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Title: Invited Into Rest Speaker: Nate Holdridge Overview: In this Sunday message from Matthew 11:20-30, Pastor Nate Holdridge walks through three surprising portraits of Christ from a single passage: Jesus the Judge, who denounces the towns that witnessed his mighty works yet remained indifferent; Jesus the Revealer, the exclusive door through whom the Father is known and who hides truth from the proud while unveiling it to the lowly; and Jesus the Rest Giver, who invites all who are weary and burdened to come to him. Pastor Nate presses the sobering weight of spiritual privilege—greater ligh
Title: When Jesus Doesn’t Fit Your Expectations Speaker: Manny Collazo Link to Sermon Notes
Title: On the Summit in the Pit Speaker: Nate Holdridge Overview: In this weekend's sermon on Psalm 41, "Blessed Are The Merciful, Right?," Pastor Nate Holdridge brings us to the close of Book I of the Psalter. David sings of a merciful God and his merciful people—but then asks what happens when those who extend mercy receive anything but mercy in return. Pastor Nate walks through the psalm's three movements: the call to strategically consider the poor (Ps. 41:1-3), the pain of a merciless world of sickness, slander, and betrayal (Ps. 41:4-9), and the response that refuses vengeance and rests
Title: On the Summit in the Pit Speaker: Nate Holdridge Link to Sermon Notes
Title: The Way from Fog Town to Clearview City Speaker: Nate Holdridge Link to Sermon Notes
Title: Life is a Breath Speaker: Austin Kava Link to Sermon Notes
Title: The Prayer You Think You Can’t Pray Speaker: Manny Collazo Link to Sermon Notes
Title: How to Not Break in a Broken World Speaker: Matt Kehler
Title: When Wickedness Wounds You Speaker: Manny Collazo Link to Sermon Notes
Our final Women's Gathering of the year with Denise Buck teaching through Luke 7. Link to message Notes Link to PDF Resource
Title: Hated Without a Cause Speaker: Nate Holdridge Overview: In this week's teaching at Calvary Church, Pastor Nate Holdridge walks through Psalm 35, David's raw prayer as a man attacked, betrayed, and taunted for no reason at all. We trace the psalm's three laments and their shared pattern of pain, honest request, and rising hope, showing how David's cry for vindication points forward to Jesus, who was "hated without a cause" and yet entrusted himself fully to the Father. Along the way, we address the hard question of imprecatory prayer, the ache of being wronged by those closest to us, and
Title: A Prayer for When You Aren't Quite Yourself Speaker: Nate Holdridge Overview: You're not yourself when you're afraid—but God is himself despite your fears. In this week's message from our summer Psalms series, Pastor Nate Holdridge walks through Psalm 34, a prayer David wrote from one of the lowest points of his life, after fear had driven him to feign madness before a pagan king. What David discovered in that cave became both a testimony and a teaching: the LORD answers those who seek him, draws near to the brokenhearted, and redeems the life of his servants. Pastor Nate unpacks what i
Title: Trust Jesus All the Way Speaker: Nate Holdridge Overview: In this message from our series The Promised King and His Good Kingdom, Pastor Nate Holdridge walks through Matthew 10:26–42, where Jesus calls his disciples away from the universal craving for safety and comfort and toward a life of danger and reward. Working through three movements—Jesus stood for us, so we stand for him (Matthew 10:26–33); Jesus lost his life for us, so we lose our lives for him (Matthew 10:34–39); and Jesus brought a message to us, so we receive his messengers (Matthew 10:40–42)—we learn how rightly ordered f
Title: How We Collide Speaker: Nate Holdridge Overview: In this Sunday message from Matthew 10:16-25, Pastor Nate Holdridge examines what it means for Christ's people to collide with darkness as they carry his life and light into dead and dark places. Jesus sends his disciples out as sheep among wolves, calling them to an intentional vulnerability marked by the wisdom of serpents and the innocence of doves. Pastor Nate walks through the church's realistic expectation of opposition—from courts and synagogues to governments and even families—while pointing to the Spirit's promised help in the ho
