Calvary Youth Ministry

Cry for Help (God’s Listening Ears of Love)

Posted on May 6, 2020May 7, 2020 by cbcnhyg

By Pastor David M. Choi Psalm 109 Here's a prayer that many of us might have a hard time praying. For in a number of ways, it acknowledges defeat, loneliness, and even deep hatred towards enemies. Although not many of us are bold enough to pray a prayer like this, David is. And through him, God is teaching us to...Read More

The Veil of (Mundane) Suffering

Posted on April 19, 2020April 19, 2020 by cbcnhyg

By Pastor David M. Choi Psalm 105 For many of us, we don't feel like praising God or turning our hearts to Him in worship. Not necessarily because we are directly affected, but because we see no explicit reason to. It's in such periods of testing that our response of worship, or a lack thereof, reveals the true nature of...Read More

Where Do You Stand?

Posted on April 5, 2020April 6, 2020 by cbcnhyg

By Pastor David M. Choi Mark 11:1-10; Matthew 21:1-11; Luke 19:28-40; John 12:12-19 Today is Palm Sunday! This day not only launches us into Holy Week, but it commemorates that day when Jesus entered into Jerusalem in triumph. The gospels tell us that large crowds have gathered together, and that the people have lined up, to see their King and...Read More

An Invitation to Lent

Posted on February 26, 2020February 26, 2020 by cbcnhyg

By Pastor David M. Choi Time Now Redeemed: Calendars are a wonderful tool, are they not? We all know that calendars help us keep track of time, but something we may not always be aware of is that they also help us locate our existence within history. That for whatever reason we live in this particular moment, and not in any other....Read More

Knowing Christ

Posted on February 17, 2020February 20, 2020 by cbcnhyg

By Pastor David M. Choi You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God....Read More

Weep No More

Posted on February 3, 2020February 4, 2020 by cbcnhyg

By Pastor David M. Choi And I saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, "Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?" And no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look into it, and I began to weep loudly because no one was...Read More

Who Do You Say That I Am?

Posted on January 27, 2020January 28, 2020 by cbcnhyg

By Pastor David M. Choi And Jesus went on with his disciples to the villages of Caesarea Philippi. And on the way he asked his disciples, "Who do you say that I am?" And they told him, "John the Baptist; and others say, Elijah; and others, one of the prophets." And he asked them, "But who do you say that...Read More

Despair and Salvation

Posted on January 21, 2020January 22, 2020 by cbcnhyg

By Pastor David M. Choi For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. -Romans 7:15 There is certainly more to fear in enjoying a life of unrepentant sin than in despairing over a life of ongoing sin. With regards to the former, their happiness...Read More

Why We Pray

Posted on October 5, 2019October 5, 2019 by cbcnhyg

By Pastor David M. Choi In his theological magnum opus, Karl Barth reminds us why we pray: “How can we understand [prayer] properly without perceiving at once that perhaps the very highest honour that God claims from man and man can pay Him is that man should seek and ask and accept at His hands, not just something, but everything he needs.”[1] What...Read More

Exceeding Righteousness

Posted on May 13, 2019May 14, 2019 by cbcnhyg

By Pastor David M. Choi For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. -Matthew 5:20 If you've been around the church for some time, you'll have noticed, whether from the pastor's preaching or from your small group bible studies, that the scribes and Pharisees are often...Read More

Living Testimonies of the Living Christ

Posted on April 22, 2019April 22, 2019 by cbcnhyg

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead... -1 Peter 1:3 Yesterday, on Easter Sunday, Calvary had the immense privilege of witnessing four baptisms. They were the baptisms of two youth...Read More

Salt and Light

Posted on April 15, 2019April 15, 2019 by cbcnhyg

By Minister Emily Cui You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. You are the light of the world. A town built on a hill cannot be hidden. Neither do people light...Read More

Tempted and Tried

Posted on April 8, 2019April 10, 2019 by cbcnhyg

By Pastor David M. Choi Read Matthew 4 Jesus was tempted by the Devil with three different offers. But the main offer, underlying all the other offers, was the offer to live independently from God. Satan was tempting Jesus to live only for Himself as he tried to isolate Jesus from the Father's will and plan. With great cunning and...Read More

Christ’s Baptism

Posted on April 1, 2019April 2, 2019 by cbcnhyg

By Pastor David M. Choi Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John [the Baptist], to be baptized by him. John would have prevented him, saying, "I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me? But Jesus answered him, "Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all...Read More

Pharisaical Self-Reliance

Posted on March 24, 2019March 24, 2019 by cbcnhyg

By Alexander Batson But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bear fruit worthy of repentance. Do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our ancestor’; for I tell you, God is able from these stones...Read More

Light Born Into Darkness

Posted on March 17, 2019March 17, 2019 by cbcnhyg

By Rachel Rim Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, became furious, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men. Then was fulfilled what was spoken...Read More

Hearing and Responding to the Voice of God

Posted on March 11, 2019March 11, 2019 by cbcnhyg

By Pastor David M. Choi And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly. But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying "Joseph, Son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which...Read More

On Lent

Posted on March 6, 2019March 6, 2019 by cbcnhyg

By Pastor David M. Choi Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting! -Psalm 139:23-24 This Wednesday is Ash Wednesday, which officially launches us into the Lenten season. After Advent, Lent is the next major season of...Read More

Faithful, Where Are Ye?

Posted on February 25, 2019February 27, 2019 by cbcnhyg

By Pastor David M. Choi Save, O Lord, for the godly one is gone; for the faithful have vanished from among the children of man. -Psalm 12:1 Group settings are always a dangerous place to be, as individuals often conform themselves to the larger group's behavior. This is what social psychologists call a herd mentality, that is, when an individual's...Read More

What Is Man

Posted on February 18, 2019February 19, 2019 by cbcnhyg

By Pastor David M. Choi When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him? -Psalm 8:3-4 The Whirlpool Galaxy, imaged above, stands about 23 million light years away, and inside...Read More