Calvary Temple
243 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsSunday morning podcasts from Calvary Temple, a Pentecostal church in Campbell, California. Pastor: Debbie Haynes Website: calvarycampbell.org
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This, That and The Other Very Important Thing
March 03, 2024 18:29 - 70.5 MBIn Matthew 12:22-32 Jesus upset the religious leadership. He performed a miracle, healing a man who was blind and mute and the man both saw and spoke. But the Pharisees accused him of using Satan’s power to perform this miracle. The one thing God will not tolerate is attributing his divine power to Satan. It’s called blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, and it is the one and only unforgivable sin. This sin can only be committed by an unrepentant unbeliever. It is the saddest sin for an unb...
An Easy Thing For God
February 25, 2024 18:30 - 62 MBIn II Kings 3:9-20 the three kings of Israel, Judah and Edom joined forces to fight against the far mightier king of Moab, King Mesha who was poised to conquer all of them. They consulted the prophet Elisha and the Lord gave Elisha a message of deliverance for the three kings united against Moab. Elisha said, “this is a light thing in the sight of the Lord.” God worked a true miracle in providing needed water for the armies and horses, and gave the Moabites into their hands. If you, too...
Take It In Stride
February 18, 2024 18:30 - 37 MBWant to know how to ‘take it in stride’ and not get tripped up when we hit a curve on life’s pathway? Proverbs Chapter 4:1-4 instructs us to seek hard after God’s wisdom and, to develop good judgment. Verse 12 says that, when we are equipped with these two weapons, we will not be hindered nor restricted by whatever befalls our path and, when we run, we will not stumble or fall. Jude Verse 24-25 confirms this; Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the ...
Put Your Faith In Him
February 11, 2024 18:30 - 52.4 MBLuke 24 records the two men walking from Jerusalem to Emmaus after Jesus’ death and they said, we had hoped that he was the Messiah, the one sent to rescue Israel—but now, he’s dead and our hope is gone. Like we do, too, they assume’d that their circumstance was too much for God to change! But when they came to know Jesus was alive, they said, didn’t our hearts burn within us when he explained the scriptures to us! Just before his ascension, Jesus also opened the scriptures about hims...
A Sign For The Unbeliever - Acts 2-4
February 04, 2024 18:33 - 66.9 MBIn Acts 2-3 we see the Holy Spirit working miracles through the early church to capture the attention of unbelievers and open their hearts to the gospel message. God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and He is still calling to the unbeliever. Like the church in Acts 4, we diligently pray that the Holy Sprit work miracles through us as a sign to the unbeliever that the gospel is Truth. [In Acts 2, the Holy Spirit falls on all gathered in the upper room and they begin speaking in u...
Barometer of Discipleship
January 28, 2024 18:30 - 43.2 MBThe measurement, or barometer of discipleship that Jesus taught in Luke 14:25-35 was certainly not easy to achieve. He spoke of ‘hating’ those we love most, the point being that we cannot derive personal comfort nor satisfaction by loving anyone else more than we derive by loving Christ! He spoke of carrying our own cross—just as He did on the way to his own death, and finally, counting the high cost of being a disciple, for he knew it would cost us something of ourselves. It doesn’t s...
I'll Meet You There
January 21, 2024 18:32 - 36.9 MBFrom the beginning of creation, God sought a way to commune with man, but sin was always in the way. In Exodus 24 and 25, God formed a plan and created a place for this communion to take place, and He told Moses, you build it this way, and I'll meet you there! But first, the sin issue had to be dealt with by the sprinkling of the blood of the animal sacrifices upon the elements of the tabernacle, the altar and finally, the people, themselves. Only then could they approach the Holy God....
Mount Zion
January 14, 2024 18:32 - 68.8 MBMount Zion is prevalent throughout scripture. It was a physical mountain in ancient Jerusalem, but it was also used to describe the Jewish Nation, and it is referred to as the Heavenly Jerusalem and will be the physical location of the Millennial Jerusalem, and it was the very birthplace of the early church! Mount Zion was the dwelling place of God. It was where people physically came to worship God. Hebrews 12:18-24 NLT tells us that Jesus came as the fulfillment of Mount Zion—and that w...
