Calvary Chapel Bremerton - Sunday Service

Pastor Rick Beaudry exposits Ephesians 5:1–7, urging us to be followers of God who imitate Christ and “walk in love” as he loved us, offering ourselves as living sacrifices. He contrasts children of light with children of darkness, calling believers to holiness (rejecting fornication, uncleanness, covetousness, filthiness, foolish talk and jesting) and to a life marked by forgiveness, obedience and gratitude. Through personal testimony (including his conversion and marriage to Kathy) and pastoral examples (prayers and care for James, Linda and Sally), he illustrates sacrificial love, contentment, generosity and genuine repentance. He warns against cultural deception, challenges superficial professions of faith, and issues a sober call to examine our hearts and respond to Christ.

Pastor Rick Beaudry expounds Ephesians 4:25–32, urging us to respond to God's kindness by putting off five sins (lying, uncontrolled anger, stealing, corrupt speech, and bitterness) and by being kind, tender‑hearted, and forgiving as God forgave us. He weaves personal stories (a family camp song from Twin Peaks) with biblical examples (Joseph, Jesus cleansing the temple, Stephen) and practical counsel for marriage, church life, and conflict resolution. Beaudry also warns about contemporary deceptions from propaganda and AI to political and cultural lies and calls us to rely on the Holy Spirit to discern truth, restore relationships, and bear the fruit of kindness.

Pastor Rick Beaudry preaches from Ephesians 4:17–24, using the image of new clothes to urge us to put off the old man and its garments of depravity, darkness, death, and degeneracy. He contrasts worldly emptiness, secular philosophies and church compromise with the life-changing power of Christ, calling us into a real relationship, repentance, renewal of mind, and recreation as a new creation clothed in righteousness and true holiness. Mixing candid anecdotes and cultural observations, he warns against conforming to the world, false teaching, and sexual immorality while encouraging vigilance, discernment, and spiritual growth. The sermon closes with an appeal to accept Christ’s robe of righteousness, be transformed by the Spirit, and stand uncompromisingly for truth while ministering love and repentance to others.

Pastor Rick Beaudry continues the "Filled Up" series with an in-depth study of Ephesians 4:11-16, explaining how Christ gifts us with apostles, prophets, evangelists, and pastor-teachers to equip us for the work of ministry. We are called to move from looking up for our gifts to actively building up one another, growing into mature believers who speak truth in love rather than remaining as children tossed by every wind of doctrine. As each of us functions properly within the body, supplying our unique measure through love, we grow up into Christ and experience the fullness He intends for His church.

Pastor Rick Beaudry unpacks Ephesians 4:7–10 (Part One of his “Filled Up” series), urging us to be filled with the Holy Spirit and to exercise the unique gifts God has given each of us so the body of Christ can grow into the fullness of Christ. He explains the variety of spiritual gifts, the stewardship responsibility illustrated by the talents, and the call to “look up, ask, seek, knock” as we discover and reinvest what we’ve been given. He warns against false teachings, social-media spiritual abuse, and the need to be Bereans who compare Scripture with Scripture, contrasting being Spirit-filled with being influenced by the world. Drawing on Christ’s descent, victory, and ascension, he calls us to bold, faithful gospel witness so the church might be edified and filled up in love.