Understanding the Bible
Posts on Understanding the Bible from Calvary's pastors and ministry leaders.
Understanding the BibleRemember Your Joy: What Philippians 1 Teaches About God's FaithfulnessPaul wrote with joy from a Roman prison. Pastor Marty Sloan opens A JoyFULL Life in Philippians 1 with three things to remember when your joy starts slipping.
Understanding the BibleChrist in You, the Hope of Glory: What Colossians 1:27 MeansChristian hope is bigger than going to heaven someday. Pastor Marty Sloan walks through Colossians 1 and what it means that Christ lives in us now.
Podcast | Beyond SundayMarc Turnage: Land, Faith, and LegacyBible scholar Dr. Marc Turnage joins the full conversation on why the land of the Bible matters and how biblical Israel connects to the modern state.
Understanding the BibleWhat Happens When You Die? Hope Beyond the Grave in 2 Corinthians 5Paul calls your body a tent and heaven a house. Here is what the Bible says happens when a follower of Jesus dies, and why it changes how you live now.
Podcast | Beyond SundayMarc Turnage: Is Israel Still Israel?Dr. Marc Turnage takes on whether the Israel in your Bible is the same Israel in the news, and why the honest answer is neither a simple yes nor a simple no.
Understanding the BibleThe Anchor Holds: Hope in Christ From Hebrews 6 and 1 Peter 1Most of our hopes rest on outcomes: the job, the diagnosis, the relationship. Missionary David Pepper shows from Hebrews 6 why biblical hope rests on a person, and why that anchor holds.
Podcast | Beyond SundayMarc Turnage: Are You Really A Disciple?Dr. Marc Turnage points to Ezra 7:10: study it, live it, teach it.
Podcast | Beyond SundayMarc Turnage: The Land Is A CharacterDr. Marc Turnage unpacks something modern readers skip past: in the ancient world, land, law, and worship were never separate categories.
Podcast | Beyond SundayMoved By FaithMatthew 8 tells of the centurion whose faith amazed Jesus. When God does not come through the way we expected, it does not mean He was not faithful.
Understanding the BibleA Faith That Gets God's Attention: The Centurion's Faith in Matthew 8Only twice do the Gospels say Jesus was amazed. One of those times, a Roman soldier's faith amazed Him. Cody Adams shows what that kind of faith looks like in Matthew 8.
Podcast | Beyond SundayThe Relationship of the BibleWhy does the Bible matter, and how should Christians read it? This conversation looks at Scripture as more than a reading habit.
Understanding the BibleWhy the Bible Matters: Building a Biblical Worldview from 2 Timothy 3The voices you trust are shaping who you become. Pastor Sean Sloan explains why the Bible, God's own breathed-out Word, belongs at the center of how you see everything.
Podcast | Beyond SundayWhat Are Spiritual Laws?This episode of Beyond Sunday takes up the question of what spiritual laws are and what the Bible says about them.
Podcast | Beyond SundayDoes Creed Matter?Why do churches recite creeds and follow an order of worship?
Understanding the BibleNot My Will: How the Cross Teaches You to Trust God in Luke 22 and 23The cross was a place of death, and it was also a place of trust. Pastor Marty Sloan shows how Jesus surrendered to the Father and how you can do the same when life looks like the end.
Podcast | Beyond SundayWho Needs the Holy Spirit?Who needs the Holy Spirit, and what keeps believers from experiencing his power?
Understanding the BibleWho Is the Holy Spirit? What Jesus Promised in John 14 and 16Jesus promised His followers an Advocate who would live in them. Here is who the Holy Spirit is, what He does in your everyday life, and why you may not be experiencing more of Him.
Understanding the BibleWhen the Wine Runs Out: What Jesus' First Sign in John 2 Means for YouAt a wedding in Cana, the wine ran out. Pastor Marty Sloan shows how Jesus' first sign turns life's "uh-oh" moments into divine opportunities, and why you have to taste and see for yourself.
Podcast | Beyond SundayCan God Keep His Promises?Can God keep His promises when our circumstances say otherwise?
Understanding the BibleCain, Balaam, and Korah: Three Warnings for a Pure Faith in Jude 11Jude names three men from the Old Testament as warnings. Pastor Marty Sloan explains what Cain, Balaam, and Korah reveal about worship, motives, and authority in your own faith.
Understanding the BibleRooted, Tested, Invested: How to Persevere in Your Faith from Jude 20 to 23Perseverance is more than grit. In Jude 20 to 23, believers learn to build themselves up, and Pastor Marty Sloan gives three words for faith that lasts: rooted, tested, and invested.
Podcast | Beyond SundayDeconstructing ChristmasWhat does it mean that God became a man?
Podcast | Beyond SundayDo You Know His Goodness?What does it mean to taste and see that the Lord is good?
Podcast | Beyond SundayHow Do You Reflect God's Glory?What is the glory of God, and how do we reflect it?
Podcast | Beyond SundayGod Is Good All The TimeWhat does it mean that God is good? This conversation starts with Jesus' words in Luke 18 that no one is good except God alone.
Podcast | Beyond SundayLet's Dive Into ProphecyWhat is biblical prophecy, and how can you tell the real from the counterfeit?