Christian Life

God Is Light, Part 2 (1 John 1:5-22)

The first thing John tells us God's light produces is fellowship with one another and personal growth, or sanctification, within. But before detailing this, John records the first claim of…

Nate HoldridgeSeptember 29, 2020

Christian Life

Video Message: Imputed Righteousness

Imputed righteousness is one of the greatest blessings that you and I could ever know. In Romans chapter 4 Paul tells us that Abraham was not justified by his works…

Nate HoldridgeSeptember 25, 2020

Christian Life

God Is Light, Part 1 (1 John 1:5-22)

We read John's purpose statement, his heart for his readers, a group of Christians in a circuit surrounding Ephesus, where he'd pastored. He loved this group and, fearing the false…

Nate HoldridgeSeptember 22, 2020

Christian Life

True Greatness (Acts 25:23)

In our world, true greatness is often clouded by grandiosity, beauty, and pomp. But I want to share with you a little passage concerning Paul's life. It has often recalibrated…

Nate HoldridgeSeptember 17, 2020

Christian Life

Living In Between the Promise and Fulfillment, Part 3 (Genesis 15)

When you are living in between the promise and the fulfillment, when the world seems dark and ominous, it is important to look to the cross of Christ. There, we…

Nate HoldridgeSeptember 15, 2020

Christian Life

Video Message: God WILL Provide

When God makes a promise, He keeps it. Sometimes God delivers on His promises in ways we don’t expect, but He always delivers in the way that He intends.

Nate HoldridgeSeptember 11, 2020

Christian Life

An Almost Unbelievable Truth (Romans 6:11)

Let me remind you of an almost unbelievable truth, one I say to myself a dozen times a day. "So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive…

Nate HoldridgeSeptember 10, 2020

Christian Life

Living In Between the Promise and Fulfillment, Part 2 (Genesis 15)

The life lived in between the promise and the fulfillment, must be able to see past circumstances. All Abram could see what Eliezer. But God could see descendants as numerous…

Nate HoldridgeSeptember 8, 2020

Christian Life

Video Message: Living the Great Life

How do you define a great life? Chances are that all of our expectations for a great life come up short in comparison to what God considers as a great…

Nate HoldridgeSeptember 4, 2020

Christian Life

Living In Between the Promise and Fulfillment, Part 1 (Genesis 15)

After defeating the four invading kings and returning the goods and peoples of the weaker kings, Abram had a meeting with the King of Salem and the King of Sodom.…

Nate HoldridgeSeptember 3, 2020

Christian Life

Friend of Sinners, Part 3 (Mark 2:16-17)

In part 3 of this Friend of Sinners series, we learn that somehow, some scribes of the Pharisees saw what Jesus was doing. We've already seen scribes in Mark's gospel;…

Nate HoldridgeSeptember 1, 2020

Christian Life

Video Message: What’s Your Idea of Who Jesus Is?

What’s your idea of who Jesus is? Is He just your friend when you’re lonely? Is He the person you go to only when things start to fall apart? Or…

Nate HoldridgeAugust 28, 2020

Christian Life For Men Book Excerpts

Book Excerpt: Dear New Dad

The funny thing about fathering is that even though the influence is so great and the responsibility so intense, billions of us have done it. Some have fathered well and…

Nate HoldridgeAugust 27, 2020

Christian Life

Friend of Sinners, Part 2 (Mark 2:15)

Now, the day of salvation in your life should be a day of celebration, and that's how Levi saw things. He invited Jesus to his house and invited his friends,…

Nate HoldridgeAugust 25, 2020

Christian Life

Video Message: A Belief That Can Carry You Through Crisis

Our responses to crisis reveal our beliefs about God. For some of us, we’re experiencing the tension that comes through the revealing process right now! But now is the time…

Nate HoldridgeAugust 21, 2020

Christian Life

The Call of Abraham (Genesis 12:1-3)

The passage tells us the Lord spoke to Abram. We aren't told how God spoke to Abram, nor does it tell us why God chose to call this man. I…

Nate HoldridgeAugust 20, 2020

Christian Life

Friend of Sinners, Part 1 (Mark 2:13-17)

In this three-part series, we are going to explore this question: What kind of people enter into God's kingdom? We are going to ask this because the first time Jesus…

