Calvary Chapel Pocatello

05/11/2026

This is National Police Week! We want to thank and honor all the dedicated law enforcement officers who put their lives on the line to protect our communities. God bless them! Take every opportunity to encourage and pray for them as they serve.

05/11/2026

05/11/2026

Mark 16:15

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05/11/2026

Inside the dark hollow of their nest, Gouldian finch chicks open their mouths and reveal glowing blue and green phosphorescent beads around the edges of their gape. Gouldian finches often nest deep inside tree cavities where very little light reaches the chicks, so in near total darkness the parents can still see exactly where to place food. Tiny living lights built directly into the design of the chick.

Evolutionary stories constantly speak as if blind accidents somehow anticipated future needs. But these chicks needed this system to survive from the very beginning. A partially developed glowing signal would be useless. The parent must recognize it, the chick must produce it, and the timing must all work together immediately.

This is exactly what we would expect from a Creator who knows the needs of His creatures before they hatch. Not random mutations stumbling through darkness, but intentional engineering from the One who designed even the hidden places no human would normally see.

05/11/2026

Mark 8:34 |

05/11/2026

Changing our mortal bodies doesn’t change the truth of who we are in our immortal souls.

We are more than our bodies.

Death proves that. The real person is the invisible person within that controls the body by its decisions, not the body itself.

The body is designed by God and able to express the soul inhabiting it.

The soul is created in alignment with the body, either male or female.

(Gen 1:27 NKJV) "So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them."

Society has bought into a subtle lie that, in hopping onboard the efforts to rebel against God’s creative decisions, specific design, plan and purpose for mankind in agreeing to attempt to redefine gender, identity & autonomy to make it subjective to the whims, desires and emotions of the soul has in fact weakened those who believe the lie and so weakened society with such distraction as what should be non-negotiable as to be infiltrated with those who subvert.

The men are feminine and weakened and the women feel devalued in body and role and replaceable, neither doing as well as the authentic in this masquerade.

We can never be better than the real by imitation.

No one can be a better you than you; and yes, you matter in this world discovering and fulfilling your God-given purpose according to His design exactly as you are.

When we believe and receive Him He makes us new within and transitions us into the Kingdom of Light and Life and He transforms us from the inside out to take on His Image, however, this transition and transformation is coming into the fullness of why we were created, to bring Him pleasure and praise, which brings us the greatest satisfaction and fulfillment. It doesn’t require that we change how we were created, as male or female, nor to change our personality.

Attempting to be something other than what we were created to be by the Creator, God, Jesus Christ, is at the best hypocrisy, playing a role, imitation, living a lie, a misrepresentation of the truth.

It is buying into the lie the grass is greener on the other side or that you aren’t good enough as you are.

Living in the Truth according to God’s design leads to the most fulfilling life.

(Gen 5:2 NKJV) "He created them male and female, and blessed them and called them Mankind in the day they were created."

05/11/2026

Every effective gospel presentation, whether it’s a sermon given from a pulpit or part of a private conversation, ultimately needs to come down to this: Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who lived a sinless life, died on the cross for our sin. He paid the price for every wrong thing we’ve ever done. And after He conquered the power of sin, He rose again to conquer the power of death.

That’s the essence of the gospel. That’s the message we need to take to people.

Too often we bog ourselves down with too many arguments, counterarguments, and debate strategies. We look for “gotcha” moments, opportunities to use unbelievers’ logic against them.

A better option is to “travel light”—to fill our thoughts with Scripture alone. If we want to be effective in sharing our faith, our message must be centered on God’s Word.

05/10/2026

CC Pocatello Women's Ministry
There is always a lot happening at our Women's Ministry!
1633 Olympus Drive, Pocatello

Children’s Ministry, Youth Group, Men's Ministry and Women's Ministry at CC Pocatello

05/10/2026