Disclaimer – From time to time blog entries are written by Calvary Chapel pastors that turn the magnifying glass from looking outward to looking inward. When this is done it’s easy to sound like one is being critical and negative. This can also give fuel to the anti-CC crowd to say, “See! Even their own [...]

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Stepping back into the position of pastor in a church makes one ask certain questions about certain things. Questions you might not otherwise ask yourself as an assisting pastor in a church. Questions about the color selection of the plastic table cloths. Questions about the banners on the walls. Questions about the plastic flower bouquets [...]

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What a great first Sunday. The people were very warm, very welcoming, very loving, and very excited to have us there. God also arranged a special bonus prize for that Sunday. On the Tuesday before this Sunday I was contacted by a guy representing a musician named Kathleen Carnali. He said they were on a [...]

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I’m getting ready to slide into the saddle at CC Forest Grove. It’s a community of about 20,000 people out on the fringe of the growth belt around Portland, OR. My family and I drove through the town looking at housing. We noticed that there is basically every denomination represented there in some great old [...]

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