Nate HoldridgeAugust 18, 2020

two person walking on dirt road between green trees

Christian Life Sunday Teachings

Follow #25 — Mark 8:34-38 — Following Jesus

I must start today's teaching by reminding you of our place in the gospel of Mark. Mark had begun his book by revealing Jesus' identity: he is the Christ, the…

Nate HoldridgeAugust 16, 2020

Christian Life

Video Message: Jesus’ Favorite Fruit

When Jesus looked at the people around Him, He hoped that their belief would cause so many beautiful actions to come from their lives. He desired that they would have…

Nate HoldridgeAugust 14, 2020

Christian Life A Guide For The Climb

A Guide For The Climb – Chapter 14 – War for Unity (Psalm 133)

“The Bible has the answers,” they say. Knowing how messed up life and the world and relationships can be, you decide to read it. Perhaps, you think, you will find…

Nate HoldridgeAugust 13, 2020

Christian Life Encouraging Word

Encouraging Word

“The believer, grounded in this love, is made stable for every season of life.”

Nate HoldridgeAugust 12, 2020

Christian Life

Video Message: Understanding Goals for Your Kids

Many parents are completely unprepared when it comes time to raise, not their little children, but raising young adult children. The goal during their adolescent years should be to teach…

Nate HoldridgeAugust 7, 2020

Christian Life

Encouraging Word

“God's people are at their best when God is at the center.”

Nate HoldridgeAugust 5, 2020

Christian Life

Video Message: God Would Be the One to Do the Work

We are great at identifying our own problems, but so often we don’t pray through them or call up God to help us solve them.

Nate HoldridgeJuly 31, 2020

Christian Life Book Excerpts

Book Excerpt: Let Us Hear

John was an incredible man with an incredible life story. Peter or Paul he was not. God had a different plan for his life. Paul had traveled and written profusely.…

Nate HoldridgeJuly 30, 2020

Christian Life

Encouraging Word

“Steadfastness is a bible word, sturdy and strong, the stuff of the faithful.”

Nate HoldridgeJuly 29, 2020

Christian Life

Video Message: Longing For What Is Right

The cry of the human heart is so often for justice. It is in us because God has made us and we long for that which we know is right.

Nate HoldridgeJuly 24, 2020

Christian Life

Know Your Lane (Psalm 131:1-2)

Have you ever felt the need to be an expert in something that you are clearly not qualified to be an expert about? Do you do a little research on…

Nate HoldridgeJuly 21, 2020

Christian Life

Video Message: God’s People Must Hang On to the Promise

Pastor Nate continues to teach through the book of Genesis on Tuesdays. This week’s teaching covers Genesis chapters 22 & 23. The teaching is live any where you listen to…

Nate HoldridgeJuly 17, 2020

a man sits on a rock staring across a lake at dusk

Christian Life A Guide For The Climb

A Guide for the Climb – Chapter 13 – Go Back To The Davidic Heart (Psalm 132)

When ancient Israel was set free from Egypt, they began to wander in the wilderness. Their leader, Moses, was called up to Mount Sinai to meet with God. There, Moses…

Nate HoldridgeJuly 16, 2020

Christian Life

Develop a Prayer Reflex

Do you ever read the news and feel like there's nothing you can do, like it's completely out of your control? Who do I call? What can I do? Who…

Nate HoldridgeJuly 14, 2020

Christian Life

Video Message: What Gives You the Right to Speak?

What authority have we been given? The authority to go into all the world and broadcast the gospel message. Jesus has given believers authority, not for us to brag or…

Nate HoldridgeJuly 10, 2020

Christian Life

A Goal for Parenting Teens (1 Samuel 3:8-9)

Many parents are completely blindsided by the teenage years. What they aren't prepared for is the difference between raising children and adolescents. The goal for each is different, and the…

Nate HoldridgeJuly 9, 2020

Christian Life

Video Message: How to Win Over Your Kids?

When your child calls you out for the hypocrisy in your life rather than defend yourself see it as a gift and grace from God.

