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🌎 E&M: What A Disciple Does
March 18, 2026 What a Disciple Does: A Diagnostic Checklist Look at your calendar. Would it be obvious from how you spend your time that you are a disciple of Jesus? Now, look at your bank account. Is there evidence of a heart devoted to Christ? Think about your conversations this past week. Did your speech bring glory to God? We know that we are not saved by our schedules or our spending; salvation is a gift of grace alone. Yet, the gospel never stays contained in the heart. Jesus said,...
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🌎 E&M: Is that God in a Feeding Trough?
December 22, 2025 The Greatest Gift Ever Given: God in a Feeding Trough Hi friends, As we navigate the hustle and bustle of this Christmas season, it's easy to let our focus drift toward the "sugar plums" of our imagination or the materialism that sneaks into our celebrations. But the true story of Christmas is far more spectacular than anything we could conjure up. This week, let’s reflect on the profound truth found in Colossians 1:15-20. The baby in the feeding trough is the Sovereign...
Introducing The Ends and Means Email | Nathan Creitz
Hi there, I hope you had a great weekend. I've been silent on this email list for a while. But each week I am studying for sermons and seminars and would like to share some of my gleanings with you. I've clarified the focus of this email and I hope and pray that you will stay with me with this new focus. So with that in mind, allow me to introduce The Ends and Means Email. The Ends and Means Email is a bi-weekly email exploring God's ends and the means he ordains to accomplish those ends in...
From Pastor Nathan | Updates from Calvary Baptist Church
Happy Valentine's Day! I'm sending this update to members and past guests of Calvary Baptist Church and anyone else who has signed up to receive emails from us. If that description doesn't fit you, or you are no longer in our area, scroll down and "unsubscribe". If the above description does fit, then read on. I've got a lot to share that I am praying will be an encouragement to you! Nathan Creitz Senior Pastor, Calvary Baptist Church You're invited! Youth Night (6th-12 Grade) Fridays at 7PM...
6 Habits of Highly Destructive False Teachers
Hi there! Did you see the Gallup research that only about 32% of Americans believe clergy "have high or very high levels of honesty and ethics"? I hope you are a member of a church where the pastors have earned your respect by humbly and patiently shepherding the flock. But I recognize that some of you would be in the 68% who view pastors as dishonest and unethical. This sad statistic reminded me of something I wrote in 2017 about how to identify false teachers. The prophet Ezekiel helps us...
New Article: Four Communal Habits Every Disciple Needs to Grow Spiritually
A disciples growth in Christ doesn’t happen by accident. We don’t coast into Christlikeness. Our sanctification results from a partnership with the Holy Spirit that began on Day One of our walk with the Lord. Every Christian who reads that first paragraph probably agrees. But in practice, the vast majority of those who call themselves Christian do very little to live out their faith. We’ve all read Jesus’ words in Mark 8:34: If anyone wants to follow after me, let him deny himself, take up...
Part 3: 7 Qualities of a Healthy Church from Nathan Creitz
7 Essential Qualities of a Healthy Church (Part Three) Healthy churches don’t happen by accident. Members and leaders of healthy churches know that there is a level of intentionality in prayer, in the Word, in spiritual disciplines, and in “one anothering” that must be present. In this series of posts, we are taking a look at the Jerusalem church in Acts 6:1-7. There, we can see an intentionality on the part of the apostles and the whole company of the disciples to repair the rift that could...
7 Qualities of a Healthy Church (Part Two)
As promised, here's my article on the next two essential qualities of a healthy church. You can read part one here. The final article will be published at nathancreitz.net on Thursday. 7 Essential Qualities of a Healthy Church (Part Two) Throughout the New Testament we find descriptions and prescriptions of a healthy church. Acts 6:1-7 describes at least seven qualities of a healthy church. In part one, we saw the first three qualities of the church in Jerusalem. They were growing, serving,...
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