His affair had devastating effects. The power unleashed in marriage is real and right down to the soul. Those churches that highly treasure marriage are far more on the right track than those who treat it lightly.
Ran across a Calvary Chapel clone near my new house. They have 4 services in an absolutely astounding building. The building is in brick and stone and seems patterned after an old English Catholic Abbey. In any case, stunning.
Four services, 2 of which are basic and 2 in depth. We tried out the basic, and it was a bit of singing and a good sermon which truly followed the scripture. 45 minutes and not a minute more.
We’ll hit one of the deeper services as soon as wife returns from grandma, daughter, granddaughter trip to Florida.
It is supposed to be verse by verse expository.
I would like to hear your impression of that service.
We just got back from Maui. We went to a Calvary Chapel service on the beach in LaHaina. The pastor there is just amazing. He has an incredible and contagious enthusiasm for the Bible. This next week he will have finally finished preaching through the whole Bible after 26 years. Then he’s going to start over. Amazingly although people from all over the world go to his beach services every Sunday, his permanent flock is actually very small.
I get the feeling his congregation is not very big because he doesn’t hold back and try to sugar coat his sermons. On the Sunday service he was referencing the importance of repentance and he said, “Hell is real, people. You’ve got to take this seriously.” I’m sure he offended a lot of the cheap grace visitors.
If I lived on the island there is no doubt I would make this my home Church. I watch his sermons every week on Vimeo. His enthusiasm inspires me. Free mail me and I’ll send you a link.