Calvary Road Baptist Church

319 West Olive Avenue • Monrovia • (626) 357-2711



Home of

Calvary Road Baptist Academy

Where traditional values are taught in a safe environment
Kindergarten through High School (now enrolling)

A Palm Sunday Promise And Warning

Matthew 10.22; 24.13; Mark 13.13

The Lord Jesus Christ provided His disciples and us with a specific promise and an implied warning. Endure what may come, and salvation is promised. Failure to endure what may come and salvation is not promised. Understand that the enduring addressed here does not factor into any sinner’s salvation. No one becomes a Christian or more fit for heaven by enduring the challenges and temptations of the Christian life. However, trusting Jesus as your Savior is not something that can actually be seen by anyone. The Parable of the Sower explicitly shows that even the most joyous response by a sinner to the Gospel is no necessary proof of genuine conversion, Matthew 13.20-21. What can be seen by the believer in his own life and by others who observe your life's work and ministry is your endurance in the face of challenges, temptations, opposition, resistance, physical problems, and the difficulties associated with advancing age. What does this mean? It means that I fear for the person who trusted Christ as a teen, who served in Church ministry for the next fifty years, and who slipped into a retirement of relaxation, never again serving God.

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Thinking About Visiting?

If you do not have a Church home and you live in the Los Angeles area you are cordially invited to our services. Please remember, however, that the thrust of our Church's ministry is reaching the lost for Christ and training them. We are committed to each Christian being faithful to his present Church home.

Quote of the Week

The idea of the invisible church is foreign to the New Testament, while the interpretation of the real visible church as a merely external means of salvation is not only foreign to it but completely impossible... The thought of Calvin, that the church is an external support for faith, is utterly unintelligible... The ekklesia of the New Testament... Is precisely not that which every "church" is at least in part – an institution, a something. The Body of Christ is nothing other than a fellowship of persons... Where fellowship... signifies a common participation a togetherness, a community life. The faithful are bound to each other through their common sharing in Christ and in the Holy Ghost, but that which they have in common is precisely no "thing", no "it", but a "he", Christ and his Holy Spirit... The Body of Christ... has nothing to do with an organization and has nothing of the character of the institutional about it.

Emil Brunner (1889–1966)

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Schedule of Services

Wednesday Bible Study - March 20, 2024 - 7:00PM
Matthew 27.31
Saturday Ask the Pastor - March 23, 2024 - 7:00PM
Zoom 214 - "The Manageable Man Problem In Our Culture" Part 2
Sunday Morning - March 24, 2024 - 10:45AM
"A Palm Sunday Promise And Warning" - Matthew 10.22; 24.13; Mark 13.13
Sunday Evening - March 24, 2024 - 6:00PM
"The Apostle Paul's New Converts' Course, First Thessalonians" - Lesson 6
Nursery is available during all in-person services.