Calvary Community Church

12/01/2024

46 boxes = 46 children who will receive the gospel and a gift this holiday season💒 Thank you Calvary Community Church for another great year for Operation Christmas Child!❤️🎄

11/26/2023

64 boxes = 64 children and their families that will hear the gospel and receive a gift of love! Awesome job Calvary Community Church! Thank you for being a part of this special ministry💒❤️

11/09/2023

Church goals! Let’s go Calvary!❤️💒

Reaching for God-sized goals in East Texas! Raleigh P. recently lent a hand at her church's packing event as they hope to pack 650 shoebox gifts this year! 🎁 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒆𝒃𝒐𝒙 𝒈𝒐𝒂𝒍?

"Our church family is small in number, but through OCC we are able to grow our eternal ‘church family’ each and every year! Our church packing party is our favorite church event of the year. My children agree! Our small church in East Texas has a goal of 650 boxes this year!" - Randa P.

09/08/2023

Sunday School begins again on September 10!

With Labor Day behind us and summer vacations complete, we are now ready to begin again our regular teaching/discipleship ministries—including Sunday school! As a reminder, Sunday school is from 9-10am from September to June and encompasses ages 3 to adult. We currently have four levels of Sunday ...

02/15/2023

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Pastor Babij ended his Sunday sermon with the statement that the best defense against false teaching is corporate knowledge and love. That remark, in connection with our scripture reading from Ephesians 6:10-20 got me thinking this week about warfare and a particular parallel to the Christian life.....

02/09/2023

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In Pastor Babij’s Sunday sermon, he mentioned that we Christians preach the amazing mystery of Christ in believers (Col 1:27). This reality means that true Christians are transformed to become increasingly holy since Jesus indwells them by the Spirit. Pastor Babij also mentioned the corresponding ...

02/01/2023

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There is a way which seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death. Proverbs 14:12 One aspect of life that often trips up Christians is properly responding to feelings and emotions. In the Sunday sermon, Pastor Babij mentioned that feelings and emotions (I’m going to use those terms interc...

01/25/2023

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Considering the need for Christians to evangelize strategically, as we discussed in the Sunday sermon, I thought it would be useful to follow up with a few simple questions and answers regarding some common evangelism methods. May the Lord fill us with joy and boldness as we seek to be faithful disc...

01/18/2023

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When talking about the effectiveness of the simple, preached word of the gospel to save souls, many people quote Isaiah 55:10-11, which says, “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, And do not return there without watering the earth And making it bear and sprout, And furnishing seed t...

01/11/2023

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Since preaching this past Sunday’s sermon on evangelism, I’ve been thinking about a certain famous saying: “Preach the gospel; if necessary, use words.” The saying is attributed to Francis of Assisi, an influential Italian monk who lived from 1181-1226. On the surface, the saying suggests th...

01/04/2023

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“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” The above quotation comes from Bilbo Baggins, a character in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. On the surface, Bilbo...

12/21/2022

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This past Sunday, among other notable happenings, we finished our Sunday school series on early church history. While I very much enjoyed going through that study, there is one person in early church history that I never got to mention in our class, a person who inadvertently has become so popular t...