Calvary Church Los Gatos

We all have hopes and fears. Many of the things we hope in can lead to our greatest disappointments. The psalmists longed for the King who would come and set all things right.

Praise lifts our eyes to God. Proper view of God. In Hebrew, hallelu means “praise”, but it’s a command and an invitation to praise.

Gratitude can enlarge our hearts and further our trust in God. When we acknowledge His ways and all that He has accomplished it can have a profound impact on us even when we find ourselves in the valleys of life.

To repent is to change one’s mind and reorient ourselves in a different direction.  Many of us drift over time and find that we are on a path of our own making.  Repentance turns our hearts and minds back toward God, that once again we may find ourselves following Him.

When we recognize and own our failings we break their hold on us. When we confess to God, we are admitting our great need for Him.

Holiness in the midst of anger and injustice? Anger can be crippling if left unchecked.  David was not afraid to voice his anger and in so doing was able to hand his anger over to God and entrust it to God.  In doing this, David modeled what it looks like for us not to be held captive to our emotions, and anger in particular.

Lament and airing our grief is important to our human experience.  Learning to give voice to our soul even in the midst of doubt, pain, and sorrow can be a powerful way to allow God to reshape us and heal us.

As we follow God we begin to align all areas of our life to Him. This often does not happen all at once, but is a process of giving more and more of our lives to Him. Over the next 8 weeks we are going to allow the book of Psalms to guide our prayers and shape our lives.

Prayer’s for the Gospel - We (Calvary Church) are prayers. We pray for those far from God to know Him, we pray for each other’s growth and we pray that we are faithful to all that God has called us to be and do.

We (Calvary Church) are called to defend the Gospel by living it out with each other and for each other. The greatest defense of the Gospel is to live out its transforming power.

We (Calvary Church) are fellow patients in the hands of the Master Physician. We are called to embrace the work that God is doing in us, for us and with us.

We (Calvary Church) are called to not only share a gift, but a task: the expansion and furtherance of the Gospel.

The message of Jesus was incredible because His love for us can overcome our hate for others. The most compelling stories of forgiveness come with a recognition of an extraordinary need for grace in our own lives. We create space in our lives for others to experience Jesus.

Peace comes from the proclamation that God is with you. The angel came to Mary announcing the Messiah's birth. She graciously accepted her role, knowing that God would be with her.

Jesus is the restoration of our relationship with God. We celebrate by recognizing the great gift in light of our own brokenness.

The foundation we build on shapes our lives.

Jesus talks about His way being a narrow road. In our modern understanding, this seems restricting, but what if the narrow road was actually freeing?

We should not confuse self-reliance with Godly living.

Anxiety reveals our hopes and fears and where we place our trust.

Believe it or not, we are a religious culture. Not all religion has to do with our typical definitions of "religion."