Nahum's Hard Message
January 07, 2024 18:32 - 60.3 MBLess than 90 years after the prophet Jonah had preached to Ninevah that they must repent of their sin of idolatry and return to God, they’d not only fallen back into idolatry but had become so barbaric and cruel to the people of Israel that God had had enough and sent the prophet Nahum to Ninevah, but this time, it was to tell them of their certain, unavoidable destruction. This strong city that was considered virtually indestructible, was completely destroyed at God’s hand. Nahum 1:3 say...
My New Year’s Resolution
December 31, 2023 18:32 - 35 MBThe Lord gave Isaiah some very strong words about not following along with his culture, which we can certainly relate to today. V11 The Lord has given me a strong warning not to think like everyone else does. He said, Don’t call everything a conspiracy, like they do, and don’t live in dread of what frightens them. Make the Lord of Heaven’s Armies holy in your life. He is the one you should fear. He is the one who should make you tremble. He will keep you safe. This is my New Year’s Re...
Joy To The World
December 24, 2023 18:30 - 36.7 MBIt can be hard for us to comprehend some portions of the Christmas story. While the joy that comes from the birth of a baby is easy to relate to, it’s harder for us to comprehend that, Jesus WAS—HE EXISTED, in all of His Heavenly, Kingly, status, before he was sent to earth in the flesh as a baby by His Father. We must remember, remember and worship, the one who LEFT the splendors of Heaven; who was separated from the comfort of His Father’s bosom and who lowered himself in status, to com...
The Prince of Peace
December 17, 2023 18:32 - 72.8 MBThe book of Isaiah prophecies the coming of the Son, who would be called the Prince of Peace. The Apostle Paul wrote to the Christians at Rome that the God of peace shall bruise Satan under our feet shortly. From the first prophecy of the promised Messiah through the final war between Jesus and Satan, when Jesus fully and finally crushes him, God had a plan that Jesus would be the Prince of Peace on earth. In the “in-between” times, right at the point where we live our very lives, Jesus...
What Worship Is And What It Is Not
December 10, 2023 18:29 - 38 MBGenesis 22:1 tells us that Abraham’s faith was tested by God. God required him to sacrifice his beloved son, Isaac, the son of promise to God. Abraham said that this act of service to the Lord was “Worship.” That’s a very, very different interpretation of what some modern-day church goers might call worship. It’s not fancy lights and loud music performed by an entertainment group. Romans says that worship is our spiritual service. Are we holding on to anything at all so tightly that we ...
Repentance Precedes Revival
December 03, 2023 18:29 - 52.5 MBRepentance always precedes revival. It’s God’s way. In the book of I Samuel Chapter 8, God had provided Israel with a righteous judge and prophet, Samuel. But the people rebelled, and demanded a king. Despite God’s warnings that a king would exact taxes from them, put their men into work camps and hijack their women for his own purposes, they still wanted a king. So God gave them Saul as their king. Saul had every outward appearance of a great king—but inwardly, he lacked righteous charac...
Thanksgiving Testimonies
November 26, 2023 18:29 - 121 MBLast week Pastor Debbie called on the congregation to prepare something uplifting and edifying to share with the church this week. Join us as we share our testimonies, favorite scriptures, or whatever else we felt may uplift and edify the church.
The Thankful Gentiles
November 19, 2023 18:32 - 43.3 MBThe Jewish leaders were so indoctrinated in the laws of Moses that they were blind to the message of Jesus Christ as the Messiah. In Acts 13, Paul built on the familiar, until in Acts 13:23, he told them: And it is one of King David’s descendants, Jesus, who is God’s promised Savior of Israel. There, he’d said it. Addressing yet another group of staunch Jewish leaders in Rome, in Acts 28:28, Paul said, Brethren,… I believe that the HOPE OF ISRAEL, THE MESSIAH, HAS ALREADY COME. But, sin...
