Calvary St. Cloud

God doesn’t accept you based on your doing, but on your believing and resting in the message of the Cross of Christ.

In this often quoted section of Romans, Colin reminds us that the meaning of God's word is deeper, richer, and essential to a faithful walk with Christ. No matter what your circumstance, through Christ, God is for you. You can be assured that nothing can separate you from the love of God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

God is Good, Jesus is Lord, How is God compassionate, How can we be cross-carrying, Image-bearing followers of Jesus.

In this very difficult text to interpret, we find Jesus revealing a critical factor for living well in our fallen world: That we must believe in the danger of idolatry, in the hands of Satan and his demonic hordes, to destroy humanity; and further, God’s judgment by turning us over to our idols.

The Revelation of Jesus is filled with some pretty astounding visions. How do we make sense of what we find here? Well, we have to begin by looking at a few other places in, well, the Bible. And when we do, we’ll see a pattern start to emerge. Namely, God seeks to get people’s attention through judgment. Furthermore, that his judgments are almost always a prelude to victory for his people.

We are living in a moment in history where our way of life is going through more disruption than any other in recent memory. It can cause us to feel overwhelmed in the face of it, struggling to know how to respond, when many, if not all, of us, desperately want to respond. We want to bring about transformation and change. But what if there was something that you could do to unleash a power far superior to anything you could do? And what if this something, ironically, was a thing that required stopping from all the other activities for a moment?

The question every person of faith must face is: Do God’s love and redemption work in this history in which I live? In what may be a surprising place, we find the answer in the story of the four horsemen released in the breaking of the seals, a story found in Jesus’ revelation to the Apostle John.

In Revelation chapters four and five, Jesus opens the door to a remarkable look at what is happening in the spiritual realm. As he does, we find that the way through suffering (and all of life, really) is sight and worship.

In Revelation chapters four and five, Jesus opens the door to a remarkable look at what is happening in the spiritual realm. As he does, we find that the way through suffering (and all of life, really) is sight and worship.

In this very personal and intimate letter from Jesus to the church at Laodicea, we are confronted by the Christ, who will call us out on all that is disgustingly sinful in us, while powerfully refusing to ever stop loving and reforming us.

In this letter to Sardis, we see that Jesus awakens gently, and promises extravagantly, to those who listen, repent, and rest in him.

In this letter to Thyatira, Jesus, Lord of All, shows us what he commends, what he refuses to tolerate, and what he offers those who believe.

In the death of Jesus, we see our King providing a powerful example of what it means to hold fast to the purpose of God in the midst of our deepest darknesses.

In this sermon from our series on Revelation, we listen to Jesus as he compassionately addresses the torn allegiances inside of all of us. He does so, maybe not as the Jesus we want, but the Jesus we need.

Even in the midst of a pandemic, we need to find a way forward, and truly live. With help from a Roman bishop, and an Apostle of Jesus, we learn that “This is the way.”

Is there a way of dealing with the fear, worry, anxiety, and even panic that grips us in these days, even if things don’t get better, and maybe even get worse? Is there a way to live without worry in that kind of reality? Is there a strategy for that? Jesus says there is, in a sermon delivered over 2,000 years before the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this second sermon on the seven letters to the churches, Jesus, in his grace, is honest about the cost of following him. And with remarkable compassion, he also points the way to how we can remain faithful in the face of such adversity.

In this first of seven letters to the churches of Asia Minor, Jesus reveals the centrality of love to his mission to save the world.

In this sermon we unpack the calling of Isaiah. His vision of the holiness of God, his overwhelming sense of the severity of his own sin, his experience of cleansing, and his obedient response to join in proclaiming the greatness of God.

As we make our way into the first major portion of the vision of Jesus Christ, from Jesus Christ, we find A Friend to Join Us, The God Who Helps Us, and The Response that Saves Us.