Nate HoldridgeJuly 3, 2020

Christian Life

Christ Control (Hebrews 2:8)

Did you know that God created humanity to be in control? When in times of chaos and upheaval, it's hard to imagine, but the world was supposed to be in…

Nate HoldridgeJuly 2, 2020

Christian Life

Jesus Is the King of the Kingdom (Mark 1:14-15)

With the beginning of Jesus' preaching ministry, we have a conclusion, of sorts, to Mark's introduction. He had said, "The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of…

Nate HoldridgeJune 30, 2020

Christian Life

Video Message: Get Your Mind Right

We are entering into a new season, a post COVID season, and we need to get our minds right. This next season will require us to flexible and immovable and…

Nate HoldridgeJune 26, 2020

Christian Life Book Excerpts

Book Excerpt: Christ Unites

Paul tells us who this war is with: Satan, rulers, authorities, cosmic powers, and spiritual forces of evil. Paul takes no time defending the reality of these forces. To him,…

Nate HoldridgeJune 25, 2020

Christian Life

Jesus Is the Champion Who Delivers His People (Mark 1:12–13)

in the wilderness. Matthew and Luke record three direct temptations from Satan, along with Jesus' scriptural rebuttals to each. Instead, Mark gives an overview of the events. He isn't as…

Nate HoldridgeJune 23, 2020

Christian Life

Video Message: Should I Even Go Back to Church?

Do we even need to come back to church or can we all just stay home in our jammies to get the Word of God? Let’s be honest nothing can…

Nate HoldridgeJune 19, 2020

Christian Life

Partnering With God (Acts 21:19)

After many years among the nations, making disciples, Paul returned to Jerusalem. He reported to the church. He told them "one by one the things God had done among the…

Nate HoldridgeJune 16, 2020

a group of people holding hands on top of a tree

Christian Life

A Conversation on Race, Police Brutality, the Gospel, and the Church With Pastor Bill Buffington

We pray this conversation equips you, edifies you, and challenges you. In this conversation Pastor Nate Holdridge listens to Pastor Bill Buffington from Calvary Chapel Inglewood about all the civil…

Nate HoldridgeJune 12, 2020

Christian Life

Jesus Is God Breaking Through (Mark 1:9-11)

Now, early Christians clearly considered this a vital event. In the book of Acts, after Jesus ascended to heaven, the disciples felt they needed to find a replacement for Judas…

Nate HoldridgeJune 11, 2020

Christian Life

The Sleeper in the Stern (Psalm 107:28-31)

Written hundreds of years before Christ came, Psalm 107 describes the handiwork of God. "He made the storm be still," the psalmist cried, "And the waves of the sea were…

Nate HoldridgeJune 9, 2020

Christian Life

Video Message: Jesus the Rescuer

Whether it was creation’s chaos or a human’s body, Jesus exercised healing power over it all. Just by His word the storms stop and the demons rush out of a…

Nate HoldridgeJune 5, 2020

Christian Life

The Forward Focus of God (Genesis 17:5)

God is a renamer. He doesn't hesitate to take your old person and make you new. All through Scripture, God exemplifies his heart of renewal by renaming people he loved.…

Nate HoldridgeJune 4, 2020

Christian Life

Video Message: The Power Delay

What do you think God is doing when you’re waiting on Him? Do you wonder what His motives are for delaying? We all have moments of our lives when we…

Nate HoldridgeMay 29, 2020

Christian Life

Your Teenager Can Help You Destroy Hypocrisy (Luke 12:1)

When a child grows into adolescence, they begin seeing their parents in a new light. During their younger years, mom or dad was right and true, a source of illumination…

Nate HoldridgeMay 28, 2020

Christian Life

The God Who Sees (Genesis 16)

Hagar -- the mother of the Ishmaelites -- was found by God. Young, disillusioned, and abused, she fled for her life. As she ran into the wild, God ran in…

Nate HoldridgeMay 26, 2020

Christian Life

When You Feel Worn Down, He is Faithful (Job 14:18-19)

Job's hope was at its low ebb. Through his trials, in his despair, every expectation of good was displaced. He felt like a mountain crumbling away. Or like a stone…

Nate HoldridgeMay 22, 2020

Christian Life743

Blog Categories

Archives

Popular Posts

Jesus Famous is a ministry of Calvary Monterey. We exist to see the fame of Christ spread in all places.

Stay in the loop with our newsletter.

Jesus Famous·

Jesus Famous·

Jesus Famous·

Jesus Famous·

Jesus Famous·