Special Presentation & Discusison
November 12, 2023 18:30Once again Israel has come under attack and anti-semitism seems to be exploding all over the world. But what does the Bible say about God's relationship to Israel - in ancient times and today? Join us today in worship and as we present and discuss Tiff Shuttlesworth's "5 Common Myths About Israel".
Two Yokes
November 05, 2023 18:30 - 47.7 MBYokes are intended to equalize the weight of a heavy load between a team of animals. It serves them well as long as the animals don’t rebel under the yoke. God told the prophet Jeremiah to fashion a yoke around his own neck as an illustrated sermon to show the people of Israel that they soon would be under the yoke of the King of Babylon because of their sin. He warned them not to listen to their false prophets who would say that all was well and that God would not put them under the fore...
Faith or Fear?
October 29, 2023 17:29 - 40.7 MBFaith or Fear? Sometimes, because we are 100% human, it’s both. The Prophet of Israel, Elijah was mightily used by God in I Kings Chapters 18 &19. He did mighty things through God, but his humanness was a big struggle for him. He was called to a confrontational type of ministry—one that required introspection and personal decision. He asked the people, “How long will you waiver between two opinions? If God is God, then serve Him, but if Baal is god, then serve him!" The people didn’t like...
Remember Your Spiritual Landmarks
October 22, 2023 17:30 - 49.7 MBIt’s important to God that we remember. Like in Joshua, Chapter 4, where He instructed Joshua to have the priests erect memorial stones so that they would always have a marker by which to remember God’s miraculous deliverance of them out of Egypt. In Deuteronomy 19:14 God told the people not to forget the landmarks, the stones that would mark their properties in the new Promised Land, and not to move their neighbor’s landmarks. Physical landmarks are good, but spiritual landmarks of where...
The Past Into the Present
October 15, 2023 17:32 - 32.9 MBHave you ever felt like you’ve lived through something before? Deja vu? We can find the answer to this in Ecclesiastes 3:15! What is happening now has happened before and what will happen in the future has happened before, because God makes the same things happen over and over again. When God brings the past into a believer’s present, He is virtually giving us a do-over to learn from our mistakes the first time around, repent, and do it better the next time. For non believers, He’s giving...
Order Out Of Chaos
October 08, 2023 17:32 - 38.3 MBI Corinthians 14:33 tells us that God is not a God of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints. From the beginning, on the very first day of creation, through the power of the Holy Spirit, God established order out of chaos. He brought form and filled the voids with all things pertaining to life and godliness. He did the same with the coming of Christ; all things done in the order in which God intended it. Jesus’ birth, life, death and resurrection all in accordance ...
The Drink Offering
October 01, 2023 17:35 - 64.2 MBIt is said that the drink offering described in Numbers 15 represents the works that the worshipper did in order to make the sacrifice. The drink offering was not shared with the priests or the worshippers, but was only for God. Jesus, under the New Covenant, became our sacrifice, and when he was offered once and for all, the Old Testament sacrifices were abolished. But, the drink offerings—the worshipper’s efforts and works for others, are still required by God! Romans 1:1-2 tells us tha...
God's Dual Intent
September 24, 2023 17:32 - 39.6 MBGod had a dual intent and purpose for the children of Israel. On the one hand, He wanted them to learn to trust Him, depend fully upon Him, but He also wanted to bless them. To provide for them. So He took them through the desert, through hardships and trials to teach them. And God will do the same for us. Whatever it takes—whatever it costs, for us to learn to trust Him, for as Psalm 46:1-3 assures us, He is our refuge and our strength, our very present help in time of trouble. Even when...
Do It All in the Name of Jesus
September 17, 2023 17:30 - 32.5 MBOne of the most confusing aspects of Jesus’ power is that of healing. Isaiah 53:5 tells us that the reason Jesus bore vicious beatings and the stripes on his back was for our healing. Jesus healed every single person who came to him in faith. He also said that those who believe and follow him will have visible signs that follow them—signs that identify believers with Jesus. One of those signs listed in Mark 16:18 includes that believers who have faith in Jesus will lay their hands on sick...
