife, Mary Ellen served as MNA church planters in Atlantic City for 13 years and are now MTW missionaries at Nuova Vita in Salerno, Italy. He grew up in Point Pleasant and first came to faith through the ministry of Calvary. 

How can you get a good night's sleep when your life seems out of control? The Lord hears you and is your only source of safety.

The enemies we face are real and dangerous. But the Lord is our Warrior King who rescues us and gives us rest.

John Hanna is the New Jersey Capitol Minister for Ministry to State, an effort of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) to care for those serving in government through prayer, discipleship, and evangelism. He lives with his wife, Nevine, in Ramsey, NJ and has five children