Title: Commissioned to Collide Speaker: Nate Holdridge Overview: In this Sunday message, Pastor Nate Holdridge walks through Matthew 9:35–10:15, where the compassionate King who has been colliding with darkness begins to multiply that work through ordinary people. Jesus looks out over crowds that are harassed and helpless—sheep without a shepherd—and is moved with a gut-level compassion that becomes the engine of everything that follows (Matthew 9:36). Rather than rushing to strategize, he commands his followers to pray that the Lord of the harvest would thrust laborers into the field, then fo
Title: The Good Contagion Speaker: Nate Holdridge Overview: In this Sunday sermon at Calvary, Pastor Nate Holdridge preaches through Matthew 9:18–34, where Jesus collides with a world polluted by death, shame, blindness, and spiritual captivity. Three remarkable encounters reveal the good contagion of the King: a synagogue ruler whose daughter has died, a woman whose twelve-year affliction has left her isolated and unclean, two blind men crying out to the Son of David for mercy, and a demon-oppressed man brought to Jesus by others. Rather than being defiled by what he touches, Jesus transfers
Title: What the King Does for Sinners Speaker: Manny Collazo Link to Sermon Notes
Teaching at our Women's Gathering with Chesli Manzo on the Samaritan woman in John 4.
Title: The Making of a Disciple Speaker: Nate Holdridge Overview: In this Sunday sermon from Matthew 8:18-34, Pastor Nate Holdridge walks through three encounters that reveal both what Jesus looks for in his followers and who Jesus actually is. The invitation is clear: surrender your comforts and competing loyalties, trust him in the loudest storms, and welcome him to rearrange your life today, before the final day when he will rearrange everything. Link to Sermon Notes
Title: When Jesus Draws Near Speaker: Matt Kehler Link to Discussion Questions
Title: Upside Down Response Speaker: Nate Holdridge Overview: In this Sunday sermon from Calvary Monterey, Pastor Nate Holdridge brings the Sermon on the Mount to its climactic conclusion in Matthew 7:13–29. Jesus does not end his kingdom curriculum with a tidy takeaway but with a choice—presenting four sharp contrasts that confront every hearer: two ways, two trees, two confessions, and two builders. Pastor Nate walks through each pairing, showing how Jesus calls disciples to enter the narrow gate of the gospel, follow true followers of Christ rather than plausible-sounding false teachers, re
Title: Upside Down Dependency Speaker: Nate Holdridge Overview: In this week's message from our Upside Down Kingdom series through the Sermon on the Mount, Pastor Nate Holdridge opens Matthew 7:7–12 and asks the question every honest disciple eventually arrives at: How can I possibly live the kingdom life Jesus has described? As Jesus winds down his longest recorded sermon, he turns from demand to provision, giving three extraordinary resources—persistent prayer, a good Father, and a Spirit-fueled imagination for loving others. These are gifts secured by Jesus himself, who prayed in our place,
Title: Upside Down Judgment Speaker: Nate Holdridge Overview: In this Sunday sermon from Matthew 7:1–6, Pastor Nate Holdridge continues the Upside Down Kingdom series at Calvary Monterey by confronting one of the most misused verses in all of Scripture: "Judge not." Pastor Nate shows how Jesus is not forbidding discernment but warning against a hyper-critical spirit that overlooks personal flaws while fixating on the flaws of others. Working through the memorable speck-and-log imagery, he calls us to humble self-examination as the necessary first step before we can become truly helpful to our
Title:An Admirable Church: A Brief Study of the Ephesian Church Speaker: Nate Holdridge Link to Sermon Notes: https://jesusfamous.com/blog/an-admirable-church-a-brief-study-of-the-ephesian-church/ Link to Discussion Questions
Title: Living Hope Speaker: Nate Holdridge Scripture: 1 Peter 1:3-5 Link to Sermon Notes: https://jesusfamous.com/blog/easter-2026/ Link to Discussion Questions: https://www.calvary.com/s/LG-Discussion-Questions-SP26_April2-5.pdf