A Form of Godliness
September 10, 2023 17:32 - 44.5 MBIn the 17th Chapter of Judges is a very disturbing story of how a mother and son blended the teachings of God, which they knew from childhood from the Books of the Law written by Moses, with idolatry to suit themselves. On the one hand, the mother was thankful to God for the good fortune of the return of her stolen money (stolen by her own son!), but on the other hand, she used part of the money to create idols for her son’s house and the son used his own son as a fake priest, overseeing hi...
A Prophecy, A Prayer & A Praise
September 03, 2023 17:30 - 52 MBA prophecy, a prayer, and a praise. Many times, God uses the physical realm as a prophetic model of what He plans to do in the spiritual realm. This has recently happened at our church. In Job, God instructed Job to pray for his friends as they made a sacrifice to God because they mis-spoke about God to Job. In doing so, God doubly restored all Job’s losses. Focusing on others is paramount to our own healing. Praise God for the entirety of the Bible, the logos, which is the inspired...
Present Your Evidence
August 27, 2023 17:29 - 40.3 MBHave you ever felt the need to present your evidence in God’s courtroom of prayer? King Hezekiah did in II Kings 18-19, when Sennacherib, the wicked king of Assyria and his even more wicked cup bearer, Rabshakeh, came against him to seize the throne in Judah. They brought railing taunts and blasphemies against the Lord God of Israel, so Hezekiah took it to prayer, calling out their crimes and presented all the evidence before God. God heard Hezekiah and confirmed with signs that He woul...
Beware of Deception
August 13, 2023 17:33Audio Block Double-click here to upload or link to a .mp3. Learn more The Bible speaks very clearly about deception, especially in the last days. We see deception in our society at every turn and if not careful, can become conditioned to it. Psalm 12 talks about three types of deception; vanity, which we tell ourselves, flattery, which others tell us, and if these are left to take seed in our hearts they can lead to blasphemy against God. Deception was pro...
But Noah Found Grace in the Eyes of the Lord
August 06, 2023 17:33 - 41.9 MBGenesis Chapter 6 paints a very bleak picture of how evil man had become in such a short time from creation. The Bible says that every thought was continually evil. Yet, in the midst of all that debauchery, there was a man who was pure in heart and walked with God. Noah was that man and that’s why God chose him to build the ark, to sustain the flood and repopulate the earth. Sometimes we might become overwhelmed with the conditions in which we live today. But. like Noah, if we remain pu...
Blessed, Fruitful and Virtuous
July 30, 2023 17:30 - 54.6 MBHave you ever wondered why, and how you ended up here on earth? In Genesis 1:26 God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness and He created male and female; and then God BLESSED them, charged them to be fruitful, and gave them dominion over every living thing that moved upon the earth. There’s how. Wise King Soloman said in Ecclesiastes 7:29 But this one thing I’ve found, God created man to be virtuous. In John 15:16, Jesus said, I appointed you that you would go and bear fr...
Stephen Saw Jesus
July 23, 2023 17:30 - 41.4 MBAnd Stephen, full of grace and power, was performing great wonders and signs among the people. Acts 6:8. Stephen was used powerfully by God in the demonstration of miracles and in preaching the Word of God. But, yet, evil men took his life for his good deeds. So, where is the hope in this message? It is in this: that even as these evil-doers were stoning Stephen to death, he looked into Heaven and saw Jesus standing at the right hand of God, waiting to receive his spirit into everlasti...
Encounters With God
July 16, 2023 17:27 - 66.2 MBHave you ever had an encounter with God? Isaiah saw the Lord, high and lifted up in the Temple and he felt overwhelmed and unholy in the presence of a Holy God. Moses had an encounter with God when God called him from the burning bush and charged him with leading the children of Israel out of Egypt and he felt incapable. Jacob physically wrestled with God for his blessing, and he was left with a permanent physical mark from the encounter. God wants to have encounters with us but we mus...
