Pastor's Perspective

Dear Calvary Family, Most of us rejoice and celebrate the growing conservative movement in our colleges and beyond. Born-again believers standing arm in arm with conservative unbelievers for better government is good for the nation, but don’t confuse it with revival. Revival comes from a new birth—a new heart. It involves death to the old life, even a good, conservative, clean-living, Midwestern, Republican-leaning old life. The moral difference between a left-leaning Antifa

Dear Church, It’s here, it’s comfortable, it’s beautiful—it’s fall! October is my favorite month of the year, in my favorite season of the year. But like many blessings in life, it goes by so fast, and in a blink, Christmas songs will be playing. Drink it in and enjoy it while it lasts. A drive on the Blue Ridge Parkway is free and spectacular, a quiet hunt in a tree stand is essential (required for CCF membership ?), and coffee on the porch is highly recommended. In our John

Dear Calvary Family, In this amazing journey of life, choices for both good and evil abound. America is still the land of opportunity, but that goes both ways. When the heart turns rebellious, the desire for new and creative ways to express evil and resist what is reasonable, kind, and good is astounding. The culture in the USA today is charged. The decision to publicly follow Jesus Christ is a hot topic of discussion. The self-comforting, lukewarm, middle ground of a child o