Men Are As Grass
July 09, 2023 17:33 - 42.2 MBIn II Kings 20 we read of the plight of King Hezekiah. In the space of three verses, King H was going to die; so then he prayed, and then God reversed his plan and gave King Hezekiah another 15 years of life, and he healed him using a poultice of figs. Life is truly fragile and our days are numbered by the Lord. Should we be fearful then? Bible tells us that men’s days are like grass; only a fleeting time on this earth. But the lovingkindness of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasti...
Men are as Grass
July 09, 2023 17:33 - 42.2 MBIn II Kings 20 we read of the plight of King Hezekiah. In the space of three verses, King Hezekiah was going to die; so then he prayed, and then God reversed his plan and gave King Hezekiah another 15 years of life, and he healed him using a poultice of figs. Life is truly fragile and our days are numbered by the Lord. Should we be fearful then? Bible tells us that men’s days are like grass; only a fleeting time on this earth. But the lovingkindness of the Lord is from everlasting to ever...
The Tent of Meeting
July 02, 2023 17:32 - 110 MBIn the book of Exodus 33 God told Moses to set up a tent of meeting outside the camp of the Children of Israel for them to meet together. All the people watched as Moses entered the tent, where the visible cloud of God was present over the entrance. Moses' protégé and successor, Joshua, also went to the tent of meeting with Moses, but verse 11 tells us that when Moses returned to the camp, Joshua stayed in the tent of meeting and wouldn’t leave. Later on, when God’s plan for Joshua was ma...
God's Love Language
June 25, 2023 17:30 - 35.7 MBA great book for married couples to read is The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman. It helps us to understand what our spouse needs from us in order for them to feel loved. For some, it’s to receive small gifts and remembrances. For others, it’s acts of service that make them feel loved. God has put his love language in each of our hearts. With it, the Bible says we are sealed to him until the day of our redemption. We can always know that He loves us, by his Word, his abiding presence a...
Happy Father’s Day
June 18, 2023 17:30 - 136 MBAlthough we don’t have a lot of insight from scripture about the relationship between Father God and Jesus the Son, before Jesus left his Father’s presence in heaven and came to earth as our Savior. But we do know that their exclusive relationship was based on love and trust. Everything Jesus said, did and taught was from the perspective of the Father, and everything Jesus had, including those souls who would believe in Him, were given Him by the Father. Jesus teaches us in the Matth...
Follow Me
June 11, 2023 17:30 - 104 MBIn Matthew 16 Jesus told Peter and Andrew, to follow Him and they left their fishing nets full of fish and immediately followed after Jesus in his earthly ministry. Jesus told the rich young ruler in Matthew 19, to sell his possessions, give to the poor and then come follow Him, but he was too attached to his money and couldn’t part with it. Have you considered where you are on the path to following Jesus? Are you willing to forsake all and renounce all lesser loyalties to follow Him? ...
Where Is My God?
June 04, 2023 17:35 - 51.6 MBPsalm 42 describes the Psalmist’s strong thirst for the Lord. He had once known the safe place and refreshment from being in the presence of God, but now because his enemies were pursuing him and he couldn’t feel God and that caused him to question, where was his God? In Psalm 73, David saw the prosperity of the unrighteous, and he asked the same question…where was God? But, he found the answer when he went into the sanctuary of the Lord! And once again, in Psalm 77, He found that preciou...
The New Covenant
May 28, 2023 17:25 - 35.4 MBSometimes, learning new things can be really confusing, especially when the beloved, familiar old ways are so different. That’s how the Jews felt about the New Covenant, Jesus Christ. And the Gentiles weren’t much better! Instead of turning away from their worship of idols, they tried to worship the messengers of the New Covenant. The Gospel of the New Covenant is not hard. Disciple James put it in easy to understand terms. Stay away from idols and all things related to them. Stay away fr...
Adoption and Inheritance
May 21, 2023 17:33 - 41.6 MBIn Genesis 48, the Holy Spirit directed Joseph to take his two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim with him to visit their grandfather, Jacob, one last time before his death. Although tradition would dictate that Manasseh, the elder son, would receive the blessing of Jacob and the greater portion of the inheritance, God had a different plan. Thank God, that we too, as believers in Christ, though we were also undeserving of the blessing of sonship and the inheritance of eternal life, God also had a...
Rebekah's Promise
May 14, 2023 17:30 - 33 MBSometimes, promises fulfilled are a long time coming! This was true for Sarah and Abraham. Even though God had promised Abraham that his seed would number as the stars in the sky and the sands of the seashore, Sarah was 99 years old when she finally conceived their only son, Isaac. The same was true for Isaac's wife, Rebekah. Though Isaac loved Rebekah from the moment he saw her, and though she had received an incredible prophetic word that she would be the mother of thousands of millions...
A Sweet-Smelling Fragrance
May 07, 2023 17:27 - 41.1 MBIn II Corinthians 2, the Apostle Paul is discussing the necessity of forgiveness of a brother in Christ who had fallen into sin, so that the man can be restored back to fellowship with the church and thereby, not lose hope of eternal life with Christ and the saints. But, then Paul also points out that the body of Christ must be held to the responsibility of forgiving and restoring the man. So, forgiveness works both ways; to the benefit of the one being forgiven so they won't become despo...
A Measure of the Spirit
April 30, 2023 17:30 - 47.4 MBIn Numbers 11:10-17 Moses tells God that the job of caring for all those people was just too big for one man and that he needed help, and God agreed! So, God anointed 70 men with a measure of the same spirit of God which Moses had, to enable them to prophecy and take care of the people’s spiritual needs. This eased the burden for Moses, whom God called a friend, and allowed him to be the one with whom God would meet face-to-face. When Jesus was baptized with the Holy Spirit in the book of...
His Strength In My Weakness
April 23, 2023 17:30 - 32.1 MBAs mature Christians, we must recognize that some Kingdom principles are paradoxical. On the one hand, the Psalmist David wrote in Psalm 103:3 that God heals all our diseases. But, in II Corinthians 12:9, when the Apostle Paul prayed three times for healing, the Lord's response was that His grace is sufficient and that His power works best in our weaknesses! It's certainly in accordance with scripture to continually ask in faith for all of our needs, but it's also scriptural to endure t...
Two Things & A Rabbit Dream
April 16, 2023 17:32 - 80.2 MBThis message is very different from the norm and includes a prophetic dream. The three things to take away from this message; 1) The written Word of God is alive and stands on its own meaning and merit, whether or not additional commentary is included! 2) God will often give dreams as warnings, teachings, or some other insight. I believe this one is prophetic in that we must be ready and willing because we may be called upon to deal with evil spirits in church. 3). Even when we don’...
Resurrection Sunday
April 09, 2023 17:30 - 62.4 MBThe Apostle Paul wrote in I Corinthians 5:7-8 that, just as God told the Israelites to purge their homes of leaven, which represents sin, and to put the blood of a lamb over their doorposts so the death angel would pass over them, the church must also purge herself of sin, and even remove members who practice sinful behavior, because there was no room for sin under the blood of Christ. At this time of year, we acknowledge and mourn the excruciating death of Jesus on the cross and we thank...
Jesus, The Raiser of The Dead
April 02, 2023 17:32 - 46.3 MBThe Bible records three people whom Jesus raised from the dead. These were amazing miracles that caught the attention of many, many people and caused them to believe in Jesus. Jesus had the power over death because He was divine, fully God in the flesh. But also, these miracles demonstrate Jesus’ humanity, in the love and compassion He had for the families who were grieving the loss of their loved ones. These miracles give us such hope and confidence in that day when a mass resurrecti...
Lead Me To The Rock That Is Higher Than I
March 26, 2023 17:30 - 48.5 MBThe book of II Samuel chronicles some of the despair and devastation that King David suffered in his lifetime; some of which was his own making. But even when almost everyone he loved and trusted had betrayed him and even tried to murder him and steal the throne, led by his own beloved son Absalom, David kept his heart humble and cried unto God for deliverance. The twists and turns in this book are numerous, but through it all, even when his heart was overwhelmed, as he wrote in Psalms 61:1...